{"id":2,"date":"2011-08-12T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T11:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardwilding.co.uk\/thelongnotes\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-12-05T02:20:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T02:20:04","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"BIOGRAPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av-layout-grid-1'  class='av-layout-grid-container av-73j8-a3b7e427050e9bb337ece65b3efcd4bf entry-content-wrapper main_color av-flex-cells  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling   container_wrap fullsize'  >\n<div class='flex_cell av_one_third av-5xm2-e708cb2e15352cbca4a25d7a17043502 no_margin  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_cell_two_third  avia-builder-el-first ' ><div class='flex_cell_inner'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k3c1bown-18930b399e286dd67b98ddc588084a17\">\n.avia-image-container.av-k3c1bown-18930b399e286dd67b98ddc588084a17 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-k3c1bown-18930b399e286dd67b98ddc588084a17 av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-462 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-462 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/St-Polten.jpg?fit=680%2C1024&ssl=1\" alt='' title='The Long Notes'  height=\"1024\" width=\"680\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/St-Polten.jpg?w=854&amp;ssl=1 854w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/St-Polten.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/St-Polten.jpg?resize=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class='flex_cell av_two_third av-4990-0cba3e9ac8e994b466382db54f715b5a no_margin  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_cell_one_third  avia-builder-el-last ' ><div class='flex_cell_inner'><section  class='av_textblock_section av-k3c1bgv5-462673352860c62245442760031f6360'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1>The Long Notes<\/h1>\n<p>New album &#8220;IN THE SHADOW OF STROMBOLI&#8221; (Hobgoblin HOBCD1014)<\/p>\n<p>With a distinctive folk, roots and celtic music sound, The Long Notes&#8217; ensemble synergy magically surpasses the sum of its parts, with captivating arrangements of Irish, Scottish, French-Canadian, Galician, Quebecois and old-time tunes.\u00a0 In addition, The Long Notes have honed their writing skills producing some stunning original compositions for their new album.\u00a0 The tension-building title track\u00a0\u2018In the Shadow of Stromboli\u2019, written by Colette O&#8217;Leary, was inspired by a festival the band played in Calabria and a trip to the Aeolian Islands in southern Italy.\u00a0 Across the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the far distant mist, hangs the volcanic plume of the ever-burning Stromboli.\u00a0 Continuing this fiery theme, other brilliantly intense tracks include\u00a0Jamie Smith&#8217;s \u2018Bogbeat\u2019 and \u2018Viva Galicia\u2019, as well as Brian Kelly&#8217;s trademark banjo pyrotechnics on \u2018Plain of Jars\u2019.\u00a0 Alex Percy&#8217;s sensitively sung &#8220;Solace and Joy&#8221; and guest singer Adam Holmes\u2019 beautiful interpretation of the Scottish folk song \u2018Come by the Hills\u2019 add two vocal tracks to produce an album of outstanding calibre and supreme listenability.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Over the past seven years, The Long Notes have have forged an excellent reputation with sell-out concerts at many London venues including Kings Place, The Roundhouse and The Underworld. They have also performed at numerous festivals including: Celtic Connections, Glastonbury, HebCelt, Shetland, Wickham, Wimborne, Towersey, City of London, Wychwood, Ealing Global, Edale, Devizes and Blas! (Scotland). \u00a0There have been tours of Italy, Austria and Germany as well as appearances on BBC Alba and BBC Radio 2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Notes uniquely represent Ireland, England and Scotland &#8211; not only in their music, but also in their heritage.\u00a0 The line-up includes Scottish fiddler Jamie Smith (Beneche, SBO Band), Irish-born accordionist Colette O&#8217;Leary (Bumblebees), London-Irish banjo\/mandolin virtuoso Brian Kelly (Shane McGowan and The Popes) and Sheffield-based guitarist and singer Alex Percy (Beltane).\u00a0 They all met through the session scene in Camden Town, one of the great epicentres of live music in London.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In The Shadow of Stromboli&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 is available through Hobgoblin Records and Proper Distribution. The album is augmented by wonderful guest musicians Angus Lyon (piano), Martin O\u2019Neill (bodhran), Duncan Lyall (bass) and Ali Hutton (guitar) who also produced the album.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PbtPmM-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelongnotesmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}