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BBC Proms: 2018: Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland

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Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland

03/08/2018

2018

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 27: Folk Music around Britain and Ireland

Live at the BBC Proms: Folk musicians join Stephen Bell and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Live at the BBC Proms: Stephen Bell conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with folk musicians Sam Lee, Julie Fowlis, The Unthanks, ALAW and Jarleth Henderson.

Live at BBC Proms: BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Stephen Bell. Folk music around Britain and Ireland, with Sam Lee, Julie Fowlis, The Unthanks, ALAW and Jarleth Henderson.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Presented by Sam Lee and Julie Fowlis.


Interval: Proms Plus: 
Gillian Clarke is a former National Poet of Wales and winner of the Queen's Medal for Poetry. New Generation Thinker Dr Peter Mackay is from the Island of Lewis and an expert in Scots and Irish poetry. They discuss the folklore and oral traditions that have entertained and educated adults and children in these islands throughout millennia. Presented by New Generation Thinker Corin Throsby.


In a Prom that celebrates the history and evolution of the folk music scene in Britain and Ireland, the BBC Concert Orchestra collaborates with some of the folk world's leading musicians who are pushing the boundaries of traditional music, and bringing with them a new breed of folk fan.

With performers from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this Prom reflects the diversity of a genre of music that, while steeped in tradition, is constantly evolving and reinventing itself through the generations.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

All broadcasts from the 2018 season of the BBC Proms.

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