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Hamish and Fin Moore |
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News 2008 - Tuscany, Uist and North AmericaHamish has taken an artist in residence post in the town of Barge, Tuscany. He is turning parts of pipes and making reeds. He is also writing a weekly blog about his adventures. See www.barganews.com He is also trying to learn Italian and keep up his fiddling. While Hamish is in Barga, Fin is very busy in the workshop until the summer when he has three trips planned for July and August. The first is to Ceolas, the summer school Hamish set up in South Uist. This runs from 6th till the 11th of July. After this Fin is set to teach at one of the biggest Piping Schools in the North America. Piping Hot Summer Drummer is run by Jack Lee and SFU (look for PHSD link). THe school is set in a ski resort in Vancouver. Fin is teaching for the second week 13th to 18th of July,so if there are small or border pipers on the west coast of North America it would be great to have you there. Fin's last trip is one Hamish and Fin have done many times. He is going to Vermont for a week of teaching at a school Hamish set up 20 years ago. It is located just outside the lovely village of Richmond. For more information please write to Matt Buckley who hosts the week. Straight after the week in Richmond Fin is going to The Pipers Gathering. This is a great weekend with gigs, workshops, lectures and sessions. It is not just restricted to Scottish pipers either with Northumbrian and Uilleann pipes featuring as well. These events run from the 4th - 1tth of August. We are also pleased to announce the second volume of The Piper and the Maker is nearing completion. It will be released on Greentrax again and we will have more information when it is ready. It will feature pipers mostly from the east coast of Canada and was again recorded live at Celtic Colours Festival.
MARTYN BENNETT * GORDON DUNCAN * FIN MOORE * ALLAN MacDONALD * IAIN MacDONALD * ANGUS MacKENZIE * IAIN MacINNES * MALCOLM ROBERTSON * GARY WEST * HAMISH MOORE * ANNA MURRAY * GRAHAM MULHOLLAND Anna Murray, Martyn Bennett and Graham Mulholland were unable to take part in the concert and were recorded at other locations. Hamish Moore's new pipe band, Na Tri Seudan is up and running and willing, able and ready for gigs. A show with Na Tri Seudan includes dance music from the pipe band, stepdance and pibroch both played and sung. Hamish has just been awarded a grant from The Scottish Arts Council to make 8 matched silver mounted sets of pipes for the band. These pipes are his Highland Pipes in 'A' and are a reproduction of the 1785 set in The Inverness Museum. Stolen
Bagpipes Alert! In an unfortunate incident on the evening of 11th January 2003, a set of Scottish Small Pipes and a set of Border Pipes (both made by Hamish Moore) were stolen from outside Sandy Bell's Bar in Forest Hill Lane, Edinburgh (near to the Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street). As you can imagine the sense of loss is profound and any help in their recovery would be greatly appreciated. Description of the Pipes, Chanters, Bellows and Case: Small Pipes: Small Pipe chanters:
Bellows: Highland Chanters: Case: The attached photo (top) was taken by Neil Fordyce, Dunkeld. |
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