News

JUNE 2009

updated 5th June
Quite an exciting few gigs have passed with the Grace Hewat Polwart trio at the Doune and Dunblane Festival and the Edinburgh Folk Club. Pictures here

We also have a fantastic big band gig happening in August with the Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra directed by David Milligan. THAT should be an interesting gig!!! Details on the dates page. Cheers!

 

MAY 2009

updated 13th May

I have updated the dates page with the gigs I know are happening in the next few months. There may be more, but the mum thing is filling my time at the moment, and I am loving it. I am also working on getting the Unusual Suspects a tour for next june/july/august to coincide with a new release which will be a stormer! More news on that to come. All the best, enjoy the sun x

APRIL 2009

updated 24th April

I am happy to report I am a mum now to a beautiful baby girl. She is keeping my hands full and life has changed dramatically! I am sporadically working - please see the dates page for what's going on, and I will update when I have more news on the Unusual Suspects recording and anything new going on. All the best for a sunshine filled Spring.

 

MARCH 2009

updated 12th March

Hello again. I've added a myspace blog here with possibly too much information on bodily fluids and the like, but when babies are on the way, that's what's foremost in your mind! Gigs are taking a back seat for the month. April starts with the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, and has a Grace, Hewat, Polwart concert in Glenfarg on 18th. All details on the dates page.

We had a lovely concert in February with the extravagantic big band, the Unusual Suspects, at the Philharmonie in Luxemburg. The best band we've had yet. the newby was Tom Lyne on electric bass, which really added an amazing power to the sound. The next thing is to get the band recorded. We've received a small grant from the Scottish Arts Council to help with the costs - I need to get on the case in finding some more help out there, as the band is a costly affair! But worth it. So I'll let you know when recording is planned.

All the best, Corrina

JANUARY 2009

updated 17th January

A special night coming up on
Saturday 24th JANUARY 2009
Burns Night in Phipp's Hall, Beauly, starts 7.30pm

Come and celebrate the 250th Birthday of our National Bard with us!
All details of how to book this lovely evening, (if you are in the Highland area) are on the dates page. It'd be great to see you.

updated 13th January

CELTIC CONNECTIONS FESTIVAL CRAZINESS AHEAD!

Worth checking out the dates page for the list of events I am involved in over the next few weeks. Coda Music will also be selling the new cd (which has received many 4-star reviews! Hurray!)

Firstly, the Cape Breton Connection Opening concert with 23 musicians including JP Cormier, Mary Jane Lamond, Jarry Holland, Ashley MacIsaac, The Barra MacNeils, and a whole lot more! 15th January 2009

Then a Bella Hardy concert at St Andrew's in the Square in Glasgow on 22nd Jan. It's a double bill with Emily Smith, so that should be a lovely show!

Then a solo and duo concert with Anna Massie on 29th Jan in the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgows City Halls - part of Showcase Scotland evening with Bodega, Brendan Campbell and Fiddler's Bid.

And then an Already Harmony singing workshop on 31st Jan at 1.30pm - 3pm (for people who are wanting to do more harmony singing, but don't have an opportunity) and an Extreme Harmony singing workshop (for people who want to sing mental harmonies and get thrown in at the deep end! LOADS of fun and full of harmony singing and laughs!)

 

updated 11th January

I wish you all a wonderous New Year! May we all be happy. And I have added a new blog into the myspace site which I hope you enjoy reading. The link is HERE

 

NOVEMBER 2008

updated 21st November

I have updated my dates page with a few extra gigs you may be interested in, including an Art Gallery solo concert in Haddington on 19th December (with a glass of wine inc!) and a concert with Archie Fisher and Karine Polwart on 21st December (also wine included!) Come along and celebrate the winter solstice (and my birthday) with me and friends.

