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26 Feb 04 - 10:44 AM (#1124357) Subject: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: Beardy For anyone interested who has'nt seen the TV listings these are this weeks offerings 2100 Celtic Connections Highlights of this years festival 2200 Ralph Stanley Live at the Barbican 2300 Laura Cantrell Running order repeated from 0030 These 3 shows are also shown on Saturday from 2340 but in a different order. |
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26 Feb 04 - 12:31 PM (#1124435) Subject: RE: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: Geoff the Duck Any further details? |
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26 Feb 04 - 12:49 PM (#1124454) Subject: RE: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: okthen scroll down for friday |
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27 Feb 04 - 07:32 AM (#1125060) Subject: RE: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: Beardy I could have included a lot more detail but I'm lazy plus you get lots of abuse and suggestions you may be a fan of people when only trying to assist people in seeing/hearing someone they might not know. God forbid it might be suggested I liked Jim Moray who is featured in the Celtic Connections show. |
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27 Feb 04 - 12:57 PM (#1125257) Subject: RE: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: The Shambles 1 of 2 shows on at 21.00 and again at 12.35 - Celtic Connections featuring Joan Baez, Carlos Nunez, Fiddlers' Bid and Jim Moray. Next Friday you can see Ricardo Tesi and Salsa Celtica. By pressing your 'red interactive button' you can "go behind the scenes". Whatever that may mean.... |
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28 Feb 04 - 02:42 AM (#1125654) Subject: RE: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: The Shambles The Celtic Connections show has three artists but according to its producers - this requires 2 presenters! Fiddler's Bid were great. Though one minor quibble the band features 4 fine young fiddlers and there were making the point that there is a fiddle in just about every Shetland home. Nice though the tune is why then is a tune featuring the fairly untypical Shetland instrument - the harp selected to be shown? The 'interactive' sub-titles went into great detail on this 'Scottish' instrument and its place in 'Scottish' culture and rather gave the impression that it was also true in Shetland. I lived there for 12 years and never saw or heard the harp played - in all that time. Ralph Stanley was a good show with few gimmicks except for some reason known only to its producers - this music needed to be shown in black-and white? It had the usual problem of directors going close-up on the mandolin when it is the banjo's solo and vice-versa but apart from this was just showing the live performance. |
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28 Feb 04 - 03:07 AM (#1125662) Subject: RE: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: greg stephens Thje harp addition to the Shetland music was interesting. The sort of "Celtic twilight" spin that has been applied to most Scottish and Irish music(witht the glorious exception of the Dubliners) has mercifully not reached the Shetlands(like the Gaels!). So I was a little disappointed by this aspect of last night's broadcast. I love harps, but in this case it was not just a harp. It was an editorial intrusion, a piece of ersatz "Celticisation" based on the modern image of the harp, not its actual history or music. There is nothing distictively Celtic about harps, any more than there is anything Celtic about bodhrans, but they can be manipulated into appearing so. |
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28 Feb 04 - 01:35 PM (#1125793) Subject: RE: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: The Shambles I agree but I think the use of the harp in the band is generally used very well and probably reflects the influences of many new instruments and styles that have found their way to Shetland in the time that I have left the islands. The annual folk festival has certainly paid a major role in that and in producing some fine performers and bands and in leading many of the visiting performers astray........ I remember Dave Swarbrick giving a fiddle workshop in one of the first festivals. He was asked his opinion on how to hold the fiddle and bow and replied that as long as you were comfortable - it did not matter if you held it up your bum. Or words to that effect. This was taken as heresy and also as a bit of liberation, for the main teaching influence there at that time always insisted that everyone held the fiddle the same and also bowed together - like a classical ensemble. |
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28 Feb 04 - 02:02 PM (#1125813) Subject: RE: Roots music on BBC4 - Friday/Saturday From: Ed. You need to lighten up, Roger |