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The Highland Sessions·BBC Four

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1 season · 6 eps

Season 1

S1 · E1 1 min

Episode 1 Episode 1

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Australian-born Donegal resident Steve Cooney is music director and the first programme sets the talents of Mary Black, Karan Casey and Afro-Celt Sound System's Iarla O'Lionaird in a uniquely Scottish context.

S1 · E2 1 min

Episode 2 Episode 2

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This edition features musicians Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Seosaimhin ni Beagley, Eamonn O'Donnachadh, Niall Vallely, Capercaillie's Karen Matheson and Donnie Murdo MacLeod. Celebrating the historical and contemporary links between Scottish and Irish Gaelic song

S1 · E3 1 min

Episode 3 Episode 3

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This edition features Liam O'Maonlai of the rock band Hothouse Flowers, Scots Gaelic diva Margaret Stewart and James Graham.

S1 · E4 1 min

Episode 4 Episode 4

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The episode opens with Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand), performed by Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes. Rona Lightfoot performs canntaireachd, an oral music form traditionally used to teach and pass on pipe tunes that Rona has made her own, elevating it to a kind of Gaelic scat singing.

S1 · E5 1 min

Episode 5 Episode 5

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This edition features the Dublin-based duo of piper Mick O'Brien and fiddle-player Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh, plus Donegal's favourite Australian, series music director Steve Cooney, once a backing guitarist to Chuck Berry.

S1 · E6 1 min

Episode 6 Episode 6

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Featuring a performance of the Bonnie Prince Charlie anthem Mo Ghile Mear, written in Ireland with Scottish Jacobites in mind.

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