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Name:
Simon McKerrell
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City/Place:
Glasgow, Scotland
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Country:
United Kingdom
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I am known internationally as a piper, and play both the Highland bagpipes (Scottish bagpipes) and the Uilleann pipes (Irish, bellows blown pipes). I also play a set of mouth blown miniature Highland pipes in A which has been a special project since 2017. In addition to my academic career I have been known as a performer of traditional music.
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Dr Simon McKerrell is a Professor in Media and Music at Glasgow Caledonian University and has previously worked at the Universities of Newcastle, Sheffield, Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is interested in the social impact of music. His current research focuses upon music in the creative economy in rural areas, and he has published widely on the understanding and agency of music in multimedia discourses and in policy. He is the author of Focus: Scottish Traditional Music (Routledge), and the Co-Editor of both Music as Multimodal Discourse: Media, Power and Protest (Bloomsbury) and Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition, Modernity (Routledge).
In addition to this, he is a world-renowned performer of Scottish Highland and Irish Uilleann pipes. He has recorded 12 albums and toured throughout the world. If you would like to get in touch with Simon, please contact him here.
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We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow. — Banch Abegaze (manager: Kamasi Washington)
KAMASI WASHINGTON
Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix. — Susan Rogers (personal recording engineer for Prince; recorded "Purple Rain", "Around the World in a Day", "Parade", "Sign o' the Times"... recorded David Byrne and others; now director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory)
SUSAN ROGERS
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This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :))) — Clarice Assad (pianist and composer; works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world)
CLARICE ASSAD
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ALICIA SVIGALS
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