Fairport Convention and some other Folk

Binneas (Na Trads) - Malinky
I do wish these clips were a little bit longer.

Binneas (Na Trads) - Tide Lines
This one was actually in Gaelic for a change.

Meanwhile, Nick Drake has been announced as an entrant this year to the Folk Hall of Fame:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43315596

To mark what would have been his 70th birthday, Radio 2 has announced he will be inducted to its Folk Hall of Fame.
Drake's sister, actress Gabrielle Drake, will accept the award in April.
"I think Nick would have been quietly amazed, amused but above all, honoured. And, indeed, grateful. As I am on his behalf," she said.

Ceol bho Perthshire Amber - Karen Matheson
The singer with Capercaillie, here in a short set from 2014.

Binneas (Na Trads) - Ross Ainslie
He plays the bagpipes.

Feis na Mara
A longer set than many, from Mallaig Community Centre in 2014, featuring Kathleen MacInnes, the late Angus Grant, Donald McDonald and the Islands, and headliners Manran. All good stuff.

Binneas (Na Trads) - Seamus O'Sullivan Experience
A short blast of a number called Hornpipes, which was what you would expect.

Shooglenifty aid Na Trads
A longer set than usual, but still not that long. They formed in 1990, so this Dec 2014 gig in Inverness was by way of a 25th anniversary celebration of their "acid-croft" sound. They didn't use a singer, but once the drummer married one, it became a natural inclusion.

Binneas - Lori Watson
She's Scottish.

Binneas - Scott Wood Band
They play the bagpipes.

Binneas - The Shee
They're an all-female act.

BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
Presented by DJ Mark Radcliffe and musician Julie Fowlis, winners included Imar, Lankum and The Young'uns, with Van Morrison making a negligible appearance to present one award, and Ralph McTell presenting another. Nick Drake's sister Gabrielle did indeed accept the award to her late brother.

Belladrum 2017 - First Aid Kit
Supposedly they're more folk than country. Anyway, they've many good songs from a string of albums, even if they've no UK chart hits, and they didn't play Emmylou either.

Binneas (Na Trads) - Murray Henderson and the Big Music Society
A long plod through a song.

Needle Time: Joan Baez
She felt Pete Seeger set her off. The Newport Folk Festival was a sensation. She recorded on a minor label to avert pop fame. She enjoyed working with Bob Dylan. She learned from coffee shop players. She thought being drug-free affected what people thought of her in the business. She met Dr Martin Luther King Jr. She hasn't written songs herself for 25 years. She felt it odd that Richard Nixon admitted listening to her music. She's on her last tour, but follows a healthy regimen.

Y Stiwdio Gefn - 9bach
A Welsh folk band, formed in 2005, signed to Peter Gabriel's Real World label. They won a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award. They were plugging their Tincian album in this 2015 show, and planning their next album and tour. A likeable bunch.

BBC Proms 2018: Folk Prom
Julie Fowlis and Sam Lee presented as Stephen Bell conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra. Julie and Sam got to sing, and they were variously joined by Jarlath Henderson, supergroup ALAW, and favourites The Unthanks. It trod its own trail.

Mumford & Sons - Live From South Africa : Dust and Thunder
The final night of their tour, at the Monument Amphitheatre, Pretoria, off the back of the album they did with collaborators like Baba Maal and Beatenberg. Apparently, South Africa is a hot territory for M&S. The lack of captions left me rather adrift.

Mary Hopkin
The Welsh wonder was interviewed for this 2000 tribute, as was her mother, local friends in Pontardawe, fans and website owners, but few other musicians. Her big break was a version of "Turn! Turn! Turn!" which led her to Opportunity Knocks, and then recording "Those Were The Days" for Apple Records. She also represented the UK at Eurovision with "Knock Knock, Who's There?" but then she retreated into the folk world she was more comfortable with. Around the time of this prog, she had done a collaboration with an upcoming band, The Crocketts.

Iul a' Chiuil (The Musical Path) - Fosgaite
The story of bands like Runrig, Moving Hearts, Capercaillie, Clannad and the Riverdance phenomenon, plus more modern acts like Moxie and Jarlath Henderson. A large cast of contributors considered how traditional Celtic sounds have had differing treatments in Scotland and Ireland.

Cuirm@Celtic - Moving Hearts
The Irish folk rockers were at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow for Celtic Connections at this 2016 gig, and they delighted the crowd.

