I've just put up my Live at the King's Hall album of live piping on bandcamp. You can find the album for download at https://simonmckerrell.bandcamp.com/album/bagpipes-live-at-the-kings-hall Live at the King's Hall bagpipes May 2012 ALBUM INFO On the 3rd May 2012, I recorded a solo bagpipe album at the King's Hall, Newcastle University, in England. This … Continue reading Live Album bagpipes on bandcamp
CfP Folk Music Research, Folkloristics, and Anthropology of Music in Europe
Call for Proposals International Symposium, 17-19 October 2019 Folk Music Research, Folkloristics, and Anthropology of Music in Europe: Pathways in the Intellectual History of Ethnomusicology University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology In cooperation with Mozarteum University Salzburg Department of Musicology Keynote speaker: Owe Ronström Uppsala University, Campus … Continue reading CfP Folk Music Research, Folkloristics, and Anthropology of Music in Europe
Now is the time to lobby for a tourist tax for local culture
The passing of the vote in favour of implementing a tourist tax in the City of Edinburgh today marks an important point in the story towards mobilizing tourism revenue to support local culture. https://www.flickr.com/photos/63313542@N05/8477808902/ The Big Fiddle in Sydney, Nova Scotia In our recent report Traditional Music and the Rural Creative Economy in Argyll and Bute, we made a radical suggestion that local, traditional arts could … Continue reading Now is the time to lobby for a tourist tax for local culture
CfP European Seminar in Ethnomusicology
Interesting ESEM meeting this year in Durham here's the CfP XXXV European Seminar in Ethnomusicology 3-7 September 2019 – Durham University, UK “Performing bodies” The XXXV European Seminar in Ethnomusicology will take place from 3 to 7 September 2019 in Durham, United Kingdom, and will be hosted by the University’s Music Department, in the unique … Continue reading CfP European Seminar in Ethnomusicology
New Music Book for 2019!
I am delighted to announce a brand new music collection for 2019. The Woodilee Collection of Traditional Music by Simon McKerrell Is my combined collection of 73 traditional tunes I have composed for bagpipes, Uilleann pipes, banjo, whistle, fiddle accordion and other instruments. The tunes stretch as far back as the 1990s for me personally, … Continue reading New Music Book for 2019!
Interesting CfP Music Exploitation
Saw this interesting CfP others may wish to circulate--was struck by the shifting figures in revenues (which we musicologists knew) but about which there has been little academic research. Call for Chapters Perspectives on Music Production – Exploiting Music - Routledge Deadline for proposals: 26 April 2019 In the spirit of the Perspectives On … Continue reading Interesting CfP Music Exploitation
Creativity in Crisis
I'm delighted to be contributing to a workshop at Queens Uni Belfast next month entitled 'Creativity in Crisis' CiC Workshop Poster C R E A T I V I T Y I N C R I S I S A r t s i n t h e A g e of … Continue reading Creativity in Crisis
New Performance ‘Rivers of our Being’ Folk Oratorio, November 1st 2018, Newcastle University
I am delighted to be conducting[!] a new Oratorio for choir and ensemble at Newcastle University this Thursday the 1st November. It has been specially composed as part of a large European research project of which I am a part called CoHere. Please do come along, the concert on the 1st is free and we will … Continue reading New Performance ‘Rivers of our Being’ Folk Oratorio, November 1st 2018, Newcastle University
David McGuinness Research Seminar, 3rd October, 4pm
I'm delighted to say that Dr David McGuinness from the University of Glasgow will be speaking at the International Centre for Music Studies on Wednesday the 3rd October, at 4pm in the Armstrong Building on: Bass culture in Scottish fiddle music from 1750 Writers in pop songwriting teams can find themselves categorised … Continue reading David McGuinness Research Seminar, 3rd October, 4pm
Launch of Argyll and Bute Report: Traditional Music and the Creative Economy
After spending much of this year thinking, interviewing and writing about the creative economy for traditional music in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, I am delighted to announce that Dr Jasmine Hornabrook and I have launched our final report. Please do go and read it, there are numerous recommendations based on our fieldwork and survey of … Continue reading Launch of Argyll and Bute Report: Traditional Music and the Creative Economy