| "The Glengarry Collection: The Highland Fiddle Music of Aonghas Grant" is due for release very shortly, some time this Summer 2010. The book contains 164 Slow Airs, Marches, Strathspeys, Reels, Jigs and Hornpipes with Stories, History and Photographs. It focuses on the core of Aonghas' music: Highland fiddling, with its links to pipe tunes and Gaelic songs. Some of these tunes have never been published before, while others are available only in out-of-print books or in pipe settings, and the collection also includes a number of tunes composed by Aonghas himself, and tunes composed in honor of Aonghas. The tunes are fully chorded in a style appropriate to Aonghas' band experience. All these are richly illustrated by transcriptions of Aonghas' bowings, grace-notes, stories, and photos of scenes and people from Aonghas' varied life careers, including old family photos. Finally, there is an accompanying DVD with videos of Aonghas' impromptu and passionate performances of 61 of the tunes in the collection. The publisher, Mel Bay, does not take pre-orders, as publication dates have a way of changing. Watch this space, and watch your In Box, for ordering and purchase information.
Barbara McOwen, Peggy Duesenberry, and Laura Risk, with assistance by David H. Arnold, and financial assistance from the New Hampshire Gathering and Scottish Clans, have been working on this project since 2002.
A planned Volume 2 is well underway.
For more information, feel free to contact Aonghas or any member of the Committee. |
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