June-July 2006 : 14 date tour of Brazil
April-May 2007: 15 date tour of Brazil
May 2007: Departure of accordeonist Jorge Juncal, incorporation of double bass player Alvaro Iglesias.
September 2007: Departure of Alvaro, incorporation of Galician multi-instumentalist and singer Ivan Gulín.
September 2007: 6 concert tour in Holland and Germany
Abril 2008: Recording of our fourth disc, "The Last Black Sheep", (also totally independent)..
Sept.
2001 to the present:
More than 200 concerts in pubs and bars.
About 100 concerts in festivals all over Spain.
30 concerts on tour in Brazil
(for more details see concerts)
MACFECK
We formed MacFeck in September 2001 in order to try to save the world. Foiled in our attempts we have settled with an illustrious musical adventure. Our paths met after many years of travelling when, unable to go further west without a boat, we found ourselves in Galicia, home of the rain-soaked Iberian Celt.
Having thoughroughly conquered Spain´s northern coast, we have set our sights further afield, setting no limits on the missions we are prepared to undertake.
The MacFeck Musical Experience is a voyage through time and space, dipping into the rich cultural heritage of Europe, both Eastern, Western, and Northern. From Transylvania to Tralee, St. Petersbourg to Santiago, The Shetland Islands to the shores of the Black Sea we shamelessly purloin songs and tunes and feed them to the MacFeck Dragon.Thus imbued with fire and new life, our music is at once high-spirited and irrepressible, charming and atmospheric, rollicking and incomparable.
We have been described as pioneers of the modern vanguard at the forefront of the new wave of 21st centuary traditional music interpretation. But we are not. Nevertheless our fresh, energetic approach to folk music has been enjoyed by all but a few, and they will be dealt with.
MACFECK are:
Harry Price (Fiddle, Swizzle, Swindle, Ramp & Wangle, Viola & Kick-drum and Bulgarian pipes), London 72
Born with a fiddle between his teeth, Harry has never looked back (thus cleverly avoiding being turned into a pillar of salt). He has never returned to his native Croydon.
Harry was lucky enough to be born into a family of professional musicians. In 1991 he passed Grade 8 and gave up the violin, and then began playing folk music, and travelling about with Marnie. They played all over the place in Britain and France, and ended up coming to Spain with a Breton/Gypsy circus. Once in Galicia Harry began playing the gaita (Galician bagpipe), and playing fiddle in various bands, "Uz", "Beladona" & "Aran", (with whom he has also recorded discs), although since 2001 Macfeck has been his main project.
Marnie Kaputstinsky (voice, mandolin, bodhran, darbuka, clonker ,strum & thrum,), Glasgow,Scotland, 72
Born & bred in Glasgow. Has pure Russian Jewish roots. And partly Polish. Thus sings in Yiddish and English and French, and Galician. With a Scottish accent.
Marnie is from a family of second generation Jewish immigrants in Glasgow. She began singing in plays and musicals from an early age. Playing with Harry on their travels she learnt to play the bodhran, and the mandolin. When they arrived in Galicia in 1999, Marnie began playing the tamboril (trdaitional Galician stick-drum), which she now plays in traditional quartets. She started singing again in "Uz", the band she formed with Harry and three others in 2000, now she sings in English, Yiddish, French, and Gallego.
Martiño Mendez de la Peña (tamboril) Moaña, Galicia, 79
Martiño studied sound engineering in Vigo, and has been responsible for Macfeck's sound at concerts, on tour and in the studio from the very beginning in 2001. He also works in television and cinema in Spain and other countries.
e-mail: elsonidoimporta@hotmail.com