Gig Tomorrow

I'm Playing solo piano in SD Bell's tomorrow at 2pm. see you there.

New Students

New Students!

It is the time of year when people think of doing something new.

September and January are the two months when I get a lot of calls from potential new students.

So if you’re thinking of taking up piano or guitar, give me a call, while I still have some slots.

Adult beginners/improvers particularly welcome.

Call or text 07743479138

Gig Tomorrow

I'm Playing solo piano in SD Bell's tomorrow. 2.30-4.30. See you there.
Click here for my web site

Gigs in August

I'll be playing solo piano in S.D. Bell's every Friday 2.30-4.30. See you there!
Click here for my site
Click here for Bell's site

New Movie

I've posted a new Movie of Live music
Click here:
http://www.belfastjazz.co.uk/Performance.html

Solo gig

Playing in SD Bell's tomorrow
Click for link

Jazz Cube went well

The gig in the Jazz Cube, Crescent Arts Centre, on 19 May 2011 went very well.


Good crowd. Thanks to all who were there.


I have a song from the gig up on Youtube:


Click here to see 'Hard Weed'

Jazz Cube

The Jazz Cube gig in the Crescent (19/5/11) went well. Thanks to all who came along. I'll post some sounds and images soon. The sets were these:

1. Weevil
2. Vakula 
3. Green Man Blues
4. Joe Kittinger
5. We’re Gonna Make It
6. Copenhagen Interpretation

1. Casin’ the Joint
2. Uxorious Blues
3. Id
4. Sidereal Days 
5. Roy Kinnear
6. Hard Weed

Practising for the Crescent

With a gig for The Keith McVeigh Trio in Crescent Arts Centre coming up on 19 May, we've been getting a few new numbers practised up for the occasion.

https://crescentarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/126514088/events

Keith McVeigh - piano

Richard Schaible - Bass

Ian Leask - Drums 

Doors open at 8 pm

See you there!

SD Bells solo gig today

I'll be playing piano in SD Bells today, 2.30-4.20. this is gig of a set of five. See you there.

Check it out:
https://crescentarts.ticketsolve.com/shows/126514088/events

"Id" included in solo slot at SD Bells

Solo gig in SD Bells on Friday was fun. I included trio tune Id. You can read about this tune and hear an older recording of the trio version here:
http://www.belfastjazz.co.uk/Blog/Entries/2011/3/26_Id.html

Second Friday Piano spot: tomorrow in SD Bells. 2.30 - 4.30 pm
See you there.

Old Photo

A photo I never saw before of a band I was in in the 90's has shown up on Facebook.

Click here

Crescent Arts Centre Gig in May

The Keith McVeigh Trio will be playing in the Crescent Arts Centre on 19 May 2011. Doors open at 8 pm.

Keith McVeigh - piano

Richard Schaible - Bass

Ian Leask - Drums 

See you there!

SD Bells on Fridays

Will be very happy to be playing (background) piano in SD Bells on Friday afternoons for a while.
Hope to see you there.
Thanks for the gig, Robert.
http://www.sdbellsteacoffee.com/

Keith McVeigh playing 'Green Man Blues' (edit)

Proposition 5.554

I have recently finished a neoclassical piece for piano and flute. It is inspired, in part, by Debussy’s objection to Satie’s lack of form, and Satie’s response.

Proposition 5.554 of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus says, “It would be completely arbitrary to give any specific form.”

The flute part of 5.554 is isorhythmic. The forty-nine pitches of the color are derived from the forty-nine letters of the quotation using a chromatic/alphabetic cypher. The Talea is derived from the speech rhythm of its eighteen syllables over three bars of 5/4 and one bar of 4/4. This renders 196 bars of ‘melody’.

The tonal piano ‘accompaniment’ in fact dominates the sound and is intuitively written as to ‘make sense’ of the mechanistic flute part.

Click to hear 5.554

Uxorious Blues

uxorious |ˌəkˈsôrēəs; ˌəgˈzôr-|
adjective
having or showing an excessive or submissive fondness for one's wife.
ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin uxoriosus, from uxor ‘wife.’

I wrote this slow sixteen-bar blues a while ago, and played it live with my trio recently.Click here for a Garage Band version of Uxorious Blues and a score

Keith McVeigh's Blog

Check out www.belfastjazz.co.uk

SD Bells Gig this Sunday

Robert Bell has kindly booked in my trio to play on Sunday 6th March, in his restaurant:

Click for S.D. Bell site 

516 Upper Newtownards Road

Belfast, Co Antrim, BT4 3HL

Click for a map

The last time we played in Bell’s was last October. Its a nice gig, a popular eating place with a long history. Very friendly.

Click to hear Bird Bath Rag from 17/10/2010