The Folk Show

FOLK SHOW 28 OCTOBER 2025 28.10.2025 56:10 ↓

JB features the likes of Derry Farrell, Trip and Dylan in the basement in his selection of folk and roots from around the world

FOLK SHOW 21 OCTOBER 2025 21.10.2025 55:38 ↓

JB gives you the best in folk from the IOM and around the globe including the likes of Edwina Hayes, Tarren and Robert Plant and Saving Grace

FOLK SHOW 14 OCTOBER 2025 14.10.2025 56:26 ↓

JB starts Banjovial and finishes with Nitetracks as he plays the best in folk and roots from the Isle of Man and around the world . . !

FOLK SHOW 07 OCTOBER 2025 07.10.2025 55:52 ↓

JB hosts A.D.A.M . .Siger, Brighde Chaimbeul and some Peter Gabriel on the banjo!

FOLK SHOW 30 SEPTEMBER 2025 30.09.2025 56:15 ↓

JB pays tribute to that chameleon of the bass, the great Danny Thompson who died recently plus music from the likes of Jack McLean, Flook and Elephant Sessions

FOLK SHOW 23 SEPTEMBER 2025 23.09.2025 56:13 ↓

JB with the best in folk from the Bothy Band to Dan Walsh via the Cartographers!

FOLK SHOW 16 SEPTEMBER 2025 16.09.2025 56:00 ↓

Several Hares on a Mountain, Peggy Seeger, McTullagh Vannin and John Smith all in the mix introduced by John Barker

FOLK SHOW 09 SEPTEMBER 2025 09.09.2025 55:43 ↓

JB is back with his unique selection of all that's best in Folk and Roots from the IOM and around the globe

FOLK SHOW 02 SEPTEMBER 2025 02.09.2025 56:04 ↓

It may start with Led Zeppelin - but fear not it is the Folk Show with JB!

FOLK SHOW 26 AUGUST 2025 26.08.2025 55:59 ↓

JB with his best selection of folk and roots music from the Island and around the globe including The Hunch, Odette Mitchell Elizabeth Davidson-Blythe with Daniel Quayle and five drunken landladies!

FOLK SHOW 19 AUGUST 2025 19.08.2025 56:08 ↓

JB looks forward to this year's Shrewsbury Folk Festival with music from the likes of the Levellers, Dougie McLean and some bullocks

FOLK SHOW 12 AUGUST 2025 12.08.2025 55:34 ↓

John is back with this weekly selectin of folk and roots music from the Isle of Man and around the world.

FOLK SHOW 05 AUGUST 2025 05.08.2025 56:01 ↓

More great folk and roots sounds from JB as he gears up for another busy folk festival season!

FOLK SHOW 29 JULY 2025 29.07.2025 56:06 ↓

JB with the best in folk and roots from the likes of Tamsin Elliott and Tarek Elazhary, Callum Stewart, Lankum and some sounds from Yn Chrunniaght

FOLK SHOW 22 JULY 2025 22.07.2025 56:04 ↓

John brings you the very best in folk and roots music, including tracks from a number of artists performing at this year's Yn Chruinnaght.

FOLK SHOW 15 JULY 2025 15.07.2025 56:01 ↓

In this week's programme, John brings you his usual mix of folk and roots music, including a look ahead to next week's Yn Chruinnaght Festival.

FOLK SHOW 08 JULY 2025 08.07.2025 55:44 ↓

More great sounds of folk and roots from the IOM and around the world from the likes of Lady Maisery, Juan Tabor and Martin Simpson and Trip

FOLK SHOW 01 JULY 2025 01.07.2025 55:49 ↓

JB spins some Lisa Knapp and Gerry Divers, has a broken pledge and two tracks about cuckoos!

FOLK SHOW 24 JUNE 2025 24.06.2025 56:03 ↓

JB returns with more great music from the likes of Bonny Light Horseman, Stiofan O'Treabhair and the Dubliners

FOLK SHOW 17 JUNE 2025 17.06.2025 56:18 ↓

JB looks forward to this year's Yn Chrunniaght Festival with guests Chloe Woolley and Jo Callister

FOLK SHOW 10 JUNE 2025 10.06.2025 55:59 ↓

JB spins some Capercaille, Lewis McLaughlin, Rachel Sermanni and songs for Nova Scotia. I feel love!

FOLK SHOW 03 JUNE 2025 03.06.2025 56:14 ↓

JB is back in the studio after his travels in northern climes and has music new and old from the likes of Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Trip, Gnoss and Brooks Williams

FOLK SHOW 27 MAY 2025 27.05.2025 55:49 ↓

JB continues is back in his wild aviary with more music about birds with sounds from the likes of Pauline Scanlan, Fellow Pynins and Paddy O'Brien

FOLK SHOW 20 MAY 2025 20.05.2025 56:05 ↓

JB has a song for May, some John Martyn, Imagined Village and left over birds!

FOLK SHOW 13 MAY 2025 13.05.2025 55:46 ↓

JB brings you his customary wonderfully eclectic mix of all things folk from around the globe