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Tift Merritt – “The Things That Everybody Does”
Karine Polwart: From Rags to Riches
Lucy Kaplansky – “I’ve Just Seen a Face” (Official Video)
Loreena McKennitt – Dante’s Prayer (Tradução)
Martha Tilston – Songs That Make Sophie Fizz
Amos Oz: The teaspoon is very small and the fire is very large but there are many of us
Amos Oz with Jonathan Wilson
Laura Marling – Wild Fire (Official Lyric Video)
💙 Galway Bay 💙
Kathryn Claire – That Lesson
New Year’s Day – Rosie Thomas
‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ by Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou
How documentary films can influence political winds | Jon Bowermaster | TEDxSchenectady
Summer Hill
A Star Above – David Francey
Trina Hamlin – Jacaranda Tree – Words and Music
Townes Van Zandt – Colorado Girl
Erin Bode.- You
Niamh Parsons – Clohinne Winds
Hamilton Mixtape – Dear Theodosia
The Garden Awakening | Mary Reynolds | TEDxWexford
The Life of a Poet: Mary Ruefle
TRAILING THE GODS BACK HOME: An Interview with Dr. Martin Shaw
Ryan Adams: Born into a Light
December Windows by the Johnstons
Trashcan Sinatras – Best Days On Earth (2015) (Audio)
Thanksgiving Day
Ani DiFranco – Which Side Are You On? w/ Melissa Ferrick (Live in New York) | Moshcam
Sade – By Your Side
Some Believe by L.J. Booth
JUDY COLLINS & LEONARD COHEN – “Suzanne” 1976
Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Trying to Love You
Long Long Time (Linda Ronstadt) – Grace Pettis
WGBH Music: Monty Alexander & Harlem-Kingston Express – No Woman No Cry (live)
John Cleese on Stupidity
Joe Hill
Eliza Gilkyson – The Great Correction
Paul McCartney ‘Pipes of Peace (2015 Remaster)’
Nina Simone: Go To Hell
Eleanor McEvoy – Breathing Hope
ARCELIA – ‘She’s Not Lost’ Now on our debut album ‘Wrap Your Bones’
William Fitzsimmons – Everywhere [Live Fleetwood Mac Cover]
The Castoff Children Book Trailer
Miten: Norwegian Wood (from Temple at Midnight)
Annie Dear
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating/Book Trailer
Wartime prayers by Paul Simon
Phil Keaggy- Where the Morning Dawns with lyrics
My Wild Irish Rose – Luka Bloom
I Searched For You – Martyn Joseph
Lori McKenna – “Humble And Kind” | Live at the Grand Ole Opry | Opry
‘SPIN ME A RHYME’ by Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou
Harbour – Eleanor McEvoy
Anam Cara by Kala Farnham
Clifton In My Mind – Original Song (Acoustic Guitar/Vocal)
Reed Foehl- “All The Starlings”
Canticle For An Invisible Man by Newcomers Home
Piers Faccini & Camille – One of these things first
Melissa Ferrick – Welcome to My Life
Four Lanes To PIttsburgh
Into The Arms Of Love – Bap Kennedy [Produced by Mark Knopfler]
Eilean Donan Castle
The Kennedys – Dharma Cafe
The Self Playing Instrument of Water – Alice Oswald
Kate Rusby w/ Declan O’Rourke Bring Me A Boat
One Friend – Bethel Steele
My Alaska
Red Molly In Concert: May I Suggest
The Poorest Company
I Had Something
Laleh – Elephant (Lyric Video)
I’ve Listened To Buddha
Thich Nhat Hanh on Compassionate Listening | Super Soul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network
Timeless or the inability to convey the enormity of Love
LUKA BLOOM – WARRIOR
Home Thoughts From Abroad
“Chimes of Freedom”, The Kennedys
Indigo Girls – “Moment of Forgiveness” etown
