{"title":"Donald Shaw","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"various-artists-folktopia","title":"Folktopia Vol 1 - The Music of Vertical Records","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVarious Artists - Folktopia Vol 1 - The Music of Vertical Records\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGenerous sampler from cutting-edge Celtic people label pioneered by Capercaillie and Donald Shaw. Tracks from them and friends, others equally well known to fRoots (eg Shooglenifty, Karan Casey, Martyn Bennett), and a sprinkling of those less so but equally interesting (eg James Grant and the arresting Monica Queen).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vertical Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":52480137822548,"sku":"VERTCD067","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5544\/1236\/files\/Various_Artists_Folktopia_Vol_1_The_Music_of_Vertical_Records.jpg?v=1751901490"},{"product_id":"donald-shaw-and-charlie-mckerron-gruth-is-uachdar","title":"Gruth is Uachdar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDonald Shaw \u0026amp; Charlie McKerron - Gruth is Uachdar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComposed by Donald Shaw and Charlie McKerron of the Celtic supergroup Capercaillie, the 'Gruth is Uachdar' soundtrack combines some of the world's leading traditional musicians with the classical sounds of the award-winning BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is music which is beautifully intimate, refreshingly earthy and comic, but also sweeping and majestic... bringing a truly epic and cinematic feel to the production and perfectly matching the breathtaking natural setting of Harris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart of the recording of the soundtrack coincided with the world famous Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow - and Donald and Charlie were fortunate in having access to some of the world's finest traditional musicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAppearing on the score are players including Michel Bordeleau from La Bottine Souriante, guitarist Tony McManus, flute player Michael McGoldrick, harmonica player Brendan Power, percussionists Jim Sutherland and James Mackintosh, guitarist Kris Dever, guitar\/melodeon player Tim Eadie, Bouzouki player Manus Lunny, piper Rory Campbell, Ewen Vernal on double bass, Allan MacDonald on jaws harp and Harald Hugaard on Scandinavian fiddle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vertical Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":52480098009428,"sku":"VERTCD062","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5544\/1236\/files\/Donald_Shaw___Charlie_McKerron_Gruth_is_Uachdar.jpg?v=1751907346"},{"product_id":"night-flight-75","title":"Night Flight ’75","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreg Lawson \u0026amp; Donald Shaw with Sorren Maclean - Night Flight '75\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNight Flight ’75 marks the 50th anniversary of the Mull Air Mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePeter Gibbs, the pilot who took off from Glenforsa airstrip that Christmas Eve, flew Spitfires during the war and later became a renowned violinist and leader of many orchestras including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe felt it was important to commemorate the life of a fellow musician with some specially recorded new tunes. Apart from the excerpts of J.S Bach’s violin sonata No.1, this record was composed and performed by Donald Shaw and Greg Lawson with Sorren Maclean and recorded in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough Greg’s years performing with national orchestras, he had heard stories about Gibbs flying his own plane to concerts while flour bombing the orchestra bus below. Donald actually lived in the same Glasgow west end flat that previously belonged to Peter Gibbs. Sorren is a Mull musician. There seemed to be more than an element of synchronicity in bringing the project together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur pilot borrowed a plane from Ian Hamilton, one of the 4 students who took the Stone of Destiny from Westminster Abbey in 1950 (coincidentally also on Christmas Eve). He left Glenforsa on the morning of December 24th with his girlfriend Felicity Grainger, flew to Broadford on the Isle of Skye, returned to Mull and then, after dinner that evening, he took off for what ended up being his final flight. One rumour at the time suggested an unidentified person came into his Glasgow flat in the early hours of Christmas morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis plane - Tango November, a Cessna F150H, vanished that night and was never conclusively found. Peter Gibbs’ body was discovered 4 months later on a nearby hillside lying over a larch tree. 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