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Lizzie : How it all started …


I was born in Orkney and at school I studied piano, cello and singing. I gained LTCL (GMT) from Aberdeen in 1979 and over the following 23 years taught in primary and secondary schools. My last full time teaching post was as Principal Teacher of Music at Keith Grammar School. I was also teaching piano and keyboard privately from my home. For 10 years I played keyboard in the ceilidh band, “Makarakit’.  



In 2002 I went to Edinburgh University to study Music Therapy and from 2003 I started working with young and old with communication problems and using music therapy as a intervention to help in areas such as : autistic spectrum disorders, emotional and behavioural difficulties, learning difficulties, sensory impairment and mental health difficulties.


Currently I am running the Fochabers Community Sing which is a choir which meets virtually on ZOOM every week and all the information about that can be found on the Fochabers Community Sing page.


I also run Fochabers Community Choir Live. It is great fun with a coming together of people of all ages with their voices and a wide mixture of styles of music all blending  together to make fine music. Of course the evening singing always has a hint of fun with everyone enjoying a smile and a laugh or two. The choir meets on a Tuesday evening at the Bellie Church Hall in Fochabers  at 7.00pm



Bob :  How it all started .....


I am Glasgow born and for some years I played sang and listened to many of the stalwarts of the Glasgow folk scene during the 60‘s learning the craft of stage presentation and audience communication while absorbing the songs of the time. Matt McGinn was and still is a hero of mine.


Leaving Glasgow eventually I embarked on a career in the Royal Air Force which took me to  many corners of the world. It was during that time that I met and joined the folk group Steamfolk. The group went on to run the Lossiemouth Folk Club for many years before finally breaking up after a very successful tour of Western Australia. Leaving the RAF found me forming the Ceilidh Band “ Makarakit” which for 15 years played at many a wedding and ceilidh throughout Scotland and beyond.


With the breakup of Makarakit  I now perform at Folk Clubs and Festivals around the North East either solo or with my wife Lizzie, and I can also be found compering or hosting evenings with my Song Club at Folk Festivals or indeed singing in the Fochabers Community Sing Choir.