The Highland Sessions BBC4

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: ard mhacha
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 07:14 AM

Pleased to be of service Ake, Does anyone know how many more of this Series to be shown?.

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: ard mhacha
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 07:18 AM

I have just noticed in the TV notes in my newspaper that there is another Programme on Friday 9th.

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: Brakn
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 09:53 AM

There are two more programmes making six in all.

Episode 5.

Episode 6.

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: akenaton
Date: 04 Dec 05 - 12:18 PM

Thanks for the links Brakn, I've posted my comment on the BBC 4 site.

They deserve lots of praise for the quality of this series...Ake

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From:
Date: 15 Dec 05 - 05:45 PM

hi i think the the music diector is fab put together a grate number of artists hi steve do you remember me and my brother brendan(wheelcair user) we last met in rostrevor at fidlers green hope you are well love kate brendan

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: GUEST,Alan Day
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 07:14 AM

Although the quality of performance was superb,I did not think that the balance of the last programme was right.It was too heavily loaded with singing and insufficient instrumentals,unlike previous programmes where it was just right.
This has been a superb Folk programme, let us hope that the BBC has had good viewing figures and it prompts them to put more Folk programmes on.
Al

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: Effsee
Date: 16 Dec 05 - 11:07 AM

Refresh. The last of the series goes out tonight at 10:00PM, and repeated at 03:45AM.

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: GUEST,lucy
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 06:42 AM

Does anyone know what the curious instrument looking like a cross between a violin and a draw is? I want one. Can anyone put me in touch with someone who can help. Does it sound like a violin?

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 06:46 AM

Was it the nickleharper?

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 07:04 AM

Explain ' draw '

Dave H

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: GUEST,SteveT
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 07:49 AM

I didn't see a nickleharper being played in the last programme but may have missed it or been watching a different programme on the i-player.

If you are interested in nickleharpers, try the website and contacts for "Michael Sanders Design". I've seen the Northumbrian Pipes he's made for himself and his first nickleharper – and he's a talented musician and regular session player so he knows the instruments from both the design and the player's viewpoint.

On the other hand, if you're referring to the thing like a hybrid coffin/hammer dulcimer/bowed psaltery – I haven't a clue even what it was!

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: Will Fly
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 08:30 AM

One of the fiddlers on last night's programme looked like he was playing a Hardanger fiddle - Hardanger fiddle.

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 09:53 AM

re that instrument which looks to me like a cross between fiddle and hurdygurdy (not a drawer!), the e comes before the l, as in nickelharpa or nyckelharpa. re that instrument which looks to me like a cross between fiddle and hurdygurdy (not a drawer!), the e comes before the l, as in nickelharpa or nyckelharpa. Apparently "nyckel" is the correct Swedish spelling, from the word for keys

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 10:52 AM

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The Highland Sessions is a series celebrating the links between Irish and Scottish music. Each episode opens with Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand), performed by Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes.

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The Highland Sessions: Episode 1

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=14988

01. BBC 4 Intro
02. Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand) - Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes
03. Mary Ann Kennedy Intro
04. O'Donnell's Return
05. Siuil a Run (Walk My Love) - Mary Black
06. A Mhairead Og (Young Margaret) - James Graham
07. Bunker Hill
08. Buile Mo Chroí (Beat of My Heart) - Karan Casey
09. Taimse im' Chodhladh (I Am Asleep) - Iarla O Lionaird (Afro Celt Sound System)
10. Puirt a Beul (Mouth Music), incorporating Mhorag an dean thu tighinn?, St Kilda Wedding, Air an Fheill, and Buachaille Dubh Fionnghal - Mary Ann Kennedy

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The Highland Sessions: Episode 2

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=15309

01. BBC 4 Intro
02. Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand) - Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes
03. Mary Ann Kennedy Intro
04. Chuir m'Athair Mise Dha'n Taigh Charraideach (My Father Sent Me to the House of Sorrow), incorporating Seudan a'Chuain (Jewels of the Ocean) - Karen Matheson
05. Eileanor na Rún (Darling Eileanor) - Eamon O Donnchadha
06. Malfunction Junction - Niall Vallely
07. Oran Mòr Mhicleoid (The MacLeod's Great Song) - Donnie Murdo MacLeod
08. Ealaigh Liom (Elope With Me) - Padraigin Ni Uallachain
09. An Eas Bheag (The Little Cascade) - Allan & Iain MacDonald
10. Slán le Maigh (Farewell to the Maigue) - Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

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The Highland Sessions: Episode 3

