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04-Mar-2011
‘The World Accordion to Phil’ on BBC 2 Scotland TV – UKby Rob Howard |
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| ‘The World Accordion to Phil’ is a 4 part TV documentary on BBC 2 Scotland, presented by Phil Cunningham, beginning on Wednesday March 9th, 8pm, looking at the accordion and its origins in an international context. The series begins in China, then moves to Vienna, Castelfidardo, the Spanish Basque country, Ireland, Brittany, Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Prague, Louisiana, Texas, Brazil, and Argentina – exploring the local accordion traditions. During the course of these programmes Phil Cunningham MBE, one of Scotland’s best known accordionists, meets Russia’s Viatcheslav Semionov, Ireland’s Sharon Shannon and Joe Burke, France’s Marcel Azzola, Tex-Mex player Flaco Jimenez, Louisiana’s Marc Savoy, and many more. "When I took the idea to the BBC almost two years ago, I knew it was a big subject, but once the researchers got their teeth into it, it suddenly became a lot bigger than even I had imagined. Yet," says Phil Cunningham, "we only scratched the surface. We could have gone on for hours and hours. I know that the Inuits play the accordion but we didn't get up to the Arctic, and it's part of Zulu culture…" |
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