Well what a night we had on Friday 10th April in Stirling Tolbooth! As usual the music was standout and the musicianship was outstanding. Mr McFall’s Chamber did their usual excellent job of putting the musicians at ease whilst performing their works with aplomb! The running order was:
Guttersnipe (Laura Wilkie)
Borderline (Callum Armstrong)
A Time to Heal (Gráinne Brady)
Talisker Bay (Emma Tomlinson)
Links in the Chain (Conrad Molleson)
Interval
Im Volkston / Bauerntanz (Grieg)
Duality (Cameron Maxwell)
Here in this Spring (Kate Young)
Nisquemeth (Chris Greive)
Teuchdar in Paris (Neil Ewart)
Here is the music from the night.
Performers
Mr McFall’s Chamber
Jackie Norrie
Robert McFall
Mark Braithwaite
Su-a Lee
Rick Standley
Additional instrumentation:
Laura Wilkie, Neil Ewart, Kate Young, Gráinne Brady (all fiddle), Paul Livingstone (viola), Andy Saunders (French horn), Mikey Owers (trombone), Callum Armstrong (bagpipes), Ali Levack (low whistle), Fiona Rutherford (clarsach), Mattie Foulds (percussion), Kate Young, David Francis (both vox).
Produced for Distil by Simon Thoumire and David Francis
Thanks to: Judith Walsh, Carolyn Paterson and all at the Tolbooth; all the Distil participants and mentors; Persephone Nichol-Bose; Creative Scotland.