Donald Black: Scottish Celtic Harmonica player Donald Black, the eldest son of a forestry worker, hails from Benderloch in Argyll, Scotland. He received his first harmonica from a kindly aunt at the tender age of four. His roots are firmly steeped in the West of Scotland Highland Bagpipe and Gaelic Tradition, but his repertoire extends beyond this to embrace the musical idioms of Ireland, The Shetland Isles, Cape Breton / Nova Scotia and mainstream Scotland. In August 2005 Donald was honoured to be invited to appear at the S.P.A.H. (Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica) 2005 Annual Convention which was held in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He is particularly proud of this as he was the first Scot ever to be invited to this prestigious event where he was promoting Scottish Celtic Music in the company of many of the world's top harmonica players.
Malcolm Jones: Hails from Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, Malcolm is best known from his work with world-renowned Celtic Rock Band Runrig with whom he has toured the world since 1978 and is a fine multi-instrumentalist playing guitars, keyboards, accordion, dobro, bagpipes. He can be heard on the impressive back catalogue of Runrig recordings.As well as Runrig projects, and performing with Donald Black and The Occasionals Dance band, Malcom is increasingly involved in the production and recording side of the music business
Donald and Malcolm guested together on the BAFTA award-winning 'Tacsi' series - courtesy of Capercaillie's Donald Shaw, appeared as part of ITV's Gaelic music output and participated in 'Imagination is Limitless' (a German TV documentary tracing 'the harmonica's journey around the world' - shown on German ARD TV) and he has also provided soundtrack music for BBC Scotland's Gaelic TV documentaries. |
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