Olivia Chaney at the House on Hawnby Moor
Folk on Foot
Matthew Bannister
4.8 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Olivia Chaney wrote many of the songs for her critically acclaimed second solo album whilst living alone without electricity or mains water at her family’s remote and crumbling farmhouse on Hawnby Moor in North Yorkshire. On a hot summer’s day, she takes Matthew Bannister back across the Moor, singing and playing along the way, circled by curlews and lapwings, to share the atmospheric isolation that brought her inspiration.
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| 0:00.0 | A few months ago, an email plopped into the Folk on Foot inbox. |
| 0:07.6 | It said, Hi there, Folk on Foot team. |
| 0:10.2 | Just a note to say, I'd love to be one of your guests, |
| 0:13.3 | walking around the North York's Moors near where I now live |
| 0:16.2 | and where I wrote my last record. |
| 0:18.8 | Do get in touch if interested. |
| 0:20.7 | And it was signed Olivia Cheney. |
| 0:23.6 | We weren't just interested. We were determined to make this happen because Olivia has one of the |
| 0:29.1 | most enchanting and beguiling voices in the English folk scene. And we thought the chance to walk |
| 0:34.7 | around the North York Moors with her was too good to pass up. |
| 0:38.4 | So that's why we're sitting outside the Hornby stores and tea room in the village of Hornby |
| 0:43.9 | with swift's dive-bomingers from the eaves of the building and a river running past us |
| 0:51.8 | and the lush green hills going up in the distance, waiting to meet Olivia |
| 0:57.0 | and we're looking forward to an amazing afternoon. I'm Oh I'm |
| 1:11.6 | I'm |
| 1:12.6 | the So we just come up the hill a little bit. |
| 1:30.3 | So we just come up the hill a little bit |
| 1:48.4 | and we're meeting Olivia. |
| 1:49.5 | Hello, how lovely to see you. |
| 1:50.7 | And you, hello. |
| 1:51.7 | Where are we? |
| 1:53.2 | We are what my family call the cattle grid. |
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