Melissa Harrison & Laura Cannell in Suffolk

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

Music Interviews, Performing Arts, Music, Nature, Arts, Science

4.8 • 526 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On a beautiful day in May the novelist, nature writer and podcaster Melissa Harrison and the composer and multi instrumentalist Laura Cannell take us for a walk in the glorious Suffolk countryside. Laura plays a recorder duet with a nightingale, Melissa reads from her acclaimed novel “All Among The Barley” - appropriately enough in a field of ripening barley - and we hunt for barn owl pellets “like dark Kinder Eggs” as Melissa has it. Then Laura takes out her fiddle and - using her distinctive “overbowing” technique - plays music inspired by ancient traditions and a deep sense of place.

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0:00.0	Thank you for downloading this episode of Folk on Foot. Before we start, I just wanted to share a brief message.
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1:04.1	So thank you and enjoy the walk. It's a glorious May Day in Suffolk and we're here to meet the novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison.
1:36.3	And we said to Melissa, would you like to invite a musician to join you on the walk?
1:41.7	And she said, yes, I'd like Laura Cannell, the composer, fiddle player, recorder player, to join you on the walk and she said yes i'd like laura cannell the composer fiddle player
1:46.8	recorder player to join us so that's what's going to happen we'll walk with melissa she'll share her
1:53.2	passion for this area for the natural world here and then we'll be joined by laura and her
1:59.2	extraordinary music. So, So Melissa, good morning.
2:39.2	Good morning.
2:40.0	I'd love to see you on this warm, sunny day towards the end of May.
2:44.5	Late May.
2:45.5	Where are we?
2:46.8	We are in a tiny village of less than 200 souls in East Suffolk.
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