Macmeanmnaidheachdan
Fàilt' oirbh gu iris eile de Macmeanmnaidheachdan. Tha sinn toilichte innse dhuibh mu dheidhinn dà chlàr ùr eile a tha dìreach air nochdadh bhuainn, agus mu dheidhinn rud neo dhà a tha a' tachairt thall 'sa bhos leis na daoine a tha air clàradh còmhla ri Macmeanmna.
Welcome to another newsletter, in which we are delighted to let you know about two more releases from us, and about one or two other things happening with the folk who have recorded with Macmeanmna.
MACMEANMNA CDs ARE AVAILABLE IN THE UK FROM THE FOLLOWING WHOLESALERS:
Macmeanmna | sales@gaelicmusic.com | Phone 01478 612990 | Fax 01478 612990 (No requirement to open an account)
Gordon Duncan Distribution | gordon-duncan@sol.co.uk | Phone 01236 827550 | Fax 01236 827560
Highlander Music | info@highlandermusic.com | Phone 01463 871422 | Fax 01463 871422
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MACMEANMNA ARTISTS IN AWARDS LIST
Several Macmeanmna artists have been nominated for this year’s Scots Trad Music Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 3 December at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, and will be broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland the following week.
Cliar have been nominated in the Folk Band of the Year category. Arthur Cormack and Julie Fowlis have been nominated for the Gaelic Singer of the Year section. Ordinary Angel has been nominated as the Album of the Year section. Arthur Cormack has also been nominated in the Services to the Industry section, and a BBC programme, on which Mary Ann Kennedy was Musical Director, Aig Cridhe ar Ciùil, has been nominated in the Media section. A new music festival, Blas, organised by Fèisean nan Gàidheal (with whom Arthur Cormack works) on behalf of the Highland Council has been nominated under the Best Event section. Finlay MacDonald, who features on Highland Games has been nominated in the Instrumentalist of the Year section, and Jenna Reid of Dòchas has been nominated in the Up and Coming Artist of the Year section.
YOU CAN VOTE ONLY ONCE. Voting is on the BBC's Celtic Roots website, and you can vote now! Follow this link to see all the nominations in detail:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/index.shtml
To vote for Cliar, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes2.shtml
To vote for Arthur Cormack or Julie Fowlis, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes1.shtml
To vote for Ordinary Angel, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes1.shtml
To vote for Arthur Cormack for Services to the Industry follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes3.shtml
To vote for Aig chridhe ar ciùil, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes2.shtml
To vote for Blas (if you want to find out more look at http://www.blas-festival.com), follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes1.shtml
To vote for Finlay MacDonald, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes2.shtml
To vote for Jenna Reid, follow this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes3.shtml
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Various Artists: The Northern Meeting
We have pleasure in announcing the release of a new double album featuring the best of pipe music
Catalogue number SKYECD 39 Bar Code number 5032475003922 DOUBLE CD SET (details in attached PDF)
A double CD set featuring highlights from the Silver Star & Gold Clasp Competitions between 1995-2004. Some of the greatest pipers are featured including Angus MacColl, Dr Angus MacDonald, Mike Cusack, Willie McCallum, Alasdair Gillies, Murray Henderson, Bruce Gandy, Gordon Walker, James Murray and Greg Wilson, playing a selection of Ceòl Mòr and Ceòl Beag.
In a new departure, Macmeanmna has just released a double CD featuring performances at the Northern Meeting in Inverness by ten of the world’s most successful competitive pipers. This album contains nearly 1 hour 50 minutes of top-quality piping selected from BBC recordings made over the past ten years at the senior March, Strathspey & Reel competitions, - the Silver Star event as it is sometimes known - and the Gold Clasp or senior pìobaireachd competition. The Northern Meeting is arguably the most prestigious open solo piping competition in the world and, for most pipers, success in it is considered the pinnacle of pipers’ achievements. As a result this album is brim-full of brilliant performances by many of the world’s most successful pipers.
