*Playlist (32) THE FOLK REVIVAL - WICN Worcester Public Radio 5.21.2026 (935)*

Playlist:The Folk Revival on WICN -Worcester, MA

DJ -  Nick Noble <[log in to unmask]>



*HAIL POETRY Poems into Songs Part Two - more poems that were turned into
songs, from poets like May Sarton, Tennyson, Shakespeare, C. Fox Smith,
Yeats, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Vincent Benet, Robert W. Service, Henry
Lawson and more. Performers include Patty Larkin, Gordon Bok, Loreena
McKennett, John Roberts, Beth DeSombre, Jason Eslick, Colette O'Connor,
Pearls Before Swine, the Edna Project, Jeff Warner and more. Also a
conversation with local singer-songwriter Jason Eslick, while New England
singer-songwriter Colette O'Connor, just back from her cross-country rail
odyssey, will be host Nick Noble's special guest co-host live in the studio.*



*Artist / Song / Composer / Release/Poet*

Limeliters / There's a Meeting Here Tonight / traditional-Lou Gottlieb arr. / The Limeliters: 36 All-Time Greatest Hits

Patty Larkin / The Snow Light (feat. Parkington Sisters) / May Sarton-Patty
Larkin / Bird in a Cage / May Sarton

The Queensland Tiger / Reedy River (feat. Mikhail Bugaev) / Henry
Lawson-Chris Kempster / Henry Lawson (The poet in song) Vol.2 / Henry Lawson

Loreena McKennitt / The Two Trees (Live) / W.B. Yeats-Loreena McKennitt /
The Mask And Mirror Live / W.B. Yeats

Wes Weddell and Alisa Newhall / Thanksgiving / Wilcox-Weddell / Pushing Forward / Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Colette O'Connor / Song for Miranda / Elizabeth Z. Hanson-Colette O'Connor
/ Live in the Studio / Elizabeth Zappalla Hanson

John Roberts & Tony Barrand / Oak, Ash & Thorn / Rudyard Kipling-Peter
Bellamy / Dark Ships in the Forest / Rudyard Kipling

Gordon Bok / A Shearer's Lament-Waiting for the Rain / Matt O'Connor-John
Nielsen-Martyn Wyndham-Read-Gordon Bok / Apples In The Basket / Matt O'Connor-John Nielsen

Beth DeSombre / Sonnet 18 / Shakespeare-DeSombre / Sonnet 18 - single / William Shakespeare

Beth DeSombre / And Only the Waves Reply / Emily Dickinson-Beth DeSombre /
And Only the Waves Reply - single / Emily Dickinson

Charlie Ipcar / High Noon in the Tropics / Mike Kennedy-Cicely Fox Smith /
Never Turn a Blind Eye to the Storm / Cicely Fox Smith

Jason Eslick / Acquainted with the Night / Robert Frost-Brooks Williams /
Acquainted with the Night - single / Robert Frost

Leslie Fish / Lucifer / Robert Browning-Don Simpson / Avalon Is Risen / Robert Browning

Leslie Fish / Oak, Ash & Thorn / Rudyard Kipling-Leslie Fish / Avalon Is Risen / Rudyard Kipling

Tom Russell / The Ballad of William Sycamore / Stephen Vincent Benet-Tom
Russell / Song of the West: The Cowboy Collection / Stephen Vincent Benet

The Edna Project / When the Year Grows Old / Edna St. Vincent Millay-Seth
Farber / The Edna Project / Edna St Vincent Millay

Pearls Before Swine / I Shall Not Care / Sara Teasdale-Pearls Before Swine
/ One Nation Underground (Expanded Edition) / Sara Teasdale

Patty Larkin / Paradiso (feat. Jonatha Brooke) / Dante Alighieri-Robert
Pinsky-Patty Larkin / Bird in a Cage / Dante Alighieri-Robert Pinsky

Loreena McKennitt / The Lady of Shallott / Tennyson-McKennitt / Live from the Juno Awards /

Charlie Ipcar / The Ship Rigger / H.A. Cody-Obray Ramsey / Never Turn a Blind Eye to the Storm / H.A. Cody

Susan McKeown & The Chanting House / Because I Could Not Stop for Death /
Emily Dickinson-Susan McKeown / prophecy / Emily Dickinson

John Roberts / Sea Fever / John Masfield-John Roberts / Sea Fever / John Masefield

Debby McClatchy / The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill / Robert W. Service-Debby
McClatchy / Apples in Winter / Robert W. Service

Bob Zentz / The Tow-Rope Girls / C. Fox Smith-Zentz-Trad / "Closehauled on
the Wind of a Dream" / Cicely Fox Smith

Loreena McKennitt / Prospero's Speech / William Shakespeare-Loreena
McKennitt / Live In Madrid 2024 - The Mask and Mirror 30th Anniversary Tour / William Shakespeare

Hank Green / Undigested Lump / Shakespeare-Green / Vlogbrothers video / William Shakespeare

Wolfpen / The Face on the Barroom Floor / H. Antoine D'Arcy / Live in the Studio / Hugh Antoine D'Arcy

Wolfpen / The Green Eye of the Little God / J. Milton Hayes / Live in the Studio / J. Milton Hayes

Charlie Ipcar / The Chanteyman / Charlie Ipcar-Cicely Fox Smith / Never
Turn a Blind Eye to the Storm / Cicely Fox Smith

Jeff Warner / Mandalay / Rudyard Kipling-Peter Bellamy / Jolly Tinker / Rudyard Kipling

Cat's Meow / We will Rise / Hildy Dines/Teena Platt composers/arr by Hildy
Dines, Teena Platt, Mary Currier/Jean Melcher / And We Will Rise!

Highwaymen / Goodnight, Irene / Huddie Ledbetter / When the Village Was Green

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*Nick Noble*
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