Invisible Folk Club Podcasts

Oct 19 2024 100 ep. 56 mins 65

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Invisible Folk Club core podcasts create an ambience somewhere between a folk club and a workshop. We want to entertain and educate through music and conversation. Egos are parked outside, everybody is treated the same. We do not record in a 'proper' studio, we simply set up the Zoom recorder in a terraced cottage in the heart of England and off we go. It is literally a cottage industry! We create a convivial atmosphere in which the musicians soon forget about the microphones. Then the spirit, talent, skill and enjoyment can shine through.

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A poetry reading with Clare Pasquale, Ben Batten and Jon Bickley

Oct 19 2024 28 mins

Invisible Folk hosts another poetry reading. This podcast features the comic verse of Clare Pasquale, the reflective nature poems of Ben Batten and 4 of Jon's poems that can be found in For the Many not the Few volume 39. An anthology published by Inherit the Earth, available through Amazon where all the proceeds go to charities for the homeless.

a poetry reading with Jon Bickley, Karen Luke and Ben Batten

Oct 03 2024 34 mins

Jon, Karen and Ben read some of their poems

Invisible Folk - Jon Bickley talks to Raven Dane

Sep 27 2024 39 mins

This is a podcast from Invisible Folk in collaberation with the Chesham Literary Festival. In this episode I talk to Raven Dane, novelist, short story writer and occasional film star. Raven is famous for her dark fantasy, steampunk and folk horror novels and a wide variety of short stories.

Chesham Literary Festival 2024 - poetry competition awards ceremony

Jul 29 2024 62 mins

Listen to the highlights of the Chesham Literary Festival poetry competition awards ceremony held at the Town Hall, Chesham on 12th July 2024. It was a great evening. Many thanks to the four judges - Emily Townsend, Valerie Jack, Ben Batten & Jon Bickley, with additional thanks to Mark Jackson-Hancock and Pemby. Invisible Folk is proud of the brilliant volunteers, poetry competiti

Invisible Folk and the Arts Council

Jun 04 2024 68 mins

Since Spring 2019 Invisible Folk are proud to have been the recipients of four Arts Council Grants. In this podcast Jon Bickley talks about our relationship with the Arts Council and how that has enabled us to commission new compositions, new performances and to inject some money into the folk music community. You'll also hear some great music; without Arts Council funding it would

Sabine Baring-Gould @ the Invisible Folk Club

May 13 2024 57 mins

Singer/Songwriters Jim Causley and Miranda Sykes joined narrator John Palmer (director of the critically-acclaimed Vaughan Williams anniversary 'From Pub to Pulpit' Cathedral tour) to talk us through a new show entitled 'Ghosts, werewolves and countryfolk - the songs and stories of Sabine Baring-Gould' Polymath and Victorian superstar Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was, amongst m

Brewer's Daughter revisits the Invisible Folk Club

Apr 02 2024 63 mins

Rhiannon Crutchley is an independent, alternative, acoustic musician who performs under the name Brewer's Daughter. For the last 10 years she has lived on a narrowboat travelling the inland waterways of the English east Midlands. She has worked the festival scene in the UK and Europe both solo and as fiddle player with Tarantism. Released on 5th April 2024 ‘Made Undone’ is Rhi

James Walvin - a new book about Amazing Grace

Jan 31 2024 43 mins

This is the final podcast of our Grace will lead me home project, a partnership with the Cooper & Newton Museum (Olney) to mark the 250th anniversary of the writing of Amazing Grace. Our guest speaker is James Walvin, OBE Emeritus Professor of History at York University, his latest book is the cultural history of Amazing Grace. It is fascinating and comprehensive, not only of the c

Invisible Folk Club radio No328 (New Year & Wassail)

Jan 05 2024 60 mins

It's catch-up time. The Invisible Folk Club radio show is currently syndicated to eight community or local stations, six based in the UK with the other two mainland Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars

Invisible Folk Club radio No327 (Christmas)

Dec 23 2023 60 mins

It's catch-up time. The Invisible Folk Club radio show is currently syndicated to eight community or local stations, six based in the UK with the other two mainland Europe. Jon Bickley presents the show, Steve Yarwood is Producer. Nothing in the broad church of trad folk, roots or Americana is off limits, there are so many shades. Our show features established artists, rising stars