Luke Daniels in a Matrix of Fabulous Discoveries

Tell your world ↓ about this one ↑

Our canecutter (why should a Brazilian sugarcane canecutter represent artists/creatives from Brooklyn to Timbuktu???) logo may be downloaded for use in linking to this or any matrix page.

I CURATE → THEM

Explore curations out by tapping above ◤

"I conceived this matrix so that musicians in Bahia, Brazil could curate colleagues and be curated by such. But the connections formed by such recommendations create a special kind of network, with implications ranging far beyond Bahia, and Brazil, and music..."

(THEY) → CURATE (ME)
Explore curations via ____ & categorical colleagues by tapping categories below ◣

Luke Daniels

"Just as Luke Daniels and billions of fellow human beings are by virtue of the small-world phenomenon positioned within 6 or fewer degrees of each other ... musicians, writers, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, quiltmakers, multimedia artists et al in a system of interlinked recommendations are likewise positioned — by the identical phenomenon — within a handful of transitable steps of each other — and by extrapolation — within discoverable, accessible reach of just about everybody everywhere here on planet earth. Algorithms not necessary."
—Sparrow_Roberts, sparrowroberts@gmail.com

CURATIONS & PROVENANCE

from and of this page by: the Matrix. (THEY) contingent upon any given page.

ARTIST/CREATOR/EDUCATOR

Name: Luke Daniels
City/Place: Glasgow
Country: United Kingdom

Life & Work

Bio: A BBC award winning folk musician and former Riverdance band member who has performed with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Cara Dillon and De Dannan. Folk Musician in Residence of the Scottish National Museum of Rural Life and tutor on the traditional music course at Royal Conservatoire Scotland in Glasgow.

His 2015 album of melodeon music transcribed from early wax cylinders and 78s was described in the Scotsman as “outstanding.” A soloist on the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit soundtracks he performed at the Royal Festival Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. His commissioned work for the PRS for Music New Music Biennial in 2014 was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from London’s Barbican Centre and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival’s Assembly Rooms and on Broadway with Riverdance. His musical partnership with the School of Philosophy at Edinburgh University culminated in sell out shows at Celtic Connections Festival on two consecutive years with Songs of the Scottish Enlightenment. He recently sang and played live for Mark Radcliffe on his BBC Radion 2 folk programme and was described by Mark as a “master melodeon player.”