"Down Home" with Aly Bain

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Apparently there are at least four programmes available:

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Down_Home-1_From_Appalachia_to_Nashville.avi

*DW Staff Approved

A Pelicula Film For Channel 4.
1985.
Running Time: 50 Minutes 48 Seconds.

Produced by Mike Alexander and Douglas Eadie.
Directed by Mike Alexander.
Narration: Maureen Beattie.

Aly Bain from The Boys Of The Lough, plays fiddle.
He also interviews Bill Monroe, Mike Seeger, Tommy Jarrell,
Mark O'Connor and Peter Rowan.

Plenty of lengthy performance clips including Bain with The Boys Of The Lough, Bill Monroe, Mark O'Connor and Mike Seeger.

The sections with Peter Rowan and Mark O'Connor are quality performances, and an interview with Elizabeth Cotten,then well into her nineties, performs 2 songs, "Georgia Buck" and her own "Freight Train" probably one of the most famous traditional American songs of all time - this is the stuff of legend, and is a magical highlight of this delightful series.

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Down_Home_2_Good_Times_Down_Home_And_Back_Home.avi

A Pelicula Film For Channel 4.
1985.
Running Time: 50 Minutes 45 Seconds.

Produced by Mike Alexander and Douglas Eadie.
Directed by Mike Alexander.
Narration: Maureen Beattie.

Aly Bain from The Boys Of The Lough, plays fiddle.
He also interviews Bill Monroe, Mike Seeger, Tommy Jarrell,
Mark O'Connor and Peter Rowan.

Plenty of lengthy performance clips including Bain with The Boys Of The Lough, Bill Monroe, Mark O'Connor and Mike Seeger.

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DOWN HOME - Part 3 - Cape Breton & Quebec
Category Music TV

Description: Four part series with ALY BAIN following the trail of the Scottish fiddle with its early migrants to America'a Appalachia.

Shown first on Channel 4 on the 15/3/1986.

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DOWN HOME - Part 4 - ????
Torrent missing.

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DOWN HOME - general compilation

Fiddle Music- An Historic Journey Through Scotland To North America.

DW Staff Approved.
A Pelicula Film For Channel 4 1985. Exact broadcast date unknown.
Produced by Mike Alexander and Douglas Eadie.
Directed by Mike Alexander.
Narration: Maureen Beattie.

Aly Bain from The Boys Of The Lough, plays fiddle.
He also interviews Bill Monroe, Mike Seeger, Tommy Jarrell,
Mark O'Connor and Peter Rowan.

Plenty of lengthy performance clips including Bain with
The Boys Of The Lough, Bill Monroe, Mark O'Connor and Mike Seeger.

The sections with Peter Rowan and Mark O'Connor are quality performances, but for me the highlight of the set is an interview with Elizabeth Cotten, then well into her nineties. She performs 2 songs, "Georgia Buck" and her own "Freight Train" probably one of the most famous traditional American songs of all time. This is the stuff of legend, and is a magical highlight of this delightful two part series.
Bob.

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There are loads of Transatlantic sessions programmes available too.

To see how the uTorrent / BitTorrent programme works try a recent popular series such as SpringWatch 2009 first. This will take a few hours (only) to download.

If anyone succeeds in downloading one of the "Down Home" programmes please announce this so that it may be possible to arrange some DVD / CD swops.

Chris B.

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