Spinning Yarns

English songs released in 2004.

Alan shares some of his life story

2011 on wildflower records

2004 harmonica mundi

Originally released in 1971 this classic album celebrates 40 years this year.

Reissued as part of the complete A&M recordings of Joan Baez in 2003.

Voices 1990 a folk album with a social conscience.

2000 deutche gramophone

A rant on some issues

2010 on wildflower records.

Emmylou Harris hard bargain on nonesuch records, 2011

Hello this is Marley Kelan live from Northland. Just outside at Claire which is Mr Gary fine ___. I've been here for a little longer since Friday. Time shift and flat. I forget with the help ___ and it's been ___ wondering because we all have successfully gotten sick. But if we can ___ actually because there's no ___ and have any water. Not there's more than just going to your important. Rainick(?) everywhere. Yeah it's right to everyone and I keep staying this way with friends Colin and Di and who's got the part that I'm going to make. So I have this yeah they say everything. Ha ha ha. But I have fun and I love to rest tonight. We'll be going back to Auckland on Wednesday and yeah

Hello, this is Mark Evans talking to you from Auckland Museum ___ my voice but tomorrow I am leaving for the North so I will perhaps do a phonecast from North oh excuse me. Today I want to talk about sacred harp. The sacred harp is a tune ___ and the style of singing developed in England and carried to the States by the early colonies(?). It uses, it's a religious style of singing which is predominant in the South of the States but as tradition has modernized and there's ___ being able to take things global tradition has expanded to the internet but this is about sacred harp singing and any other

I'm just gonna rant about myself because this evening I saw 2 stories on the close up which is the number one kind of this program in this country. I saw the story about Jackie Bianca. No, I've never heard of Jackie Bianca before in my life but what a beautiful voice. I was having dreams and having an intimate here when I was about ___ Jackie Bianca for those who don't know is 11 and has won numerous talent conquest, conquest? Yeah she's conquered many talent contests. Anyway the other story I heard

Hello, this is Marie Gailand(?). I'm sitting here at my piano and I'm thinking about advertising tonight. I'm thinking about how badly they've done. I was on Water Ball(?) Dot Com the other night and I bought a book. David says with the big heading you're availing(?) pick and I thought what the hell. So I decided, because I'm a saka(?) that I'm gonna buy my value pick as well. So I do. Maybe take a lighter he can't talk with something else to get me to buy another book. That is probably about as expensive but maybe not.

Whats on my mind

Hello, this is Mark Evans speaking to you from Oakland New Zealand. Malcolm, last night I talked about how to get off iTunes ___ which according to the videos on the internet the ___ so I'm using voice over. Some blind person made a video and put it on You Tube. What I wanna talk about something you can put on your iDevice(?), I really talked about the games because this is how I've been wasting the last couple of days by playing and on right new iPhone(?). Because I just had to find out what it was like. So if you type the word excessive off into your iTunes app store on your iDevice(?) you get about let me see 18 hits.

Brief intro on using iTunes.

Hello, this is Mara Kelland talking to you from Auckland New Zealand. Today I have with me is Lois Choksy who joins me from Gibsons in Canada. She is a world authority on the kodaly method of teaching music and has worked for 50 years to adapt it to the North American context in the classrooms and Universities of North America. Hi Lois. Hi Mara how are you? I'm alright and you? Just fine. Lois let's start tell us about your background. Well I started music from the time I was a child and I think I wanted to be a music teacher most of my life and began teaching in the school when I was only 19. I finished my degree at night so that I could teach during the day on an emergency war certificate...as they called it.