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The BMG Rally GUITAR & MANDOLIN Association in Scotland! Newsletter Issue 5: Autumn 2007 LGMA Is a Recognised Scottish Charity No Lanarkshire The BMG Rally GUITAR & MANDOLIN Association In Scotland! Newsletter Issue 5: Autumn 2007 LGMA is a recognised Scottish Charity No. SC 032550 29th February – 2nd March 2008 Young LGMA Join us for a great weekend of members raise workshops, concerts and competitions. £400 for child Log onto cancer charity! www.banjomandolinguitar.co.uk or CLIC Sargent is the UK's leading children's cancer charity. It provides the widest range of www.mandolinscotland.org services and the highest number of care professionals to look after children and young for more information people with cancer and their families. As an advocate, it gives children, young people and their families a strong national voice, helping them to be heard and understood. Through research it looks at ways of improving Above: Members of Mango. treatment and managing side-effects, to help They include some of the young people who took patients and to improve quality of life for part to raise money for CLIC Sargent. Membership survivors. This year the LGMA is very proud that some of its young people joined over 65,000 children nationally, making music To receive a copy of this newsletter by post every quarter and receive discounts from music during Practice-a-thon. In its fourth year, CLIC Sargent is looking to raise £160,000 for children with cancer. Practice- shops and on many LGMA events, become a member of the LGMA. Membership is by an a-thon is a fantastic way of encouraging more children to become involved in music and also a great way for annual subscription of £10. musicians to prepare for exams, a performance or for a competition or simply to improve. See inside for more about our young stars. Joining is simple; just download a membership form from www.mandolinscotland.org. In this Issue… Guitar History Pt 1: Graeme Scott Review It is free to keep up to date with LGMA news and events. Join our mailing list by emailing: The Vihuela [email protected]. Classes and Activities NEW: Rock and Pop Youth Profile Guitar Repertoire Da Capo Alba CD And more inside… Recording Mango Residential For further details of LGMA, BMG or EGMA events and activities Weekend LGMA Membership for 2007 is please contact our development officer (Ian) NEW: Celtic Corner available. Download a form from Lanarkshire Guitar and Mandolin Association, 1 Fraser Crescent, Hamilton LGMA Concert Reviews www.mandolinscotland.org Telephone: 01698 457518 or email Email: [email protected] Mandolin History Pt 3: [email protected] Web: www.mandolinscotland.org 1860 - Early 20th Century What’s On? and have your newsletter delivered to your door. Classes and Activities As we have now come to the end of a very busy season, let’s take a look at just some of the many activities that have taken place. Guitar Classes All of our guitar classes are really developing well and pictured below are just some of the participants in the Rock and Pop guitar classes which we run at Hillhouse Parish Church. There are three classes with a total of twenty four participants and all are coming along nicely. They had a special parents‘ night in April and there was a superb turnout of players and Have a browse through this selection and see what takes your fancy! parents. Well done to them all and of course many thanks to Calum Harbison the course tutor and Michael Paterson who has been assisting If you know of concerts that you would like to see listed here, please contact [email protected] for a and “learning the ropes” of tutoring. free listing. Whether it is a concert you are organising, or a concert you think others would be interested in, let us know! Dundee’s Festival of Traditional Music, Fest ‘n’ Furious, is running between 28th September and 1st October. Below we highlight some of the many events that are on, and further details of these and more events can be found on www.festnfurious.co.uk Red Hot Chili Pipers and Caird Hall Fri 28th September £17.50/£15 Box Office Young Trad Tour 2007 8pm 01382 434940 Come and Try Traditional Music Caird Hall Complex Sat 29th September FREE Emily Dewhurst 10am/2pm 01382 432473 Ailie Robertson Harp Workshop Whighton Hheritage Sat 29th September £3 Emily Dewhurst Centre 2pm 01382 432473 Rob Mackillop Guitar Workshop Caird Hall Complex Sat 29th September £3 Emily Dewhurst 2.30pm 01382 432473 Peatbog Faeries and Support Fat Sams Live Sat 29th September £12.50/£10 Box Office 8.00pm 01382 434940 Fest’n’Furious Family Ceilidh with the Marryat Hall Sun 30th September £5/£3 Box Office Mad Parrot Ceilidh Band 3.00pm 01382 434940 Above: The Hamilton LGMA Rock and Pop Guitar Classes Scottish Symphony Orchestra with tutors Calum Harbison (front left) and