From the Arts Foundation newsletter: Radio New Zealand Concert (recipient of
the 2004 Governors Award) will be broadcasting Don McGlashan (2002 Laureate)
on Sunday 24 February 7.00 pm recorded at WOMAD Taranaki 2007.
www.radionz.co.nz/media/all_highlights
24th February
WOMAD Taranaki 2007
7:00 pm on Radio New Zealand Concert
Don McGlashan
In our second concert recorded at last year's WOMAD Festival we are
featuring top Kiwi musician, Don McGlashan. McGlashan was born in 1959 in
Auckland, studied English and Music at Auckland University, and played
French Horn and percussion in the Auckland Sinfonia from 1979-82.
He was a member of the percussion ensemble From Scratch from 1979-86, and
was drummer and singer with Auckland agit-punk band Blam Blam Blam from
1980-82. Together with Harry Sinclair he formed the innovative
music/theatre/film act The Front Lawn in 1985, and they performed at the
Edinburgh Festival in 1988 and 1989, as well as in Europe, the USA,
Australia and New Zealand until disbanding in 1990.
McGlashan was singer and primary songwriter in The Mutton Birds from 1991 to
2002. The group signed to Virgin Records UK in 1995, and were based in
London from then until 1999, touring all over the world. He returned to NZ
in 2000, and lives in Auckland with his wife, dancer/writer Marianne
Schultz, and their two children, Louis and Pearl.




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