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Troy MacGillivray - CD - Tune Poets
Troy's 6th Album with 12 Tracks
info@troymacgillivray.com
www.troymacgillivray.com
By John Gavin, Sunday, May 18, 2014

 

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Troy MacGillivray, fiddler and piano player from Nova Scotia, recently released in 2014 his 6th album entitled TUNE POETS. Troy is a winner in 2012 of the Queen's Diamond Jubliee Award. In 2008 he won ECMA Instrumental of the Year. He also has several nominations through the years with MusicNS and ECMA.

His new CD, Tune Poets, weaves some of his own compositions along with fantastic and unique arrangements of great composers from the traditional fiddle world to present a wide and varies mix of music that will captivate fans old and new alike.

The CD contains reels, hornpipes and and strathspeys. It contains 12 tracks with several pieces within different tracks.

Here are the track titles:

Diamond Jubilee - The Shelburne Reel - Scott Skinner's Welcome - The Water Boiling Machine - The Colours of Cape Breton Gordon's Hornpipes - Pam Campbell's 20th - A.J. & Jeanette's Cynically Stealthy - For Catherine MacKenzie - Marble Hill -Stan Chapman's

Musicians who helped Troy with the CD include: Allan Dewar, piano - Jake Charron, guitar - Andrew Dowling, bass. Troy plays fiddle and piano. Troy played fiddle with many composers compositions such as: Calvin Vollrath - King Ganam - J.S. Skinner - Andrea Beaton - Phil Cunningham - Gordon MacQuarrie - John Campbell - Donald Angus Beaton - Troy MacGillivray - Wilfred Gillis - Dougie MacDonald - Natalie MacMaster.

What a fine album by Troy, says Atlantic Seabreeze, and anyone who likes fiddle music, will certainly cherish this album and add it to their music libraries! This album deservers a full 5 Star rating out of 5 stars on Atlantic Seabreeze's rating list.

For further information regarding Troy's music and how to receive this great album, go to his website, address posted above.

 

www.AtlanticSeabreeze.com