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Folk on Foot

Spafford Campbell on “Tomorrow Held”: Folk Album of the Year 2025 Nominee

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

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

4.8526 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

“We first met in the National Youth Folk Ensemble. I was 14 and Louis was 16.” From these beginnings, fiddle player Owen Spafford and guitarist Louis Campbell have formed an inspiring, innovative musical partnership, drawing on wide ranging influences to create the acclaimed mostly instrumental album “Tomorrow Held”. Hear tracks from the album and the story behind it as they chat to Matthew Bannister in this special episode of Folk on Foot.

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0:00.0

So this special folk album of the year award episode of Folk on Foot is devoted to showcasing the remarkable album tomorrow held by Spafford Campbell.

0:19.4

And I'm delighted to say that the fiddle player, Owen Spafford,

0:22.8

and the guitarist Louis Campbell are joining me on the call now.

0:26.0

And to start, I just want to congratulate you on being nominated for a folk album of the year.

0:31.2

Thanks so much.

0:32.2

Let's start with the title.

0:34.4

Why did you call it Tomorrow Held?

0:37.2

I guess it was looking at the idea of focusing in on a moment.

0:42.1

When you get so in the present with a piece of music, you're listening so much to each

0:46.0

other and that the music that's being played and the sound around you, that the kind of

0:50.4

suspension of time happens where you're not focusing on tomorrow you're not focusing on

0:54.6

what happened in the past you're like very much ingrained within the present and louis the

0:59.7

title track itself is absolutely fascinating because it feels to me like a storm blows in and then

1:06.0

after it you get this relaxation and the and the the sense of calm after the storm. Is that the way you saw,

1:13.0

is that just my fevered imagination? That's a very beautiful way of looking at it. I suppose that's

1:17.9

the nice thing with instrumental music, isn't it? As you can know, everyone gets their own meaning

1:21.8

from it. Yeah, I mean, that track was really, with this record, we wanted to, you know, bring in

1:26.3

some electronic elements and some larger sounds, but without losing what we wanted to, you know, bring in some electronic elements and some

1:27.8

larger sounds, but without losing what we used to do with just acoustic guitar and fiddle.

1:33.3

So I suppose that's sort of the most extreme example of going from really quiet to really

1:36.9

loud and then coming in and out in various ways over like 14 and a half minutes.

1:41.7

So yeah, it's definitely a journey that tune. And we just really like how over that length of time you can bring in little fragments

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