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Leo Forde

Leo Forde

Review from OffBeat Magazine July 2021

Review from Jazz Lives October 2022

Review from Syncopated Times October 2022

Review from OffBeat Magazine January 2023

Leo Forde performing in Galicia

Leo Forde performing in Galicia, Spain.

Leo Forde, Aurora Nealand

Leo Forde playing Gypsy Jazz with Double Whisky New Orleans

He took guitar lessons with a great teacher called Duncan McCallum who told him about BB King and Django Reinhardt and Forde began to lose interest in the bagpipes. He left school as soon as they would let him and began work for a number of organisations and individuals, all of whom eventually sacked him. Luckily, Strathclyde University agreed to take him in and he got to play with people his own age. Realising that he didn’t really know anything about music, Forde started trying a bit harder and got some gigs which was really helpful. Patient older musicians encouraged him despite what he was playing and he eventually played some music he was proud of.