Belladrum Festival 2014 - Billy Bragg
The Barking Bard managed to rattle through a good number of tracks during his short set, old favourites and new.

Colin Macleod - When It Kicks In
He's a crofter on the Isle of Lewis, and also a folkie singer-songwriter making waves with a US label. He combines his home-life with his rock-life (such as a gig on the James Corden show). His album is called Bloodlines, and the show's title is another of his tracks.

Sal
With Iain Morrison, also a singer-songwriter from the Isle of Lewis (you wait ages...) but this time with a new work commemorating the centenary of the Iolaire tragedy, when a ship bringing soldiers home from WW1 came to grief. The five suite work, titled after a gaelic word for sea-water, was mostly gentle, but some of it was very boisterous. He took some tips from a radio doc in 1961 which spoke to some of the survivors.

Billy Connolly - Made in Scotland
A 2-part tribute, admittedly looking more at his comedy, but his background in "the folkies" in Glasgow did prove formative, he was in the Humblebums with Gerry Rafferty, and he still plays the banjo. Eddi Reader and Sharleen Spiteri were among the contributors too. He chatted to Martin Stephenson about the song-craft as well.

Murchadh MacPharlain - Bard Mhealaborist aka Murdo MacFarlane - The Melbost Bard
Born in 1901, hence this 2001 documentary, he started writing poetry when young, and was a champion of the Gaelic language. He spent time working in Canada and the US, but returned to Scotland, and lived as a crofter on the Isle of Lewis. He had been an eyewitness to the aftermath of the Iolaire tragedy (see above). He never married. In the early 70s, a band called Na h-Oganinch used some of his lyrics, and he started to achieve a fame. Later groups like Runrig and Capercaillie homaged his role in the propagation of Gaelic. He supported Scottish independence, and was involved in the battle to stop Stornoway getting a NATO base. He died at the age of 81.

Belladrum 2018: Ho-Ro
The folkies got a short look-in with Seata de Pluirt. Of course they did.

Come All You Dreamers - Christy Moore with Declan Sinnott - Live at Barrowland Glasgow
The Irish folk legend, here from 2009, is a decent lengthy set for an appreciative audience. I particularly liked Joxer Goes to Stuttgart 

Woody Guthrie - Three Chords and the Truth
How the folk hero found his sound, and influenced so many folk singers with hits like So Long, Been Good To Know You, Do Re Mi, and Deportee, songs which made a protest sound in the 1930s, but are still relevant again today. His appropriated effort This Land Is Your Land has become a favourite in some US schools, albeit not all the verses. When Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen sang it when Barack Obama was inaugurated, they included all the verses.

Cuirm@Celtic: Le Vent du Nord
This 2015 show featured a band from Quebec who had some nice songs, and some good banter between as they jollied things along at this Celtic Connections event.

Skipinnish @ Blas
Some festival at Inervness from 2018, this band did a decent enough set, with guest vocal from Rachel Walker on Alive.

Folk America at the Barbican - Billy Bragg
The Barking bard featured in this 2009 show, singing Woody Guthrie's I Ain't Got No Home, Buffy Sainte-Marie's Universal Soldier, and his own I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night.

Trail West @ Barrowland
Wondered if I'd seen this before, but the best I could see was them supporting a show with Manran, and this claimed to be from 2019. Anyway, they did South Australia, which seems to be their best effort, and they did have a go at the Local Hero theme too.

Great Canal Journeys: Fairport Convention
A much-loved series came to a close at last, with actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales tripping along the Oxford Canal. Not only did they stop at Cropredy, but three members of the band came along to talk about their festival, and to play "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" appropriately enough.

Meic Steves: Dim Ond Cysgodion
Entertaining look at a Welsh singer-songwriter in his 70s. As luck would have it, whilst filming, he said some inappropriate things at a gig, which gave the film an edge, and somewhat played up the story of a maverick who could be his own worst enemy, and wasn't a stranger to the old falling down water.

Music Icons: Songs for the People
The US folk scene, or at least its early days, so this focussed, predictably, on Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, though Bob Dylan did get the odd mention.

Breabach @ Blas
The folk act ran through a few numbers at the Inverness festival, including Outlaws & Dreamers.

Mischa @ Blas
Mischa MacPherson, no less. She did a couple of numbers from her Sun Moon Land Life Sea album.