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Evelyn Rose arr. Watson/Black, composed by Fiona Black.

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Our version of traditional song Fine Floors in the Valley (a Scottish variant of The Cruel Mither). Arranged Watson/Black, recorded live in Glasgow with some help from Red Deer Records.

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Madeira Film Festival

We're returning to the wonderful Madeira Film Festival and the beautiful Laurissilva (forest) in April. Here's a funky wee poster for our gig!

www.madeirafilmfestival.com

http://www.belmond.com/reids-palace-madeira/

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Merchants House, Glasgow

It was lovely to play a wintery concert for the good people of Glasgow at Westbourne Music concert series (http://www.westbournemusic.com/home).

Here's Merchants House on George Square back in the day (a wee bit before our day..).

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A couple of tunes from our Concert Window gig a few months ago. The Sound of Sleat (comp. Donald MacKinnon arr. Watson/Black) and a cheeky wee Breton number (trad arr. Watson/Black).

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Tjolöholms Slott, Kungsbacka, Halland, Sweden (July 2014)

In July we flew out to Gothenberg for a concert in a castle. Invited by the lovely Torbjörn Johansson on behalf of Musik i Halland to appear in a new series of concerts at this beautiful venue along with Rant and Goodbye Girls

Tjolöholms Slott is a castle plus a church and workers' village commissioned by James Fredrik and Blanche Dickson was built between 1897-1904. Designed by Lars Isreal Wahlman, the castle is in an English Tudor style (the design was named 'Hobgoblin') and was heavily influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement. It's open to the public now and also has stunning gardens and museum pieces to explore. We had a great day exploring, it's stunning. We're keeping up our rule of only playing in beautiful venues..

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Tjolöholms Slott

Apparently the Anna Massie Band couldn't find the beds when they visited, but we couldn't even find the hoose!

Eventually found our wee Swedish hus for the night.

Sunset was beautiful on West coast of Sweden.

Post-gig tradition firmly in place!

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Rehearsal time is obviously a time for strong coffee and very serious spectacles. Obviously.

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Lovely new tunes!

We have a few gigs coming up in Sweden & Scotland - see GIG page for details. Working on the new concert set, it's full of lovely tunes and traditional songs from Scotland, the Borders (Scot/Eng), Sweden, Breton, Cape Breton, Ireland, Quebec. Exciting!!

GIG INFO

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Madeira Film Festival vintage car for opening night!

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Watson/Black rehearsal space for the week. Workin hard but goodness me we weren't short of inspiration.

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Opening night and screening (Estonian film 'Mushrooming' - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2239512/) at the Madeira Film Festival in Funchal. We were transported from the opening to the Teatro in a beautiful vintage car with our new friends and film makers/producers Andy and Peter. We had mistakenly woken up in someone else's life..

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What a brilliant boutique film festival run by lovely, hardworking people surrounded by amazing wildlife. For a first gig, it wasn't too shabby.

Watson/Black is formed!

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Bonnie Scotland

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First Of Firsts

First creative session for Watson Black - Wednesday 16 April 2014 at Glasgow's famous Barrowlands.

BAaD