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with Folk on 2 Tonight's guests are the Cape Breton family band, the Barra MacNeils. One of Canada's most successful folk bands, the three brothers and a sister who form the band have been making music together all their lives. Their set includes two traditional instrumentals: their Clumsy Lover Set and a medley featuring the twin fiddles of Kyle and Lucy MacNeil - an arrangement of Robert Burns 's My heart Is in the Highlands and Shel Silverstein 's Ballad of Lucy Jordan.
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Cape Breton
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Lucy MacNeil
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Robert Burns
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Shel Silverstein
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Lucy Jordan.

Continuing the three-part series in which Simon
Mayor examines the origins of the mandolin and finds out why players from
Naples to Nashville go wild about it.
2: What's Going on 'Ere Then?
Simon Mayor continues his mandolin musings by looking at Britain and Ireland, meeting Jefferson's Mandolins, a youth orchestra based in Norwich, and folk-rockers Martin
Allcock, and Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention. And he recalls how his first instrument inadvertently drank a pint of beer. An Acoustics production

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Simon Mayor
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Dave Pegg

4: Trevor McDonald looks at the way the calypsonians have dealt with some weighty subjects - capitalism, money, power and racism. Including music from Lord Kitchener, Mighty Sparrow, Growling Tiger,
Black Stalin , Drupatee and Denyse Plummer. A Rewind production

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Black Stalin
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Denyse Plummer.

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