MUSIC
‘Acoustic Routes’ and ‘Transatlantic Sessions’
1989 ‘The Jazz Apple’
The New York Jazz scene with Scots baritone sax player Joe Temperley. The people he played with reads like a roll call of the best of Jazz: from Woody Herman to Wynton Marsalis, from the Ellington Band and Benny Carter to Clark Terry and Charlie Mingus.
1992/3 ‘The Land – Songs of Dougie MacLean’
I must compliment Mark Littlewood for his beautifully crafted film shown on BBC. Littlewood is a film maker with the confidence to spare us the tricksy stuff that boy directors like to inflict. The result was a more effective cure for depression than any pill.
Ken Roy -The Herald
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1996/7 ‘SongRoads – From Nashville, Washington and New York to Dunkeld, Butterstone and the Isle of Lewis’
This is the evocative and compelling story of the intimate relationship between two musicians. Kathy Mattea and Dougie MacLean show how they gained inspiration from a shared awareness of their cultural identity and concern for the land and its traditional Values.
A major international co-production. It was the only film in BBC 2’s Country Music theme night, presented by Dolly Parton from Nashville and Jools Holland from London.
“SongRoads has been mentioned many times, within and without the BBC, as a real highlight of the evening.”
Avril MacRory
Head of Music Programmes
BBC Television
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1992 ‘Acoustic Routes – Portrait of Bert Jansch’
This film avoids a talking heads seminar by using Billy Connolly as master of ceremonies, Connolly’s contribution breaks the documentary mold and pulls the film up to a level of skiddy delight.
The Scotsman Weekend
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2010/11 ‘Children of the Sea – A musical Odyssey’
In times past Celtic Galley’s and Viking Long Boats plied their trade between the Hebridean Island Communities. Similarly Dougie MacLean at the wheel of his sea going R.I.B.(rigid inflatable boat) accompanied by family and friends takes his music to exchange with like minded muscians in South Uist, Barra, Harris and Lewis in this circumnavigation of the Outer Hebrides.
1998/2012 ‘Transatlantic Sessions’
This remarkable series became famous across the world and included such legendary artists as Emmylou Harris, Kate and Anna McCarrigle, Rufus wainwright, John Martyn, James Taylor, Jay Ungar, Alison Moorer, Nancy Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Alison Krauss, to name but a few.
‘Me with Lighting Gaffer Derrick Ritchie’