Kintyre Pupils get Breakfast in Balquhidder!

 

Pupils from Kintyre schools are in for a treat this week, when members from sensational new Easdale band Orchestra Macaroon, will be leading music workshops with 10 local schools.

 

Former Waterboy Colin Blakey and partner Philippa Bull will lead the workshops, which will involve over 200 children & young people in a collaborative music-making experience, based upon material devised for Orchestra Macaroon's recent CD Breakfast In Balquhidder. 

 

The workshops will explore simple techniques for playing percussion instruments and how grooves are constructed, and will show how rhythms from different places have been incorporated with bass lines and melody to create complete musical textures.  The final part of the session will be short performance piece which will be recorded on to minidisc. 

 

The workshops will be based in Castlehill Primary and Dalintober Primary School in Campbeltown, Clachan Primary School and Tarbert Academy. 

 

Thanks to Eileen Rae of Argyll & Bute Council Arts Development Dept and Catherine Dobbie, Fusions Area Integration Manager for funding and organising the workshops.

 

Orchestra Macaroon is an eight-piece international, multi-talented band (with musicians from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Hong Kong).  Around a core of piano, double bass and drums, Orchestra Macaroon use flugelhorn, Chinese yang qin, exotic percussion, and four varieties of bagpipes, resulting in a joyous mix of infectious melodies and rock-steady rhythms. Based on the tiny Easdale island, they have produced a new CD – Breakfast in Balquhidder - which is international in influences and global in its outlook!  You can listen to and buy Breakfast in Balquhidder at all good record shops and online at www.theshipbuilders.com  You can also find out about the band – and  add your own drone to the Drone Zone! 

 

Note to Editors:     

If you wish to organise photos at the workshops, please contact the schools directly to obtain the necessary permissions.

 

Orchestra Macaroon can be heard in session on BBC Radio Scotland’s     Celtic Connections on Tues 30 Nov.

 

 

For more press information, interviews, photos, CDs phone Morag Neil, tel 0131 557 5918, mob 0771 288 0965 Email moragneil@blueyonder.co.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Kintyre Schools Music Workshops (23  - 26 Nov)

 

by Orchestra Macaroon

 

 

Tues 23rd Nov          Castlehill Primary School, Campbeltown

 

9.15am – 11.15am  

P6 pupils from Castlehill PS (6/7 composite),

Drumlemble, Southend, St Kieran’s Primary Schools            30

                                                           

1pm – 3pm              

P6 pupils from Castlehill Primary School                         28                               

 

 

Wed 24th Nov           Dalintober Primary School, Campbeltown

 

9.15am – 11.15am  

P6 pupils from Carradale, Glenbarr, Rhunahaorine,

Dalintober (composite 5/6) Primary Schools                               28

 

1.15pm – 3.15pm   

P6 pupils from Dalintober PS                                                        26

 

 

 

Thurs 25th Nov        Clachan Primary School             

                                   

                                    1pm – 3pm              

Pupils from Skipness and Clachan Primary Schools                15

 

 

 

Fri 26th Nov               Tarbert Academy

 

                                    9.15am – 11.15am  

P7 pupils from Tarbert Primary School                                      20

 

                                    1.40pm – 3.40pm   

Pupils from Tarbert Secondary School                                      30