Hi there everyone

I do hope this is the right section to post in.

My name is Rachel Hopkin and I'm a radio producer.

I'm making a radio series called Musical Migrants. It's about people who have moved to live in a new place because they feel a deep connection with the music of that place and I wondered if you might know of someone who'd moved to Italy for love of opera. They may or may not be musicians, that doesn't matter. I also don't care where they're from originally but they would need to speak good English. It'd be good to find women who've made such a move, as I already have a few men lined up as possibles, although really, I'm not that fussy and I'd be interested in hearing of anyone. They do need to still be living there

Anyway, if you can think of anyone and could pass me their details, or pass my email on to them, I should be so grateful.

Well, I hope to hear from someone and thank you for your consideration.

RAchel

PS I'm pasting in below a slightly more lengthy guide as to what I'm looking for in case you wanted more information:

WANTED

I'm a radio producer and I'm making a second series of radio programmes for BBC Radio 4 (the national speech network) called Musical Migrants and I am looking for more people to take part.

I need to find people who have moved across country, or to a new country/continent, specifically for a love of a type of music in which their new home is rich. Some possible examples: to Texas for conjunto music, to Louisiana for zydeco, to Portugal for fado, to East Europe for gypsy music etc, to Vienna for Viennese classical musical etc….

They could be professional musicians (famous or otherwise), semi professionals, amateurs or beginners. In fact, conceivably, they don’t have to be musicians at all.

They may have just moved or they may have been in their chosen home for years. It also doesn’t matter where they’ve come from but they do need to speak English – they don’t have to be fluent, just comfortable speaking it.

If you fit - or know anyone who fits - that bill, please let me know, or have them contact me.

What I am NOT looking for:
I am not looking for people who have moved to a new place because it has a good broad music scene in general (it has to be rich in a specific type of music), or just to go to music college and then leave, or because whichever town is a good music business centre, or to do a short period of field work.

Also, I am not looking for people who’ve moved to the following places for the these music genres – not because they wouldn’t be great, but they were covered in the last series:

To Chicago for the Blues
To Scotland for Scottish traditional music
To the Southern Appalachian mountains for Old Time fiddle music
To Buenos Aires for Tango
To Brazil for the pandeiro drum

Thanks

Rachel Hopkin
rachel.hopkin@talk21.com