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Concerto Caledonia @concaledonia

Scottish music of the past and the present ...

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Concerto Caledonia@concaledonia
5 Sep 2025
As of today MUNGREL STUFF, our album of 18th-century Scottish-Italian & Italian-Scottish musical experiments, is back online in all its ridiculous glory. Get it here! concertocaledonia.bandcamp.c…
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and now, it's on all your favourite streaming services (and the ones you tolerate against your better judgment) - enjoy! concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mun…

Mungrel Stuff - Concerto Caledonia & David McGuinness

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Concerto Caledonia@concaledonia
25 Aug 2025
At last, our 2001 album of 18th-century Scottish-Italian and Italian-Scottish musical experiments MUNGREL STUFF is available again. Pre-order on Bandcamp here concertocaledonia.bandcamp.c…
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after only 24 years' wait, Mungrel Stuff comes to streaming services on Friday! Pre-save here concertocaledonia.ffm.to/mun…

Mungrel Stuff - Concerto Caledonia & David McGuinness

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Concerto Caledonia@concaledonia
25 Aug 2025
At last, our 2001 album of 18th-century Scottish-Italian and Italian-Scottish musical experiments MUNGREL STUFF is available again. Pre-order on Bandcamp here concertocaledonia.bandcamp.c…
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At last, our 2001 album of 18th-century Scottish-Italian and Italian-Scottish musical experiments MUNGREL STUFF is available again. Pre-order on Bandcamp here concertocaledonia.bandcamp.c…
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On its original release the Sunday Times made it a Record of the Year and said “Everything is infectiously played and sung. Bizarre, but utterly compelling” which sounds about right to us!
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thanks to the great team at @MusicintheUni we're being livestreamed tonight at 7.30pm UK time here youtube.com/live/6UVFn2FF6Is

Summer Any Day Now | Evening Series

Come see our Professor of Practical Music Prof. David McGuinness in...

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Concerto Caledonia@concaledonia
15 May 2024
Our great pal, baroque violinist & Cape Breton fiddler David Greenberg is in Glasgow next Wednesday playing with David McGuinness at the University of Glasgow concert hall, and it’s FREE. We'll be playing tunes from Spring Any Day Now & loads more. 7.30pm tinyurl.com/sadn2024
DG & DMcG selfie on a bird reserve in Sackville, New Brunswick

ALT DG & DMcG selfie on a bird reserve in Sackville, New Brunswick

DG & DMcG on stage at the Chan Centre in Vancouver

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Our great pal, baroque violinist & Cape Breton fiddler David Greenberg is in Glasgow next Wednesday playing with David McGuinness at the University of Glasgow concert hall, and it’s FREE. We'll be playing tunes from Spring Any Day Now & loads more. 7.30pm tinyurl.com/sadn2024
DG & DMcG selfie on a bird reserve in Sackville, New Brunswick

ALT DG & DMcG selfie on a bird reserve in Sackville, New Brunswick

DG & DMcG on stage at the Chan Centre in Vancouver

ALT DG & DMcG on stage at the Chan Centre in Vancouver
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on Friday, our very first album finally makes it onto streaming services! @CatherineJBott was our star soprano in Italianate baroque cantatas by John Clerk of Penicuik - here we all are in St Andrews in the Square (cough) 30 years ago
Concerto Caledonia rehearsing with Catherine Bott in an 18th-century Glasgow church, 1994

ALT Concerto Caledonia rehearsing with Catherine Bott in an 18th-century Glasgow church, 1994

The Lion of Scotland album cover

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L-R: Nicola Kingslake, cello Catherine Bott, soprano Paula Chateauneuf, archlute

ALT L-R: Nicola Kingslake, cello Catherine Bott, soprano Paula Chateauneuf, archlute

view of rehearsal in St Andrew's Kirk before it became St Andrew's in the Square

ALT view of rehearsal in St Andrew's Kirk before it became St Andrew's in the Square

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and here it is! Spotify and Apple links are here, otherwise search your music provider for 'Lion of Scotland Concerto Caledonia' and you'll find it ... concal.org/albums?view=artic…
The Lion of Scotland album cover

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listen out for us on tonight's Classical Now with Jamie MacDougall @jamieunwrapped on @BBCRadioScot bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vl3…

BBC Radio Scotland - Classical Now, The SCO at 50 and Escocia Duo

Jamie MacDougall has music to brighten up the darkness of January.

