Transatlantic Sessions

[2] The productions comprise collaborative live performances by various leading folk, bluegrass and country musicians from both sides of the North Atlantic, playing music from Scotland, Ireland, England and North America, who congregate under the musical direction of Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas to record and film a set of half-hour TV episodes.

[5] In addition to the TV productions, public performances of the Transatlantic Sessions have been staged recently by some of the participating artists, receiving critical acclaim in the press,[6][7][8] and six series albums have been released in both CD and DVD format by Whirlie Records.

[9] The first (Original) Transatlantic Sessions episode was produced in 1995 - a project conceived at that time by Douglas Eadie, Mike Alexander and Aly Bain.

To date, the series comprises the six sessions shown below in the History (listed in reverse-chronological order).

Recorded at a hunting lodge at Glen Lyon near Aberfeldy in the Perthshire Highlands of Scotland.

Transatlantic Sessions musical co-directors Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas
TS6 artists on set (left to right: Jerry Douglas, James Mackintosh, Teddy Thompson, Aoife O'Donovan, Julie Fowlis, Karen Matheson, Mary Chapin Carpenter; Aly Bain)
Group photo of the TS5 crew
Musicians preparing to record during the TS4 sessions
Montgreenan House, where The Original Transatlantic Sessions production was recorded in 1995