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Millinery and Mariachi

Ahead of International Women's Day, Cerys celebrates millinery with Jess Collett and speaks to Anita Adelitas, director of the UK's first all-female mariachi band.

Ahead of International Women's Day Cerys celebrates millinery with Jess Collett and speaks to Anita Adelitas, the director of the UK's first all female Mariachi band, Mariachi Las Adelitas UK.

With an eclectic playlist handpicked by Cerys expect to hear songs from around the world and cross-genre gems blended with voices from the 大象传媒 archive. This week Cerys features tracks from TLC, Sarah Webster Fabio, Little Simz, Koffee and Etta James. Plus the voices of silent-film actors Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson on their careers and the advent of talking-movies. We also hear the voice of Norah Chambers, a classically trained musician who set up a vocal orchestra whilst in a World War II prisoner of war camp and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Jess Collett has worked as a couture milliner for 25 years, creating hats for Madonna, Helena Bonham Carter and Thandie Newton. Jess discusses the history of hat making in the UK as well as top hats, berets and the skill involved in making a Panama hat. Cerys finds archive of live as a milliner's apprentice in 1902, earning up to 16 shillings a week.

Speaking to Cerys from Mexico, Anita Adelitas explains why she set up Europe's only all-female Mariachi band, a genre which has previously been seen as macho and male dominated. Embarking on the project, Anita had to teach the musicians how to play the unique Mariachi instruments including the vihuela and the guitarr贸n as well as creating a number of arrangements of well-known songs in English, adapted to an authentic mariachi style.

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Sun 7 Mar 2021 10:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Sophia Loren

    Tu Vuo Fa L'Americano

    • Grandes Existos De Sophia Loren.
    • Digital Natives.
    • 21.

  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Sarah Webster Fabio

    The Hand That Rocks

  • Esther Abrami & Iyad Sughayer

    Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 I. Andante molto

    • Sony Classical.

  • TLC

    Waterfalls

    • (CD Single).
    • Laface.

  • Rhoda Scott

    Movin' Blues

  • Big Brother & the Holding Company

    Piece Of My Heart

    Singer: Janis Joplin.
    • CBS.

  • Super Mama Djombo

    Dissan Na M'bera

    • Beginer's Guide To African Funk CD1.
    • Nescente.
    • 12.

  • Kate Bush

    Babooshka

    • EMI.

  • Little Simz

    Cheshire's Interlude: Misled

  • Little Simz

    One In Rotation + Wide Awake (feat. SiR)

  • Selda Ba臒can

    脰yle Bir Yerdeyim Ki (feat. Ahmet Kaya)

  • Chris Barber's Jazzband

    Strange Things Happen Every Day (feat. Ottilie Patterson)

  • Etta James

    Baby What You Want Me To Do

    • Rocks The House.
    • 2.

  • Etta James

    Leave Your Hat On

    • Etta Is Betta Than Evvah!.
    • Ace Records Ltd.
    • 7.

  • Carolyn Wonderland

    Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat (feat. Guy Forsyth)

  • Shirley Temple

    An Old Straw Hat

  • Rachelle Garniez

    Raspberry Beret

  • The Incredible String Band

    Witches Hat

    • The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.
    • Warner Music UK Limited.
    • 3.

  • LION BABE

    Wonder Woman

    • Wonder Woman.
    • 1.

  • Gaye Su Akyol

    陌stikrarl谋 Hayal Hakikattir

  • Jeannie C. Riley

    Harper Valley PTA

    • The Best Of Jeannie C Riley.
    • 1.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    Yes We Can Can

    • The Pointer Sisters / That's A Plenty (Remastered) CD1.
    • Soulmusic Records.
    • 1.

  • Mary Osborne

    Rumba Rebop

    • A Girl And Her Guitar.
    • El Records.
    • 21.

  • Ma Polaine's Great Decline

    Morphine

  • Stevie Wonder

    Uptight (Everything's Alright)

    • Motown.

  • Mariachi Las Adelitas UK

    El Toro Relajo

  • Mariachi Las Adelitas UK

    Back to Black (Huapango)

  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe

    Jericho

  • Koffee

    Toast

    • Toast.
    • Sony Music Entertainment.
    • 1.

  • Mary Lou Williams

    Play It Momma

  • Lulu

    Can I Get A Witness

    • Something To Shout About.
    • Decca.
    • 6.

  • Sugar Pie DeSanto

    Soulful Dress

    • Chess.

  • Nina Simone

    Sinnerman

    • The Thomas Crown Affair O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Rykodisc.

  • Blu Samu

    Nathy (feat. Peet)

  • Asha Bhosle

    Bhanwara Bada Nadan

  • Sampa the Great

    Final Form

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Buffy Sainte鈥怣arie

    Native North American Child

    • Native North-American Child: An Odyssey.
    • 11.

Broadcast

  • Sun 7 Mar 2021 10:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music