Henk van Aalten Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 (edited) Yesterday evening/night I zapped the TV and by coincidence I ended up with a one hour documentary about Martin Carthy. There was a lot of English Folk & Country music, Morris dancing and even some concertina playing.Enjoyed every minute of it. To the C.Netters across the other side of the North-sea I must say that you are priviliged with a such a champion of Folk and Country music! He had BTW a very nice one-liner to think about in relation to the way a folk tune can be played: "The only way you can seriously damage a folk tune is not playing it at all!!" After the English Country Music Weekend and this documentary I am really going to like this English Country Music!! Edited July 24, 2004 by Henk van Aalten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Wild Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 I had to miss that because I do not watch TV except occasionally when visiting others. Meanwhile, his daughter Eliza has a series running on BBC Radio 2 on Wednesday evenings at 10:00, covering the period from the folk revival from c.1960 onwards. I believe last Wednesday was the first of four. Regards, john Wild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henk van Aalten Posted July 24, 2004 Author Share Posted July 24, 2004 I believe last Wednesday was the first of four. Thanks John for your info. I discovered that the first broadcast in this series can still be heard at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod....?r2_elizacarthy It brings a lot of things that I heard in the past into a new perspective! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Brook Posted July 25, 2004 Share Posted July 25, 2004 I thoroughly enjoyed the TV programme that Henk mentions. From a concertina point of view the only sad thing was Martin did not specifically mention his long collaboration in various projects with John Kirkpatrick (although Swarb [violin] got an honourable mention). Still an excellent programme. There is quite a regular mix of english folk now on BBC4 (TV) such as June Tabor, Eliza Carthy, Nick Drake etc. There has also been some bluegrass, jazz and blues - but no concertinas spotted! It's just always on at a weird time like 11:30 pm. Still at least we have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffwright Posted July 27, 2004 Share Posted July 27, 2004 We found it fascinating - best folky tv program of the year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henk van Aalten Posted July 30, 2004 Author Share Posted July 30, 2004 The second broadcast in this series can nowl be heard at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod....?r2_elizacarthy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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