Discovered today that Salt Lake’s Deseret News had a large full-color article on the upcoming Scottish Festival and Highland Games. Most of the article was about the amazing physical strength contests (quite impressive upon a first viewing last year), however there was a nice little sidebard entitled “FESTIVAL INCLUDES MUSICIANS, DANCERS” Dorian Mirth is mentioned along with all the other performing acts. Cool! Here is a link and their introductory blurb:
The Utah Scottish Association is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Scottish Festival and Highland Games. In addition to the athletic competitions, the festival will offer food, entertainment, 40 clan booths and history information, a display of British cars, historic displays and demonstrations, a shortbread contest, vendors and more.
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Our Christmas CD, entitled “FRANKINCENSE AND MIRTH,” will be available sometime this year! Photos of our first recording sessions are now uploaded to the gallery:
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PHOTO GALLERY!
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With spring break and availability of recording space, members of Dorian Mirth have spent time this past week in several sessions recording material for our upcoming (as yet untitled) CD. Thankfully once again we have our wonderful engineer and all-around technician Steve who also helped us on the first CD. We anticipate the completion of the album in a few months, including time to finish recording and put everything together.
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New from Dorian Mirth! Download now a clip from the just recorded piece ‘Noel Nouvelet’, a lively version of the traditional French carol. Instruments include the Chalumeau, Soprano Recorders, Krumhorn, Chimes, Tambourine and Tupan Drum. This is the first recording our planned next CD, to be finished in the next few months or so.
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Dorian Mirth had a fabulous and successful time at the Highland Games at Thanksgiving Pointe, Utah. It was an all-day gig with a constant stream of listeners. We had a hard time breaking away for even a few minutes to get food! Watching all the be-kilted folk walk by was very exciting for us, too! Dorian Mirth would like to thank the organizers for giving us the opportunity to play at such a fun event.
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We are happy to be presenting this next week, perhaps at War in Woodland and certainly at TolCon several new pieces from or relating to the Lord of the Rings films.
Concerning Hobbits
(recorders, harp, guitar, zither, percussion)
Have played this for a couple of years, however now we have a few new measures that are in the film but not on the soundtrack. Also adding more instruments than the previous arrangement.
Into the West
(harp, mandolin, zither, guitar, tenor recorder and vocal)
Very new addition but sounding lovely!
May it Be
(harp, recoder and vocal)
A simple (so far) but beautiful arrangement
Hey Ho to the Bottle I go…
(recorders, mandolin, tupan drum, hand drum, tambourine and vocals)
Arrangement and expansion of the fun drinking song from Fellowship of the Ring, it alternates instrumental with singing and includes all kinds of exciting percussion!
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Last week, on March 26, we had our first “School Gig”. This is something we’ve wanted to do for a while — to teach kids about the historical music we play. We went to Jenny P. Stewart Elementary School and held a small assembly with all the 6th Graders there. I have to say, it was one of the most fun gigs we’ve ever played! We all dressed up in different period costumes, and talked a little about history, so they could get an idea of context for the music. We were expecting to have to deal with restless or inattentive children, but they were so well-behaved, and genuinely interested! Much of it might have been that they’ve been learning the recorder in class, and had probably never seen or heard the different sizes. They were also thrilled to hear about our LOTR gigs, and wanted to know who we met from the movies. It was exciting, and very fulfilling, to see them discover this music for the first time!
We hope to be able to go out to the schools more in the future. Thanks to all the teachers and students; We had a GREAT time!
Showing kids the pop music of yesteryear
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About a week ago we had our final recording session for the soon-to-be-released CD. A look back:
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Clips for all 17 tracks of the forthcoming CD “Pluck, Rattle and Blow” are now online!
http://www.dorianmirth.com/recordings.htm
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