Yes, I'm that guy. You've likely seen me in used CD stores. That guy looking at the lower shelves where they keep the celtic material, or the shelves at the back where you need a ladder to get to the world music, or maybe that dusty shelf beside where the cat sits where they keep the bluegrass and appalachian material. Yes, I'm that old guy in the used CD stores. And today, on "Routes & Branches & Beyond" this is the first of three shows on what I've found on such neglected shelves over this autumn. There'll be Irish trad royalty, plooboy laddies, cluckin' old hens, Breton gavottes, jazzy folk laments, retrofitted chestnuts, stark European political klezmer, pig foot BBQ tips, Galician dance hall tunes, sublime concertina mastery, deep south Peterborough blues and new age buskers. From artists like The Bothy Band, Écosse, Joel Fafard, Dougie Maclean, Jean-Michel Veillon, Lily Come Down, Crabtree & Mills, Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird, We Banjo 3, Marful, Noel Hill, Jackson Delta, Mark Knopfler and Nightnoise. Bring your curiousity and join us.

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Ivan Emke