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Allister MacGillivray CM, D.Litt (hon), (born January 17, 1948) is a Canadian singer/songwriter, guitarist, and music historian from the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia. He was born in the coal-mining and fishing town of Glace Bay.〔(Allister MacGillivray's profile ) in The Canadian Encyclopedia〕〔(Mira Music, about Allister and ''The Encyclopedia Of Music In Canada'' )〕 He began performing at the age of seven, later became a boy chorister and, as a teen, sang in local folk bands. During his twenties and thirties, he traveled the world as a guitar accompanist with some prominent Celtic performers, including Ryan's Fancy, Makem & Clancy (i.e., Tommy Makem, Liam Clancy) and John Allan Cameron. With Cameron, he performed on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1970, earning a lengthy standing ovation and stealing the show from the likes of Hank Snow, Roy Rogers and Bill Monroe. Since leaving the road, MacGillivray has lived close to the village of Marion Bridge, also known as ''Drochaid Mhira'' which remains strongly Gaelic. A well-respected author/composer, his most popular songs include: ''Away From The Roll Of The Sea'', ''Coal Town Road'', ''Kitty Bawn O'Brien'', ''Tie Me Down'', ''Here's To Song'', ''Sea People'' and ''You'll Be Home Again'' — all published by Cabot Trail Music (SOCAN). He is best known for a composition called ''Song for the Mira'' that provided the theme as well as the sound track for an Atlantic Canadian film, Marion Bridge. ''Song For the Mira'' has been translated into Dutch, French, Scots Gaelic, Japanese & Mi’ kmaq, is available on well over 250 recordings, and is a standard in the Canadian choral-music repertoire. One of the most recorded songs ever by an eastern Canadian writer, ''Out On The Mira'' (an alternate title) has been covered by Anne Murray, Foster & Allen, Celtic Thunder, Daniel O’Donnell, Denny Doherty (of The Mamas & The Papas), Phil Coulter, The Canadian Tenors, Frank Patterson, The Los Angeles Children's Chorus, and scores of other noted performers. In the mid 1970s, MacGillivray penned ''Coal Town Road'' for Fergus O'Byrne of Ryan's Fancy. The song was later adopted as part of the regular repertoire of folk groups like Cockersdale (England), The Clark Family and The Barra MacNeils. ''Coal Town Road'' documents an important part of Canadian history in that Canada has experienced the same types of labor and environmental exploitation as the United States—and has reacted in similar song-style ways. Significantly, this song is sung by the Nova Scotian coal-miner group, The Men of the Deeps.〔http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Coal_Town_Road.htm Traditional and Folk Songs (lyrics & midi)〕 Significantly, MacGillivray's songs are well loved by choral groups, and over 600 choirs throughout the world perform his works in classical contexts. His ''Away from the Roll of the Sea'' is known in Italy as and is sung in typically Italian operatic style by the group Coro Leone Bologna. The song has also been performed in Korean by The Hanyang University Male Choir, and is known in Taiwanese as having been sung by The National Taiwan University Chorus. Instrumentally, his songs have been arranged for bagpipes, brass quintet, recorder ensemble, jazz ensemble, ukelele ensemble, massed brass & pipe band, guitar, violin, piano, and symphony suite. He is also one of the few composers to have a commercially-produced acoholic beverage named after one of his songs. “Cape Breton Silver”, a specialty liquor made by Glenora Distillers and available in Nova Scotia outlets, was inspired by a MacGillivray composition of the same name. MacGillivray concluded his singing & playing career in the early eighties in order to write songs and books and to make films about the musical traditions of Cape Breton Island. He continues to write and arrange music, has released a compilation CD, and is involved in the operation of Sea-Cape Music Ltd. (the company which distributes his books). Books Published: ''Song For The Mira'' (1979), a collection of thirteen original songs. • ''The Cape Breton Fiddler'' (1981), a historical and photographic look at Cape Breton's Scottish violin tradition. • ''The Cape Breton Song Collection'' (1985), an anthology of the Island's best-loved compositions. • ''A Cape Breton Ceilidh'' (1988), a historical and photographic look at Cape Breton's unique stepdancing and 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「Allister MacGillivray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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