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Mary Ann Kennedy

Mary Ann Kennedy presents a session with Sara Watkins, best known as the singer and fiddle player with American 'progressive bluegrass' band Nickel Creek.

Mary Ann Kennedy presents a session with Sara Watkins, best known as the singer and fiddle player with American 'progressive bluegrass' band Nickel Creek, who have made a solo album produced by Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones.

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Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy
Produced by Roger Short

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Friday 17th April

Carlou D: Sam Fall
Carlou D
Album: Ndeye Dior
Foundation Prince Claus B.S.D.A

Trad: Friends of Bamboute
El Tanbura
Album: Friends of Bamboute
30IPS Ltd FOB1869

Mlanao: Narizambe
Nawal
Album: Aman
Nawal records NAW002 COD25

Stefano Bertozzi: Eclipse
Banda Olifante
Album: Banda Olifante
Felmay Fy 7030

Arr. Ricardo Barbera: Pippi
Filippo Gambetta
Album: Andirivieni
Felmay Fy 8148

In Session
Sara Watkins (guitar/fiddle)

John Hartford: Long hot summer days
Sara Watkins
BBC recording by sound engineer James Birtwistle at Broadcasting House

Watkins: My Friend
Sara Watkins
BBC recording by sound engineer James Birtwistle at Broadcasting House

MacLean: Nighneag a' chuil duinn nach fhan thu
Peter MacLean & Friends
Album: Còmhla Cruinn
Comunn Féis an Eilein

Celia Sanchez Mustich/Pedro Pubill: Ella es Así
Peret
Album: Que Levante el Dedo
Rumba Classics RCCD05

Kahn: Six million Germans
Daniel Kahn & the Painted Band; Michael Winograd (horns)
Album: Partisans and Parasites
Oriente Musik RienCD71

Jackson Amusala Ingosi: Musatsa Linani
Ingosi Stars
Album: Langoni
Luhya records, Daqui EE02EE

Sow: Fatang
Malick Pathé Sow
Album: Maayo Men
Muziek Publique 001

In Session
Sara Watkins (guitar/fiddle)

Watkins: Jefferson
Sara Watkins
BBC recording by sound engineer James Birtwistle at Broadcasting House

Davíd Garza: Too much
Sara Watkins
BBC recording by sound engineer James Birtwistle at Broadcasting House

R Tharpe: This Train
Alan Lomax; Guy Carawan; Peggy Seeger
Album: Great British Skiffle Vol. 3
Smith & Co Sound & Vision SCCD 1172

Kaleta, Arr. Akoya: Fela Day
Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble
Album: Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival
Rough Guides RGNET1218CD

Spasiuk: Infancia (Childhood)
Chango Spasiuk
Album: Pynandí
World Village 468083

Yu: Ying Zhou Gu Diao
Lingling Yu
Album: Xu Lai
Felmay Fy 8143

Astatke: Cha cha
Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics
Album: Inspiration Information
Strut Records STRUT040CD

1 hour, 45 minutes

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