Coming in the wake of Highland Games, Macmeanmna’s first strictly piping release, Northern Meeting was the culmination of a unique collaboration between the recording company, BBC Radio Scotland and the Northern Meeting Piping Sub-committee. As a consequence, highlights of the many hours of recordings made at the Northern Meeting for Radio Scotland’s ‘Pipeline’ programme over the period 1995 to 2004 are now available commercially. Apart from being of great interest to the piping aficionado the album will be required listening for aspiring competitive pipers.
“We are delighted with Northern Meeting,” said Cailean Maclean, a director of Macmeanmna “not only because it makes these valuable archive recordings more generally available, but also because the album is hugely interesting and enjoyable in itself. There can be few other piping CDs in which the level of performance is so consistently impressive.”
The Northern Meeting features performances by Alasdair Gillies, who hails from Ullapool but is now resident in Pittsburgh, USA; Mike Cusack, headmaster of St Thomas Episcopal School in Houston, Texas; Angus MacColl from Benderloch, Argyll; Willie McCallum from Campbeltown; New Zealanders Murray Henderson, who now lives in Kirriemuir, and Greg Wilson; Pipe-Major Gordon Walker of Moscow, Ayrshire; Canadian Bruce Gandy, Dr Angus MacDonald of Glenuig, now in practice in Skye; and James Murray from the Kingdom of Fife. Of the fourteen tracks on Northern Meeting, six are of ceòl mòr recorded at the Gold Clasp and eight are of marches, strathspeys & reels from the Silver Star competition.
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CLIAR in concert
One of the most beautiful sounds in 21st century Scotland – The List
Arthur Cormack, Hector Henderson, Ingrid Henderson, Mary Ann Kennedy, Maggie MacDonald and Ross Martin
Featuring some of Gaeldom's very finest singers and instrumentalists Cliar (pronounced "Clear") are a sixpiece band who have developed a unique closeharmony vocal sound backed up by an instrumental powerhouse.
"Cliar's founding aim is not only to champion Gaelic music but to ginger up its image, aligning the ballads for which it is best known with tongue-twisting puirt a beul numbers, rousing work-songs and sparkling instrumental sets. Their success was evident in the show's diverse, beautifully executed set-list." - The Scotsman
"the Highlands and Islands supergroup brings you heaven without the inconvenience, as it were, of having to travel to the other side. They're that good." - The Herald
Saturday 19th November @ 8pm
Glenuig Hall, Glenuig
Tickets £8 (concessions OAPs & under 18s £6) available from Glenuig Inn, Lochailort Inn, Acharacle Post Office, Strontian Shop, Granite House (Fort William), by post from Glenuig Hall or at the door.
To book online follow this link: http://www.thebooth.co.uk/
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Saturday 26 November 2005 @ 8.30pm
The Lemon Tree Café, Aberdeen
Tickets £9 (£6 concessions & regulars) from The Lemon Tree on (01224) 642230.
The book online follow this link: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=LEMONTREE&organ_val=22345&schedule=list&event_val=2402
Nominated for Folk Band of the Year in the Scots Music Awards, follow this link to vote for Cliar:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes2.shtml
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Various Artists – Ordinary Angel
Thanks to all of you – and there have been many - have purchased Ordinary Angel, a 14-track, 54-minute CD, featuring tracks by Blair Douglas, Michael Marra, Anne Martin, Donnie Munro, The Jennifer Forrest Band, Mackenzie, Dr Angus Macdonald, Peatbog Faeries, Arthur Cormack, Ingrid Henderson and Iain MacFarlane. Most of the tracks were recorded specifically for the CD and the only body to benefit financially from this project will be the Liver Fund, which was set up by Professor James Garden, Regius Professor of Surgery at the Liver Unit in Edinburgh, to support research in the treatment of victims of liver disease. So far, at least £3,000 has been raised, and the CD would make a great Christmas present, at the same time as contributing to a very worthy cause. Keep buying, and tell all your friends! Check out http://www.ordinaryangel.org for more details.
