Mairearad Green http://www.mairearadgreen.com Musician and Composer - Glasgow - Wester Ross - Scotland Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:19:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Foraging for a Highland feast http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=228 http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=228#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:57:35 +0000 mairearad http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=228 The Guardian website has used sound clips from my album “Passing Places” for a film on foraging by Sara Nason. To view this go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2010/jun/28/foraging-scottish-highlands The Guardian describes the film as “Off-grid living and foraging expert Emma Magenta shows Michael Tait how to gather and prepare a feast of shellfish, wild garlic and edible seaweed on Scotland’s north west coast.”

]]> http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=228 0 Mairearad and Anna on iTunes http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=225 http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=225#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:56:52 +0000 mairearad http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=225 Anna and I have finally put our album up on iTunes, so here is the link http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/mairearad-and-anna/id381456218 You can’t quite appreciate the beautiful debossing on our white album cover here but please do go and have a listen!

]]> http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=225 0 Mairearad and Anna album now available http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=214 http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=214#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:44:25 +0000 mairearad http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=214 Mairearad recorded a duo album with Anna Massie in June 2009 and it is now available to buy from http://www.footstompin.com/ and from Coda music in Edinburgh.  All tracks on the album were recorded live at Gran’s studio in Lamington and are exactly what you would hear if you saw the girls live in concert. Mairearad plays the accordion and border pipes and Anna plays the guitar, fiddle and banjo. To listen to some tracks please visit Mairearad and Anna’s myspace page www.myspace.com/shoutyrecords.

]]> http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=214 0 Composer of the year 2009. http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=207 http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=207#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:49:02 +0000 admin http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=207 “Thanks to everyone who voted for me at the Scots Trad Music Awards. I am absolutely over the moon to have won the PRS Composer of the Year award.  It really is an honour to have won and it has provided so much inspiration already for more new music, so watch this space! Thanks again.”

]]> http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=207 0 Vote for Mairearad at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=203 http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=203#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:32:37 +0000 admin http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=203 Mairearad has just been nominated for composer of the year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. This a prestigious award with three other nominees so all votes for Mairearad will be greatly appreciated!

Voting closes on the 20th November and the winners will be announced on the 28th November at the Awards Ceremony in DG One, Dumfries. Below is a link to vote.

http://www.handsupfortrad.co.uk/tradmusicawards/

]]> http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?feed=rss2&p=203 0 Album launch http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=52 http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=52#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:17:47 +0000 admin http://www.mairearadgreen.com/?p=52 Mairearad’s New Voices commission “Passing Places” written for Celtic Connections 2009 will be released on CD and DVD at the end of this month. As part of The Highland Homecoming festival the band will perform the piece at 4pm on Sunday the 25th October at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in Skye and there will be a drinks reception afterwards. Please come along and tell all your friends!

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