New Year 2008
Happy New Year everyone!
Clunie Music are beginning the new year by signing up all our artists to The Musician's Network, who will be handling all our bookings from now on. Caim and Al met with Debra Carey and Ben Edom who run The Musican's Network, a few years ago and recognised then their business and computer skills. Debra and Ben travelled from the Scottish highlands all the way to Holy Island shortly after to play harp and guitar for Caim at the launch of Caim's "Creator of the Tides" CD. They also gave Caim an excellent contact for our Australian tour 2003 - the Celtic Tearoom in Queensland where Debra and Ben had been living before settling on the west coast of Scotland. I came across one of their booking websites recently while researching a project I had in mind to sing at weddings with a variety of backing musicians, emailed Debra and away we go! Hopefully this will mean more work for all of us.
Heather Innes
I came across a wonderful gig for Christmas day - singing carols to folk eating their Christmas dinners in a hotel at Loch Lomond. I asked Ciaran and Kate Kramer (fiddle) to join me and thoroughly enjoyed my day, especially as our audiences in the three restaurants in the hotel were all eager to sing along.
Christmas Day started me thinking I'd like more of the same so I've spoken with a few musicians who are now on stand by to form a band or duos with me when bookings come in for weddings, corporate events etc. and I can also sing solo for wedding services.
Margaret Gillies Brown and I have had the first rehearsal for our next annual performance at Perth Festival of the Arts. This year it will be "Out of the Westland" with songs, poetry and prose from the west coast of Scotland and the Hebrides. As always at the A.K.Bell Library Theatre, 2pm Friday 30th May, 2008.
Ciaran Dorris & Heather Innes
Since our October tour and Ciaran's John Denver Tribute concerts we've been mainly concentrating on our Music in Hospitals work with 10 Christmas party concerts in a row immediately prior to Christmas. We're kind of glad to have sent Rudolph and his reindeer buddies back to Lapland for a well earned rest!
We travel next to Guernsey for 2 weeks of hospital gigs followed by a Burns Supper in Birnam when we return.
Caim
After over a year of planning, Fr Gregory and Br Barnabas from the Julian Order in Wisconsin, USA finally arrived at Edinburgh airport in November to be met by Jacynth, also flown in from Belfast, as I was somewhere on the M9 behind a huge traffic jam and accident. Eventually I joined them for breakfast at the airport then we all returned to Auld of Clunie where they had dreamed of visiting for so long. In between leading retreats with Caim, recording meditations at Red Barn Studio, having a photo shoot for Caim's next CD and accepting invitations to several social outings Fr Gregory made special friends with all my flock of 60 hens and my two goats Paloma and Rishlin. They loved the extra attention and food! Br Barnabas meanwhile enjoyed a 6 mile walk from Dunkeld to Auld of Clunie alongside Loch of the Lowes which was particularly beautiful at that time of year. He also travelled by train to a priory near Elgin for a special retreat of his own.
The beginning of December found Caim and the monks on route to Norwich via Holy Island. Fr Gregory discovered a great new toy - the sat nav - which he discovered could speak to us in several different languages! Julian's Church in Norwich was a wonderful venue for a day long retreat with Fr Gregory and Caim and then a Caim concert in the evening. There was a little difficulty with the heating for the concert but the beauty and accoustics in the little church more than compensated. Fr Gregory was a hardened honorary Scot by then (one o' Jock Tamson's bairns!) and acclimatised to the cold having experienced Alyth Episcopal church, Perthshire with no heating the Sunday before!
2008 has quite a bit in store for Caim in the early part of the year. We are in the studio at Red Barn in January to put the music to our CD with Fr Gregory. We hope to release the CD in the States when we travel to Wisconsin and North Carolina in March/ April for a concert tour of a number of libraries in Wisconsin, a return visit to the Cup O Joy Coffee House in Greenbay and a special visit to our Myspace friend Suz in North Carolina who is busy organising concerts for us in her part of the world. (Find Suz on our friends list at www.myspace.com/celticcaim)
That's it for now. The snow is melting outside and I'm sure there's more to come but it's a new year and Spring is on its way!
