Tunesmiths is a collective of composers who every couple of months write a piece of music in response to challenge. December: TRAIN THEME,. September: a piece about a memorable time in your life. August: The NE England: its past and future. June: A special place. April: Sycamore. February: Detective ThemeNovember: Green. Sept.  Ghostly Themes. July: LANDSCAPE May: PARTY CITY.
March: Ancient Elements.
Jan: take a known theme and arrange in in a new way.
New Challenge for October / November a piece inspired by an artwork.  August / September '23: compose a piece based upon a descending bassline.  
Summer Challenge:a piece inspired something in the news.
April / May Challenge: a cover version with a new arrangement.
Previous challenges this year:  Hazy days of Summer, New Orleans, Jubilee Music, 'Furniture Music' as inspired by Erik Satie. Ambient background music.
December 21, challenge: a composition or arrangement conveying a mood, emotional state.
Autumn challenge '21: a hora using a Klezmer scale, Winter: a piece inspired by a book.
May June: an arrangement in a particular style of another composer or genre.
Challenge for Jan/Feb Carnival, March/ April American presidents.

October - November : Autumn Leaves
July - Septembber A Sea Composition
April- June Time passing
Task for Feb / March: composition about the animal world.
January: an ICY composition.
Nov / Dec: A Latin tune. Task for September / October:  Music with a poem as a startling point.
June July 2019 A Cajun inspired piece
April May 2019 A composition about myths and legends.
February March 2019 A song with chord structure I V V I. November / December 2018: a piece in 7/8.
Task for October: music to chill to.
Task for August / September: Write a piece of music influenced by someone else - ideally a friend, colleague or family member.  The influence could be a saying that that person always uses or a snatch of a melody they always hum. June July 2018 The theme of travel: a journey, trip, jaunt, ride, voyage, flight, walk, stroll, train journey, etc,
April May 2018 An piece using slowly changing ostinato. 
March 2018, a percussion-led piece.
Present composing task: a piece with a sense of place. November: Telephone hold music, or its impact on the listener.
Sept /October: 'A composition based upon a single chord or motif'' ....... Listen to 'Tunesmiths' who set each other composing tasks throughout the year and share the results of their work here……. any one can take up the challenge…. let us know if you want to post a composition

2017 August: 'Dementia'
2017 June: 'Something in the news'
2017 March: a composition with an irregular time signature.
2017 Jan: write a  piece inspired by the wind. 
2016 Nov Winter: Fandango
2016 Oct Challenge:Machine Music
2016 Sept Challenge: Classical Cheese
2016 Aug Challenge: Night Music
2016 July Challenge: a Tarantella
2016 June Challenge: a Reggae
2016 May Challenge: a blues
2016 March Challenge. Write in the style of your music hero
2016 January Challenge: Write in the form of 'La Folía' 
2015 December Challenge: Christmas single
2015 November Space Music
2015 September Challenge: a Waltz
2015 Summer Challenge: 'Minimalist Music'
2015 June challenge: 'Dance Music'
2015 April challenge: a piece with Indian feel
2015 February Composing Challenge A piece about water.
2014 Nov. Composing Challenge:  a piece of music that consists of only percussion and the human voice

Caedmon released their eponymous album in 1978 after five years as a band in Edinburgh. Their niche popularity as an Acid Folk band has grown. In 2010 they released a second album 'A Chicken to Hug' reviewed with 3 stars in UNCUT. In 2015 they got together again to write 'the Dream of the Rood' based upon Anglo Saxon texts, once attributed to Caedmon.

Longstanding member of cult folk-rock group Caedmon, going solo with that electric guitar and impossibly catchy, clever songs.

Thank you for coming here for a listen, if you like what you hear please check me out on facebook to follow my journey
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Thanks
John 


A six-piece Scottish funk band, Alan Gorrie of the Average White Band calls them 'The Tartan Special of Funk'.

The band writes and performs original material influenced by the likes of Steely Dan, Little Feat and Average White Band.

Formed in 2010 by Edinburgh-based journalist, Barry Gordon, the band’s name comes from an Eddie Murphy sketch on Saturday Night Live.

Rehearsals used to take place next to a sex shop, but they now practice in a former timber-mill that once stored government files.

In 2014, JBiA were awarded funding by Creative Scotland to record its debut album with living funk legend, Average White Band's Molly Duncan, who both produced and played on the album. Average White Band's Alan Gorrie also wrote a song, exclusively for the band, to go on the album too.

Regulars on BBC Radio Scotland, the sextet made their live television debut on STV's Riverside Show in May 2015. 

In June, 2015, the band sold out the Pizza Express Jazz Club in Soho, London - a feat not even Amy Winehouse, Norah Jones or Jamie Cullum achieved on their first outing at the venue.

JBiA also brought the month of June to a close with an epic concert at the ABC in Glasgow with pioneering soul-funk band, The Family Stone. 

Later this year, JBiA will be performing on the Main Stage at the Belladrum Festival, the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, and supporting both Average White Band (Queen's Hall) and The Blockheads (Voodoo Rooms) in Edinburgh.


BIGGEST ACHIEVEMENT TO DATE:
Performing in front of 80,000 revellers at the 2011/12 Edinburgh Hogmanay Street Party on the Waverley Stage alongside The Vaccines and Kassidy.

ALSO SHARED STAGES WITH:
*Little Feat (four occasions). *Average White Band (on three occasions) *Jon Spencer Blues Explosion *Electric Six *The Blockheads *The Family Stone *Robert Cray Band *The Black Seeds *Hayseed Dixie (twice) *Derek Trucks Band *Public Service Broadcasting *The Blockheads *Neville Staple (of The Specials) *Spin Doctors *Acoustic Ladyland *Roddy Frame *The Farm *Magne Furuholmen (A-Ha)

OTHER PRESTIGIOUS VENUES:
*HMV Picture House (Edinburgh) *Liquid Room (Edinburgh) *The Sage Hall 1 (Gateshead) *ABC 1 (Glasgow) *ABC 2 (Glasgow) *O2 (Glasgow) *The Garage (Glasgow) *The Arches (Glasgow) *The Ironworks (Inverness) *Pizza Express Jazz Club (London)

FESTIVALS:
*Belladrum Tartan Heart (Potting Shed Sponsors' Choice headliners, and Main Stage) *Kelburn Garden Festival *The Edge *The Outsider *Leith Jazz Festival *Glasgow Jazz Festival *Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival *Aberdeen Jazz Festival

NICE THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT THE BAND: 

"A perfect example of just how much fun funk can be" - Edinburgh Evening News

"A contender for Scottish Album of the Year" - Daily Record

"Local funk legends" - STV 

"One of Scotland's best bands of the moment" - BBC Radio Scotland 

"Extremely Funky" - Jazz FM




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