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Allison Claire McGourty is a British producer, writer and photographer. She is the creator, writer and producer of an ongoing major multimedia project called American Epic, exploring the early history of American recorded music. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, West. In 2003, McGourty founded the British independent record label LO-MAX Records, whose releases are distributed throughout Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Shortly afterwards, she signed the New Jersey-based rock band The Wrens to the label after spotting them at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas. The band, and their 2005 Lo-Max album The Meadowlands, subsequently received critical acclaim from the UK press. Other signings to the label include The Go-Betweens and Kevin Ayers. In 2010, McGourty signed the Greenlandic singer-songwriter Simon Lynge, whose debut album, The Future, reached the top of the Amazon.com UK Rock Charts in the week of its release, as well as gaining the artist considerable media attention, with several radio interviews, and features in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Scotsman, and the German edition of Rolling Stone. McGourty has written, directed and produced a short film in Greenland about Lynge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Simon Lynge in Greenland )〕 McGourty is also the founder and director of Lo-Max Publishing Ltd (trading as Maida Vale Music), which publishes the work of the American musician Frank Fairfield and that of Simon Lynge. Lynge’s music has been featured on the US television shows Lie to Me and Brothers & Sisters. McGourty has overseen marketing campaigns as a consultant for many musicians, including Jeff Buckley, the Go-Betweens, Kevin Ayers, Justin Adams, Nico Muhly and Bic Runga. McGourty is also a photographer who has taken a series of professional portraits of published authors for their books, including Charles Shaar Murray,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charles Shaar Murray )〕 Cathi Unsworth〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cathi Unsworth )〕 and Tony Barrell. Since 2004, McGourty has run an internship programme for students participating in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries at Syracuse University in New York state.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bandier Program/Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts )〕 This programme involves mentoring Syracuse students at Lo-Max Records in London. McGourty has homes in London, UK, and Santa Monica, California. ==Biography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allison McGourty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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