February 1st 2010 - The Robert Burns DVD is out!
Jim's first DVD has just been delivered from the manufacturers and it's really good fun! In honour of Robert Burns' 250th birthday in 2009, Jim dressed up as the Bard for all his concerts last year and played the second half as a tribute to Rabbie. Over the year this set just got better and better and we knew it would make a great video. So we gathered friends, fans and family to Perth in October last year and, with the help of Red Barn Studios, filmed the return of Robert Burns. The concerts were brilliant fun, and it's all captured on this video.
Jim Malcolm's Bard Hair Day (see the wig and you'll understand the name) is 103 minutes of music and comedy that brings Rabbie back to life in a new way and will give Burns fans a laugh the world over.
It includes Jim's musical version of Tam O'Shanter, and also a 16-minute film of Rabbie's Big Day Out, when we took the bard back to Edinburgh and on to Alloway.
The DVD is on sale in our secure website shop now, and we'll send it postage and packaging free anywhere in the word for £13 (which is about US$20). Jim will be delighted to sign your copy - there's a chance for you to give us instructions when you order. We hope you'll give it a go!



September 11th 2009 - Jim films his first DVD, and you're invited!
On Friday October 16th and Saturday October 17th Jim will be filmed at the AK Bell Library, York Place, Perth, for his first DVD, in front of a live audience. Jim will dress up as Robert Burns to sing his wonderful songs and tell some dubious stories about the man's life and work. The audience will be made up of family, friends and fans. If you would like to join us then that's great - but I need to know you are coming, so email susie@jimmalcolm.com or tel: 01738 626278 with your email address and a telephone number. Hope you can join us!

July 6 2009 - our first official video on YouTube
This summer Jim spent a few days out filming his song "Fields of Angus", travelling to some of the places mentioned in the song, and the film includes some rare archive footing of a working jute mill from the 1920s. Have a look! Here's where: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-gJou3b80kWe'd love to have your comments on the youtube page. Oh, and by the way, we think the quality of the YouTube videos filmed at Kansas City Irish Festival in Sept 2008 is excellent. Here's a link to a couple of those - and if you like it you'll find other great recordings from KC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdDJhA7m5Zg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqpnn_GY10w&feature=related

February 18 2009
There's a nice thread about Jim's music on the website Footstompin just now. Warms the heart - thank you. See here: http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=414679

December 9 2009
Always the bridesmaid and never the bride... Though Jim is now Scotland's most-often nominated singer for the title Scots Singer of the Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards, this year's winner was Emily Smith from the borders, whom we heartily congratulate. She is a lovely singer and a worthy winner. We thank all Jim's friends and supporters who voted for him - and we know there were HEAPS of them! - and give our congratulations to all the other winners. The awards night was a glamorous affair - amazing to see how well Scotland's folk scene can scrub up. Maybe another year! After all the excitement we're back doing what we do. Jim is recording his new CD and determined to have it ready for his January US tour. Hope to see you on the road in 2009!


November 4 2008 Jim Malcolm in the running for Scots Singer of the Year 2008
I'm excited to tell you that Jim has been chosen as one of four Scots singers in the shortlist for this year's Scots Singer of the Year award. After all the hard work he has put in this year it would be wonderful if he could win this award and so end the year on a high. Voting is quick and fun, and can be done online HERE . You can vote in as many or as few categories as you choose. Voting will run between November 4 and Friday November 21st. Please vote and make Jim's year!

October 3 2008
Scots Trad Music Awards - from now until October 17th, the Scots Trad Music Awards nominations process is under way. If you'd like to take part in what is a fun way to celebrate Scotland's music-making over the past year then you can nominate all your favourites by visiting this site: MG Alba
If Jim receives enough nominations in either the Composer of the Year or the Scots Singer of the Year awards, and the panel consider him worthy of the honour, he'll go forward to a public vote. It would be really fun to be in the running this year. Please do vote!
Meanwhile Jim is back at work on his new album. The project has been slowed down considerably by Jim's involvement in Highland Heartbeat, a Scottish music programme being made as a pledge special for PBS television in the USA and scheduled (we believe) to be shown throughout the USA in February 2009.
Now Jim's back in the studio, hoping to have a new album ready for his west coast tour in Jan/Feb. It's sounding great so far, though the holy grail-like search for the perfect guitar sound goes on...

