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Jesse McCormack

Eccentric Tasmanian Troubadour

MCCORMACK,JESSE - press photo

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It's been a wonderful couple of weeks of winter festivities! I celebrated the solstice with my sister Kristina by preparing some delicious food, watching 'Muppet Christmas Carol', holding a solstice ritual, and playing a silly card game (look at her mischivious face!). Some highlights from the last two songs plus the encore of our Christmas concert at @sjovikmusiklinje Wonderful night in Falun for #FolkmusikNatta with @sjovik_folkmysik We enjoyed catching up with our peers from @birkafolk and I personally was totally star-struck when I discovered @j.j.hansers and @albinbroberg were performing! 🤩 And of course, playing with each other for a room full of happy dancers is always a good time. 🎶 Weekend shenanigans with the fam. Thank you @asafolkhogskola, @lunnevadfolkhogskola, and @norrkopingsfestivalen for having us. Folk music and cuddles from the other night with my new family Birthday suit photo for my birthday 🤪 It's my last day of being 30 so I thought it'd be a good day to post my first reel with a few little fun facts about me. I've been wanting to use this audio for a looooong time but I also wanted it to be my first reel...now that I've achieved this, expect more from my extensive collection of other reel sounds that I've been hoarding basically since reels became a thing. Naked in a field...woohoo! Throwback to the photoshoot for 'The Day Before the Fair'. Two tracks on that album - 'Minyalindálë and 'Lough Erin Shore' - required a specific type of low whistle; the Shearwater low G pictured here. I aquired it exactly ten years ago today, and oh how far I have come from the innocent youngling that I was when this photo was taken. Happy anniversary, my love! The year was 2012. I had just begun learning to play tin whistle, and already had two such instruments in the key of D and Bb in my rapidly expanding musical arsenal. Yet, with ideas for arrangements of tunes for 'The Day Before the Fair' almost bursting out of my head - most relevant to this story, my original piece 'Minyalindálë' and the traditional tune 'Lough Erin Shore' - it was obvious that more instruments were required to make those arrangements a reality. A low G whistle, specifically, would fill the tonal requirements for what I had in mind. Ten years ago today, my life took a new musical direction when I purchased this bouzouki. It was love at first sight, and I took this photo on our first night together (those of you who have known me for long enough might recognise this image from my DeviantArt heyday). A decade onwards and my GOODNESS we have been through many adventures together. Happy anniversary, my love! #ThrowbackThursday to my time in Scotland where I volunteered at an ecotourism/rewilding site for a little over a week. The big old manor where I lived was full of intriguing turrets and staircases and I felt like a character from one of those 19th or 20th Century British stories in which the children are whisked off to stay with an eccentric relative because of a family crisis, some kind of war, etc. I've been in Scotland for over a week now, and that has reminded me of my old friends from @cocheol who have many a song from this part of the world in their repertoire. However, in light of the situation going on in the Netherlands right now, those memories have compelled me to sing this very much not Scottish song which I learned from those ladies. Its about farmers being over-regulated by banks and governments to the point of not being able to do their jobs. Sometimes we just have to unleash our inner tourist. Rehearsing for tonight's gig! Since it's a Full Moon Concert, I thought I'd sing this Kate Rusby song, which I normally play on the harp...I've only got my bouzouki with me, though, so it needs a bit of adjusting!! With family roots in Rotterdam, Tasmanian troubadour Jesse McCormack is excited to be presenting his first ever solo concert in the Netherlands, in collaboration with The Living Room, who are hosting a music event for the first time. Jesse will perform a selection of traditional Celtic songs, musical settings of Nordic poetry, and spicy English murder ballads, as well as his own quirky compositions, all of which conjure imaginings of fantasy worlds and tingly midsummer night anticipation. Absolutely obsessed with the song 'Broken Pieces Shine' by @evanescenceofficial at the moment, so I'm trying to learn it. Sounds very rough at the moment, but this video is only the second time I've ever sung it as my own arrangement, so go easy on me! Oh to have the ability to seemingly melt into the forest like an ancient spirit of the otherworld.
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