Sir Jimmy Shand, MBE, MA - Welcome. Jimmy Shand. Sir James Shand MBE (28 January 1908 – 23 December 2000) was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion.
Being a keen motorcyclist, Shand was also an enthusiastic supporter and spectator at the annual Isle of Man TT races. Jimmy also sponsored a motorcycle road racer from Errol, Perthshire called Jack Gow, a multiple Scottish Motorcycle Racing champion and later a motor cycle dealer in Dundee. Jimmy Shand - Bluebell Polka. EIGHTSOME REEL - JIMMY SHAND & HIS BAND. Accordion Memorials - Sir Jimmy Shand. Scottish Accordion Legend bows out.......
The world of Scottish Dance Music was saddened at news of the death of Jimmy Shand. Knighted in 1999 at a Ceremony in Edinburgh for his services to Scottish Music, Sir Jimmy passed away on 23rd December 2000 at the age of 92. The name Jimmy Shand will be remembered for generations and rightly so. No-one else in the twentieth century had a more pronounced influence in the world of Scottish Music throughout their lifetime. Tribute to Sir Jimmy Shand MBE MA - accordionist and Scottish Country Dance band leader, his music, compositions, recordings, awards and his life. Jimmy Shand. When Jimmy Shand died aged 92 in December 2000, it was marked with the respect of a national treasure.
The former miner from Fife went on to become a phenomenally successful star, recording hundreds of records from 1933 up till the 1990s. Millions of people around the world danced to the sound of Shand and, although he was personally a shy man (he once said "I never was meant to be an entertainer"), his reputation and influence shouted for themselves. He was, in my opinion, one of Scotland's greatest traditional musicians. Jimmy's first musical instrument was the moothie or mouth organ, before his father, himself a skilled melodeon player, taught him to play at an early age, and when the 14-year old had to leave school to go down the mineshafts, he played his melodeon at social events, weddings, and competitions.
Sir Jimmy Shand. 1979 Sir Jimmy Shand MBE (1908 - 2000) It goes without saying that the Association’s first recipient was the legend himself, Sir Jimmy Shand. Jimmy, the sixth of nine children, was born in the Fife mining town of East Wemyss. His big break came when he was introduced to Charles S. Forbes of Dundee who offered him a job as a demonstrator and sales rep. This in turn led to his first recording contracts and allowed him to deal directly with Hohner to design the first Hohner Special, later the Shand Morino. Jimmy Shand. The Jimmy Shand Story. The Jimmy Shand Story (book) Ian Cameron, with a foreword by Robbie Shepherd Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh, 1998 Jimmy Shand, that most famous of Scottish button box players, turned ninety years old in January this year.
What better way to celebrate a life immersed in music than the publication of a fresh biography, drawing on extensive oral interviews with the man himself, his musical cohorts and some of his legion of admirers? Context first. In fact, this volume contains numerous nuggets regarding the cultural context in which music was played and heard, but unfortunately the author consistently fails to mine more than the surface facets.
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. Few musicians’ names become interchangeable with the style of music they play in the way that Jimmy Shand came to define Scottish Country Dance music to the broader audience.
For countless numbers of people across the world, the sound of an accordion playing Scottish music instantly registered the Shand legend and for decades no Scottish New Year was complete without Jimmy’s signature tune, The Bluebell Polka. Born on January 28, 1908, in the Fife coal-mining village of East Wemyss, Jimmy inherited his love of music from his box-playing father, Erskine. The button-keyed accordion was popular around the village and Jimmy regularly heard its sounds coming out of local pubs and houses as well as watching his dad and older brother, Dod, play. Scottish Music by Sir Jimmy Shand on accordion. Overview of Sir James (Jimmy) Shand. Jimmy Shand. An Appreciation PLUS Biography (Courtesy of the Artist's site, 2005).
For thousands of people around the world, Jimmy Shand's name was synonymous with Scottish Country Dance music. For years, his was the familiar sound that brought in the New Year on radio and television, the sound that, in simpler times, made households rush to get the Saturday tea-time dishes cleared away so that they could settle down beside the radio and be warmed by the famous Shand 'dunt'. The 'dunt' was the natural sense of swing that Shand's band brought to everything they played.
If, as a melodeon player, tunesmith and icon born in the twentieth century, Shand became to Scottish music what the fiddlers James Scott Skinner and Niel [correct spelling] Gow had become as, respectively, nineteenth and eighteenth century-born players and composers, he was also up there with his American contemporaries, a world musician long before the term world music was considered. Desert Island Discs - Find a castaway : Music artist "Jimmy shand and his band" The Jimmy Shand Story - book. Jimmy Shand tune proves unlikely Euro rave hit - News and features. AN ENTERPRISING DJ has catapulted the late Sir Jimmy Shand to fame in Europe’s nightclubs - by turning one of his popular tunes into a dance hit.
‘Shander’, a seven minute remix of the The Linton Ploughman, based on The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre, has topped the download charts in Germany and creator Stevie Lennon, who curates the Stereofunk Festival in Strathclyde Park has revealed the secret behind its success. The 33-year-old DJ said: “I’ve been a fan of Jimmy Shand for years and I made the track orginally for myself. But I saw more than 1000 people doing the Highland fling to it at Stereofunk this year, and that’s when I thought I’d try and get it released. • Listen to Shander “When people hear it in the clubs, they stop what they’re doing and start dancing.
“To see it at number one is just phenomenal. Sir Jimmy Shand's tune becomes a rave sensation in Europe thanks to DJ mix. Sir Jimmy Shand has become a rave sensation in Europe after one of his classic tunes topped the dance charts in Germany.
The Linton Ploughman, based on The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre, has been turned into a dance track by Bellshill DJ Stevie Lennon. Shander, has hit number one in Germany’s Top 100 Club Download chart. The 33-year-old DJ, said: "Hopefully the rest of the world will follow. It puts a bit of fun back into clubbing and it’s brilliant bringing Jimmy Shand to a modern audience. "I’ve been a fan of Jimmy Shand for years and I made the track originally for myself. Sir Jimmy sold millions of records in a 70-year career, playing Carnegie Hall in New York and making the UK Top 20 with The Bluebell Polka in 1955. He died in 2000, aged 92. Download Shander here More About Strange Scotland People who read this story also read. Sir Jimmy Shand is top of the charts with classic tune.. in Germany. SCOTS DJ Stevie Lennon has turned one of the famous Scots accordionist's tracks into a dance number which has gone down a storm in Europe.
SCOTLAND’S accordion king is a rave sensation in Europe after one of his classic tunes topped the dance charts in Germany. Sir Jimmy Shand’s The Linton Ploughman, based on The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre, has been turned into a dance track by Bellshill DJ Stevie Lennon. And Stevie’s tune, Shander, hit number one in Germany’s Top 100 Club Download chart on Friday.
Jimmy Shand classic proves big hit on German dance scene. Let's stay positive says Binos boss Football News Stirling have been held at home by Queen’s Park and Elgin City this month but have lost just once at Forthbank since September and a win over Montrose would be a massive and timely boost.
