Bailey Guitars at the Scottish Music Show

Bailey Guitars exhibited at the Scottish Music Show -Venue: New Lanark Mills World Heritage Centre – What a beautiful place!

Date: 27/28th April 2013 – Weather sunny! (with a few minor showers – it was the Scottish Guitar Show after all!)

New Lanark Mills is a world heritage centre and the venue for the first Scottish Music Show. As our workshop is just 1hr down the road we had to be there of course, displaying our range of hand crafted instruments and even a few ‘Build your Owners’ brought theirs along to show off – including Moyra’s fine ‘Forget Me Not‘ BYO Custom acoustic.

We also had an open stage where anyone was welcome to try one of our guitars ‘live’. I managed to video a little of Mike McDonald playing his Moonshiner (see below) before the batteries ran out, so unfortunately you will not see Laura played her Bailey Ukulele, or the entire Stranraer Guitar Club doing their thing. The club was set up and run by Mandy Green who has done an amazing job encouraging and teaching the young ‘uns! Great singing and 9 players-young Lewis Mcleod gave us a blast of rock on his Bailey Curve – people stayed to watch their set and loved it. Check out video of Jennifer McMaster and Jocelyn on Mandy’s page – the future looks bright for acoustic music,

We also got a rare acoustic set from Sneaky Pete, on a couple of Baileys, and from the enchanting singer songwriter Todi, who played a few of her own tunes-another young performer to watch out for. Thanks to them all-will upload some bits of film at a later date

On Sunday I did a 1hr talk about how I make guitars which seemed to go down pretty well, at least nobody walked out. It seemed to last about 20mins to me! I was asked questions all the way through so there was a lot of interest especially around the BYO stuff.

Duncan and Colin were also there displaying their own handmade guitars – Duncan came five times on our course and now is making under the name of ‘Earn Guitars’-it was good to see them again

BIG THANKS to our supporters and players who came along including Steve McCann who lent us his amazing bass for our display.  Also to all the Bailey Team for the least stressful show set up yet, and everyone who came to support us –  A final thanks and thumbs up go to the all the really helpful NLM staff and of course Jim Duncan who had this great idea and made it come alive – see you next year?

Here is a little video I put together. I took the camera around the Bailey Stand before the show opened…and mixed it with a few outside shots of the venue…Thanks to Mike McDonald for the tune and great speech(@2:40)!