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Posted By: evansakes
30-Sep-11 - 04:55 AM
Thread Name: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 5
Subject: Transatlantic Sessions - Series 5
Starts tonight....but only on BBC2 Scotland for the moment.
Here's the details for Episode One
Episode 1 of 6, Series 5
DURATION: 30 MINUTES
Transatlantic Sessions once again brings together the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland in an award-winning format that affords, in the words of one critic, a unique insight into the sheer joy of making music.
Recorded in a beautiful old hunting lodge at the entrance to Glen Lyon near Aberfeldy in the Perthshire Highlands, top vocal and instrumental exponents of the Country and Celtic traditions gathered to rehearse and play together with no audience except themselves and a resident house-band of their peers. As with previous series, music co-directors were Nashville's Jerry Douglas and Shetland's Aly Bain.
Leavening the intimacy of the music-making through each of the six programmes in the series is a strong element of spectacular Highland scenic photography while this time around a greater emphasis on informal backstage conversations and stories serves to highlight the series genuinely historic qualities of collaboration and performance.