MacLarty Brown Media

20/12/2023

20/12/2023

Christmas Eve (24/12/23) BBC2 5.40pm

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE KANNEH-MASONS (1x60)

Britain’s most gifted musical family, Nottingham’s Kanneh-Masons, visit Austria to walk in the footsteps of Hollywood’s most famous singing family, the Von Trapps from The Sound of Music.

All nine members of the Kanneh-Mason family including Mum Kadie and Dad Stuart visit the key movie locations in Salzburg and explore the incredible story behind the film. The seven young Kanneh-Masons also perform their own arrangements of iconic music from the great soundtrack, including Climb Ev’ry Mountain, My Favourite Things, Do Re Mi and Edelweiss.

The Sound of Music is one of the most commercially successful films of all time, telling the remarkable story of the Von Trapps - seven brothers and sisters from Salzburg who formed a famous choral group in the 1930s, survived the Nazi-occupation of Austria and escaped to the USA in 1939.

The Kanneh-Masons are two brothers and five sisters, just like the Von Trapps. Although the Kanneh-Masons are older than the Von Trapps were in the film - their ages range from mid-twenties down to the early years of senior school; Isata is 27, Braimah 26, Sheku 24 and Konya 23, followed by Jeneba, 21, Aminata, 18, and Mariatu, 14 - they’re all great fans of this classic family film.

Stuart has often been branded ‘Captain Von Trapp’ because he’s the Dad of seven such musically gifted children. And Mum Kadie (Kadiatu) published an award-winning book in 2020, The House of Music: Raising The Kanneh-Masons, which was partly inspired by Maria Augusta Trapp’s 1949 autobiography, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers.

At home and onstage the Kanneh-Masons perform closely together and, like the Von Trapps, music plays a vitally important role in their everyday lives; they’re all talented musicians and at least four of them have already become internationally-renowned classical soloists. Isata and Sheku were stars of this year’s BBC Proms and the whole family performed ‘Carnival Of The Animals’ at a previous Proms season. Cellist Sheku won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016 and he also performed at the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

As MacLarty Brown Media is an East Midlands-based independent television company, the Kanneh-Masons perform tracks from The Sound of Music at Metronome Studios in Nottingham. This follows the success of MBM’s Royal Television Society award-winning 2021 documentary A Musical Family Christmas With The Kanneh-Masons, also filmed at Metronome.

The Hills Are Alive With The Kanneh-Masons will be on BBC2 on Christmas Eve, Sunday 24th December, at 5.40pm.

For MacLarty Brown Media & Wag Entertainment…
Production Manager: Kelly Hood. Production Coordinator: Anya Kalirai. Head of Production: Kate Gibbard. Location Director: Ian Denyer. Studio Director: Tony Gregory. Editor: Richard Fretwell. Producer: Len Brown. Executive Producer (Wag Entertainment): Bridget Boseley. Commissioning Editor (BBC): Stephen James-Yeoman.
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http://wagentertainment.com


For Metronome Studios…
Production Team: Freddie Gibson James Horton, Layla Jackson, Rose Joy, Jimmy King, Campbell Murdoch, Ed Neale & Ethan Self. Venue Manager: Kristi-Maria Genovese. Camera Operators: Laura McNeil, Nkosilothando James Mthamo, Joseph Westcott-Michel & Andrew Halsam. Lighting Assistant: Clara Sousa Shaheed. Lighting Operator: Rosie Haigh, Sound Engineer: Ian Beverley. Technical Manager Broadcast & Production: Tom Bee. Technical Manager Lighting & Venue: Bryan Rankin.
https://confetti.ac.uk/locations/nottingham/metronome/

16/12/2023

Our RTS award winning performance documentary A Musical Family Christmas With The Kanneh-Masons is being repeated on BBC Four at 7pm tomorrow (Sunday)…soon to be followed, on Christmas Eve, by The Hills Are Alive With The Kanneh-Masons 🎄🎶…

https://www.nottinghampost.com/whats-on/music-nightlife/nottinghams-kanneh-mason-family-star-8977046

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Our most recent production, A Musical Family Christmas With The Kanneh-Masons, won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Specialist Factual Programme in November 2022.

