Wednesday 23 March show

In the hands of Rich Cooke.

Matt Newbury reported on what's coming up at Exeter's Northcott Theatre. At present The English Touring Opera are appearing. Details here.

Anna Johnson talked about forthcoming productions at The Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter, including the Exeter Fringe Festival. See their website here.

Rich also welcomed Joe, Monique and Calum from SourDough Theatre who talked about their new show The Blood Line. More details on their website.

The Vibraphonic Festival is on now and Rich featured and talked about artists appearing at this. Find out more here.

Music played
Chris Wood..The Grand Correction..Handmade Life
Joyce..Nacional Kid..Visions of Dawn
Vieux Farka Toure..Cherie Le..Fondo
Sharon Shannon..Kids..Froots #9
Gil Scott Hereon..Racetrack in France..Bridges
Rico & Freetown..Take Five..Ska Island
Dave Wood..Love Today..Into The Light
Juan Luis Guerra..La Llave De Mi Corazon..La Llave De Mi Corazon
City Boys Band..Nya Asam Hwe..Ghana Special CD1
Rodrigo Lessa..Patifaria..I Love Brazil
Bert Jansch..Pretty Polly..Jack Orion
Cheikh Lo..Jamm..Jamm
Loudon Wainwright III..Doctor..History
Cal Tjader..Mambo Sangria..Mambo Sangria
Ida Kelarova..?..?
Boozoo Bajou..Take It Slow..Dub Selector 3
Anibal Velasquez..Mambo Loco..Mambo Loco
The Bamboos feat. Alice Russell..Step It Up..Step It Up
Lara Conley..Money Don't Mean A Thing..Apple Tree
Richard Bona..Bisse Baba..Reverence
Afro Cuban All Stars..On The Road Again..Step Forward
Bonga..Recordando Pio..Bonga Live
Takashi Hirayasu & Bob Brozman..Chon Chon Kijimuna..Jin Jin/Firefly

A great set from Na Firein and more

On today's show...

Some wonderful (mainly) 
Irish music from local band Na Firein:
Rich on uillean pipes and Neil on guitar.


Tunes played:
Jigs: Comb Your Hair & Curl It / The Dusty Miller / The Butterfly;
Jigs: Gallaghers / Morrisons / Rolling Waves
Marches:O'Neill's March / Song Of The Chanter;
Reels: Musical Priest / Rainy Day

Lots of arts information and views too plus a wide range of music.

Many thanks to our guest musicians and to Geoff  Stowe and Chris Rosewell for their contributions.

Geoff Stowe, our highly entertaining film reviewer, will return as a guest presenter of the show on 30 March.

I enjoyed the phone interview with the two Toms and hope you found it entertaining. See them in action in their comedy show Totally Tom at Exeter's Bikeshed Theatre at 8pm on Sunday 20 March.

Recordings played:
Count To Fire..Screen Play..In Another Life
Cole Stacey..Can You Feel It..Changing Faces
The Unthanks..Because He Was A Bonny Lad
The Roots Union..Rough Diamonds..promo
The Everly Brothers..Don't Let Our Love Die..Bringing It All Back Home
Carolina Chocolate Drops..Peace Behind The Bridge..Genuine Negro Jig
Billy Bragg..New England..Still Looking For A New England
Polly & The Billets Doux..The Cup & The Lip..Truth, Half Truths & Downright Lies
Staff Benda Bilili..Polio..Tres Tres Fort
Seu Jorge..Queen Bitch..The Life Aquatic
Watcha Clan..Hasnanduro / Im Nin'Alu..Radio Babel
The Warsaw Village Band..In The Forest..Uprooting
Lara Conley..In Peace..Apple Tree
Billie Holiday..Night & Day..Georgia On My Mind
Xalapa Symphony Orchestra cond. James Brooks..I Got Rhythm..Glorious Gershwin
Dub Colossus..Guragigna..Dub Colossus Rockers Meet Addis Uptown
Luka Bloom..You Couldn't Have Come At A Better Time..Bringing It All Back Home
Spiro..Underland..Lightbox

Next week on The Multifarious Mix we welcome guest presenter Rich Cooke plus up-to-the minute local Arts information

Live Irish music plus...

...plenty of local arts news including guests from Exeter's Bikeshed Theatre and the Northcott Theatre


With St Patrick's Day/Night coming up, we welcome 2 superb local musicians Na Firein: Rich playing uillean pipes and Neil on guitar

A comedy Totally Tom is on for one night only - Sunday 20 March - at the Bikeshed Theatre. We'll find out more about it from the two Toms

We welcome back Matt to tell us what's coming up at the Northcott Theatre

News of Polish Day at Exeter Phoenix - Sunday 20 March

Geoff Stowe on local films include Polish Film Day

and an eclectic mix of recorded music

Swamp Gods plus...

...lots more on the show today.

Anne and Nick from The Swamp Gods gave us a fun-packed tour through the tracks on their new CD
Wild and Shiny

Andy Thatcher brought in a wonderful selection of music, accompanied by fascinating stories.

We heard all about a trio of plays including The Sum Of Our Parts being performed at Crediton Arts Centre and the current production at Exeter's Bike Shed Theatre Waiting For Lefty. Thanks to Lucy and Ollie respectively for telling us about these productions.

