One afternoon at a kitchen table with my good friend and great guitar player Mike Dalton. A spontaneous regaling of music produces a snappy sarcastic version of Duke Ellington's Caravan, with props (and apologies) to Angelo Debarre for the intro/outro riff. B6/9 mit eine #5 jajaja

Caravan - gypsy jazz

An old friend named Jacques Mindreau (Krasnogork) and I met by chance that morning, and happily planned to meet and play later. 
Jacques arrived that night and at 2:30 am we decided to try some improvisation. I recorded most of it, and this is an 8 minute improvised piece of it. It's not perfect, but in a way it's a perfect capture of where we were at at that time of day, at that point in our lives. I named us Duo de l'eau.
I hope you hear some nice moments. More recordings from that day to come.

Duo De L'eau 2ieme improvisation

It began as a 'celtic groove' and then took off in sort of another direction. Moving forward, all eyes to the sea.

On Va à la Mer

 Today was such a special day. Our family welcomes the newest addition, a son. Un autre fils! It's a day of celebration for us, and in this spirit I share a new song. Not sure if it's finished, I still might do some tweaking, but for now, voilà. It is crazy, amazing, insane and beautiful, this life I am having. (Photo credit: Craig McPhee photography) 

Dérangement Swing

From 1928, a tune written by Johnny Green and Carmen Lombardo called "Coquette" or French for a "flirt." 
Much thanks to Michael Dalton for a solid swingin' guitar track!

Coquette

From my debut record, set for release April 1!! No foolin' :)
cast:
Donald MacLennan: violin, rhythm guitar
Duane Andrews: guitar
Graham Scott: accordion
Ronald Hynes: double bass

written by Donald MacLennan, 2015

L'aeroport

Folk music for the contemporary audience. Performed lovingly-live off the hotel floor pre-show, February 2016

percussion, screaming - Jamie Kronick
bellowing - Ben Caplan
violining, pleading - Donald MacLennan
doing something - Taryn Kawaja
general bass bowage - Jordan Stephens

Folk Music

The lone Dolly Parton cover on my debut solo gypsy jazz themed record "Belleville." Might not be what you are expecting. 

I Will Always Love You

a few jigs i recorded a few years ago, picked them out of a book of Brenda Stubbert's tunes. Opened up the book and played page 32. I tried to challenge myself by learning them and recording them in under an hour, really fun exercise! Here's the fruits of my labor. (All tunes written by Brenda Stubbert, performed by Donald MacLennan, 2014)

Stubbert Jigs

Quick Garageband version of an idea that I would love to record in a church someday soon. Probably inspired by composer Yann Tiersen.

Interlude for 5 strings

Violin player, singer
Swing experimental etc
https://donaldviolin.bandcamp.com/releases

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