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Many members of the NEIL LINE have been very active in music around the world.   Given his leadership of two choirs on Mull, GREAT GRANDFATHER NEIL LAMONT MACCORMICK would be well pleased to see his interest carried forward by his descendants.

 My father, Neil MacCormick, a fine bass-baritone, sang with the Glasgow Gaelic Musical Association in which he featured in a quartet with the later film actor Alex MacKenzie of The Maggie fame.  He won a gold medal at the Local Glasgow Mod in the 1940s ande was a stalwart member of the Cambridge Street Curch choir in Glasgow where he often sang duets with my sister Morag. 

 

My Aunt Clemmie was an outstanding contralto and member of the Glasgow Choral

Union.  

Aunt Anna however was the most deeply involved, as a voice and piano teacher and as the founder and conductor of the Elmbank Choir 

 

This photograph of the choir includes family members:  Aunt Anna at extreme right  rear; Aunt Mary in army [ATS]  uniform helping narrow the photograph   dating,   middle back row;  Aunt Isobel,  wearing glasses back row; Aunt Clemmie,  at extreme left, rear; and my sisters seated front row from extreme right, Morag and Fiona

Here is a program from one of the many concerts given by the choir including solo voice and piano student performances .

In Australia, my cousin, Avril Robinson, daughter of my Uncle Andy and Aunt Zelma, has continued the NEIL LINE  choral tradition by singing with the Gold Coast City Choir in Queensland.

My sisters, Morag and Fiona, have sung with a Sweet Adelines group  in the chorus and in quartets on Long Island New York while living in East Hampton.  Here is a glamorous photograph of them readying for a performance.  Morag is second and Fiona third from the left.