Music

I’m still pinching myself but @krstrings sent me this little piece of fun in the mail about three weeks ago. It’s called a #mandolindo and Kilin designed it with fiddle players in mind…and nailed it! I’m still trying to figure out how to hold an instrument this small but here’s a tune that pretty much wrote itself (and no I didn’t name it).

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Branché

Branché, US Tour

I guess I’ll name a tune for once…here’s “The black hen”

I guess I’ll name a tune for once…here’s “The black hen” View on Instagram

Second Wave Song. The universe whispered a bunch of words in my ear and I thought they might resonate (pun intended)

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Reunited with the balalaikalele

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Writing some quarantunes

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The Tokyo blues

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Absorbed far too much Bobby Hicks and took the beginnings of my Columbus, GA tune outdoors after receiving a noise complaint in the hotel

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Wheel Song

See the video⬇ Nighttime sat heavily on Dublin, like an overweight aunt on an old couch cushion. I had flown in directly from Paris, after being shipped there with less than 24 hours’ warning three days previously for a last-minute replacement contract. It had been dark in Paris, but I…

Back in the Stairwell of Composition with something vaguely Swedish-sounding

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During previous tours, I composed a tune for every city I visited. With easy access to a fiddle on a short tour, I thought I’d be remiss not to write one for Paris…

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Montreal Ceilidh Band

Ewan Macintyre, guitar, voice; Ian Belcourt, bass; Jonathan Werk, oboe; Shena Tschofen, fiddle, voice.

Willful Shenanigans

When Will came to Montreal for three months, we decided to see what we could make together during his stay. Here are four tracks that we plotted out in our living rooms and recorded in a friend’s basement. As our album title says, we consider this our beta test product.

Montréal Complètement Cirque – Les Minutes + Babel Remix

In 2014 and 2015, I performed various acrobatic and aerial disciplines in the streets of Montreal as part of the Montréal Complètement Cirque festival. For Babel Remix, I played the fiddle on a platform two stories above the outdoor stage. In the evening, I rappelled headfirst off the roof of a…