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Mary Ann Kennedy

Mary Ann Kennedy presents a mix of sounds from across the globe, plus a session with Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, the guitar and ritti duo whose latest album is Trance Sessions.

Mary Ann Kennedy with a mix of sounds from across the globe, plus a studio session with Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara, who have taken their guitar and ritti duo to a new level with the extended tracks of their latest album 'Trance Sessions'.
Producer Roger Short

Juldeh is a virtuoso of the one-stringed fiddle, the ritti, having been taught in the Gambia by his father. His collaboration with Justin Adams dates from 2007, and was an instant success, winning a prize in the 2008 Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Justin Adams started out playing electric guitar in bands with bassist Jah Wobble and also singer Robert Plant, and has developed a guitar sound and style influenced equally by American blues and African traditions. They see their Trance Sessions as having 'an African sense of time and structure' - musical ideas which evolve slowly, unfettered by the time restrictions of the classic pop record format.

1 hour, 45 minutes

Last on

Fri 23 Apr 201023:15

Music Played

  • John McSherry

    An Bhean Chaointe (Soma)

  • Tigerstyle

    Maan Doabe Da

  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Man Kun to Maula (BGT India)

  • Atahualpa Yupanqui

    El Arbol que tu Olvidaste (Los Ejes de mi Carreta)

  • Session recorded at BBC Maida Vale studio

    • JuJu

      Talo Balata

    • JuJu

      Gainako

  • Arthur Miles

    The Lonely Cowboy (When I was a Cowboy)

  • Yat‐Kha

    Black Magic Woman (Re-Covers)

  • Anais Mitchell/Greg Brown

    Hey Little Songbird (Hadestown)

  • Rokia Traoré - Dianfa (Tchamantche)

  • Sweet Talks

    Mampam Sukuruwe (The Kusum Beat)

  • Session recorded at BBC Maida Vale studio

    • JuJu

      Ngamen

    • JuJu

      Chukaloy Deyoy

  • Jim Moray

    Bristol Harbour

    • Modern History.
  • Lila Downs

    Cumbia del Mole

    • Live à Fip.
  • Konono Nº1

    No.1 (Assume Crash Position)

  • John McSherry

    Aisling Gheal (Soma)

Broadcast

  • Fri 23 Apr 201023:15

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