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laura mcghee

About Me

Twenty seven yr old Laura was brought up with Celtic roots background winning many traditional awards from age of 12. She graduated in classical violin from RSAMD.Laura then graduated to writing and developing her own unique folk roots sound. Along the way she arranged strings for artists such as Ian McCulloch (Echo And The Bunnymen), who recommended her for the Broadway production of Matt McGinn Tribute starring folk legend Pete Seeger.Laura then provided fiddle for Shane MacGowan (The Pogues) on his 2005 UK hit "Road To Paradise" and joined Shane on stage at the Glasgow Barrowlands for a rendition of his classic "Fairytale of New York Laura released her debut album 'Green Eyes' in March 2006.currently putting finishing touches to Glasgow- Nashville album released june09 tickets for ORAN MOR,Glasgow, CELTICANA LAUNCH 27th June 2009 CELTICANA ALBUM NOW ONSALE IN UK < BORDERS STORES & HMV and online with CD BABY NASHVILLE SESSIONS 2008 DEBUT ALBUM GREEN EYES

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/03/2006
Band Website: www.lauramcghee.com
Band Members: Scotland- Duncan Cameron Johnny Cameron Drew Phillips Gerardo Balesterous -USA- Billy Block Thomm Jutz Lorne Rall Mike Webb
Influences: Proclaimers, Loretta Lynn, Pogues,Dolly Parton,Jimmy Shand,Bob Dylan,Carole King,Chieftains,Band,Kinks,Kirsty McColl,Temptations,Diana Ross
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Sounds Like:Download Worldwide How Strange (Love can Be) 1st cut from forthcoming album Celticana recorded in Nashville-Glasgow"Careless" video clip from Celticana album

Laura McGhee Live at the New York Knitting Factory 07

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Record Label: R2F RECORDS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

catch up Celticana & the rest

June 2 2009 - Album completed!!!My new album "Celticana" is finally completed! wayhey. Went down to the Metropolis studio in London today for the mastering with Tim Young! He's just won a grammy for t...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:44:00 GMT

Laura Video on Indi Music Show USA TV this October

I am really chuffed that one of New Yorks grooviest shows Indie Music TV will be featuring single How Strange Love Can Be on its networked show on WLNY TV  broadcast all aound New York State...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:04:00 GMT

New album "Celticana"

Back in Scotland, I am working with producer Duncan Cameron from Riverside Studios on the new tracks from Celticana album , and recording overdubs and remixing the tracks I did in Nashville , the albu...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:31:00 GMT

Moondog and flight home.

1st July 2008 I have been recording tracks for my new album Careless in Nashville (due to be released in October) with top producer and musican Thomm Jutz, who is touring with Nancy Griffith...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:09:00 GMT

Moondog / Shooting video.

30th June 2008 .Everything now recorded and time to start mixing! We were working today with producer Thomm Jutz and engineer Tim Coats at Moondog. Tim set up the sound for the drums and bass first th...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:56:00 GMT

Recording Fiddle

28th June 2008 Today we recorded my fiddle parts in the morning and the backing singer Peter came down at 2.30pm. He was great. We only needed harmony vocals on 4 of the songs. I enjoyed doing my fidd...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:51:00 GMT

Recording vocals

27th June 2008 Today Thomm recorded my vocals. I thought I might have needed at least two separate days on the vocals as 6 hours is a lot of singing in one day. But I managed to do all 7 son...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:46:00 GMT

Recording new album.

26th June 2008 I was recording a Thomm's studio today. We are doing everything else there and taking it back to Moondog to mix. One of the tracks I am recording is a co-write with Jim Lauderdale calle...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:38:00 GMT

Studio / Moondog.

24th June 2008 Exciting day today as its the first day of recording in Bruce Sprinstein's bass player Gary Tallent's studio Moondog in Nashville, TN. Its my favourite bit as I get to sing wi...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:24:00 GMT

pre-production

22nd June 2008 We arrived in Nashville safe and sound. We are working with producer/musician Thomm Jutz. Today we had pre-production over at his place to finalize the arrangements and settle on keys. ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:21:00 GMT