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BBC R3 - School for Harmonicas - 8 March
BBC R3 - School for Harmonicas - 8 March
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MindTheGap
544 posts
Mar 02, 2015
1:51 PM
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For info...
BBC Radio 3, Sat 8 March 2015
Between the Ears - School for Harmonicas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05283j4
Imagine a town of harmonica players; sounds a bit surreal?
Now 'Between the Ears' gives listeners a chance to hear the harmonica as a truly virtuoso instrument, always an instrument of the people - portable, affordable and playable. Acclaimed poet Kim Addonizio turns harmonica student, heading to blues school with pen, mouth, and a stack of harps at the ready, in search of the sweetest sounds.
Trossingen in Germany may be the world capital of harmonicas. Every street echoes to the sound of the harp, and even the downtown hotel is part of the old Hohner Factory. This is where you will find the true aficionados, the hard-core addicts, who come to have lessons with the top players.
Kim learns riffs from the world's top 'harp' teachers, Dave Barrett, Steve Baker and Joe Filisko - who customizes harps for such as Neil Young, blues great Kim Wilson, and jazz phenomenon Howard Levy, and who she wants to persuade to accompany her on his magical harp.
She also dreams of being the first woman to jam on stage at the Blues conference... so will her dreams become reality?
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MindTheGap
555 posts
Mar 08, 2015
12:00 AM
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Now available as a podcast:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bte
'Between the Ears' is not your conventional documentary, more an expressionist journey.
Joe Filisko: ...the instrument is so flawed, it does not do anything perfectly, I feel at home...in this small box, trying to figure out how to make it do things that maybe it shouldn't do so well...
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Last Edited by MindTheGap on Mar 08, 2015 12:01 AM
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