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=15543

01. BBC 4 Intro
02. Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand) - Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes
03. Mary Ann Kennedy Intro
04. O's Tu's Gura Tu th'air a'Aire (You're the One That's On My Mind) - Margaret Stewart
05. Sadhbh Ni Bhruinneallaigh - Liam O Maonlai (The Hothouse Flowers)
06. Kirsten Thomson - Laoise Kelly & Mary Ann Kennedy
07. Cumha Alasdair Dhuinn (Lament for Alexander Mackenzie) - James Graham
08. Oro se do Bheatha Bhaile (Welcome Home) - Mary Black
09. Fead an Iolair (Eagle's Whistle) - Allan Henderson
10. A Chomaraigh Aoibhinn O (Sweet Comeraghs) - Karan Casey
11. Gaol ise Gaol i (She's My Love) - Kathleen MacInnes

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The Highland Sessions: Episode 4

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=15977

01. BBC 4 Intro
02. Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand) - Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes
03. Gleann Bhaile Chaoil (Ballachulish Glen) - Karen Matheson
04. The Green Shades of Gask, incorporating Captain White's and Mike MacDougall's - Iain MacDonald and Iain MacFarlane
05. Dónal Og (Young Donald) - Seosaimhin Ni Bheaglaoich
06. Lal, lal, ars' a'Chailleach (Lal, lal, Said the Old Woman), incorporating Canntaireachd - Rona Lightfoot
07. Theid is Gun Teid e Leam (He Will Go, He Will Go With Me) - Margaret Stewart
08. Caoineadh na dTrí Muire (Lament of the Three Marys) - Iarla O Lionaird
09. Cumha Dhonnchaidh MhicRath (Duncan MacRae of Kintail's Lament), incorporating Kings of Laois - Allan MacDonald

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The Highland Sessions: Episode 5

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=16423

01. BBC 4 Intro
02. Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand) - Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes
03. Jimmy mo Mhíle Stór (Jimmy, My Treasure) - Kathleen MacInnes
04. Teampall an Ghleannáin (The Templeglantine Reel), incorporating Plearaca Dhoire Chreasain - Mick O'Brien and Caoimhin O Raghallaigh
05. Bruach na Carraige Báine (White Rock Hill) - Mary Black
06. Cùm 'ur Gealladh (Keep Your Promise) - Allan MacDonald and Donald Shaw
07. Feasgar Luain (Monday Evening) - Alasdair Codona
08. Cailín na nUrla Donn (The Brown-Haired Woman) - Seosaimhin Ni Bheaglaoich
09. Sí Beag Sí Mor (Fairy Mounds) - Steve Cooney

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The Highland Sessions: Episode 6

http://thebox.bz/details.php?id=16841

01. BBC 4 Intro
02. Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand) - Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes
03, An Spealadóir (The Scytheman) - Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
04. Iain Ghlinn Cuaich (John of Glen Cuaich) - Karen Matheson
05. An t-Each Iarainn (The Iron Horse), comprising Whinney Hills of Leitrim and Gladstone's Reel - Dermot Byrne, Donald Shaw & Niaill Vallely
06. An Raibh tu ag an gCarraig? (Were You at the Rock?) - Liam O Maonlai
07. A' Bhean Eudach (The Jealous Woman) - Mary Smith
08. Failte gu baile Ghráinne (Welcome Home Grainne) - The House Band
09. Mo Ghile Mear (My Dashing Darling) - Mary Black, Karan Casey, Mary Ann Kennedy, Allan MacDonald, Karen Matheson & Iarla O Lionaird

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Performers:

Mary Black
Dermot Byrne
Karan Casey
Alasdair Codona
Steve Cooney
Allan Henderson
Trevor Hutchinson
Neil Johnstone
Mary Ann Kennedy
Allan MacDonald
Iain MacDonald
Donnie Murdo MacLeod
Karen Matheson
Seosaimhin Ni Bheaglaoich
Triona Ni Dhomhnaill
Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
Mick O'Brien
Iarla O Lionaird
Liam O Maonlai
Caoimhin O Raghallaigh
Donald Shaw
Mary Smith
Margaret Stewart
Jim Sutherland
Niall Vallely

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: michaelr
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 11:27 AM

Now available on DVD.

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 10 - 04:04 PM

DVD = WHIRLIEDVD4 - currently 0 in stock

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 05:51 PM

Anyone watch the latest - "Episode 5". Rather intrigued by the appearing/disappearing pop shield on Allan MacDonald's vocal microphone.

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Highland Sessions BBC4
From: BobKnight
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:13 PM

Two of my favourite female singers on tonight - Kathleen MacInnes and Mary Black. I'm sure most of you will know of Mary Black, but you really should check out Kathleen MacInnes. Better known as an actress until she released a CD around 2006. A great voice with an incredible husky quality - kinda makes the hairs on my arms and back of my neck stand on end.

I can't understand a word of gaelic, but it doesn't matter - I could listen to her all night.