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Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi in Session

Grammy award winners Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi join Anna for a session plus a preview of Shetland Folk Festival's showpiece concert featuring 4 Young Trad winners.

The Shetland Folk Festival kicks off tonight! A showpiece concert for the weekend will feature the last 4 title holders of ±«Óătv Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year. The audience can expect amazing performances and collaborative pieces from Ali Levack, Michael Biggins, Eryn Rae and Shetland's very own Amy Laurenson. Mhari McLeman tells Anna all about this one-off concert, bringing together four of Scotland’s best young folk musicians.

Rhiannon Giddens is now a two-time winner and eight-time Grammy nominee for her work as a soloist and collaborator. She most recently won a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album for They're Calling Me ±«Óătv, which she made with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. Called “a musical alchemist” by the Irish Times, Turrisi is a Turin-born musician whose Dublin base reflects his global sensibilities. Through a chance musical meet-up in Ireland, they found that Giddens’ 19th century American minstrel banjo tunes and Turrisi’s traditional Sicilian Tamburello (tambourine) rhythms fit very naturally together. Rhiannon and Francesco join Anna in session in ±«Óătv Aberdeen ahead of their gig at the Music Hall.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Music Played

  • Harry Belafonte

    Jump In The Line

    • Jump Up Calypso.
  • Vair

    Trip to Breckon

    • A Place In Time.
  • Gnoss

    Honey Wine

    • Stretching Skyward.
  • Sheila Stewart

    Moving On Song

    • From The Heart Of The Tradition.
  • Yokit

    Space Between Stories

    • Space Between Stories EP.
  • Eryn Rae, Michael Biggins, Charlie Stewart & Alyn Cosker

    Donald Blue / Up Da Stroods Da Sailor Goes / Come Agen Ye’re Welcome / My Wife’s A Drunkard / Da Kirk Stack

    • ±«Óătv Travelling Folk Recording.
  • Laura Cortese & The Dance Cards

    Three By Three

    • Single.
  • The Mary Wallopers

    The Holy Ground

    • Single.
  • Brian Finnegan

    Belfast

    • The Ravishing Genius of Bones.
  • Lena Jonsson Trio

    Ispolskan

    • Stories From The Outside.
  • Shane Cook & The Woodchippers

    The Little Contortionist

    • Be Here For A While.
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi

    They’re Calling Me ±«Óătv

    • ±«Óătv Travelling Folk Recording.
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi

    Bye Bye Baby Blues

    • ±«Óătv Travelling Folk Recording.
  • Rhiannon Giddens

    'S iomadh rud tha dhìth orm / Ciamar a nì mi 'n dannsa dìreach

    • Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis.
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi

    Quante Stelle

    • ±«Óătv Travelling Folk Recording.
  • Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi

    Niwel Goes To Town

    • ±«Óătv Travelling Folk Recording.
  • Charlie Stewart & Rebecca Hill

    Iorram Iomraimh

    • Thawcrook.
  • Harry Belafonte

    Jamaican Farewell

    • Calypso.

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 Apr 2023 20:00