Here are some clips of the first performance (RAH) of the song cycle I wrote with Kate Stilitz, commissioned by Haringey Music Service http://www.onesmallbird.uk/media/
One Small Bird
Square Horizon
A video collage of Sarah Reid’s pastel drawings, Geoff Bartholomew trumpet and Jilly Jarman sounds and video.
Compositions
Really need to get my compositions more easily available and accessible – I keep getting asked by people if they can use them, which is BRILLIANT!
So going to try to put aside some time to do it (ha ha!)
Anyway – most recently, the amazing classical singer Sarah Wallcook performed Bubbles and Burdens at a concert dinner in Sweden, BJYJE (BlueJam Youth Jazz Ensemble) is going to perform a Fascinating Days/Mountains merge and KSGS will feature Muevete at their festival!
Carols for North Lakes School
I have been writing a carol every year for the school my children went to since about 2003. I think this is the year we should get them all into a book!
Intonent Hodie | Welcome | Toca La Campanas
Now At Evening | Make Me A Lantern | Walking | Join In
Celebrate | Don’t Look Now!
Joyeux Noel, Merry Christmas! | Promise | Spirit of Christmas
The Boy | Xmas Is Coming | The Snowman
My Bairn Sleep Softly Now | Whisper of the Wind | Carol of the Birds
Celebrate New Life | Imagine Now
St Kentigern
St kentigern movie – fire clip from BlueJam Arts on Vimeo.
Film and soundtrack made with children from Keswick Primary School and BlueJam young music leaders. NB the sounds of the river are just children using their voices and feet in a school hall recorded on an Edirol.
Eco Cooking
eco cooking from BlueJam Arts on Vimeo.
Another segment from the same film which shows the young people cooking in their outdoor kitchen.
Ecofire
ecofire from BlueJam Arts on Vimeo.
A clip from a video I made the soundtrack for, about an Eden Community Outdoors ECO week in 2010 with
New carol for North Lakes School
Putting the finishing touches to this year’s carol for North Lakes School, where my children went and we now all work in one capacity or another. I write a carol for them every year and this will be about the 16th offering. Most of them can be found on vocalunion.org.uk and are free to use for non-profit occasions. Glad to see Mary Keith is using “Welcome” with her choir this year.
Absent Friends Nov 2017
What a beautiful event at Eskdalemuir last Friday – part of a Scotland-wide series of events organised by Scotland Palliative Care.
I was commissioned by the Eskdalemuir Expressive Arts group to set a series of verses written by the Writing Group to music. We then performed the song together at the evening event.
It will be recorded before Christmas.