Michael Paterson (front second left). The SSO has a long season at the Glasgow City Halls in 2007/2008. This includes ‘The Thursday Night Series’ which features works such as Holst – The Planets, Dvorak – Also hitting the high notes are the participants in Symphony No.7, Bartok – Music for Strings Percussiona dn Celesta, Beethoven – Violin our classical guitar class which we run in Concerto and many more. There are also many “Discovering music Concerts” which looks partnership with East Kilbride Arts Centre. behind some of the giants of music followed by a complete performance by the SSO. For more details go to www.bbc.co.uk/bbcsso Right: The East Kilbride Arts Centre Young Iain Forbes People’s Classical Guitar Class His first recognition as a solo guitarist was in 2003 at the Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow. Iain was honoured with a Danny Kyle award for his outstanding performance, in which he competed against bands from all over Britain. He plays many gigs in Glasgow and Ayrshire. Below: The class in concert For more details go to www.iainforbes.com Graeme Scott Read a review of Graeme’s May Concert on page 16. Future Gigs: Sat 29th September – Classical Guitar. North Motherwell Parish Church. 7.30pm Sun 14th October – Performance with Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. MacRobert Centre in Stirling. 7.30pm For more details go to www.graemescott.com Non-LGMA concerts are out with the control of the LGMA, and we cannot be held accountable for any cancellations that are made to concerts. Listings are correct to the best of our knowledge, and we will not be held accountable for any mistakes made. Summer 2007 | 2 Summer 2007 | 19 LGMA Raffle Many thanks to all of you who purchased tickets for the LGMA raffle. The prize draw took place on Saturday 16th June at our annual concert in our home base at East Kilbride Arts Centre. WeWITH can confirm NIGE thatL GATHERER all those who purchased the pink style cloakroom tickets earlier in the year had their details transferred on to the official raffle With Nigel Gatherer tickets. What is Celtic Music? The Winners were as follow: With musicians, promoters and the general public referring to anything Scottish and Irish as "Celtic", where does 1st prize (Eastman mandolin) Mrs M Duthie from Eaglesham the boundary lie? We asked Nigel Gatherer, a player and tutor well known for his folk music expertise, for his 2nd prize (Yamaha C40 guitar) Mr I Campbell from East Kilbride views on: “What is Celtic Music?” 3rd prize (Ozark mandolin) Ms R Williamson from Glasgow The term “Celtic Music” has problems, because it means different things to different people. To some it's a Congratulations to the winners and thank you again to all of you who took part. The money raised will help the marketing label used so that traditional music with roots in Ireland and Scotland can be found together in record LGMA to continue to bring mandolin and guitar music to Lanarkshire. Also, a thank you to Folk Revolution of shops and so on, and that's probably what most people understand by the term Celtic Music. To others it's a bond Glasgow, which supplied the Eastman Mandolin. between "seven nations", Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Man, Brittany, Cornwall and Galicia – the so-called Celtic fringes, where the original Celtic tribes penetrated and survived to an extent. Many actually believe that the music and people of these areas are descendents of a mythical romantic race, and it can lead to ideas of pure-blood Youth Profile – Dawn Getliffe supremacy. The truth is that there is no music from the times when Celtic tribes existed as an entity, and every one We continue our look at some of our young members with Dawn Getliffe, a pupil of Calum Harbison and a Mango of these areas is now made up of descendants from many ethnic origins. Scotland itself consists of people with member. origins as diverse as Pictish, Celtic, Scandinavian, Dutch, French, Welsh, English, Italian, Polish, Indian, Pakistani... and rd so on. Dawn is a 3 year pupil at Hamilton Grammar and started to play acoustic guitar in primary 7, where in fact she was taught by the If we identify Celtic Music as music mainly from Ireland and Scotland, the reason for a unifying term is that the music LGMA’s very own Calum Harbison. However as you can see from the of these two countries has much in common, and there are many shared tunes within each tradition. It is generally photograph she also plays electric guitar, a new musical talent which accepted, for example, that the reel originated in Scotland, and was enthusiastically absorbed into Irish dance and she started to learn in second year. Dawn has no particular preference music; many of the old Irish reels have origins in Scotland.
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