I am also looking for anyone in the London area to come out on 7th Dec and support Amnesty International by buying a ticket for the double-concert of Karine solo at 4pm and the Grace, Hewat, Polwart trio at 8pm in Twickenham - details on the dates page. All the best til the next time x C

 

updated 8th November

I don't know if you've come across Spiral Earth yet, but I highly recommend it! Full of UK Folk and Roots music news, reviews, festivals and profiles. Please visit www.spiralearth.co.uk
to see more.

 

updated 6th Nov 08

I'm heading off to visit Julie Fowlis at BBC Scotland for her new show 'Fowlis and Folk' for an interview tonight. Details on my dates page.

All my new gigs have been added to my DATES page, some reviews on the Harp I Do cd have been added to the JOURNAL page, and a blog on my trip to Cape Breton has been added to my myspace page, which you can view HERE

OCTOBER 2008

The new CD is available in the wonderful CODA MUSIC shop on the Mound in Edinburgh. To visit the online site, please click HERE

It's also available at the amazing online record store FOOT STOMPIN' RECORDS which you can find HERE

Please press your refresh button! I've updated the Dates page, the myspace page, and my journal, plus adding to this news section. Goodness me, I must have lots of music to learn... I either end up doing blogs or cleaning the house when I have lots else to do!

So, heading off to the Celtic Colours Festival in Cape Breton in a few days with a variety of gigs with the girly trio. Also doing an extravaganza of a gig with CARLOS NUNEZ!!! Which means a hell of a lot of learning music for me - jee wiz the small harp and the pedal harp are quite different beasts. So I am adapting some of the padal harp music for Scottish harp. And enjoying the challenge. And cursing him at the same time... looking forward to some studio time with Karine and Annie - we are going into Jamie Foulds studio in Cape Breton to put down the tracks we've been working on over the past year. I'll keep you posted as to how we get on. All the best, I doubt I'll be in touch til I get back from Cape Breton, so that'll be the end of October. May your leaves hang on til the last minute, and the sun shine on you every day.

corrina X

 

SEPTEMBER 2008

Ah the sun does still shine in the sky!! I was beginning to wonder.

The Girly Trio went to Hitchin this month, and loved it! Maureen and Keiron do such an excellent job - this is a Sunday Folk Club well worth visiting. Their website is HERE. I wandered Hitchin's Car Boot sale as well, but it was not so successful... I could have come away with a fair amount of small ornaments though, if I was so inclined. But alas I am no ornament collector.

Kathryn Tickell also had a wonderful 'Northumbria' concert on at the Sage Gateshead where she had invited some of her friends; Julian Sutton, Peter Tickell, Joss Clapp, James Mackintosh, Amy Thatcher and her dad Mike! Who is a fine singer, full of stories and wondrous tales from the Northumbrian area. Kathryn and I were able to revisit the piece 'My Favourite Place', which was a lovely thing. Even on such a large stage, it has a really special intimacy. Good times. Especially the rehearsing!

 

AUGUST 2008

Swell month was this. I had lots of time off to wonder why I was feeling so ill. I had some lovely gigs with the trio (wi' Karine and Annie) at the Acoustic Music Centre in St Bride's, Edinburgh. We sold out again!! Woohoo having a band that hardly ever gigs is a sure sellout when we do actually get together.

And I worked again with the TMSA Young Trad Tour - hope you went to see one of their gigs! You can visit the TMSA site HERE and see what they were up to.

I seem to be getting a bit fat these days. Must get down to some exercise outside before it starts turning to autumn winter weather.

 

AMERICA BLOG 2008

What a trip! I met some wonderful people, and will throughout this blog, endeavour to remember everybody's names and if I don't then you'll have to forgive me. My mind is racing on other things now, and it is hard to go back. Do you get that? Once I have done something, I immediately move on, rather than dwelling or revisiting it. That does make it hard when having to rewrite pieces of music - aaargh I find that sooooo difficult to do with a smile on my face. Rewriting someone else's music - now that's a different story. Happy as a cat in duvet-land then!!

The first leg of the journey was OSAS.
The second was the solo gig and teaching.
The third was Harp Somerset Folk Conference.
All of which will take a lot more writing than this wee box allows!!! I'll put a link to the myspace blog. Which has a much bigger box.

