One hour, one region. The instruments change, the dialect changes, and the link between them is explained rather than assumed.
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Weekdays 10:00Region by Region Weekdays 17:00Drum Road Daily 14:00The Wedding Circle
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Sukh Folk
Regional folk from across the subcontinent, region by region.
MultilingualHarvest, sowing and threshing songsBengali boat and baul songsEastern and north-eastern drum traditionsLong narrative ballads and lamentsField-recorded village vocal
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Sukh Folk
Regional folk from across the subcontinent, region by region.
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About this station
Folk music is regional before it is anything else, so Sukh Folk is programmed that way. A morning may sit in the wheat belt with dhol and tumbi, an afternoon move to river country and boat songs, an evening to desert ballads carried by a bowed string. Harvest songs, wedding songs, work songs and laments, in the dialects they were sung in. Where a region already has a station of its own on this network, this is the hour that visits it and then moves on: we take the village recording and the instrument as it is played at home, and we leave the chart records and the daily hour presented in the language to the station that lives there.
Through the day
All times Australian Eastern.
Work SongsMusic made for the task: threshing, rowing, walking, spinning, sung in time with the job, and started at the hour the work is.
Region by RegionEach hour lands in one area and stays there, dialect and instruments intact.
The Wedding CircleCeremony songs sung in the courtyard, from the mehndi night through to the farewell.
Drum RoadThe commute hour moves with the map: dhol on Monday, dholak and khol from the east midweek, nagara from the desert at the end of the week, each rhythm played in its village version and then its modern arrangement.
The Long TellingLong narrative songs and laments, the storytelling end of the folk tradition, one telling allowed to reach its end.
Field RecordingsUnpolished, room-noise-and-all folk overnight, closer to a doorway than a studio.
Programmes
Drum led folk at commute hour, moving region by region through the week: the village version of a rhythm first, then what a modern arrangement did with it. The dhol gets its turn here like every other drum on the map, as the instrument of a harvest and a wedding procession. Bhangra as a chart record, and the Punjabi folk hour that runs in the language every day, are Sukh Punjabi's.
The songs women sing to each other before, during and after a wedding: teasing songs, blessing songs and the farewell that closes it.