And a line was drawn - for the time being - on
Paul Whittall's series of radio plays
Playing Cards & Paper Clips
Listen again here

We began with Martin's choice of music...
Jerry Cahill..The Enchanter..Armchair Traveller
Homemade Jamz Blues Band..Washing Clothes..download
Tamikrest..Spur 4..download
Cole Stacey..Lover Not A Friend..Changing Faces
Teddy Thompson..You Made It..Separate Ways
Rufus Wainwright..One Man Guy..Poses
Odi..Maslow's Love Song..Maslow's Songbook
Nancy Kerr & James Fagan..Queen Of The Waters..Twice Reflected Sun
Mariza..Dona Rosa..Fado Tradicional
Dion..King Of The New York Streets..King Of The New York Streets
The Swamp Gods..(In The) Wild Places Of The Heart / Psychic Quiff / Shiny House

Andy played us...
The Pogues..Wild Cats Of Kilkenny..Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
El Camaron De La Isla & Paco De Lucia..Al Verte Las Flores Lloran..Colaboracion Especial
Bebo Valdes & Diego Cigale..La Bien Paga..Lagrimas Negras
Linda Perhacs..Hey Who Really Cares..Partallelograms
Yasmin Levy..Una Pastora..Sentir
Ali Farka Toure & Toumane Diabate..Ruby..Ali & Toumane

Finally, we went back to Martin's selection...
Paul Whittall..The Idling
Seu Jorge..Changes..The Life Aquatic
Aurelio..Ineweye..Laru Beya
Lonely Tourist..Patron Saint Procrastinate..Sir I Am a Good Man
Jerry Cahill..Escape From Harehills..Armchair Traveller
J J Cale..City Girls..Grasshopper
Bruce Springsteen..The Ghost Of Tom Joad..The Ghost Of Tom Joad
The Duckworth Lewis Method..Mason On the Boundary..A Methodology
This Mortal Coil..Song For The Siren..It'll End In Tears
Ian McKenzie..Don't say Nothin'..Last Chance
Jerry Cahill..The Irishman In The Cupboard..Armchair Traveller

Late addition to today's extended show

Today's show will now run from 15:00 to 18:00
In the first part, we welcome Lucy, the director of 
The Sum Of Our Parts, a performance by Wind Up Theatre. 
It's going to be action-packed today!

New York, New York

seems to be today's theme - though not the whole story. Read on...

Andy Thatcher joins us on this Wednesday's show to share some of his favourite music with us

Members of the band Swamp Dogs, who "combine lo-fi loops with snake guitars and New York harmonies", will be looking in to talk about their music and their new album.

At the Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter this week, there is an exciting play which uses a mixture of film production and animation. Set in 1930s New York, it is called Waiting For Lefty. One of the production company will give us full information about it

plus

The final episode of Paul Whittall's series of plays for radio Playing Cards and Paper Clips

and

more local Arts News

Jim's musical choices and mine

Music from Devon and beyond from several genres today. It was a pleasure to welcome 
Jim Causley who brought some of his favourite pieces of music and talked about why he choose them as well as giving the background to many of the songs.

....And we now have a new Phonic FM jingle from Jim! It has Jim's very special "bom" at the end!!

Jim and I played...

Besh O Drom..Kecskes..Macso Himzes
Shirley Collins..Bonny Boy..The Power Of The True Love Knot
The Mediaeval Baebes..Kinderly..Worldes Blysse
Joan Osborne..Pretty Little Stranger..Pretty Little Stranger
Phillip Henry with Hannah Martin..Witchita..Live In the Living Room
Mark Bazely & Jason Rice..Russian Ballet / The Hullichan Jig..Moor Music
Norma Waterson..The Flower Of Sweet Strabane..Bright Shiny Morning
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra..Paul's Dance..When In Rome
Jim Causley..When I Was Young..Dumnonia
Bally Sago..A love song from Bend It Like Beckham
Seu Jorge..Starman..The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
Gris Sanderson's Harpaphonics..Erdely Reels..Harpaphonics
Norwegian music
Martin and Shan Graebe..Jack In The Green..Parallel Strands

Malcolm Holcombe..One Leg At A Time..To Drink The Rain
Malcolm headlines at The Phonic FM Americana Night at Exeter Phoenix this Friday starting at 20:00
Fernhill..Adar..Canu Rhydd

Thank you very much to Jim Causley. The launch of his new album of Devon songs Dumnonia takes place at The Fingle Bridge Inn, Drewsteignton, Devon on Friday 1 April: free entry; everyone welcome!

In addition we had...
Episode 4 of Playing Cards and Paper Clips, a series of plays for radio by Paul Whittall Hear Episodes 1-4 again here.

Plus..

News of Fair Trade Fortnight. To find out about events see the Fair Trade Foundation website.

Jim and me

in the studio on The Multifarious Mix this week. The Jim is (in)famous folk singer Jim Causley who will be introducing us to some of his CD collection.

At 17:00 Part 4 of Playing Cards and Paper Clips, described by playwright / musician Paul Whittall as an opera for the concerned young of the day.

Plenty of local Arts News too.