Nominated for Album of the Year in the Scots Music Awards, follow this link to vote for Ordinary Angel:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/musicscotland/celticroots/standard/trad_awards/log2results/votes1.shtml
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DÒCHAS UP FOR GERMAN AWARD
A jury of 10 German media personalities decides on the "Folker!-CD of the year" around this time of the year, and the good news is that An Dàrna Umhail from Dòchas is one of only 17 CDs that have qualified for the competition. The "Folker!-CD of the year" will be featured in the Jan/Feb-issue of Folker!
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THE BEST GAELIC and HIGHLAND MUSIC CDs
You can buy albums by Freeland Barbour, Donald Black & Malcolm Jones, Kenna Campbell, Cliar, Arthur Cormack, Dòchas, Blair Douglas, Jennifer Forrest & Her Band, Allan Henderson, Julie Fowlis, Mary Ann Kennedy, Rona Lightfoot, Ishbel MacAskill, Alasdair MacCuish & The Black Rose Cèilidh Band, Bruce MacGregor, Iain MacKay, Mackenzie, Maeve MacKinnon, Donnie Murdo MacLeod, Charlotte Petersen, Mary Smith, Chaz Stewart and Kenneth Thomson now, on-line, at http://www.gaelicmusic.com.
There are also features about Gaelic song, dance, Gaelic traditions, the recent Macnas concerts and links to other sites. Soon there will be song lyrics and mp3 samples files, plus much, much more....
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Recent releases
IAIN MACKAY – CREAG AN FHRAOICH
Catalogue number SKYECD 35 Bar Code number 5032475003526
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AN DARNA UMHAIL from DÒCHAS
Catalogue number SKYECD 34. Bar Code number 5032475003427
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HIGHLAND GAMES from FINLAY MACDONALD, CHRIS GIBB and SIMON McKERRELL
Catalogue number SKYECD 31. Bar Code number 5032475003120
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AN T-EILEAN from VARIOUS ARTISTS
Catalogue number SKYECD 30. Bar Code number 5032475003021
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WINTER’S JOURNEY from FREELAND BARBOUR
Catalogue number SKYECD 29. Bar Code number 5032475002925
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EADARAINN from RONA LIGHTFOOT
Catalogue number SKYECD 28 Bar Code number 5032475002826
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SGIATH AIRGID from MARY SMITH
Catalogue number SKYECD 27 Bar Code number 5032475002727
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SEOLADH DHACHAIDH from KENNETH THOMSON
Catalogue number SKYECD26 Bar Code number 5032475002628
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AN LINNE DHUBH from FREELAND BARBOUR
Catalogue number SKYECD25 Bar Code number 5032475002229
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ESTD 1976 from ALLAN HENDERSON
Catalogue number SKYECD 24 Bar Code number 5032475002420
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.... AND DON'T FORGET - ORDER 3 CDs AND YOU GET A FREE CD!
Macmeanmna is giving away an album of 19 full-length tracks featuring some of the best music produced by the company over its first 15 years. Entitled Macnas it is a great album in itself, and is definitely one for those of you who have not heard our music before.
It will not be available to buy in the shops, but can be obtained absolutely free only when you buy 3 or more CDs from us, either on-line or by fax, phone, e-mail or post. We'll send it automatically to anyone who buys three or more CDs through http://www.gaelicmusic.com
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MORE ALBUMS TO COME ...
Cliar have completed a new album – Grinn Grinn - which will be released soon, and Jenna Cumming’s CD is finished at last and will be out very soon. Arthur Cormack goes back into the studio this month to complete his new solo CD. Gaelic waulking group Bannal finished recording an album some time ago, and it looks like we will be able to release this soon on a DualDisc with a normal CD on one side and a DVD documentary made by MacT V which featured Bannal, on the other.
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