READ MY AMERICA MYSPACE BLOG HERE

 

July 2008

Just back from the London experience, playing with the lovely Bella Hardy and Chris Sherburn at the Royal Albert Hall, Folk at the Proms day. What a great venue!! They should definitely have more folk music in there. It suits it.

And am planning to write a blog on myspace about the trip to America which will stay in my memory for ever. I met some amazing people, all of whom were exceedingly generous with their time, hospitality, and friendship. It deserves a blog all it's own. But I have to go to the dentist now. SO will endeavour to do it later today. All the best to you.

 

June 2008

***NEW CD***
Corrina Hewat : Harp I Do

The brand-new solo harp album is now available!!

£11.95

Album details...

7.6.2008

EXCLUSIVE ALBUM TRACKS ON ATLANTA RADIO! Listen to an interview broadcast on 9th June on the radio show Continental Drift Show WREK Altlanta 91.1 FM for the week June 9th - June 16th with the lovely Sahand Noorizadeh interviewing.
LINK: www.continentaldriftshow.com

4.6.2008

I haven't been updating as much as I wanted to. Sufficed to say the EIHF went well - some say the best one yet. It was certainly the biggest I've been involved with. Next year's is April 3rd - 9th 2009.

And the Grace Hewat Polwart trio have had lovely gigs. the Orkney Folk Festival was exceptional! Then we toured round Corsock near Castle Douglas (the midges, the midges, I'm no gonna kid yiz... thanks Wendy!) then Braco in the Perthshire Hills (a storming party afterwards held by Annie's sister Chris and her lovely husband Alan - fond memories of playing my harp to the plants) and then Dundee Out of the Woods Folk Club.On the same bill was Kim Edgar - a wonderful singer/songwriter and great craic!

So now to Kingussie and Grantown for vocal and stage presence workshops with the kids at the schools there. Then a short break before heading to Festspillene in Norway with the Unusual Suspects on 21st June, then to America.

28.3.2008

I am heading off to the Edinburgh International Harp Festival now, which is happening in Merchiston Castle School, in Colinton, Edinburgh. Please if you are in the area, come along and see some of the concerts, or visit a workshop! It's great craic, and well worth the time. The EIHF raises money and awareness about the Clarsach Society charity, and is always a good meeting place for musicians and harp makers alike. See you soon. Or come and say hello if you see me passing you by in the courtyard, lugging harps and music and big cups of coffee. x

13.3.2008

I am recording a new harp album next week. Still don't know what I am going to put on it. Should it be purely harp? Should it have some songs on it too? Should I get into layering the vocals, layering the harp, looping sounds? If you have some ideas, please let me know. I think I might just stick to acoustic harp for this one...

12.3.2008

I have just come back from recording a radio show with Anna Massie and Lauren MacColl.  It was for Bruce MacGregor’s Strings and Things show on Radio Scotland, which will be on air tonight (Thursday 13th) 8pm – 10pm.  The link to hear the show is here:   stringsandthings   The link is only up for a week so be quick. I've also done a wee write up on my journal about all the tracks I DIDN'T mention, which I couldn't have become who I am, without.

11.2.2008

At the moment I am listening through to the minidiscs of te Celtic Connections show, on 25th January 08. I also have minidiscs of the mammoth show Kathryn tickell and I wrote for Brampton 'The State of the Union' which I still have to transfer. And Harp Heaven tapes. Aaaarrgh. Anyone fancy being an agent/pa for a scatty harper?

4.2.2008

I am a Scottish girl, singer and harper, composer, director, big thinker. Too many projects on the go, too little time on anything else (like my husband and my cat). And I'm quite happy. This coming year, I am going to release another Corrina solo album, and hope to be touring somewhere near you, in and around the UK through the year and east coast of America in July. Please come back every so often to see what's new. I hope you enjoy what you find here. It's important to me, as it is my life. Scotland rocks, as does its music and its people. I hope you feel like that here.