Sweet Thing by Acoustic Junction
By My Silence
Songs Inspired By Literature – Dark and Deep
Love’s in Need of Love Today
Seeing Wetiko
Alastair McIntosh & Matt Carmichael – Spiritual Activism
Nields and Company- Alexander Hamilton – 06/18/2016 IronHorse
Julie and Buddy Miller – Broken Things
Dolphins. Terry Callier & Beth Orton Live at the Jazz Cafe
Our Hero
Since you and I were true
Poets Katherine Pierpoint and Coral Bracho at St Oswald’s Church, Grasmere
How to Slow Down your Busy Summer
Damien Rice – Trusty and True
Maryann Frew – Live in Tanworth – 7-23-10 – Fly
UNITY
Patsy Reid: Kite Song
Kristen Hall – Out In The Country (USA Country)
Karine Polwart – Whole of the moon – Coda, Edinburgh, 16 August 2015
King of the Opera – The Whole of the Moon (The Waterboys Cover)
“The Losing End of Distance” By Sean Kelly
Nightnoise-A Different Shore
Prayer of St. Francis by Sarah MacLachlan
Nerissa Nields: Normandies
Roddy Woomble – Out On The Weekend
Mary Black – Vanities
Oren Lyons – “We Are Part of the Earth”
The Beautiful South – Everybody ‘s talking
James Maddock & Leslie Mendelson in a great duet of James’s “When You Go Quiet”.
R.S. Thomas: The View from the Window
Paul Hawken on the Meaning of Wild | Bioneers
She Will Have Her Way — Distant Sun (Brooke Fraser)
Karine Polwart – Michael Marra’s ‘Like Another Rolling Stone’ (Paisley, 2014)
Do You Realize? by Orenda Fink
10,000 Maniacs – Trouble Me
Scatterlings – a book by Dr Martin Shaw
Mary Black – Katie
You Just Need A Home – Lucy Kaplinsky
Dhungala by Michael Kennedy with the Boite’s Melbourne Millennium Chorus
Naomi Shihab Nye on What Inspires Her Poetry
“Why do you stay up so late?” by Don Paterson
TADHG COOKE (BalconyTV)
Declan O’Rourke: Children Of ’16
West Of Eden – Glenntown
Natalie Merchant – Break Your Heart [Etown Live]
British Farmer’s Son Shocks Vegan World with this video
Autumn in Telluride, Colorado
Peter Himmelman – With You
Karine Polwart – Maid of the Loch (You And I And The Sky)
Look to the West
The Story of Adelita: A long distance love affair
Ian Reid
Mae Moore
The Place
Projector Snow
Brian Blade – Second Home (Mama Rosa)
Talk to Me of Mendocino
Lingua Musica with David LaMotte
TateShots: Ian Hamilton Finlay – Little Sparta
MARK NEVIN – The One I Love (live @St James Studio, London)
MARK NEVIN – Allelujah (Live at St James Studio, London)
Kayla Ringelheim: Corner and Stone
Frances Black – Grafton Street, The Console Christmas Celebration of Light 2010
Jonathan Edwards – One Day Closer
PRAYER FOR THE EARTH – Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Mick Flannery – Boston
Niall Connolly “My God”
As Fast As My Feet – Thompson Family
ANOTHER EARTH Official HD Trailer
Great Transition Ideas
My Sister Rose by 10,000 Maniacs
Ian Tamblyn: Long Lost French Cafe
Circles in Sand – Leslie Ritter & Scott Petito
Karine Polwart – Cover Your Eyes. Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2012
Juliet Turner – Belfast Central
Tennessee by Emily Baker
Rachael Kilgour – “I Pray”
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – Circle
EXPATRIOT by Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou
Alec Finlay reads ‘today today today’
GIVEN TIME (DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF NICK DRAKE)
Rocky Mountain High- Covered by Sean Kelly
Blue Rose Code with Karine Polwart – Whitechapel (The Quay Sessions)
