The latest Folk On Foot podcast episode featuring John Jones and the Reluctant Ramblers walking to the Wickham Festival in Hampshire. You can listen at folkonfoot.com or click below for your podcast app:

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The podcast series is hosted by Matthew Bannister who writes: “This episode has by far the largest cast of walkers we’ve ever assembled – and the most musicians. I call John Jones “the patron saint of Folk on Foot” because he was walking from gig to gig and singing on the way long before our podcast was invented. He’s done it all over the country and he’s usually accompanied by a bunch of fans who call themselves the Reluctant Ramblers.

On a scorching hot day last summer, we joined them for a walk over Old Winchester Hill, along part of the South Downs Way and the Meon Valley to the Wickham Festival. On top of the hill John and his band performed Walking Through Ithonside. After lunch at the pub they gave us Ferryman and on arrival at the Festival the very appropriate I Will Never Stop Moving.

Along the way John reflects on creativity and the effect of a recent brush with cancer on his view of life and making music It was a life-affirming journey through quintessential English countryside with one of folk rock’s leading singers and his mates. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.”

The preview film from the walk into the Wickham Festival is now available on You Tube and on the Folk On Foot Facebook page:

“This episode has by far the largest cast of walkers we’ve ever assembled – and the most musicians. The lead singer of Oysterband John Jones started walking from gig to gig and singing on the way long before our podcast was invented. He’s done it all over the country and he’s usually accompanied by a bunch of fans who call themselves the Reluctant Ramblers. On a scorching hot summer’s day, we joined them for a walk over Old Winchester Hill, along part of the South Downs Way and the Meon Valley to the Wickham Festival. On top of the hill John and his band perform “Waking Through Ithonside”. After lunch at the pub they give us “Ferryman” and on arrival at the festival the very appropriate “I Will Never Stop Moving”. Along the way John reflects on creativity and the effect of a recent brush with cancer on his view of life and making music. It is a life-affirming journey through quintessential English countryside with one of the most influential performers on the folk scene.”

When John Jones walked into the Wickham Festival last August, he was joined by Matthew Bannister for series 4 of his Folk On Foot podcasts. As the folk musician who walks the most on foot, it had taken a couple of years to find a date and place for Matthew to walk with John. As well as talking with John, Matthew’s cameraman took many photographs. They recorded John and the Reluctant Ramblers band singing both on Old Winchester Hill and outside the festival box office as people queued to get their tickets.

The short film trailer will launch on this coming Friday, November 8th, and then the full episode will launch on the following Friday November 15th. A short clip is available already in the season 4 trailer on the Podcast site: click here for Apple and here for Google

Click here for the series 4 Folk On Foot website.