gregor lowrey & stevie gillies  

  

Gregor and Stevie have been musical collaborators since both of their musical careers began back in the eighties.  They have both played all over the world as a duo and as players in other bands.  

A kind of venison birrianie with olives and vodka.  Here is a set list of tunes and songs with a passport.  Setting strathspeys and reels down next to anything from Ukranian punk songs to Bach extravaganzas, the question of musical genre gets tricky.  It's all performed on reeds and guitar if that's any help and - it's all live.  Stevie and Gregor have been long time musical corroborators and have appeared after gigs, with a hunger that could be photographed, in all night bakeries throughout the world.  They have been collecting songs and tunes with a wide net since they met as performers at a festival in the Hof Ter Linden Gardens in Edegem in 1986.

Listen to a few tracks from Gregor and Stevie.

 


Gregor 

Stevie and Gregor met in 1986 at The International Folklore Festival Of Edegem, Belgium.  Stevie was out piping with Forth Valley Pipe Band and Gregor was playing with fellow accordionist, keyboard player and drummer, Iain MacKenzie providing music for Rita Grzmil's Dance Troupe.  After the official performances, there were great jam sessions going on in the pub and after the trip ended, Stevie and Gregor met up with Iain MacKenzie to jam some more and so was born the band Rusty Nail.  

It wasn't long before the band had a full diary and the repertoire was growing into a worldly set. Then Iain and Gregor busked round Europe for six months of 1987 returning that winter to gig Rusty Nail with Stevie again.  The following summer Iain decided he wanted out of the rainy Scottish weather and moved to Greece and eventually Australia where he now lives.  Gregor decided he liked the rainy Scottish weather and moved to Loch Lomond then Argyll where he now lives.  When Iain left, Gregor and Stevie carried on as a duo enlisting drummers when the gig suited it and travelling the world both as a duo and as performers with other bands.        

Stevie 
  

 

Stevie and Gregor have recorded with a lot of great performers over the years and thought that they would like to put down a collection of pieces charting their musical history and here it is available to buy now.  The album includes tracks from their past, a few brand new tracks and one of the very first Rusty Nail cassette recordings of 1988 that might never have known I Pod technology never mind CD.  The album is also a CD Rom and includes a film of Stevie and Gregor performing with the Thomas Tallis Steel Band plus footage shot from the Chieftain of Bahrain's boat in the middle of the Arabian Gulf.

For more information on the album and to hear some clips please click on the link. 

 
 

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Since that weekend at the Hof Ter Linden, Stevie and Gregor have worked together on this long running duo project and many others.  

A few excerpts from their careers.  Stevie was rhythm guitar and harmony vocals with the high energy bluegrass / Cajun band the Humpff Family.  He played electric with Celtic rock band Highlander and also in the highly successful Box O Bananas with Jock the Box.  Gregor worked with people like Blackeyed Biddy, Cantychiels who were described as 'soul with a kilt on' and Canadian band 'Clan Terra' with three of Alberta's finest fiddlers.  Gregor is also a member of the popular band Ceilidh Minogue and both Stevie and Gregor are members of The Shoes.

After playing with all of these bigger line-ups, it is good to get back to the duo.  The set includes excerpts from a lot of these line-ups and takes a worldly view on what is included.  

Overseas Gigs.  Attention anybody who wants to put on a gig that involves flights.  Over the course of many years of getting stung for excess baggage and having instruments smashed by baggage handlers, we have finally managed to fit our entire travel kit into the overhead locker.  Emilio Allodi designed Gregors 72 bass Allodi accordion to fit the hand baggage restrictions.  Stevie's guitar was designed by Parker and has a removable neck.

For any more information please contact the band.