Photos
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Recording
Mungrel Stuff
Jamie MacDougall and large microphone
Joanna Parker
David McGuinness
Elizabeth Kenny
Alison McGillivray
Ninian Perry
Sarah Bevan-Baker
Katherine McGillivray
Elisabeth Dooner
The other photos that didn't make it into the original CD booklet are these: Jamie MacDougall and David McGuinness both started at Hillhead Primary School in Glasgow in August 1971, and so have almost identical school photos, from different classes in the same year. Can you guess which is which?
Spring Any Day Now
recording in the dark, Nenthorn February 2003
and outside earlier on, waiting for the builders to leave
Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie: Fiddler Tam
Kellie quintet on a sunny November afternoon at Crichton, 2003 L-R: Alison McGillivray, Katherine McGillivray, David McGuinness, Lucy Russell, Sarah Bevan-Baker
Lion
Alison McGillivray getting in tune to record Tobias Hume for the Lion album at Nenthorn
Robert Mackintosh: Airs Minuets Gavotts & Reels
Greg Lawson and David Greenberg prepare for Mackintosh recording, May 2010
our recording venue from the Caspian (the artificial loch in the shape of the Caspian Sea)
the view of Loch Fyne from the recording room
Greg, DG, Alison, DMcG
Alison, DG, DMcG, Greg
Greg on the balcony in a lunch break
looking back to our 'studio' from the balcony
Revenge of the Folksingers
in the session lunchbreak: Nick Halley, Jim Moray, Bill Taylor, David McGuinness, Olivia Chaney, Alison McGillivray, Mairi Campbell, Alasdair Roberts, Clare Salaman, Pamela Thorby
recording Psalm 124
recording Up in the Morning Early
setting up the stage in the Britten Studio
Alasdair, Jim, Olivia
Clare re-tuning the hurdy-gurdy for maximum effect
Pamela abandons her recorder collection
Nick Halley
Jim Moray and his red guitar
Alasdair keeping quiet about his guitar tunings to Olivia
Captain Tobias Hume: A Scottish Soldier
Alison McGillivray, Chris Norman, Clare Salaman, David McGuinness, Elizabeth Kenny, Tommy Johansson, Liam Byrne, Thomas Walker
Tom
Liam, Clare, Alison, David, Liz, Tommy, Chris
David & Liam
Liz gets accustomed to the orpharion's squinty frets
orpharion side view
Tommy and his multi-coloured cittern frets
Chris and one of his many Renaissance flutes
Liam
another Tobias Hume portrait by Joe Davie
Purcell's Revenge
final rehearsal in the Britten Studio
recording session afternoon tea break: Jim Moray, James Bowman, Clare Salaman, Susanna Pell, David McGuinness, Pamela Thorby, Olivia Chaney, Ana Silvera, Alison McGillivray, Bill Taylor
Olivia & Jim
David & Bill
Alison & Zan
the 'early music' side of the room (it just worked out that way)
Jim & Will
James Bowman recording Sweeter Than Roses
Hornpipe on a Ground, with David trying to introduce the band a la Frank Zappa
so many great ideas his wig blew off
up for a scrap
back at work: note the bells tied to his legs
Nathaniel Gow's Dance Band
on a break from recording at Crichton (photo: Matt Parkin), Front row: Marie Fielding, Lauren MacColl, Alison McGillivray, Shona Mooney, Mairi Campbell. Back row: David McGuinness, Callum Armstrong, Aaron McGregor
Songs of Home and Distant Isles
video shoot with Lorna Anderson in Dalkeith Palace, 2019
Allan Ramsay: Shepherds & Tea-Tables
in Crichton Collegiate Church, L-R: Aaron McGregor, Tim Macdonald, Alasdair Roberts, Alex McCartney, Lucia Capellaro, David McGuinness (photo: Luca Guariento)
Rehearsal
Chris Norman (smallpipes) and Katherine McGillivray (nyckelharpa) discover that their instruments were made for one another, Glasgow 2006
David McGuinness's view from the Usher Hall organ console before playing with The Tiger Lillies at the Edinburgh International Festival, 2007
his view from the other organ in rehearsal with The Tiger Lillies and special guests William Carter (theorbo) and Emily White (violin & trombone), 2007
rehearsing Robert Mackintosh in Beauvais, 2010
Live
with dancing master Stuart Marsden on the 200th anniversary of Gow's introduction of the quadrille to Edinburgh's Assembly Rooms (photo: Juliette Lichman) 2017
Ceilidh Night downstairs at oran Mor in Glasgow, 2017
playing Nathaniel Gow's quadrilles on his original musicians' gallery at Edinburgh Assembly Rooms (photo: Alistair Clark), 2019
Allan Ramsay's Edinburgh Tunes at the Ballroom Sessions, Sloans, Glasgow, with Iona Fyfe and Alasdair Roberts (photo: Carey Coleman), 2022
Out and About
lunch break in David's back garden, Glasgow, L-R: Alison McGillivray, Nicolette Moonen, Katy Bircher, Catherine Bott, Greg Lawson, Ninian Perry, Katherine McGillivray, 2001
in the gutter: the Lion quartet L-R - David Greenberg, Alison McGillivray, David McGuinness, Katherine McGillivray (photo: Kevin Low), 2003
Davids Greenberg & McGuinness in Skye after a gig in Portree (and a minor car accident on the way), 2003
The Lion quartet at the University of Glasgow, 2005
on tour outside Dornie Hall, beside Eilean Donan castle: Alison McGillivray, David McGuinness, David Greenberg, Chris Norman, 2009