Inside Folk Volume 1: Notes from a Scottish musician's year

Love folk music? Liza Mulholland invites you Inside Folk to share an insight into her experience as a contemporary Scottish musician. Drawing on more than twenty-five years in folk music, she reflects on elements of a typical year - performing, teaching, travelling, launching an album, juggling gigs and children, listening, composing - and offers a heartwarming illustration of the joys, delights and challenges of playing music for a living.

Packed with humour, anecdote and thoughtful observation, Notes from a Scottish musician's year, the first volume in the Inside Folk series, is an entertaining exploration of Scottish music. Whether ceilidhing in the hollow trunk of a giant redwood at Alasdair Fraser's fiddle camp, teaching at F is or playing with her band, Liza dances us through a year of her musical life and many past adventures.

With a background of a large Glasgow-Irish family of musicians and singers on her father's side and the Gaelic song tradition of her mother's Hebridean heritage, it was perhaps inevitable she would feel the strongest pull towards folk music. Learning piano from a young age and, later, accordion, playing and writing music became life-long passions, and her love of her subject sings off every page.

Having played on more than a dozen albums, had her compositions used in film and video, and collaborated with numerous artistes, Liza writes from a place of extensive knowledge and understanding. Across the Inside Folk series she uses her own wide and varied experience to shine a little light on the everyday business of making music. Her enthusiasm is infectious, so don't be surprised if you find yourself dusting off that old fiddle you've been meaning to get back to for years

Author: Liza Mulholland
Publisher: Metagama Productions Ltd
Published: 07/01/2018
Pages: 110
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9780952666929

About the Author
Mulholland, Liza: - Liza Mulholland is from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. She studied Scottish History and Sociology at Glasgow University, before going on to work as a musician and playing across Britain, Ireland and Europe. On returning to the Highlands, she set up her independent production company, Metagama Productions, and over a number of years, devised and produced quality award-winning TV and radio arts documentaries for BBC Scotland. Taking time out in 2004 to set up and run the family outdoor activities and events business at Bogbain Farm, Inverness, she returned to full-time music in 2011, playing with her band, Dorec-a-belle, composing music for projects including film and theatrical shows, and is a regular tutor within the Fèis movement. Liza has written for a variety of publications, including feature articles for newspapers and journals. She is a columnist with Highland News & Media, with her folk music articles being published across the organisation's eighteen newspapers and corresponding online sites. She also writes fiction, children's stories and other non-fiction. She lives in her home town of Inverness with her son and two cats.

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