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Thanks to the wonderful @shirleyeCollins for having our Chiling O Guiry as her first pick on Desert Island Discs - now that's an honour. The whole programme is here and it is very, very good! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pf7…

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now on Bandcamp (for free!) Late Night Extras from our gigs at the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival, with guests James Gilchrist & Michael Marra re-enacting the Battle of Bannockburn (kind of) concertocaledonia.bandcamp.c…

Late Night Extras, by Concerto Caledonia

4 track album

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special thanks and big love to our original Patie @jamieunwrapped for having Shepherds and Tea Tables as his album of the week on the penultimate Classics Unwrapped bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k6w…

BBC Radio Scotland - Classics Unwrapped, Mother's Day Music

Jamie MacDougall soundtracks Sunday night with two hours of the greatest classical music.

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Concerto Caledonia@concaledonia
10 Mar 2023
Today our new album of songs by Allan Ramsay makes it onto streaming and download services! A slice of 1720s Edinburgh with songs about love, society, commerce and drinking. concertocaledonia.ffm.to/she…
Shepherds & Tea Tables album cover - painting by Joe Davie

ALT Shepherds & Tea Tables album cover - painting by Joe Davie

painting of Patie and Peggy from The Gentle Shepherd, on a clock face painted in Glasgow in 1820

ALT painting of Patie and Peggy from The Gentle Shepherd, on a clock face painted in Glasgow in 1820

Patie & Peggy from The Gentle Shepherd, preparatory pencil sketch by David Allan for the Foulis 1788 edition

ALT Patie & Peggy from The Gentle Shepherd, preparatory pencil sketch by David Allan for the Foulis 1788 edition

Concerto Caledonia recording with Alasdair Roberts in Crichton Collegiate Church

ALT Concerto Caledonia recording with Alasdair Roberts in Crichton Collegiate Church

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Today our new album of songs by Allan Ramsay makes it onto streaming and download services! A slice of 1720s Edinburgh with songs about love, society, commerce and drinking. concertocaledonia.ffm.to/she…
Shepherds & Tea Tables album cover - painting by Joe Davie

ALT Shepherds & Tea Tables album cover - painting by Joe Davie

painting of Patie and Peggy from The Gentle Shepherd, on a clock face painted in Glasgow in 1820

ALT painting of Patie and Peggy from The Gentle Shepherd, on a clock face painted in Glasgow in 1820

Patie & Peggy from The Gentle Shepherd, preparatory pencil sketch by David Allan for the Foulis 1788 edition

ALT Patie & Peggy from The Gentle Shepherd, preparatory pencil sketch by David Allan for the Foulis 1788 edition

Concerto Caledonia recording with Alasdair Roberts in Crichton Collegiate Church

ALT Concerto Caledonia recording with Alasdair Roberts in Crichton Collegiate Church

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The 58-page PDF of lyrics, notes and pictures is on our website’s albums page concal.org/albums?view=artic… and the full 24-bit audiophile version is on Bandcamp concertocaledonia.bandcamp.c…
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Our new album of songs by Allan Ramsay makes its debut for Bandcamp Friday today. A brilliant cast of five singers bring 1720s Edinburgh to life in songs about love, society, commerce and drinking. concertocaledonia.bandcamp.c…
cover painting by Joe Davie. Shepherds & Tea Tables - Songs of Allan Ramsay. Mhairi Lawson, Thomas Walker, Iona Fyfe, Alasdair Roberts, Seonaid Aitken, Aaron McGregor. Concerto Caledonia, David McGuinness

ALT cover painting by Joe Davie. Shepherds & Tea Tables - Songs of Allan Ramsay. Mhairi Lawson, Thomas Walker, Iona Fyfe, Alasdair Roberts, Seonaid Aitken, Aaron McGregor. Concerto Caledonia, David McGuinness
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thanks to @RogerEno2 for including us on his "Warm Music for a Cold Season" @Spotify playlist - we're in good company open.spotify.com/playlist/37…
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just out from our great friend David Greenberg is his new solo baroque violin/fiddle album where unaccompanied Bach is brought together with many other kinds of tunes in the way that only he can. It’s amazing ... davidgreenbergviolinist.band…

Multiple Voices for One, by David Greenberg

11 track album

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Here's the first of our Allan Ramsay song videos from The Ballroom Sessions back in February with @ionafyfe - thanks to @ContinuoFndn & @UofGlasgowMusic
Ramsay & Edinburgh 1680-1750@edin_enlighten
8 Sep 2022
Back in February @concaledonia performed a wonderful concert of Ramsay songs at Sloans Ballroom. Here is a recording from that concert featuring @ionafyfe singing Slighted Nancy from The Tea-Table Miscellany, vol. 1 (1723) youtu.be/mFSZv6RN9Hk. @P14Murray @DMcGconcal
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