I've just been watching the latest Transatlantic Sessions on BBC4 TV . A fantastic mix of folk music with musicians from the USA/Canada/UK/Ireland, playing together. The DVDs of the series are great, and some series have been released on CD.
I've just been watching the latest Transatlantic Sessions on BBC4 TV . A fantastic mix of folk music with musicians from the USA/Canada/UK/Ireland, playing together. The DVDs of the series are great, and some series have been released on CD.
For your info Junior.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Sessions
And, as I don't believe you will have access to BBC Iplayer
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0593E3B8A773C5A1
I've actually seen Aly Bain, the main man of the Transatlantic Sessions waiting at a bus stop in Edinburgh where he lives, having moved from his birthplace of Lerwick on the Shetland Isles. Well that's my claim to fame anyway.
Blimey, you got me with that one. I read "Transatlantic" and I thought this:
http://www.transatlanticweb.com/
I said, "boy the BBC is more hip than I ever expected"... alas, it was just a buch of gits blowing air into empty beer bottles and plucking a banjo.@:
...and not even a lupin in sight!
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