16/12/2023

Christmas Eve, BBC2, 5.40pm

The Hills Are Alive With The Kanneh-Masons, a tribute to The Sound of Music, will be shown on BBC2 on Christmas Eve

20/02/2023

Following our Royal Television Society award in November, it’s great to receive support from the BBC’s Small Indie Fund. Welcome boost for TV production in the East Midlands…

The BBC has today announced the 48 UK companies supported through this year’s Small Indie Fund.

25/12/2022

Starting soon on BBC Four…

23/12/2022

Our Royal Television Society award-winning documentary, A Musical Family Christmas with the Kanneh-Masons, is repeated on BBC Four on Xmas Day at 8.45pm. (It’s followed by an episode of The Classical Collection focusing on brilliant young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.)

https://fb.watch/hA7G3GkZN7/

BBC Two - A Musical Family Christmas with the Kanneh-Masons

BBC Four - The Classical Collection, Series 1, Sheku Kanneh-Mason

20/12/2022

Tonight, BBC One, 8.00pm in the East Midlands… then Xmas Day BBC Four at 8.45pm… A Musical Family Christmas with the Kanneh-Masons

19/12/2022

Second attempt after being rescheduled during the World Cup… 🤞our award-winning BBC documentary A Musical Family Christmas with the Kanneh-Masons is being repeated on BBC One in the East Midlands on Tuesday 20th at 8pm. You can also catch it on Xmas Day evening on BBC Four!

12/12/2022

Our RTS award-winning documentary A Musical Family Christmas with the Kanneh-Masons is being repeated on BBC One in the East Midlands tomorrow night (Tuesday). It’ll also be on BBC Four on Christmas Day at 8.45pm.

A look at Christmas with the talented Kanneh-Mason family.

08/12/2022

Nottingham’s MacLarty Brown Media has scooped up the Royal Television Society Midlands Factual Award for last year's Kanneh-Masons special “A Musical Family Christmas”! 🏆

The musical performances were recorded live at Metronome 🎶

Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3iMwUq2

26/11/2022

My rambling RTS speech…
“Wonderful to get this award. We’re a small indie in the unfashionable under funded East Midlands so this is a great boost to us and our production community. Firstly thanks to BBC Music and Jan Younghusband and especially Diana Hare and Aisling O’Connor of BBC England. It was shot entirely on location in Nottingham at the family home and Metronome Studios. Thanks to everyone involved particularly our studio director Anthony Thomas, our location director Andy Baybutt, our DoP Simon Poulter and our top editor Richard Fretwell. Also Bridget Boseley who exec produced and Wag Entertainment for all their production support. Above all, of course, this award is for the magnificent mega-talented family on and off screen - Nottingham’s truly brilliant Kanneh-Masons. Thank you Stuart, Mariatu, Aminata, Jeneba, Konya, Sheku, Braimah and Isata. And most importantly… Kadie - Dr Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason aka the matriarch - for all your support and sharing your story with us. Fantastic! Thank you RTS Midlands. Really appreciate this. The documentary is being shown again on BBC One and BBC Four before Xmas and we’re making another one next year. Have a great evening.”

31/10/2022

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27/12/2021

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0012xq1/a-musical-family-christmas-with-the-kannehmasons

A look at Christmas with the talented Kanneh-Mason family.

13/12/2021

Christmas Day, BBC2, 8.35pm. Proud and very privileged to have produced this for BBC Music and BBC England. Starring the totally brilliant Kanneh-Mason family, its exec produced by Bridget Boseley and made through our own regional independent TV company MacLarty Brown Media. Top editing from Richard Fretwell, studio directing by Anthony Thomas and location directing by Andrew Baybutt, plus excellent production support from Wag Entertainment. Special thanks to all the studio crew at Metronome in Nottingham and also the location crew including DoP Simon Poulter and soundman Joshua Unit. Commissioned by Jan Younghusband for BBC Music and Aisling O’Connor and Diana Hare for BBC England. Merry Xmas Everybody. (Ps. We’ve got a challenging TX slot against Bake Off, Call The Midwife, The Larkins etc so please spread our news. Cheers!)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0012xq1

07/12/2021

https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/proginfo/2021/52/a-musical-family-christmas-with-the-kanneh-masons

A look at Christmas with the talented Kanneh-Mason family.

23/10/2021

23/10/2021