From: Macmeanmna News
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Sent: 26 March 2008 16:23
Subject: Two new Macmeanmna CDs
Dà
chlàr ùr bho Macmeanmna
Two new releases from Macmeanmna
CEÒLRAIDH GHÀIDHLIG GHLASCHU
Slighe an Airgid - The Silver
Way
Catalogue SKYECD48 |
Barcode 5032475004820
Kenneth Thomson joined the Glasgow Gaelic Musical
Association in 1968 as a member of
the bass section. 40 years later he is
celebrating his long-term membership of the choir,
and another significant
milestone as the choirs conductor for the past 25 years.
Kenneth is a Mòd
Gold Medallist and a very talented musician. All the songs on this album
have been arranged by him during his successful years at the helm, in which
time the choir
has won the coveted top prize - the Lovat and Tullibardine
Shield - at the National Mòd on
4 occasions. Although he says he has
little chance of beating the record of one his
predecessors - J Norman
McConochie - who spent 47 years as conductor of the GG, Kenneth
shows no sign
of slowing down, and is one of the most popular figures on the Gaelic music
scene. Heres to the next 25!
After several years conducting the
choir Kenneth started arranging songs for choral singing
and on this album
there are 18 of the sixty or so he has arranged to date.
CONCERT THIS SATURDAY
Celebrating Kenneth Thomson's 25th year as
conductor of the
Glasgow Gaelic Musical Association (the GG)
RSAMD,
Glasgow on Saturday 29 March _at_ 7.30pm
The choir will sing a small
selection of the 60+ pieces Kenneth has arranged and there will be
solo
performances from Norman Mackinnon, Alasdair Whyte, James
Graham, Deirdre Mactaggart
Jenna Cumming, Kirsteen
Macdonald and Jean MacKay.
CDs available at the
concert. Tickets from the RSAMD box office on 0141 332 5057
or at
www.rsamd.ac.uk
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PATRICK MOLARD
Dùsgadh fir na bainnse - The waking of the
bridegroom
Catalogue
SKYECD47 | Barcode 5032475004721
Dùsgadh fir na bainnse (The waking of
the bridegroom) is entirely devoted to Ceòl Mòr, the ancient
and often
described classical piping form.
Patrick Molard was born in 1951 in
Saint-Malo in North Brittany and started playing the pipes at the
age of 14
in his local bagad or Breton pipe band. Two years later, he joined the An
Ere Pipe Band from
Rennes under the direction of Jakez Pincet, his first
Pìobaireachd instructor. He introduced Patrick to
Bob Brown, one of
the Queens pipers at Balmoral Castle. Later, in 1971, Patrick was sent to
Aberdeen
as a French assistant and studied the art of Ceòl Mòr both with Bob
Brown and Bob Nicol, himself
piper to the Queen. He learned, from the
Bobs of Balmoral, about a hundred tunes.
In 1972, Patrick returned to
Brittany and was involved in the revival of Breton music and culture,
initiated by the celebrated Alan Stivell. Later he became a professional
musician, touring all over
Europe with different groups and also started
playing the uilleann-pipes. At the same time, he
conducted a lot of research
in his own country, collecting material from singers and players of the
biniou and bombarde (traditional instruments used in Breton piping) and as a
result accumulated a
vast knowledge of the different facets of Celtic music
which enabled him to win the coveted
international MacAllan trophy in
Lorient three times in succession.
He is a permanent teacher at the Music
School of Carhaix (Finistère) and leads numerous seminars
and workshops both
in Brittany and abroad, notably Galicia and Asturias in North Spain.
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