Till next time.
Heather
Clunie Music are beginning the new year by signing up all our artists to The Musician's Network, who will be handling all our bookings from now on. Caim and Al met with Debra Carey and Ben Edom who run The Musican's Network, a few years ago and recognised then their business and computer skills. Debra and Ben travelled from the Scottish highlands all the way to Holy Island shortly after to play harp and guitar for Caim at the launch of Caim's "Creator of the Tides" CD. They also gave Caim an excellent contact for our Australian tour 2003 - the Celtic Tearoom in Queensland where Debra and Ben had been living before settling on the west coast of Scotland. I came across one of their booking websites recently while researching a project I had in mind to sing at weddings with a variety of backing musicians, emailed Debra and away we go! Hopefully this will mean more work for all of us.
Heather Innes
I came across a wonderful gig for Christmas day - singing carols to folk eating their Christmas dinners in a hotel at Loch Lomond. I asked Ciaran and Kate Kramer (fiddle) to join me and thoroughly enjoyed my day, especially as our audiences in the three restaurants in the hotel were all eager to sing along.
Christmas Day started me thinking I'd like more of the same so I've spoken with a few musicians who are now on stand by to form a band or duos with me when bookings come in for weddings, corporate events etc. and I can also sing solo for wedding services.
Margaret Gillies Brown and I have had the first rehearsal for our next annual performance at Perth Festival of the Arts. This year it will be "Out of the Westland" with songs, poetry and prose from the west coast of Scotland and the Hebrides. As always at the A.K.Bell Library Theatre, 2pm Friday 30th May, 2008.
Ciaran Dorris & Heather Innes
Since our October tour and Ciaran's John Denver Tribute concerts we've been mainly concentrating on our Music in Hospitals work with 10 Christmas party concerts in a row immediately prior to Christmas. We're kind of glad to have sent Rudolph and his reindeer buddies back to Lapland for a well earned rest!
We travel next to Guernsey for 2 weeks of hospital gigs followed by a Burns Supper in Birnam when we return.
Caim
After over a year of planning, Fr Gregory and Br Barnabas from the Julian Order in Wisconsin, USA finally arrived at Edinburgh airport in November to be met by Jacynth, also flown in from Belfast, as I was somewhere on the M9 behind a huge traffic jam and accident. Eventually I joined them for breakfast at the airport then we all returned to Auld of Clunie where they had dreamed of visiting for so long. In between leading retreats with Caim, recording meditations at Red Barn Studio, having a photo shoot for Caim's next CD and accepting invitations to several social outings Fr Gregory made special friends with all my flock of 60 hens and my two goats Paloma and Rishlin. They loved the extra attention and food! Br Barnabas meanwhile enjoyed a 6 mile walk from Dunkeld to Auld of Clunie alongside Loch of the Lowes which was particularly beautiful at that time of year. He also travelled by train to a priory near Elgin for a special retreat of his own.
The beginning of December found Caim and the monks on route to Norwich via Holy Island. Fr Gregory discovered a great new toy - the sat nav - which he discovered could speak to us in several different languages! Julian's Church in Norwich was a wonderful venue for a day long retreat with Fr Gregory and Caim and then a Caim concert in the evening. There was a little difficulty with the heating for the concert but the beauty and accoustics in the little church more than compensated. Fr Gregory was a hardened honorary Scot by then (one o' Jock Tamson's bairns!) and acclimatised to the cold having experienced Alyth Episcopal church, Perthshire with no heating the Sunday before!
2008 has quite a bit in store for Caim in the early part of the year. We are in the studio at Red Barn in January to put the music to our CD with Fr Gregory. We hope to release the CD in the States when we travel to Wisconsin and North Carolina in March/ April for a concert tour of a number of libraries in Wisconsin, a return visit to the Cup O Joy Coffee House in Greenbay and a special visit to our Myspace friend Suz in North Carolina who is busy organising concerts for us in her part of the world. (Find Suz on our friends list at www.myspace.com/celticcaim)
That's it for now. The snow is melting outside and I'm sure there's more to come but it's a new year and Spring is on its way!
Till next time.
Heather
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