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Folk America at the Barbican

Billy Bragg

Folk America at the Barbican: Roger McGuinn

30/10/2009

Roger McGuinn

BBC Four - Folk America at the Barbican, Roger McGuinn

A special Greenwich Village Revisited concert Folk with Roger McGuinn.

Folk hero and ex-Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn performs Eight Miles High, Turn! Turn! Turn!, My Back Pages and more at a special Greenwich Village Revisited concert.

Concert which recalls the heady days of the 1960s folk revival, centring upon the singer-songwriter talents to emerge from the clubs of New York's Greenwich Village and beyond. 

Hosted by singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, it features Village originals Judy Collins, Roger McGuinn, Eric Andersen and Carolyn Hester, performing songs from their own repertoire and from their contemporaries who contributed to such an extraordinary songbook.

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