Jul 2, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 11 segments
**Siskin Green is a Folk trio from Scotland, making music that bridges the spaces between tradition and radicalism, faith and feminism, anger and grace.** !…
Margaret McLartyGuest
Suzanne ButlerGuestJontyHostWould you like to tell the listeners just about what Siskin Green is and how Siskin Green was birthed?
And then in 2020, the dreaded year, we were asked to form a band to arrange and perform some music for a Scottish broadcast, which was called Reflections at the Quay by John Bell, who you might know as a broadcaster and producer.
I don't know if you call a worship program an episode, but they were doing a program on women.
And he thought, let's have some actual females playing some revolutionary stuff.
And so we kind of found our thing, which was folk music, faith and feminism.
I think we just realised that musically something felt really good when we played and sang together and that we were all bringing things that meant a lot to us and that meant a lot to the others too that Margaret's just described.
But then as people we get on together, we laugh a lot together and I think there's a sort of spirit to what we're doing that just feels really good.
And to our surprise, actually, we thought, who's going to be interested in this initially? Typical women sort of underrating themselves.
But we find that people were really sort of interested in both the music and in us and in the music we chose to play.
Would you like to tell the listeners just about what Siskin Green is and how Siskin Green was birthed?
And then in 2020, the dreaded year, we were asked to form a band to arrange and perform some music for a Scottish broadcast, which was called Reflections at the Quay by John Bell, who you might know as a broadcaster and producer.
I don't know if you call a worship program an episode, but they were doing a program on women.
And he thought, let's have some actual females playing some revolutionary stuff.
And so we kind of found our thing, which was folk music, faith and feminism.
I think we just realised that musically something felt really good when we played and sang together and that we were all bringing things that meant a lot to us and that meant a lot to the others too that Margaret's just described.
But then as people we get on together, we laugh a lot together and I think there's a sort of spirit to what we're doing that just feels really good.
And to our surprise, actually, we thought, who's going to be interested in this initially? Typical women sort of underrating themselves.
But we find that people were really sort of interested in both the music and in us and in the music we chose to play.
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