Mark Knopfler featuring Ruth Moody – Wherever I Go
New York City : Eddi Reader & John Douglas w/ the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Me and Gertrude Stein: Chuck Coleman
The Important Places
Aoife Scott – Fásaim (live) | Two Tube
The Curra Road by Ger Wolfe performed by Dezi Donnelly
In Memoriam by Jen Hadfield
MARK NEVIN – Broken By A Breeze
The Poorest Company – Drever McCusker Woomble
When I Think by Robert Creeley
Marilyn Hacker: Dear Poet 2015
I Know Where I’m Going
Robert Macfarlane on landscape and the human heart – IQ2 Talks
Robert Macfarlane reading Nan Shepherd
Blue Rodeo: Lost Together
Dignity – Blabbermouth – National Theatre of Scotland
W. S. Merwin reads ‘Rain Light’
Please Call Me By My True Names – A Poem By Thich Nhat Hanh
Marc Cohn – Olana
Arcelia – Long Man
Wallace J. Nichols – I Wish You Water | Bioneers
Maura O Connell, Feet of a dancer
The Flaggy Shore
Maeve Mackinnon: a short film
Brooks Williams: Shaking These Christmas Blues “Official Video
‘Wild’, by Alexandra Burton
Vienna Teng – The Atheist Christmas Carol
Buddy Miller “That’s How I Got To Memphis”
David Whyte on Rilke’s The Swan
Bryndle: Take Me In
How Cooking Can Change Your Life – Michael Pollan
Cate Blanchett’s speech at Gough Whitlam memorial
Sylvie Lewis: Dylan’s Arms
Thea Gilmore: When I’m Gone
Shawn Colvin – Every Little Thing (He) Does Is Magic
Julie Fowlis – Blackbird (2008)
Yvonne Lyon: Coffee Song
Cutie And The Boxer Official Trailer (2013) – Painting Documentary HD
Kathleen Jamie
Winter is Back
The Addicted World” Clip from ‘Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames’
Mike Scott: A Long Way to the Light
Zen Brush Mind
I had to go
Mark Nevin: Kiteflyer’s Hill
Mark Nevin: Beautiful Guitars
Chris Ransick
Head and Heart: Let’s Be Still
Tracy Chapman: Change
Gemma Hayes: Head and Heart
Mother I Climbed
Karla Bonoff: Isn’t it always Love
Brandi Carlile: If there was no you
Fly-Luluc
Maria McKee – I Can’t Make It Alone
Claire Lynch: Stranger Things Have Happened
Fairport Convention: I’ll Keep It With Mine
Good Will Hunting
Newcomers Home: Free For Awhile
Luka Bloom & Sinead O’Connor – view to Golden Gate
Maura O’Connell: Half Moon Bay
Martyn Joseph: Still A lot of Love
Winterbloom: Sweet Spot
Eddi Reader | Edinah | Róisín TG4
Stanley Kunitz reads his poem “The Layers”
Crowded House: Don’t Dream It’s Over
Eddi Reader: What I know so far
Nick Drake: Saturday Sun
Sweet Talk Radio: Rosemarie
CPR: At the Edge
Dar Williams: Family
Julie Fowlis – Moladh Uibhist
John Smith: Right into Love
Trashcan Sinatras: How Can I Apply
Kevin Yang – “How to Love Your Introvert”
“Hell but Swell” – Zoe Lewis (interpreted by Natalia Zukerman and Antje Duvekot)
Susan Werner “Plant the Stars”
Liz Lochhead: Leaves have come to stand for poetry in Scotland
Peter Keane Trio: Another Kind of Blue
Ralph McTell: First Song
Gretchen Peters “On a Bus to St. Cloud”
Paul Brady: The Lakes of Pontchartrain
Paolo Nutini – Better Man [Acoustic]
Kate Fagan-Poems To Share
1 Giant Leap – I Love The Way You Dream (Feat, Michael Stipe)
Gareth Davies-Jones – Borderlands
Fisherman’s dream (Capercaillie)
Florian Ostertag – I Don’t Know What To Say
Muir
Waterboys/Shannon: Saints and Angels
Waterboys: Love Anyway
Dr. Maya Angelou – Love Liberates
Ger Wolfe: The Curra Road
Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman
W.S. Merwin | “The Wildness”
Natalie Merchant: Giving Up on Everything
Christine Kane: Falling in Love with the Wind
Sheenagh Pugh: Sometimes
Broken By A Breeze: Brian Kennedy w/ the RTÉ Concert Orchestra
Martin Taylor: One Day
Kirsty MacColl: Soho Square
Brian Kennedy and Paul Brady: Homes of Donegal
Eddi Reader: Dolphins
Gregory Alan Isakov, In Tall buildings
Vienna Teng – Level Up
Yvonne Lyon: I am loved
Nields: Who Are You Not to Shine
Acoustic Junction: Green – Faith Inside
Acoustic Junction: Think About It
Paradise in Plain Sight by Karen Maezen Miller
David Crosby: Paul Brady’s Helpless Heart
Ray Lamontagne: I Still Care for You
Coming Back to Me: Jefferson Airplane
Julie Fowlis: Touch The Sky
Amy Duncan: Navigation
Ellis: How Would It Be
National Poetry Day 2013: Thomas A. Clark: coire fhionn lochan
Guiding Light by Foy Vance and Ed Sheeran
Mark Nevin: Absent Friend
Eddi Reader: Kiteflyer’s Hill
The Boxer Rebellion: If You Run
Tift Merritt: Traveling Alone
Catie Curtis: Flying Dream
Idlewild – Take Me Back To The Islands
Capercaillie: Stinging Rain
Eddi Reader Sings The Songs Of Robert Burns
Mary Chapin Carpenter: Dreaming Road
Carol Noonan: Waltzing’s for Dreamers
Stevie Ann — Five More Days – THE HIT
Flying Burrito Brothers: Colorado
Under One Sky: Lavender Hill
Brian Kennedy: Better Man
Declan O’Rourke: Time Machine
Frances Black: Send Him a Letter
Shawn Colvin- Ricochet In Time
Eliza Gilkyson: Song of the Rainbow Warrior
Everything’ll Be Alright by Catherine MacLellan
Heidi Talbot: Arcadia
Sarah Kay: Still Here
Kieran Goss: Reasons to Stay
Beth Nielsen Chapman – The Simple Things
Mae Moore: Snowbird
Mary Chapin Carpenter: New Years Day
Kate Rusby: Home
David Hopkins and Laura Jansen
Knots and Crosses: Come Up For Air
Nina Simone: My Father
Randall Williams: The Christians and the Pagans
The New Patrons of Husbandry
Declan O’Rourke: Time Machine
Before Sunrise
Darrell Scott: Colorado
Declan Sinnott
Nields: Your House is Strong
Robert Wyatt: I’m a Believer
Waterson’s: Hal-An-Tow
Frente! – Accidently Kelly Street
Sarah McLachlan – Do What You Have To Do
Ray LaMontagne: I Still Care For You
The Poozies: We Built Fires
John Spillane: Dance of the Cherry Trees
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Transcendental Reunion
John Smith: Silence the Thunder
Eddi Reader: Smile and a Whisper
Declan Sinnott: I See The World From Here
Declan Sinnott: Sun Shine In
Emily Smith: Still We Dance On
Dougie Maclean – Caledonia
Beck: Never Tear Us Apart
Billie the vision and the dancers – friday I’m in love
Jo Hamilton: Liathach and Think of Me
Antje Duvekot: Diane’s Song
Swan Dive: Western Sky
“Gitanjali” by Tom Prasada-Rao
Marketa Irglova – We Are Good
Sarah McLaughlin and Blue Rodeo
The Shee: Tom Paine’s Bones
A.K.Ellis – Fly Little Bird
Swan Dive: Mountains
CPR: At the Edge
A Heart Needs A Home- Loudon Wainwright and Shawn Colvin
Mike Scott (The Waterboys) – Ever to be Near Ye (Robert Burns
Beth Orton: Mystery
Natalie Merchant, Michael Stipe & Billy Bragg – Hello In There
Patty Griffin: Little Fire
Luka Bloom: Ciara
The Story: Love is More Thicker Than Forget
Mary Black – By The Time It Gets Dark (with Emmylou Harris)
Patty Griffin – Up To The Mountain (MLK Tribute)
Katie Herzig: Charlie Chaplin
Night Music
