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Jesse McCormack

Eccentric Tasmanian Troubadour

MCCORMACK,JESSE - press photo

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Why does this school serve breakfast so early and for such a short window of time? And why don't they install proper light-cancelling curtains in the student dorms so we can sleep properly at this time of year when it never gets completely dark?! Oh well...it'll all be over soon. Two more weeks until I go on tour! Oh to be able to melt into the forest and never have to deal with capitalism again... Pay attention! I'm going on tour this summer. Gigs confirmed so far in Amsterdam, Ardara (IE), and Belfast, and more announcements on the way! 🎶🥳🎶 Another #ThrowbackThursday to that time when @bushgothic invited me to be their support act for the final gig of their 2022 UK tour! It was the first time since leaving Australia that I had seen anyone I knew from there in person, and it was a fantastic night of Aussie folk music, catch-ups, and lasagna. Another post for #ThrowbackThursday commemorating the time I had with my bro @bernzardo cooking and eating some good food and going for naked midnight walks in the light of the Full Lynx Moon. We were also recruited to fill in for some performers who dropped out at the last minute at the nearby Melton Folk festival (videos of which you can find by following Bernard's music page). It's #ThrowbackThursday and I've been remembering my visits to Yorkshire to hang out with my musical friends Alex and Sarah. Highlights included binge-watching the entire 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' series (newly-released at the time!) in one afternoon, that time we all wore ponchos to the supermarket and noticed that the self-checkout station was taking footage of us, so we took footage of it as well...and loading up the car with as much musical equipment as would be crammed to go and play a semi-spontaneous gig at @soundbarskipton Throwback to last week when @sjovik_folkmysik held not an end-of-block concert, but an end-of-block folk dance night! We shared our knowledge of slängpolska, schottis, and polska steps, provided live music to which the people tried out said steps, and Kristina and Carl even showed up in traditional folk costumes! It was such a fun night, and we enjoyed showcasing our music in a much more participatory way 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!
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