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BBC Four 2010 1 season 6 eps Ended

The Highland Sessions

2010 1 season 6 eps

Season 1

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Season 1

1 min

S1 · E1 · Nov 19, 2010

Episode 1 Episode 1

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.

1 min

S1 · E2 · Nov 26, 2010

Episode 2 Episode 2

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

1 min

S1 · E3 · Dec 3, 2010

Episode 3 Episode 3

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

1 min

S1 · E4 · Dec 10, 2010

Episode 4 Episode 4

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.

1 min

S1 · E5 · Dec 17, 2010

Episode 5 Episode 5

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.

1 min

S1 · E6 · Dec 20, 2010

Episode 6 Episode 6

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

6 episodes in Season 1

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Series celebrating the historical and contemporary links between Scottish and Irish Gaelic song by bringing together top exponents of both traditions to sing and play with no audience except themselves, using a house band of their peers.

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Total runtime 3h 0m · Episode length 30 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

November 19, 2010

Final episode

December 20, 2010

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Four

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Documentary

Episode length

30 min

Total runtime

3h 0m

Original language

English

Production

B

BBC

Production

Languages

Spoken on screen

English · Irish · Scottish Gaelic

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