Bellevue Rendezvous

Member Since:

February 18, 2007

Members:

GAVIN MARWICK is a fiddle player and composer from Edinburgh. As a performer he has played at hundreds of festivals, concerts, theatres and dances across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa. Bands he plays/ has played/ recorded with include JOURNEYMAN (focusing on his original material); Iron Horse; Cantrip; Burach; a successful fiddle duo with Jonny Hardie which released the albums Up in the Air and The Blue Lamp; CEILIDH MINOGUE; The ROUNDHOUSE CEILIDH BAND (formerly The Marwicks, formerly The Amazing Spootiskerry Ceilidh Band); the YIDDISH SONG PROJECT and, of course, BELLEVUE RENDEZVOUS. As a session musician he has performed/ recorded with The Unusual Suspects, Session A9, Wolfstone, Arz Nevez (BRZ), Malinky, Leo McCann, Old Blind Dogs, Annie Grace Band, Jimi Shandrix Experience, Stevie Lawrence, RSNO, and Sogdiana (UZB) amongst others. He is a prolific and enthusiastic composer of tunes and has been greatly inspired by musicians and cultures he has met on his travels. As well as recording some of these tunes with his own projects, some of them have been recorded by other musicians like Marie Fielding, Old Blind Dogs, Dochas, Liz Docherty and Give Way. He has written for TV, radio and theatre: with the Traverse in Edinburgh his work includes the music for Outlying Islands, Heritage and Faith Healer. He has also worked with NTS in Gobbo and the Watchmaker, with Licketyspit in their production of MOLLY WHUPPIE and with Dogstar in THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS. With Bob Turner he has been writing and recording the soundtracks for Art Ecosses’s ‘Around Scotland’ series of DVD’s. He is very active in the ceilidh scene and also teaching and educational work (Falkirk Fiddle Workshop, Feis Rois, ALP, Newcastle University). In his spare time he likes playing the fiddle and composing. RUTH MORRIS is a multi-talented musician, teacher and collector of tunes. She plays nyckelharpa, fiddle, whistle and piano. As well as Bellevue Rendezvous she also plays in Gavin Marwick's 'Journeyman', in Zabalka with Pete Garnett and Guy Nicolson from Moishe’s Bagel, and has worked with Rory McLeod, Red Dog Green Dog and Cantrip. She dance calls, works with a number of ceilidh bands and has arranged music for film and theatre. Her music has taken her all over Europe, and in her travels she has added to her Scottish/ Irish repertoire a great collection of tunes and dances, particularly from Central France, Brittany, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. She works hard within the community, organising and promoting events, taking workshops in fiddle and whistle, and running and arranging the music for primary and secondary school bands. She works independently and also through organisations such as Feis Rois and the YMI. She is an enthusiastic inspiration to a new generation of musicians. . CAMERON ROBSON is from Denholm in the Borders and comes from a very artistic as well as musical family. His father is the renowned Borders fiddler Wattie Robson. He began playing music at the age of five on the piano and gradually worked himself up through the harmonica, tin whistle and trumpet before coming upon the guitar and then the bouzouki, and also the banjo. Cameron has toured quite successfully as a guitarist in several rock bands and much of his style and drive were learned from playing around in R&B, and Jazz sessions. As well as being a founder member of Bellevue Rendezvous and Cantrip, he has worked as a session musician with bands like Deaf Shepherd. ..You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy.COM's MySpace Profile Editor!.. .. .. ..

Influences:

Clips from Gavin Marwick's New Voices at Celtic Connections 2008 - 'Journeyman'....involving the members of Bellevue Rendezvous with the addition of Fraser Fifield, Gregor Lowrey and Bob Turner... More on YouTube .. .....DVD of the whole concert available, £12 inc. postage, email us at bellevue_rendezvous@yahoo.co.uk

Sounds Like:

Bellevue Rendezvous at the Neil Gow Festival, March 2008 ....

Record Label:

Journeyman