HippFest Commission

Part of the HippFest programme since the beginning, New Found Sound is a unique schools initiative that invites talented young people to create and perform music to accompany silent film from the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Led by mentor Jane Gardner and tutors with Falkirk Schools Trad Bands/leading folk musicians: John Somerville (Treacherous Orchestra), Marc Duff (Capercaillie co-founder) and Calum McIlroy (BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2020 finalist).

Three piano students from Falkirk schools will premiere their new score for Early Birds - an adorable short made by award-winning amateur filmmaker Frank Marshall about a tiny tot's raid on the family kitchen. This will be followed by two remarkable shorts accompanied by the Falkirk Schools Traditional Bands... Da Makkin o' a Keshie, filmed and directed by pioneering Scottish filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson, in which a Shetland crofter demonstrates how to make a 'keshie' to carry home his peat; and The Coming of the Camerons following Cairngorms postie Jean Cameron on her bicycle rounds and her campaign to secure uniform trousers for post women instead of the regulation skirt.

N/C U | 1h 15m incl Q&A

Early Birds Dir. Frank Marshall | UK | 1956 | 12m with live piano accompaniment by Megan Richards (Graeme High), Aaron McKay (Denny High) and Ekua Osei (Larbert High).
Da Makkin o' a Keshie Dir. Jenny Gilbertson (née Brown) | UK | 1932 | 5m with live accompaniment by Falkirk Junior Trad Band
The Coming of the Camerons Dir. Frank Marshall | UK | 1944 | 10m with live accompaniment by Falkirk Senior Trad Band

Supported by Youth Music Initiative and NLS Moving Image Archive