Smiler team in disguise!

September was a mad busy month, mainly having been tied up with rehearsals for the Transform Glasgow show, which is now entitled “Smiler”. This has meant facilitating meetings and rehearsals trying to combine as many schools and community groups working on the project as we can, to get a makeshift Gaelic choir off the ground- which has proved really rewarding and exciting. The actual shows are from November 11th, 12th and 13th, 6pm and 8pm all three nights so please come along if you get the chance.

Rhapsody 09

October was also busy working on the Smiler project, but I also had the opportunity to work on another project in Oban and Helensburgh, entitled “Argyll Rhapsody”, which was written by Donald Shaw. This year’s Rhapsody included a fashion show for the second half of the concert, which was great fun.

Rhapsody 09

I was working with a group of 19 singers from schools all over Argyllshire, who did fantastic work learning up an incredible number of Gaelic songs, including a mammoth set of 8 puirt-a-beul for the finale, and they all sang brilliantly.

Some of the singers had actually designed some of the costumes used in the fashion show themselves, so it was a very creative and lively experience and it paid off in the shows themselves. Well done to all the participants for their hard work.

New Trio

Other projects currently in the pipeline include a new band that myself, Lauren MacColl and Ewan MacPherson have formed. We are going under the name “Mackinnon, MacColl, MacPherson” (what a shock eh!) and we have been working on existing Gaelic and English songs, and new material written by ourselves, including tune sets. We’re really looking forward to doing a gig at Celtic Connections as part of Showcase Scotland on 31st Jan 2010, so please join us for that if you can. Until then you can find information about the trio on our new Myspace page…

www.myspace.com/macmacmacmusic

Over and out! M x