This is the playlist for The Wagonload Of Monkeys, hosted by Graham Rice, for 12 May 2015, featuring the winner and beaten finalists in the Best Traditional Song category at the recent 2015 BBC Folk Music Awards.
The Month Of May - The Copper Family
From the album: Come Write Me Down (Topic)
Up To The Rigs Of London Town - Harry Cox
From the album: Portraits: Harry Cox -- What Will Become Of England? (New Rounder)
London Town – Bellowhead
From the album: Burlesque (Westpark Music)
Echoing Green - Dave Walters
From the album: Innocence and Experience (Greenwich Village)
The Wedding Jig/Hiudai Gallagher's March/James Byrne's/Mickey Doherty's/Welcome Home Grainne – Altan
From the album: The First Ten Years: 1986-1995 (Green Linnet)
BBC Folk Music Awards Best Traditional Song Finalists
Manus Mo Rùin – Cruinn
From the album: Storas (Cruin)
Bedlam - Stick In The Wheel
From the EP: Bones (Stick In The Wheel)
Handsome Molly - The Furrow Collective
From the album: At Our Next Meeting (Furrow)
Samradh Samradh - The Gloaming
From the album: The Gloaming (Brassland)
New and Recent Releases
Dark Honey - Simpson Cutting and Kerr
Murmurs (Topic)
Tom Paine's Bones - The Young 'Uns
From the album: Another Man's Ground (Hereteu)
Farewell To Fiunary - The Foxglove Trio
From the album: These Gathered Branches (Foxglove)
False Bride - Olivia Chaney
From the album: The Longest River (Nonesuch)
Theme music
The Teatotaler/St. Anne's Reel - De Danann. From the album: The Star Spangled Molly (Shanachie)
Incidental music
High Level Hornpipe/Uncle George's - The Sawdust Band. From the album: The Guv'nor, Vol. 2 (Sanctuary)