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Folk on Foot

The Lost Words Spell Songs – Jackie Morris and Beth Porter in Pembrokeshire

Folk on Foot

Matthew Bannister

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

4.8526 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The beautiful Lost Words book by artist Jackie Morris and writer Robert Macfarlane has become a cultural phenomenon, raising awareness of the importance of nature words in our lives. It has also spawned the Spell Songs project featuring some of our top folk artists. In this special edition of Folk on Foot, Matthew walks with Jackie and the singer, cellist and ukulele player Beth Porter (The Bookshop Band) on the hill near Jackie’s cottage in Wales. Beth sings and plays as Jackie creates an otter painting in her studio. We also hear music from Julie Fowlis and Kerry Andrew/You Are Wolf.

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One of the most magical experiences I've had in making folk on foot was standing in the snow near Loch Ness,

0:39.4

listening to Julie Fowles speaking this poem or spell.

0:44.2

Snow hair.

0:46.0

Snow hair whitens as the year turns dark.

0:49.9

Night rises, rain falls as sleet on higher ground.

0:54.3

On moors, by tors, in impete, hair hunkers into form.

0:58.8

Weather's what would kill you without fight.

1:02.2

Hair, walking, is graceless lullop, awkward pist and awkward shunt.

1:07.8

Running, hair smooth, sudden into speed, flows over each quick arc, a mark of hair, a sign of hope.

1:15.8

Julie's one of eight folk artists who've teamed up to compose and perform spell songs, inspired by the beautiful Lost Words book, created by the artist Jackie Morris and the writer Robert McFarlane.

1:28.3

Others taking part who have also appeared on folk on foot include Kareem Pollitt and

1:32.2

Kerry Andrew. We started this podcast to celebrate the natural world, the joys of conversation

1:38.5

and companionship and music that resonates powerfully with a sense of place. In the lost word spell songs, we sensed

1:45.7

kindred spirits, and we wanted to bring you a special edition of Folk on Foot about that project.

1:51.1

So we've come to Pembrokeshire in the far west of Wales to walk with Jackie Morris in the

1:55.9

landscape that inspires her extraordinary paintings, and to hear from the cellist, singer and ukulele player Beth Porter,

2:03.2

more about the musical collaboration behind the spell songs.

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