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14 Feb 14 - 08:54 PM (#3601612) Subject: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: GUEST,Mick Tems (cookieless) I switched to BBC4 on Friday night, and what I think is a repeat series of Transatlantic Sessions had just started at 7.30pm... only 30 minutes and only six programmes, but what a joy to watch! Tim O'Brien was on, and Mary Chapin Carpenter (stunning country songwriter who loves and respects the folk tradition from this side of the Atlantic); Cara Dillon, with her husband Sam Lakeman; the incredible bass of Danny Thompson, and the angelic Gaelic singing of Julie Fowlis and Karen Mattheson; plus the masterful playing of Michael McGoldrick, Donal Lunny, Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas as music directors, John McCusker and the beautiful tunes of Phil Cunningham... All this, packed into one brief half-hour! BBC-4 deserves to be congratulated; we don't see much in the way of folk/roots, but what we do see (i.e. Nic Jones, June Tabor) has been pretty fine stuff. Perhaps we should petition the BBC and ITV to show more quality music? |
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14 Feb 14 - 09:30 PM (#3601620) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: Andrez Hmmmmm sadly we don't get any of this on our ABC :-( Cheers, Andrez |
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14 Feb 14 - 10:58 PM (#3601631) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: GUEST Initially I enjoyed these shows and made a point of watching, but 2 or 3 series ago I just gradually drifted off and stopped watching them. Got to a point where I just couldn't be sure which were new series and which were repeats ??? |
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15 Feb 14 - 03:55 AM (#3601653) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: GUEST,Ray The series Mick is referring to is Series 6 which was first shown in England in the back end of 2013 and in Scotland a couple of weeks earlier. For the location spotters out there, it was filmed in a hotel on the edge of Luss (the one next to the camp site) on the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. |
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15 Feb 14 - 04:07 AM (#3601655) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: evansakes I always enjoy the programmes but if they're going to do more I think they could freshen up the format a little bit. Make it a little less staged, less stylised...show more informal late night footage It looks like a hotel these days...on previous occasions they seemed to be holed up somewhere remote where they all mucked in together (cooking for themselves etc). Then after dinner getting the instruments out and having a REAL session... |
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15 Feb 14 - 05:02 AM (#3601660) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: Will Fly cooking for themselves I don't think so! Previous sessions have been set in fairly upmarket locations with proper catering facilities laid on. |
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15 Feb 14 - 05:05 AM (#3601662) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: GUEST Does look stagey. Would hope the producer has a mond to these matters and is sympathetic to the music! |
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15 Feb 14 - 07:09 AM (#3601678) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: bubblyrat I watched last night and was thrilled ! Wonderful musicianship by some of the finest players in the land ; John McCusker reprising some his tunes from Battlefield Band's "Happy Daze" , and ,best of all ,the lovely Julie Fowlis ! Musical heaven ! |
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15 Feb 14 - 12:34 PM (#3601760) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: GUEST,PeterC If you buy the DVD (as I have, of all six of the series) you can watch the tracks you like, and skip the ones you don't like! |
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15 Feb 14 - 02:41 PM (#3601784) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: GUEST,PadraigON You can of course get most of the programmes on youtube |
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15 Feb 14 - 08:09 PM (#3601845) Subject: RE: Transatlantic Sessions - new series From: GUEST,Jon Jones Transatlantic Sessions - absolutely cracking! |