Band Members:
Bill Stewart (violin) Allan Cooke (guitar) Patrick Cereghetti (bass) Tony Travers (drums) Mark Murphy (piano)
"Shades of Blue" as above with:special guest Sinead Conway (vocals)
Dark Eyes from the new live CD....enjoy!!
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Here are some videos recorded live at the Leitrim Marina Hotel
Sorry for the sound but loads of people requested videos to SEE us playing...so, here are six videos including Dark Eyes/ Nuages etc...
The audio player immediatley below has the same music but better quality audio....
What the press say:
Comments on Summertime (from the Album Lucia's Waltz) by the International Collectors of Summertime Recordings:
My...that's a beauty!!! It's a 0 on a scale of 1 to 5 (horrible) and I hardly give that score (about 75 on our collection of more than 9,600). It really gives me goosepimples and only the great ones like Ben Webster or Cecilia Bartoli can do that. I've marked it a no trade recording, which means that none of my co-collectors will share it through any p2p-program or outside our little club. Thank you so much, I'm glad to have been that naughty-impolite to ask you for this one.
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If this year's Solo Festival has a theme it is probably master musicians...an experience of real magic is expected...FiddleTree comprises Waterboys member Steve Wickham, manic scotsman Bill Stewart and Dervish musician Seamie O'Dowd. They are three of the most talented fiddle players in Ireland and will play together on Thursday, May 5 in a night of music which already has the whole town talking....
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"Bill Stewart, the Scot with the demonic violin has contributed his unique sounds to performances by many others as well as going solo with some simply outstanding and outrageous playing...."
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"The best applause was reserved for the best performers.......when joined by virtuoso violinist Bill Stewart the roof came off Bar Eile!!"
"joined by bill stewart for a sensational blues finale that gave the audience goosebumps...."
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A wee improvisation on Funny Valentine, for ViVi cos she likes this tune!!!
Influences
love anything good.....
(check out my website www.bill-stewart.org.uk for more clips etc)...
florin...the master violinist...an inspiration! the Rosenbergs for being fantastic....mozart, birelli, chopin, vivien scotson for a great voice and songs, lucia..
you should follow the link to Patrice my special friend on youtube and watch more videos...
And here are Layma Azur....beautiful music.....
Sounds Like
Here are some videos, all are of live performances, everything improvised...
Buy the track Lucia's Waltz on line here...
For Anita and Anneleen
And here a collection of the great classical violinists
The Art of Violin: Documentary
Kato Havas: A New Approach to Violin Playing
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Started classical violin at the age of ten.
--First prize in the Scottish Central Counties Music Festival in 1970, 1971, 1972
First prize in the Glasgow Music Festival in 1973
Won the McFarlane scholarship to attend the Royal Scottish Academy
of Music in Glasgow at the age of fourteen.
While at the Academy he won the first prize
in the Robert Highgate Scholarship for violin in 1975.
Played with:
--Scottish Chamber Orchestra
--BBC Scotland
--Scottish Opera
Scottish Baroque Ensemble
Virtuosi Scotland
and at 19 toured Britain as the youngest leader of the Scottish Ballet Orchestra.
At the age of 21 Bill left Scotland to take a position as leader of the Passau State Opera
Orchestra in Germany before joining the world famous Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under the direction
of Herr. Prof. Karl Munchinger.
By the time he was twenty-six, and as a member of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Quartet,
he had played in some of the most famous concert halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall and
the Lincoln Center in New York.
After many solo concerts, and support for, among others, Nikki Sudden, and Hazel O'Conner at the "Left Bank", and
playing with local groups like the Jazz Lads and Ellamental, he formed the Klazz with whom he played at the Derry Jazz Festival.
He is also playing in "Gitane Swing", a trio with Henry and Lorcan Egan. This trio have a wide repetoire of standard jazz titles,
swing jazz, gypsy jazz and original compositions all played in unique arrangements by the duo.
Played with many jazz bands/groups in Ireland, supported Hazel O'Connor, Nicky Sudden (recorded the last live gig he did before he died), Eve Cunningham, played with Steve Wickham (Waterboys) and Seamie O'Dowd (Dervish) in a group called "The Fiddle Tree", ......
anyway... gigged with The Jazz Lads, Ellamental, jammed with Michael Buckley, Micky Nielson, solo with Swing & Co, and loadza others......
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Hi! wanted to send you a message! CAN'T!!! My Space doesn't let me! Anyway: I have some suggestions for next year, try and tour Belgium is one of them. We'll absolutely come and see(hear) you play! All the very best for 2010! fab;xxx.
Hi Bill! My Space is acting strange indeed! I just wanted to reply to a message I received and I can't!!! And to YOU I can reply in a comment! Weird, all of this... When you are touring we might come and see you one day in 2010! be prepared for the Belgians to barge in! All the very best and..;take care on the roads! Fabienne.xxx. Belgium.
Hi Bill! Thanks for the comment, I'm having a bit of that nasty flu, but I'm holding on! I've heard about the floodings in Ireland and UK...how awful, right now it's rather ok here, but, that might change too. Great you've met some Belgians... please, don't think all of us speak all these different languages. Me, myself, I'm only very good in my own dialect and in Dutch. You should hear me in West Flemish..;really quick and smoothly...but, in a different language, quite something else.:-) Glad there's great music: a language all of us understands!!! Have you ever heard of "Vishtèn"??? A Canadian band, I've seen them twice in concert before this flu thing started..." Vishtèn" are absolutely magnificent. I'll check out your new tunes first and then , after the weekend I'll put one of the tunes on my page! In the meantimle you can have a listen to "Vishtèn" if you like, they're on my page with a very long, great piece of music!!! enjoy. Fab.xxx.
It's OK, miss the summertime. But autumn is also beautiful, the colors, the smell of rain, hot chocolate, memories in the brain. Keep cool my friend, you are the best!!!!!
Bill is still going! And I am happy about that.. :) busybusybusy with my art but everything is fine thank you (also for the photo-compliment ;)) have a wonderful time! ( and I am curious for your new songs..?) Poppy. x
Hey Bill! I'll have a listen soon...yesterday I saw such an amazing band and SUCH a fantastic fiddler playing in it! The East Coast canadian band" Vishtèn"! SUPER great, tomorrow I'll drive to the other side of Belgium to see them play again....just fantastic and so lively and powerful! Can't wait to see and hear them again....hooray, good music in autumntime, that's what we all need!!! All the best, I'll check out your new stuff... Fabienne.xxx.Belgium.
hola my friend...im still surviving...thats all i can say at the moment...how are u keeping? i been listen to your new tracks sounds good as usual...big hug for u my friend. P.
Happy Birthday Bill!Love the clip of Funny Valentine.Never heard it done like that before on the fiddle!!!Are you playing the Cork jazz festival this year?
Hey Billie, I am happy to hear from you! Everything is OK here, it's a beautiful summer, hot and dry. I am often in the garden and walking in the fields looking at the blue sky and happy with your music. Take care my friend. I wish you a lot of inspiration and sunshine. Anita xxx
You are back!! alive and kicking I hope, but I think you are, because I feel a positif aura around your comment. :) It's summer, I will always find the green off grass in the summer, I smell it when the first butterflies fly above it.. Did you find the strings? Play outside, in nature, and you will always have the most wonderful audience, this audience will always be so thankful and they will love every song, I can tell, you just have to listen to their applauding leaves .. :) keep well. hugz. xx
