About the Show
Foolkiller Folk
The Foolkiller Folk collective explores the storytelling, cultural, and protest power of folk music from as far back as the Child Ballads through as current as released today.
"When one becomes enlightened one kills the fool within" -Jack Conroy
Today we bring you a round of recently acquired music not necessarily new but new to us – some of the songs and albums that made it to the finals of the FAI’s best songs and albums list, mixed in with other things that we like. We bring you folk (American, English, Welsh) and blues, Quebecois, Celtic, and Pakistani. You’ll be hearing from Seamus Egan, Mick Hanley and Micheal O’Domhnaill, Shault featuring Yves Lambert, Tamsin Elliott, and Anais Mitchell, Aoife O’Donovan, Cliodhna Ni Aodain, Arooj Aftab & Anoushka Shankar, Marcus Mumford & Brandie Carlile, Will Allen, Niamh Dunne, Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, The Wilderness Yet, and Plu.
