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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas declares that with the EP WHERE THE LAST TIDE RUNS 'Haida Gwaii is meeting Glasgow in song'. Michael's web site is at http://www.rockingraven.com. A photograph of Michael can also be seen at www.mny.ca

Tlell River Haida Gwaii
Mentioned in the song Where The Last Tide Runs: the brown river rising at TLELL HAIDA GWAII



Janice Forsyth concludes an interview with Tom Conti about the play Wife After Death with Tom's recording of TWO INCHES TALL


Brian McNeill's arrangement of the song AS YOU WRAPPED THE STRING AROUND ME is played on Iain Anderson's BBC Scotland program on May 17th and on August 11th 2010



Five songs were entered into the 2010 UK Songwriting Competition The results are below

Sheila K Cameron     Category: Adult Contemporary     Score: 6    Position: Semi-Finalist
Don't Hold The Hurt To Make It Easy

Sheila K Cameron     Category: Folk/Country     Score: 5    Position: Commended Entry
Corunna Street

Sheila K Cameron     Category: Adult Contemporary     Score: 8    Position: Finalist
Last Night I Dreamed About Doris Lessing


Sheila K Cameron     Category: Folk/Country     Score: 5    Position: Commended Entry
It's That Time Of The Month Again

Sheila K Cameron     Category: Jazz/Blues     Score: 8    Position: Finalist
Mr Moon



Two singles, both Glasgow songs with a prairie backing, are now available from CDBaby. The titles are DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG AGAIN and CORUNNA STREET. They have also been uploaded to the site at www.glalell.com


CORUNNA STREET entered the RADIO SIX Playlist on February 21st 2010 and is there for ten weeks. It was joined by DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG AGAIN which has been there for four weeks. Both songs are in the top ten of their RECORD OF THE YEAR.


DORIS
makes an appearance on the January 15th Podcast of the Scottish Poetry Library. This and other podcasts can be found at http://www.readingroom.spl.org.uk/podcasts/index.html 


Doris enters the RADIO SIX Random Playlist on November 15th 2009 and is there for ten weeks


HELLO SINGING BIRD was originally intended to be a basic vocal and acoustic guitar demo to illustrate the kind of songs I write. It consists of twelve songs which – in a one-off session - were recorded onto cassette tape. But, once they had been mastered by Brian Young of CaVa Sound Glasgow and a cover had been made it was decided to add them to the material which already was ‘out there’


The single DON'T HOLD THE HURT TO MAKE IT EASY is played by Iain Anderson on his Radio Scotland program in September 2009 and gets a repeat play on
November 16th 2009. To access Iain's program go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/presenters/iain_anderson


Sally Moon of Radio Cumbria takes Sheila through a wide ranging interview and plays THE HOUSE WITH THE WINDOWS, REMEMBERING MRT and the title song from the EP WHERE THE LAST TIDE RUNS

The title song WHERE THE LAST TIDE RUNS:a song of Tlell is played by Iain Anderson on his BBC Radio
Scotland program


It enters Diana Luke's RADIO SIX Random Playlist at www.radiosix.com and is there for ten weeks ending on
October 10th 2009


Gerry Goodfriend of Radio CKUT Montreal plays WHERE THE LAST TIDE RUNS on FOLK DIRECTIONS the program he hosts and produces at http://www.ckutfolk.com
 

It is also played on COME ALL YE, the longest running folk music program on  Australian radio. Still with its original presenter, the program has been heard each week on 2MCE-FM since 1976. The home page address is http://www.brucecameron.com.au/radio/index.htm  


WHERE THE LAST TIDE RUNS and Sheila K Cameron feature in the Top Artists and Top Tracks on Brenradio http://www.last.fm/user/Brenradio


A book of words and lyrics entitled LOOKING OUTWARDS AFTER LOOKING IN was printed in 2000. There is mention of it on the page Words Without Tunes on this site. An extended version is being prepared.

Two images, THE SCHIZOID TRAVELLER and REHABILITATING
HARLOW'S MONKEYS have been used the postcards and are being used for publicity purposes.

(C)Copyright Sheila K Cameron and GLALELL 2010