The Fayre Feld Full of Folk

Presenter: Max Reinhardt

A story of Folk music in the borough over the last five decades, told by one of the UK’s most outstanding performers and songwriters, Lisa Knapp. Lisa was born and brought up in Balham and Tooting, where she learned to play and where her love of folk music evolved. Along the way, there’s a few words and a little music from the late and legendary Bert Jansch who lived in Putney in the ’70’s, song extracts from Anne Briggs, Shirley Collins, A.L. Lloyd, Martin Carthy and Imagined Village , to name but a few. Lisa’s husband, producer and musical partner, Gerry Diver also contributes some wise words to the story.

Podcast Music Playlist

Lisa Knapp - May Garland (2017)

Lisa Knapp - Beggar Beggar (2016)

Lisa Knapp : Gerry Diver - Long Lankin (2025)

Bert Jansch - The January Man (1973)

Bert Jansch - Veronica (1965)

Bert Jansch - Rambling's Gonna Be the Death of Me (1965)

Anne Briggs - Blackwater Side (1971)

The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (1988)

The Chieftains - Comb Your Hair and Curl It /The Boys of Ballisodare (Slip or Hop Jig) (1991)

Martin Carthy - Georgie (1998)

Shirley Collins & Davy Graham - Hare On The Mountain (1964)

Treasa Ní Mhiolláin - Oileán Glas Árann na Naomh (2019)

Penny Morrison & the Gerinish Waulking Group - Saturday I Got Married (1951 recorded live at Gerinish Village, South Uist)

Pete Cooper - Flagon Wheel (recorded live at the London Fiddle Convention 2014 Tutors Concert)

Brendan Mulhaire Ceili Band - O’Briens Jig (1996)

Lisa Knapp : Gerry Diver - Hawk & Crow (2025)

Maggie Boyle - Road to Camden Town (recorded live at The Narrowboat Sessions 2014 )

A.L. Lloyd - John Barleycorn (1961)

The Imagined Village - Cold Hailey Rainy Night (2007) feat. Eliza Carthy, Sheema Mukherjee, Chris Wood, Transglobal Underground & The Young Copper Family