Posted: 22nd September 2015

The Gordon Gunn album Wick To Wickham and Fraser and Ian Bruce - The Best of Mrs Bruce’s Boys - have both been getting a huge amount of airplay across the UK.

Fraser Bruce has been very busy doing radio interviews all over Scotland, promoting The Best of Mrs Bruce’s Boys.

Archie Fisher is off to USA for a tour to promote his new album A Silent Song on Red House Records, which is released by Greentrax in the UK and Europe on 1st October 2015. Archie will promote the album for Greentrax on his return from USA.

The songs for the Greentrax / Luath Press project Nova Scotia - Songs For The Early Days Of A Better Nation have been selected from the many entries and we are hopeful it will be released before the end of 2015.

Posted: 29th July 2015

Ian Bruce and Ian Walker, with Fraser Bruce and Moe Walker, are appearing at the Acoustic Music Centre (8.15pm) as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 13th, 14th, 19th & 23rd August 2015 - book tickets online here.

A Fringe sell-out show in 2014. Two of Scotland’s finest singer-songwriters are back - Ian Bruce and Ian Walker are powerful solo performers with over 30 albums between them. Their duo performances include their original songs (covered by artists worldwide), songs from their Scottish heritage and songs by Robert Burns.

They are supported this year by the irrepressible entertainer Fraser Bruce and Belfast-born singer Moe Walker.

“Wonderful rhythm and lyrics allied to some of the most listenable voices on offer today…” (Irish Music Magazine)

Posted: 29th July 2015

Greentrax Recordings and Luath Press Limited (book publishers) are jointly working on a song writing project: Scotia Nova - Songs For The Early Days Of A Better Nation.

The idea arose from a book of poems of the same title published by Luath in 2014.

Entries have been received from some of Scotland’s best and most prolific song writers and the album should be completed by the end of 2015.

Posted: 29th July 2015

The 3 Harbours Arts Festival in East Lothian featured the late artist John Bellany this year, and asked Greentrax to compile an album of his favourite music and songs as a tribute to this artist of international renown. This compilation album A Tribute In Music And Song To John Bellany is progressing and should be available before the end of 2015.

Tracks have been licensed from other labels, creamed from the Greentrax back catalogue and specially recorded for the album, including a stunning recording by Siobhan Miller.

There are also new songs by Ian McCalman and Alex Hodgson, musical tributes by Hamish Moore, Stuart Eydmann and Eddie McGuire - and much more.

The front cover image will be from one of John’s paintings: Port Seton Harbour.

Posted: 28th July 2015

The Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust are planning the creation and release of the second collection of the late, great piper and whistle player Gordon Duncan’s compositions: Book Two.

As well as some hidden gems, they are adding traditional compositions that Gordon made his own, including Scottish, Irish and Breton compositions and the full written score for one of his most influential arrangements, AC/DC’s Thunderstruck.

The project was successfully funded through Crowdfunder.co.uk on June 27th 2015. Over £12,000 was raised, beyond the £10,000 target, by over 250 backers.

For various pledge amounts you could have received:

• an early copy of Gordon Duncan’s Book Two, delivered direct to your door before the January launch
• a Skeleton T-shirt
• a limited edition Gordon Duncan Thunderstruck T-shirt
• a Gordon Duncan Thunderstruck Hoody
• a limited (and numbered) edition of 100 copies of Gordon Duncan’s Book One and Book Two (hard-bound) available to buy

All proceeds go to the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust in order to create and publish the book and the various limited edition T-shirts and Hoodies.

The Trust are looking to launch the book officially at Celtic Connections in January 2016.

The Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust was set up in 2007 to promote and support traditional music. They released Book One of Gordon’s compositions in 2007 and have sold more than 5,000 copies since launch.

“Gordon Duncan composed hook lines worthy of the best songwriters in history, improvised as well as any jazz musician, played piobaireachd like a classical soloist and grounded all his work firmly on a centuries-old canon of traditional music he loved. We will benefit from that work for years to come…” (virtuoso Celtic guitarist Tony McManus)