root salad f22 Music For Games
There’s culture with some sporty thing going off in Glasgow which you may have heard about. Paul Matheson has details.
another opportunity to hear this work in May at The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, ahead of further shows this summer at London’s Southbank Centre and in Glasgow Concert Hall (see dates above). May’s line-up was Luke Daniels (button accordeon, vocals), Patsy Reid (violin, viola, cello), Matheu Wat- son (guitar, fiddle), James Fagan (bouzou- ki), Signy Jacobsdottir (percussion) and Ross Ainslie (border pipes and low whistles).
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s part of the Cultural Festival to accompany the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, there are numerous
national and international musical projects and commissions in the pipeline, funded by Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, and the British Council. New music commissions will receive premiere performances in 2014 across the length and breadth of the UK, and will also be featured at two weekend showcases hosted by London’s Southbank Centre (4–6 July) and Glasgow UNESCO City of Music (2–3 August) and on BBC Radio 3.
These new projects and commissions cover a wide range of genres, reflecting the diversity and richness of musical life across the UK. The traditional/roots music commissions and events carry the cultural theme of Scotland’s connections with the Commonwealth. Here are some of the musical highlights that have been planned.
Mary Ann Kennedy’s commission
(Aiseag /The Ferryboat) explores the con- nection between the Scottish Highlands and Canada’s Gaelic diaspora. Mary Ann Kennedy and Scott Macmillan will work with audio designer Nick Turner and poet Aonghas MacNeacail to create a new work combining music from Scotland and Cana- da (Cape Breton) with electronica and found sounds.
Struileag/Shore-to-Shore is a multi- faceted arts project which also seeks to tell the story of the people caught up in the emigration from the Highlands. Directed by composer Jim Sutherland, the Struileag international community outreach project will feed directly into an international touring show. Post performance, Struileag will gift its acquisitions and knowledge to the people it represents in the form of an online wiki-style public archive. The Stru- ileag/ Shore to Shore project will be doing a run of dates at Glasgow Green in July to coincide with the Games.
Experimental folk trio Lau in collabo- ration with the English contemporary string quartet The Elysian Quartet, were commissioned to create a new piece of work The Bell That Never Rang, a semi- improvised, densely-layered, complex eighteen-minute piece inspired by the City of Glasgow’s coat-of-arms. This has already received its world premiere as part of this year’s Celtic Connections Festival.
Another new commission which pre- miered at Celtic Connections 2014 was Matheu Watson and Luke Daniels’ New World Drovers, a composition inspired by the Scottish Highland cattle-drovers and their wider connections to the New World. The folk musicians taking part are from the Commonwealth countries of Scotland, Eng- land, Canada and Australia. There was
Scotland’s Celtic Connections music festival and Jodhpur RIFF (Rajasthan Inter- national Folk Festival) in India have agreed a reciprocal performing arrangement that will enable Scottish and Indian musicians to collaborate and cross-promote their music to the rest of the world. Scottish artists will be taking to the stage at a sunrise concert, billed as the Scottish Dawn, including Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, and Kaela Rowan who will sing Gaelic and English folk songs from the Scottish Highlands.
s part of the Big Big Sing (a programme of events to celebrate singing throughout 2014). Simon Thoumire’s traditional arts organisations Hands Up For Trad have put together The Big Song Relay across Scotland to celebrate the arrival of the Queen’s Baton. With opportunities for Gaelic choirs across Scotland to sing on the Queen’s baton relay route in June and July 2014, this project will be a platform for Gaelic and Scots traditional music to be performed both regionally and nationally. A Baton Relay Song has been commissioned from Karine Polwart, Ali Burns and Phil Cunningham, that will be sung by every choir around the country. The Baton Relay Song will be translated into Gaelic and Scots as well as English so anyone can take part.
And under the direction of producer/ performer Luke Daniels a large group of Glasgow-based musicians (Glasgow City Celtic Collective) have collaborated on Mother Glasgow, a new folk CD celebrat- ing the city of Glasgow. The musicians include: Paul McKenna, Jarlath Henderson, Ross Ainslie, Rua MacMillan, Adam Suther- land, Simon Thoumire, Kris Drever, Matheu Watson, Patsy Reid, Su-a Lee, Dun- can Lyall, Laura Beth Salter, Signy Jacobs- dottir, Ross Couper, Neil Ewart, Kevin O’Neil, Hamish Napier, Paddy Callaghan, Mohsen Amini, Mike Bryan, Jenn Butter- worth, Jen Austin, and members of the Glasgow Co-op Brass Band. The album is an attempt to snapshot the extraordinary music scene that has exploded within the city in recent years, earning Glasgow its status as UNESCO City of Music.
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