The Folk Show

FOLK SHOW 06 JANUARY 2026 06.01.2026 56:06 ↓

JB's been a bit snowed up so celebrates this week's icy weather with some classics - more music, less chat!

FOLK SHOW 30 DECEMBER 2025 30.12.2025 56:02 ↓

JB plays some of your - and his - favourite folk, roots and Manx music from 2025

FOLK SHOW 23 DECEMBER 2025 23.12.2025 56:18 ↓

JB with some wonderfully festive folk and a yuletide miracle - a cheerily festive Bob Dylan!

THE FOLK SHOW 16 DECEMBER 2025 16.12.2025 55:59 ↓

JB plays some great guitar from Mark Lawrence's new album Jupiter and gets jazzy-folk with a track from trumpeter Laura Jurd's latest album!

FOLK SHOW 09 DECEMBER 2025 09.12.2025 56:19 ↓

JB invites you all to sing along as he starts this weeks Folk Show with music from Landless, Bonny Light Horseman and our own Davy Knowles

FOLK SHOW 02 DECEMBER 2025 02.12.2025 55:56 ↓

JB has some Sandy Denny, Ruth Keggin-Gell with Rachel Hair and The Imagined Village among other joys in this week's selection!

FOLK SHOW 25 NOVEMBER 2025 25.11.2025 56:07 ↓

John is back with his usual mix of folk and roots music.

FOLK SHOW 18 NOVEMBER 2025 18.11.2025 56:13 ↓

JB takes the Outside Track . .enjoys some Sonny Boy Williamson and Tony Christie as you may never have heard him before . . !

FOLK SHOW 11 NOVEMBER 2025 11.11.2025 55:46 ↓

JB plays the best in folk and roots - with plenty of great new music from NXNW, The Kasambwe Brothers and Trip - but space for some John Martyn and a Wagonwheel!

FOLK SHOW 04 NOVEMBER 2025 04.11.2025 55:47 ↓

JB has a travelling man, some Bellowhead and Erin Harp Country Blues Duo amongst many other joys!

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.