All Episodes of The Highland Sessions

Season 1

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  Episode 1

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/19/2010

  Australian-born Donegal resident Steve Cooney is music director and the first programme sets the talents of Mary Black, Karan Casey and Afro-Celt Sound System's Iarla O'Lionaird in a uniquely Scottish context.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Episode 2

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/26/2010

  This edition features musicians Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Seosaimhin ni Beagley, Eamonn O'Donnachadh, Niall Vallely, Capercaillie's Karen Matheson and Donnie Murdo MacLeod. Celebrating the historical and contemporary links between Scottish and Irish Gaelic song

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Episode 3

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/3/2010

  This edition features Liam O'Maonlai of the rock band Hothouse Flowers, Scots Gaelic diva Margaret Stewart and James Graham.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Episode 4

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/10/2010

  The episode opens with Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand), performed by Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes. Rona Lightfoot performs canntaireachd, an oral music form traditionally used to teach and pass on pipe tunes that Rona has made her own, elevating it to a kind of Gaelic scat singing.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Episode 5

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/17/2010

  This edition features the Dublin-based duo of piper Mick O'Brien and fiddle-player Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh, plus Donegal's favourite Australian, series music director Steve Cooney, once a backing guitarist to Chuck Berry.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Episode 6

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/2010

  Featuring a performance of the Bonnie Prince Charlie anthem Mo Ghile Mear, written in Ireland with Scottish Jacobites in mind.

  Director: Unknown

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