WELCOME

Welcome to the website for  BELLEVUE  RENDEZVOUS. Here you can  find festival, tour and concert updates,  as well as photos, reviews, and press and booking information. You can watch videos, check out the CD's, and join the mailing list. Please feel free to browse, and hopefully we'll see you at a gig sometime....

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                                (photo by Kim Ayres)

    “Elemental, mesmeric, extraordinarily beautiful.” 

     Alex Monaghan  

    “Sheer musicality.” Songlines

Bellevue Rendezvous

are an inventive Scottish based trio of Gavin Marwick (fiddle), Cameron Robson (cittern, jaw harp) and Ruth Morris (nyckelharpa), plundering Europe for strange and interesting tunes. The nyckelharpa is a traditional Swedish instrument, a beautifully toned keyed fiddle in the viola register, rarely seen in the UK. With a collective CV that encompasses some of Scotland’s most fascinating outfits – including Unusual Suspects, Cantrip and Iron Horse – they draw on music and traditions as diverse as Serbia, Macedonia, Poland, Canada, France and Finland to create the quirkily alluring instrumental interplay that makes their Salamander CD one of the albums of the year.

2017 news - 

We're back! After being distracted for a while by Gav’s Journeyman show, we’ve been busy rehearsing material for our 3rd album. We have ten sets and we’re loving playing so many new things! We recorded it in the fantastic Castlesound Studio in October, and will be releasing it in June 2017. It’s going to be called ‘While Rome Burns’..

You can listen to some of the tracks on soundcloud here:

https://soundcloud.com/gavin-marwick/smoke-and-mirrors-mozaik 

https://soundcloud.com/gavin-marwick/k-jota-da-gheada 

https://soundcloud.com/gavin-marwick/pirsta-onga-bucharesti

We’re now taking bookings for the promotional tour, UK and Europe wide, including festivals, across 2017/ 2018. We’re looking forward to catching up with old friends, making new ones, and all the fun to be had whilst touring! Contact Ruth (see contacts page) to book the band..

Some things the reviewers said about our previous albums (see reviews page for more), hope they like the new one as much!:

“Elemental, mesmeric, extraordinarily beautiful. The second CD from this string trio is an absolute triumph. Salamander is truly fabulous, cathartic and invigorating: very highly recommended and already likely to be in my 2010 top ten.” Alex Monaghan

“A lyrical collaboration.” **** Clive Davis, Sunday Times

“Salamander should cement the position of Bellevue Rendezvous as one of the foremost talents in traditional music, with a sound that stands out as truly distinct and imaginative.” Folkandroots.com, Mike Wilson.

“It’s not only their incredible musicianship but the way the instruments interplay to create atmosphere, the bowing of the cittern, the dark grainy effect of the nyckelharpa, the mysteries of the jaw harp. They also create interesting combinations and contrasts, placing darker tunes together with a livelier jig, formality with wild abandon, switching leads, new tunes, old tunes, dark and light together, it makes a fascinating listening experience.” Jill Turner, Gondwana Sound

“Sheer musicality.” Songlines