FROM THE ARCHIVES....A SERIES FOR SATURDAYS

From February 20th, 2008MORE MUSIC IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGEBack in 1986, The Wedding Present were in a BBC studio about to record a Peel Sesson when guitarist Peter Solowka began playing a traditional Ukrainian melody and the others joined in. Out of such jamming do strange and rather great things begin....Peter Solowka's parents emigrated from Ukraine to England at the end of World War II, and naturally their son grew up with some appreciation of his roots - particularly the traditional folk music...

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