(Press release)
We can’t
run gigs at The Globe currently but this WON’T STOP US bringing you the very
best new music! We are pleased to announce the fourth of our exclusive
livestream concerts.
On Sunday 31 May at 8pm we’re
delighted to be able to bring you an exclusive and intimate concert by
award-winning jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie, which we will stream live to you
through Facebook and YouTube. You can watch the gig again on either platform at
any time.
So that Fergus can get paid, we
ask you to pay a small ‘entrance fee’, which we recommend should be £5 per
person. If you are able to pay a bit more this will be really welcome at this
time when gig income for musicians has completely stopped and is unlikely to
return in the very near future.
Fergus McCreadie is
one of Scotland’s most exciting young talents. Born in Jamestown, near
Strathpeffer, he grew up in Dollar and graduated from the Royal Conservatoire
of Scotland in 2018.
As well as winning the
prestigious Peter Whittingham Jazz Award with his trio in 2016, he has twice
won the Young Scottish Jazz Musician of the year under-17s Prize and is the
winner of the Guy Jones Prize, the Joe Temperley Prize from the Royal
Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Linda Trahan Memorial Prize from St Andrews
University.
His trio has featured at the
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, Aberdeen and Islay jazz festivals regularly and has
toured in Norway, Sweden, Lithuania and Estonia. The group has also appeared at
Oslo and Stockholm jazz festivals and the Ronnie Scott’s International Piano
Trio Festival.
Released in Spring 2018, the
trio’s debut album, Turas, has been praised for “reflecting his engagement with
the Scottish landscape and musical traditions while also showing a firm grasp
of the jazz piano tradition” (Jazz in Europe). Turas won Album of the Year at
the Parliamentary Jazz Awards 2019 and Best Album at the Scottish Jazz Awards
2019, following on from McCreadie’s Best Instrumentalist title at the 2018
awards.
McCreadie’s music is an
innovative blend of jazz and Scottish traditional music. Turas (Scottish Gaelic
for ‘Journey’) features eight original compositions which are designed to take
the listener on an auditory journey of Scotland. Depicting scenes from the
Western Isles to the East Neuk of Fife, the music is evocative of the
landscapes from which it has taken its inspiration.
TO ATTEND THE
GIG PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING:
1. Make a
donation via the following link.
Donate what
you can afford, £5 per person is the suggested minimum. Please do so as early
as possible, as a rush of requests just before the gig may result in some
people missing the start.
2. When we have received
notification of your donation we will send you an email with instructions on
how to view the livestream on both Facebook and YouTube. Please note that it
may take several hours for us to respond.
3. We recommend that you access
and save the Facebook and/or YouTube links as soon as you receive our
instructions. On Sunday 31 May 'doors open' at 7.45pm to give you time to check
your set up, get comfortable and chat with other members of the audience.
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