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Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park: 2018: Band of Love

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Band of Love

2018

BBC Radio 2 - Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park, 2018, Band of Love

Jo Whiley, Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad introduce folk superstars Band Of Love on stage

Jo Whiley, Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad introduce folk superstars Band Of Love for a different spin on some disco classics like Born To Be Alive, Night Fever and I Feel Love.

Jo Whiley, Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad welcome some folk superstars to the stage, as the Band Of Love showcase their interpretations of the mirror ball classics of Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Sister Sledge and the Brothers Gibb.

BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Greg Russell and accordion virtuoso Jim Causley take the vocals, while the brilliant Mancunian Irish duo of bodhran player John Joe Kelly and Michael McGoldrick are on Uilleann pipes and whistle. Show of Hands’ Phil Beer and Steve Knightley, Scottish fiddler Patsy Reid, acclaimed duo Hannah Martin and Philip Henry, double bassist Matt Downer and Danish accordionist Rune Cygan Barslund complete the line up.

Claudia Winkleman will be chatting to the crowds and Craig Charles will be playing a funk and soul DJ set.

Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park: 2018

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

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