Billy Connolly's Great American Trail « Series from 2019

Series from 2019

Billy opens the New York Tartan Day Parade to a 30,000-strong crowd and then heads to Plymouth, Massachusetts to see where the pilgrims first landed on American soil.

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Episode 1

Episode 1 see’s Billy embark on his great American trail as he opens the New York tartan day parade to a 30,000 strong crowd. He heads to Plymouth, Massachusetts where the pilgrims first landed on American soil, followed by a meeting with the Native American tribe who almost had their people and language wiped out, until it was revived in a pre-school class of children.

Episode 2

Episode 2 opens in Kearny, a place known as Little Glasgow where Billy discovers it was the Scots who brought football to America. Then it’s a pilgrimage to the Martin Guitar Company the factory that have built the guitars for some of the biggest rockstars on the planet, including Billy’s hero Hank Williams.

Episode 3

Episode 3 begins deep in Virginia on the trail of bootleggers dealing in the illegal drink moonshine. From there Billy follows the trail of the underground railroad and the amazing woman who led hundreds of slaves to their freedom, meeting one of the family members keeping her memory very much alive.

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