April 14th 2008
After a hectic and fruitful few months of touring, Jim will be at home for the spring and early summer, working on a new album and enjoying wading through the rivers of Perthshire, chasing ducks away from the trout.
Our biggest news is that Jim's CD of Burns songs, Acquaintance, is now available for digital download from most of the big names in digital sales, such as itunes, Rhapsody, Napster, etc. Though we haven't advertised their availability in any way until now, digital sales have been good, which suggests we should have dragged ourselves into the digital age before now! We intend to have all our CDs available in this way by the end of the year.
Another departure for us was to send some copies of Acquaintance to CDBaby (http://cdbaby.com/cd/malcolmjim) in Portland OR. They have been good to work with, and are a recommended outlet, though we love to send you our CDs directly (with Jim's signature if you like!).
Warm wishes to all from a beautifully springlike Scotland. x x

November 5 2007
Jim's in Texas today - just had a great weekend of concerts in Arlington TX, Houston TX and Austin TX, now heading west to El Paso, Albuquerque NM and then on into Arizona. Someone took some film of Jim performing Burns' "A Man's A Man for A' That" and it's stirring stuff! It was filmed at Blessings in Winston-Salem NC at the start of this tour. See it by visiting: http://youtube.com/watch?v=bd68sw71UDI
February 9th 2007
The new album, Acquaintance, is ready!
Jim's in California having a fantastic tour up the west coast from San Diego to Seattle and the new CD, Acquaintance, has been delivered to the office and is available now from the shop (sent post and packaging free anywhere in the world). It's a lovely collection of songs by Robert Burns - including Ae Fond Kiss, My Luve is like a Red, Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne, A Man's A Man, Now Westlin Winds and Parcel o Rogues and Killiecrankie. There are some less well known songs too: The Ploughman, Highland Mary, the Shepherd's Wife, Logan Braes, Deil's Awa Wi the Exciseman and Willie Brew'd A Peck o Maut. There are MP3 samples on the CD page if you want to give it a trial run. We hope you like it.

January 2007
Happy New Year to you all, and hope you had a pleasant festive break. It's now the middle of January and folksingers like me are beginning to crawl out from under their instrument cases and try to account for themselves in the bleak undecorated Scottish midwinter. Since a couple of gigs around New Year I've been as busy as an Arabian sand merchant, though I have finished my Robert Burns album which will be ready for my West coast tour in February. I'm really looking forward to that tour. I had such a great time last year it was almost like being on holiday.
My next show is at Celtic Connections in Glasgow. It's always a bit nervy starting the year at a big festival since everyone is very rusty after the Xmas break. So I've been practising away to get back up to speed. I'm also doing a show with one of my great heroes - Ian McCalman. I recorded one of his songs in a compilation last year. See concerts page for details.
I'm looking forward to this year with trips to The States, Germany and around Britain.I have tentative plans to record a second live album later this year, featuring a number of songs from my earlier studio albums and a few other covers that I've been working on. I'm also counting the days to the start of the trout fishing season on March 15th.
I hope to see you on the road.

May 30th 2006
First day in the studio today as Jim embarks on his seventh solo album, this time a collection of songs by Robert Burns. We hope the CD will be ready for the US tour in October/November, and so far, so good!

April 17th 2006
Jim's song for the World Cup, Hurtin' In Berlin, was played on BBC Radio Scotland's Travelling Folk programme last Thursday, prompting one or two queries. It's a bit of a diversion for Jim, but lots of fun. It's a sort of universal loser's song, about a football fan who's in Berlin for the World Cup but whose team looks likely to go out in the next match. Not commercially available anywhere yet, but if you think that's a pity then let me know: susie@jimmalcolm.com



January 24th 2006
On Burns day tomorrow Jim will feature on MacAuley & Co's lighthearted morning radio show on Radio Scotland, from 9.30am till 11.30am. He'll sing a Burns song or two, but most excitingly is going to perform part of his musical Tam O'Shanter. Brilliant! Then late at night on the festival club stage of Celtic Connections he's going to sing the complete Tam O'Shanter epic - all 15 minutes of it - live.

January 1st 2006
A happy new year to you! Here's wishing you great happiness in the year ahead.

Scots Trad Music Awards, Dec 2005
Jim was sorry not to win "Scots Singer of the Year" in the 2005 Trad Music Awards, but it was hard to be too sad when the title went to Angus singer Jim Reid, who has been an inspiration to this Jim since he was a teenager. The evening was great fun, and Jim sang two songs from his new CD, Tam O'Shanter & Other Tales to the packed Queen's Hall. Old Blind Dogs were pipped to the post in the "Best Live Act" category, beaten by the Peatbog Faeries. Well, after the triumphs last year we had to accept that you can't always be the winner.
There followed a short tour in Scotland with Old Blind Dogs, playing the Rothes Hall in Glenrothes, The Lemon Tree in Aberdeen, Glenurqhart, Drumnadrochit etc - all great fun and a good way to round off the working year.
Scots Trad Music Awards, Dec 2004
Jim ended 2004 on a real high when he picked up the coveted Songwriter of the Year award in the Scots Trad Music Awards at a glittering ceremony in the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. He won thanks to the votes cast by his fans on both sides of the Atlantic, and as Dougie MacLean and Karine Polwart were also on the shortlist, he was surprised and delighted to win.
An already wonderful night was made even better when Old Blind Dogs won the Scottish Folk Band of the Year award, a fitting tribute to years and years of hard work. With Gordon Webber now working as the band's agent in UK and Europe (gordonwebber@btinternet.com), they look forward to a great year ahead.
Jim's award has inspired him musically and he now has a whole new album of material waiting to be recorded. That will happen in the summer months of 2005, for a launch in the autumn.

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