TV series on Irish Music

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In the January (91) issue of Q magazine there is an article about a
forthcoming TV series called Bringing It All Back Home. It is in 5 parts
and "traces the extraordinary journey of Irish traditional music and dance
over a couple of centuries to America and back"
".. The programme makers have enlisted the musical services of a wide rnage of
performers - members of U2, The Waterboys, Hothouse Flowers, Pete Seeger, Don
and Phil Everly, Ricky Skaggs, John Cage, Emmylou Harris, Kate Bush and The
Pogues - mixing their cultural and musical backgrounds to underline the point
of the story."

"Besides the 5-part TV series and accompanying book a soundtrack album is also
planned. All the performances are live and even include some special
compositions like Elvis Costello's Mischievous Ghost which he sings with
flame-haired Irish chanteuse Mary Coughlin, backed by Irish piper Davey
Spillane".

Bringing It All Back Home is scheduled to be broadcast in February.

A little while ago I posted here that Rapido on BBC-2 had done a piece on Irish
influences on musicians. This featured a short spot from Kate - whether
they pinched this film from the new series is unknown.
Be seeing you,
	Neil
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