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Learning to ride a horse in the Wild West: Foy Vance visits Santa Fe
For Northern-Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance, visiting Santa Fe in New Mexico was an unforgettable experience. It was also the location of the highlight of his Notes from the USA trip: riding a horse on the Rocky Mountains.
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EU project aims to preserve cultural opposition to communism
In partnership with The European Commission
In our Futuris series, we visited an escape room in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. A new European research project is working to preserve historical material related to cultural resistance from the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. But how are they achieving that?
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Muscle Shoals, Alabama: the small town of big musical hits
In partnership with Brand USA
Nestled in the corner of Alabama, Muscle Shoals was originally known for being the location of the Wilson Dam across the Tennessee River… that is until the music industry catapulted this sleepy Alabama town of just over 13,000 inhabitants into the limelight.
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Behind the scenes at music legend Rick Hall's FAME Studios
In partnership with Brand USA
As part of the series Notes from the USA, Northern-Irish singer-songwriter Foy Vance takes us to a small town at the heart of the state’s musical reputation - Muscle Shoals - to discover the place where it all began… FAME Studios.
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Visiting Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: a place that changed the history
In partnership with Brand USA
You may not know much about the small town of Muscle Shoals, but it is renowned as one of the epicentres of the music industry. Both local and international musicians have recorded there.