Glasgow Concert is the new album from Simon Thoumire (concertina) and Dave Milligan (piano). Recorded in 2020 at Celtic Connections festival just before lockdown was a thing and we all became distracted. It took til 2024 for the album to arrive. Both Dave and Simon are massive Moscow Art Trio fans and one of our favourite albums is their Hamburg Concert. We decided to name the album Glasgow Concert in homage to them.
The thing we like about this album is it features live versions of the tracks that were on our first two albums – The Big Day In and Third Fight Home. Typically when we record a new album the tracks haven’t been performed before and they start to change as soon as we play them live! These are these live versions plus 2 tracks which haven’t featured on any other albums!
The album has 9 tracks and last approx 35 minutes. All tracks published PRS / MCPS. Below you can download high quality MP3s.
The single you can hear is one of the first tracks we ever played together many years ago! The Tipsy Sailor/ The Future is Bright / J. F. Dickie
Simon learned the first tune from Alistair Anderson’s Concertina Workshop (concertina tutor book). It’s an amazing book and accompanying album which is definitely worth checking out by anyone interested in the concertina. This is the only place that we have seen it called The Tipsy Tailor as most people call it The Drunken Sailor. It’s a great tune that demands fair dexterity! Next we play The Future is Bright. This tune written by Simon featured in his Music for a New Scottish Parliament suite that was first performed in 1999 to celebrate the opening of the new Scottish Parliament. We finish off with fiddler J. Murdoch Henderson’s classic reel J. F. Dickie. It was written in 1932 for his friend, fiddler Jim Dickie of New Deer, Aberdeenshire.
The Tipsy Sailor – traditional
The Future is Bright (Simon Thoumire)
J. F. Dickie (J. Murdoch Henderson)
If you have any questions please get in touch. We are happy to do interviews etc. The album was released on 19th July 2024 and is available Bandcamp and all streaming outlets https://simonthoumire.ffm.to/glasgowconcert.
Artist website: http://www.simonthoumire.com
Single title: The Tipsy Sailor/ The Future is Bright / J. F. Dickie
Album title: Glasgow Concert
Release Date: 19/07/2024
Single artist: Simon Thoumire and Dave Milligan
Single duration: 5:41
Writers: Traditional / Simon Thoumire / J. Murdoch Henderson
Publishers: PRS / MCPS
Explicit?: No
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