Cov Flamenco Maestro Gets Sony Nomination
Posted on May 20, 2008 - Filed Under Journalism, Radio |
Oxford based writer and broadcaster and Coventry University lecturer Marcos Young is celebrating having been nominated for a 2008 Sony Radio Academy Award for the second year running. His programme ‘Global Echoes’ will be competing for the specialist music programme award on Monday 12th May at the Grosvenor House Hotel.
Marcos, who presents ‘Global Echoes’ for BBC Radio Oxford, sees this as a great recognition for world music. He has previously been recognised with a ‘Gillard’ Gold radio award.
“Global Echoes is much more than a world music programme, as it all about meeting the people in Oxfordshire who get so much enjoyment from playing exotic instruments and discovering their special stories. Marcos’ musical journeys have led him to encounter everything from the Turkish long necked lute in Bicester to the Banbury Didgeridoo Club.”
Going backstage with Rodrigo y Gabriella or having a chat with master of the North Indian bamboo flute and Bollywood composer Hariprasad Chaurasia, were just some of the highlights of the first series.
Bob Harris, Charlie Dark of Attica Blues fame and Aly Bain with Phil Cunningham are just some of the stars to be featured on a new run of programmes that starts on May 25th.
Marcos is best known in the music world as the BBC’s voice of flamenco, having made many programmes about the art for BBC Radio 3, and being the author of ‘Flamenco Legend’, a biography of the art’s greatest ever artist, Camaron de la Isla.
Photo at the top shows the group El Andaluz with Marcos.
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Nicola Shorter @ 34 Media Ltd
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