Bag o' Cats are: Nigel Richard Rick Bamford Dick Lee Simon McKerrell

Bag o' Cats "Wild, inventive and eclectic stuff . . . this is music into which you can wander and happily lose yourself" - Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman "A veritable wonderworld of flavours, sounds, tunes and time signatures . . . this reeling, raga - ing, swaggering hotline from the Himalayas, via the Balkans, to Cairngorm is the bees' knees" - Rob Adams, The Herald

 

Mp3 extracts	Album details	Biographies	Greentrax	Contact details

Mp3 extracts from Out of the Bag:

	Basant Muchari (Nigel Richard)		Making Hay (Fraser Fifield)		Popocatepetl (Dick Lee)

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Bag o' Biographies:

Dick Lee clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, recorders

Rick Bamford percussion

Dick has composed and played a lot of music with a lot of groups. Recent compositions include Flight, for the Vale of Atholl pipe band, Sextet, for the Hebrides Ensemble, Helensburgh Suite, for Swing 2001 with the very wonderful Brian Kellock on piano, and Airts for 4 pipers and orchestra, the result of a Creative Scotland Award.. Dick is the son of Peggy Lee, but not that Peggy Lee.

Rick B's percussion has delighted audiences in Borneo, Europe, Russia, Japan, Hong Kong and the West Highlands of Scotland. In recent years he has performed with Mr. McFall's Chamber, Cauld Blast Orchestra and Az It Iz, and is composer of Rainforest, The Babbling Brook and Le Mer et les Grands Menhirs. " . . . a lusty battering from Rick Bamford enshrined in his little Zen garden of percussion" - The Scotsman

Nigel Richard Border pipes, chromatic Border pipes, Scottish small pipes, cittern, manditar	Simon McKerrell Border pipes, Scottish small pipes, whistle, flute
Nigel's musical range is the fruit of many years' playing and studying in diverse musical fields. Not content with the notes usually available, he has invented chromatic Border pipes and a cross between sitar and mandola called a manditar.	Fantastic piper, a star with other bands as well as this one. Teaches at the Scottish School of Piping.

Bag o' Cats - Original and traditional music for Border pipes, Scottish Small pipes, whistle, cittern, manditar, clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 soprano saxes, recorders, double bass and more percussion than you can shake a stick at.

Bag o' Cats are available for folk, jazz and world music festivals, concerts, weddings, barmitzvahs - etcetera!

Contact: Dick Lee: dick@dicklee.org.uk

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