Book Launch: Michael's "Grey's Notes on a Life Around Bagpipes" - PipingLive! Festival, Glasgow 2021

This video has already been distributed via Glasgow's PipingLive! Festival's socials team. I'm parking it here for my own virtual scrapbook and to ensure the great playing, talking - and acting - of my guest stars, John Slavin, Gary West, Colin MacLellan and Jenny Hazzard get their due. This program was great fun to put together. Big thanks to Kris Bawden who lead the way to make this happen!
The launch was live online August 2021.
Notes from www.dunaber.com...
00’45” - Hosted by Kris Bawden. Some banter with John Slavin, Piping Today magazine. How work with the magazine began; drinking in Babbity Bowster; stories behind some of the graphics.
11’00” - A couple of quick tunes from me: Pipe Major Duncan Nicholson (hornpipe), The Head Street Curtain Rustler (jig). Background is Westfield Heritage Village, Hamilton, Ontario.
13’52” - Master thespians at work: bringing the article “Angus Mackay on Trousers, Life and God” to life. Starring Gary West, musician, broadcaster, ethnologist - and actor.
24’00” - Colin MacLellan performing the ground and first two variations of the great piobaireachd, “Lament for the Children” (said Felix Mendelssohn, “…the finest single line melody in all European music … “). Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye provides the backdrop.
32’20” - A demonstration with tunes of a blog entry, “5 tunes I wished I’d composed”, starring the wonderful Jenny Hazzard, Edinburgh (a former pupil!).
33’15” - The Brown-haired Maiden, clip from I Know Where I am Going (1945). Said Martin Scorsese, “Just when you think there is no more great films to discover in cinema a movie like I Know Where I am Going turns up …”. Full movie can be viewed here.
36’53” - Pipe Major George Ross’ Farewell to the Black Watch (Willie Lawrie)
40’10” - The Mist-covered Mountains (John Cameron)
43’14” - Susan MacLeod (Donald MacLeod), The Little Cascade (George S McLennan). I have no idea who the happy dancers are who joined in with Jenny but they were clearly having a grand time - no matter how out of time they were to Jenny’s tunes!

[@lesliesweeney368]

Well done Mickael!

[@dunaber]

Thank you, Leslie!

[@ChrisZ70]

5 Tunes I wish *I* had written: Beverley's Wedding, William Grey, Finbarr Saunders, Tom Anderson, Lucius Warren and the Confrontation.

[@dunaber]

Thank you, Chris! :-)

[@lasse-nilsknop1612]

Another book for the next Workshop?

[@dunaber]

Lasse - it is available now :) www.dunaber.com