The NZ musician Dave Jordan was constantly inventive, and perhaps the first Kiwi to make a living writing songs.

Yet more folk in our fourth playlist of the season

During May every year, NZ Music Month, we play only NZ songs and artists. Send us your songs to share.

More NZ folk and Kiwiana for NZ Music Month, 2024.

The South Island folk singer and storyteller is becoming something of a NZ legend, and a FMH feature for NZM Month

We get behind NZ Music Month in May every year, sharing Kiwi folk artists and the NZ folk heritage.

NZ folk and Kiwiana specialist Mike Harding has made a career singing our own folk songs and launches our NZ Music Month in Taranaki.

The English contemporary folk artist is the perfect modern troubadour.

Two outstanding acts at Womad ‘24 make for a great double bill.

We are once again somewhere on the musical spectrum where folk and country music connect, with a programme of female artists.

A fifth programme of musical treats where artists delight in covering the songs of others.

Father and son were influential guitarists, balladeers and bluesmen.

We help the Irish celebrate their national day with a medley of songs, tunes and humour.

We drill down into the albums nominated for the 2024 Grammy Folk Award.

Another playlist of irresistible music, folk and beyond.

Summer runs through the folk tradition and beyond, whether we long for it, love it or wish it weren’t so hot.

A month out from Womad 24 we look at the bill of fare, especially the folk music featured in this 21st WOMAD NZ

A playlist of pleasantly surprising tracks discovered during the summer break.

Veteran singer and guitarist, Tom Rush, turns 83 in 2024, and by way of a tribute we share his early folk and blues recording.

Our annual Pete Seeger show delights us with his work in the civil rights movement.

A playlist of folk where colour is a significant element.

Around the time of the US national holiday to honour Martin Luther King Jr, we mark the day with music from the rich legacy of African American folk.

We begin another fab year of folk in the usual way, remembering the all-too-short career of Sandy Denny

Our end-of-year show included songs old and new for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Cheers.