March Into May 2016: A Podcast all about the season of Spring!

FolkCast's fourth annual celebration of Spring.

Presented and produced by Phil Widdows

It's Spring Again by Arthur Askey

from the album "Hello Playmates" (2006)

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Gloomy Winter's Now Away by Spoil The Dance

from the album "Northern Commons" (2015)

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Spring 1919 by Coope Boyes & Simpson

from the album "As If…" (2010)

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"On Tower Hill beside All Hallows Church, members of the Groves of the Ancient Druid Order celebrate the 'Spring Equinox' (when Spring breathes new life into the dead Winter and barren earth becomes green again)…"


Newsreel (1973)

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The Return Of The Sun by Kellianna

from the album "Lady Moon" (2004)

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The Shepperd: III. March by Margaret Buckle

(read by Niamh Cusack)

from the album "Summer's End: The Poems of Margaret Buckle with music by Edward Watson" (2009)

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So Early In The Spring by Mark Owen Music

Digital Release (2014)

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Boing by Mike Reinstein

from the album "The Tommy Tomato Songbook" (2005)

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Springtime Sunshine by Green Genes

from the album "Green Genes" (2010)

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"Let us to the open road, where every aspect pleases…"

"Silly Springtime Poem" (1938)

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Your Man by The Knights Of Mentis

from the album "New Pound Coin" (2013)

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"The origins of All Fools' Day"

from the book "The Twelve Months Of The Year" (published 1980)

Music: April Fool by John Kirkpatrick

from the album "The Duck Race" (2004)

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'Twas On One April's Morning by Show Of Hands

from the album "The Long Way Home" (2016)

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Dark Swift And Bright Swallow by Andy Cutting, Nancy Kerr & Martin Simpson

from the album “Murmers” (2015)

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So Much Rain by Sarah McQuaid

from the album "The Plum Tree And The Rose" (2012)

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Pussywillows Cattails by Kenny Rankin

from the album "Silver Morning" (1974)

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"Spring is sprung, grass iz rizz. I wonder where dem boidies is?

Ah! The boid is on the wing! But isn't dat absoid? I thought the wing is on da boid…"

Anon.

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Cuckoo by Christof

from the EP "Springtime" (2010)

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Singing In the May by Mike O’Connor

from the album "Summon Up The Song" (2010)

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Hal-an-Tow by The Changing Room

from the album "Behind The Lace" (2015)

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Fort Lauderdale College Spring Break

1967 newsreel (Part I)

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Hunt The Hare (Part II) by Lisa Knapp

from the album "Hidden Seam" (2013)

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It's Saturday morning in Springfield…

from "Father Knows Best: Spring Cleaning", NBC radio (1954)

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The Pleasant Month Of May by Jackie Oates

from the album "Hyperboreans" (2009)

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Fort Lauderdale College Spring Break

1967 newsreel (Part II)

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Dandelions And Foxgloves by Becky Mills

from the album "Dandelion" (2013)

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Blow The Windy Morning by Faustus

from the album "Broken Down Gentlemen" (2013)

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When The Summer Comes Again by Hilary James & Simon Mayor

from the album "The Mandolin Album" (1990)

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Spring by Fabian Holland

from the album "A Day Like Tomorrow" (2015)

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Spring Song by Charlie Chaplin

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