JOAN BAEZ & MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER ~ Stones In The Road
Sarah Siskind – “In the Mountains” – Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers
John Smith: Rooks in the Castle
Meg Hutchinson
A.K.Ellis – Dali’s Salvation (Everything Everywhere)
Scottish Music – Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
Blue Rodeo: 5 Days in May
Clive Gregson: I Love This Town
ICE DIVING GUITAR SALEGY
Belle and Sebastian: Fireworks Timelapse
Sean Kelly: Wild River
RACHEL UNTHANK and the WINTERSET: New Year Song
Clive Gregson: If You Make Up Your Mind
Jo Hamilton: Auld Lang Syne
Equation: He Loves Me
Kate Rusby: Little Jack Frost
Paul Brady: Hello
Alison Krauss + Yo Yo Ma: Slumber my darling
Jane Siberry & KD Lang: Calling All Angels
Eliza Gilkyson: Calling All Angels
Karine Polwart: Better Things
Neil Young: One of These Days
Tom Prasada Rao and Cary Cooper – Christmas In The Ashram
Roddy Woomble: Work Like You Can
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush -Don’t Give Up
Anam Cara – Friends John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Bonnie Jean Cameron
Kate Walsh: Stirring Up a Fire
The Boxer Rebellion: If You Run
Kris Drever: Song For Yesterday
Emily Smith: Winter Song
Magna Carta: Turning of the Year
John O’Donahue: Music (Beauty)
Sigur Rós – Ekki múkk
Kate Rusby: Wandering Soul
The Ridgeriders: Humble Bridge
Kirsty MacColl: Days
Juliet Turner: Everything Beautiful is Burning
Emily Baker: Wait For You
David LaMotte: Grey Eagle
Mike Scott: Open
Roddy Woomble: Roll Along
Martin van de Vrugt & Mischa Lelieveld at “Desmet-live
Eliza Gilkyson & Friends – My Battle
Cary Cooper and Tom Prasada: Yellow
Niki King and Emily Smith: Anchor
Beth Orton & Terry Callier – Lean on me
Laleh – Snö (lyrics and translation)
Laleh: Simon Says
Laleh: Snö
Eddi Reader: Wild Mountainside
The Nields: Easy People
Lowen and Navarro: Learning to Fall
Luka Bloom with Steve Cooney & Éiníní: You Couldn’t have come at a better time
Ultan Conlon – John Martyn’s “Back to Stay’
Cara Dillon: October Winds
Barnaby Bright: If I Came Back As A Song
A Fine Frenzy: Now is the Start
Rosie Thomas: October
Ray LaMontagne: Be Here Now
Nicki Bluhm & Tim Bluhm “Stick With Me”
Van Morrison: Enlightenment
Luka Bloom: Heart Man
Luka Bloom: The Ride
Ellis: Right On Time
Kieślowski/Blue – sweet meditative scene #2
Kieślowski/Blue – sweet meditative scene #1
Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home and That Home
Jenna Mammina and Brian Gore: Let Them In Peter
Ray Davies: Waterloo Sunset
Mark Nevin: The Mighty Dove
Kim Richey: A Place Called Home
Roy Harper: Francesca
BANANA BOAT (featuring Eleanor McEvoy): Little Look
Peter Himmelman: My Father is an Accountant
Jo Hamilton: There it is
Trevor Moss and Hannah-Lou: Allotment Song
Paul Brady, Glen Hansard, Mundy, Moya Brennan & Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh: Homes of Donegal
Chris Marker: Sans Soleil
West of Eden: Scottish Rain
Martha Tilston: Rockpools
Lou Rhodes: One Good Thing
Jonas Mekas: Meanwhile a Butterfly flies
Fairground Attraction: Perfect
Ray: Somewhere in the Universe
Christy Moore: The Least That We Can Do
Paul Brady: The World Is What You Make It
Eleanor McEvoy: Fields of Dublin 4
Equation: Seven Wonders
Mae Moore: Folklore

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