PHASEFIVE

30 years since the original TV series was broadcast, the annual tour landed at London’s Royal Festival Hall last night (Feb 9th).  The tour is anchored around the virtuoso house band, guided by Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas, and featuring renowned Celtic and Americana roots musicians John Doyle, Michael McGoldrick, Tatiana Hargreaves & Allison de Groot, John McCusker, Donald Shaw, James Mackintosh and Daniel Kimbro, with special guests Loudon Wainwright III, Julie Fowlis, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams, and Niall McCabe.

As always, Transatlantic Sessions provided an outstanding blend of Celtic and Americana-influenced music and musicianship which had the Festival Hall rocking, and as luck had it, was able to get seats in row 3 for an evening to remember.