A quick glance around the schedules

[johncorrigan]

Really enjoyable Folk on 2 this evening with a cheery chat between Paddy Moloney and Mike celebrating 50 years of the Chieftains - they deserve wall-to-wall on R3 for a few days. Some great music from their back catalogue - great to hear them with Van doing Star of the County Down - hadn't heard it in a while.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01glx4s

[johncorrigan]

I see John Cooper Clark is on in place of Jarvis for the next month - usually good for a laugh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hbg3d

[Globaltruth]

I see John Cooper Clark is on in place of Jarvis for the next month - usually good for a laugh.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hbg3d

Well spotted - I rarely look to see what's coming up on r6...Beasley St is already on the JP playlist;maybe we magicked him up?

[zola]

Tomorrow on Radio 4 at 1130 is a programme about two 1950s initiatives to stop classic Irish folk songs from being forgotten, one from the BBC and the other from Alan Lomax.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r

[johncorrigan]

Tomorrow on Radio 4 at 1130 is a programme about two 1950s initiatives to stop classic Irish folk songs from being forgotten, one from the BBC and the other from Alan Lomax.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h666r

Thanks zola - those 11.30am R4 programmes are always so easily missed, and they do stick some good ones in there. Wonder if they've a theme going. Cerys' very good programme about Mahalia Jackson was in the same slot last week.

[Globaltruth]

I believe thanks are due to bluestateprommer for the full list but here is an edited extract that may tempt regular habitues. There are other interesting items too (Angry Planet for example)

Check out Prom 74!

Prom 14: Kronos Quartet
Tuesday 24 July
10.00pm – c. 11.15pm
Royal Albert Hall

Omar Souleyman
I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hunting You (La sidounak sayyada) (arr. Jacob Garchik) (4 mins)
UK Premiere
Sofia Gubaidulina
String Quartet No. 4 (12 mins)
Ben Johnston
String Quartet No. 4, 'Amazing Grace' (11 mins)
Nicole Lizée
The Golden Age of the Radiophonic Workshop (Fibre-Optic Flowers) (c10 mins)
BBC Commission, World Premiere
Traditional
Tusen tankar (A Thousand Thoughts) transcr. Ljova, arr. Kronos Quartet (5 mins)
Aleksandra Vrebalov
… hold me, neighbor, in this storm … (22 mins)
Kronos Quartet

Prom 24: BBC Radio 3 World Routes Academy
Tuesday 31 July
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall

Now in its third year, BBC Radio 3’s World Routes Academy
mentoring project turns to Latin America. Born in London of
Colombian descent, 2012’s young apprentice is self-taught
20-year-old accordionist, singer and guitarist José Hernando
Arias Noguera. His mentor, the renowned Bogotá-based
accordion king Egidio Cuadrado – who brings his own band
– is probably best known for his collaborations with Carlos
Vives, the Latin American superstar actor-turned-singer.
Fusing the folk tradition of vallenato with elements of rock
and pop has proved a game-changer for music now enjoyed
all over the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.

Prom 65: Taylor/Barker – The Spirit of Django
Friday 31 August
10.15pm – c. 11.15pm
Royal Albert Hall

Martin Taylor/Guy Barker
The Spirit of Django – orchestral suite (54 mins)
London Premiere
Martin Taylor guitar
Britten Sinfonia
Guy Barker Jazz Orchestra
Spirit of Django
Guy Barker conductor

Prom 74: Staff Benda Bilili & Baloji
Thursday 6 September
10.15pm – c. 11.30pm
Royal Albert Hall

Staff Benda Bilili
Baloji

Staff Benda Bilili are like nothing you have ever seen
or heard before: a group of paraplegic street musicians
and ex-street kids from the Democratic Republic of Congo,
making music rooted in Soukous (or African rumba) with
elements of old-school rhythm and blues, reggae and funk.

‘Afropean’ Congolese-born, Belgian-educated rapper Baloji
mixes old and cutting-edge sounds with bitingly modern
lyrics. But his most recent album finds him returning to
his motherland in search of musical understanding and
communal improvisation.

[johncorrigan]

Thanks Global. I was worried that they weren't going to run the Prominents this year - they're such an anchor in my listening year.

Great to see Staff Benda Bilili - I still love that film they made about them (but I don't think Lat likes the Baloji guy). Wonder if there's a folk prom this year - I loved June Tabor singing unaccompanied last year with a choir and musicians sitting silent in the background - had my imagination operating overtime.

[Lateralthinking1]

Thanks Global. I was worried that they weren't going to run the Prominents this year - they're such an anchor in my listening year.

Great to see Staff Benda Bilili - I still love that film they made about them (but I don't think Lat likes the Baloji guy). Wonder if there's a folk prom this year - I loved June Tabor singing unaccompanied last year with a choir and musicians sitting silent in the background - had my imagination operating overtime.

"Ostende Transit" is OK but I didn't go for most of his recent output on R3. I do like Staff Benda Bilili and congratulations to them for getting this "slot" but even they are not very "Proms" to me.

Someone like Ismael Lo would be great - he is 55 now so sooner rather than later - but perhaps he is ill. He never seems to tour. Ditto Arto Tuncboyaciyan. Plus Vusi Mahlasela who John you mentioned a couple of days ago and Gochag Askarov who is giving a free concert soon but I'm not saying where as the place will be flooded with people. All of them big voices.

Am obviously pleased for José Hernando Arias Noguera whose name keeps getting longer. The performance with Egidio Cuadrado should be something very special. Agree that there should be a folk night too and also a bit of modern jazz.

[johncorrigan]

Anais Mitchell's on with Cerys this morning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hlfcx

[Lateralthinking1]

Anais Mitchell's on with Cerys this morning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hlfcx

Thanks John - I tuned in at 10.55pm and got the Malawi BBQ mice-on-a-stick track. Beats a cheeseburger I suppose. Think though I will be having dinner a bit later than usual. Roast hamster always tastes better in the afternoon anyway:



Good. Haven't missed AM. "The UK Uncut magazine called "Young Man In America" a "remarkable, genre-defying album" and the BBC's online music review described it as "a modern folk record that snaps and sparkles with energy, daring to take on some formidable themes in the process... a marvel of a record from start to finish". Q said the album was "magical and rewarding" and "marks her out as a true American original" The Guardian noted the themes touched on by the album, saying "she transforms her surveys of her country's belligerence and social irresponsibility into powerful rituals smeared with blood and dirt. Certain themes recur: the mother as shelterer, the father as shepherd, both vulnerable, both imposing fearful legacies." Common Reactor gave the album its highest rating, saying that, following up from the ambitious folk opera of her last album, it proves that sticking to your roots can be just as successful as shooting for the stars when it comes to making a fantastic record."