1. Allison McGourty enrolled in Barrhead High School where she won the History Prize and played clarinet, and tenor saxophone in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland.
17 Facts About Allison McGourty
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From 1982 to 1987, McGourty attended Staffordshire University in England, gaining a Bachelor of Science degree with honours in computer science and French.
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Allison McGourty began her professional career working for the international management consultancy firm Deloitte.
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In 2003, Allison McGourty founded the British independent record label LO-MAX Records.
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Allison McGourty signed the acclaimed rock band The Wrens to the label after spotting them at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.
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Allison McGourty signed The Go-Betweens album Oceans Apart, Kevin Ayers' celebrated The Unfairground and posthumous releases by Jeff Buckley.
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In 2010, Allison McGourty signed the Greenlandic singer-songwriter Simon Lynge, whose debut album, The Future, reached the top of the Amazon UK Rock Charts on the week of its release.
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Allison McGourty wrote, directed and produced a short film about Lynge which she shot in Greenland.
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Allison McGourty founded Lo-Max Publishing Ltd, which publishes Frank Fairfield, Louis Michot of The Lost Bayou Ramblers and Simon Lynge.
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In 2006 Allison McGourty founded Lo-Max Films and was the creator, producer and co-writer of the Emmy Award nominated American Epic documentary film series.
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Allison McGourty produced and co-wrote The American Epic Sessions, a musical film, directed by Bernard MacMahon, in which an engineer restores the fabled long-lost first electrical sound recording system from 1925, and twenty contemporary artists pay tribute to the momentous machine by attempting to record songs on it for the first time in 80 years.
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Allison McGourty is the founder of Lo-Max Films, along with film director Bernard MacMahon and musician Duke Erikson.
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Allison McGourty was nominated by the British Academy Film Awards as a Breakthrough Talent for screenwriting, producing and music supervising The American Epic Sessions.
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Allison McGourty was the co-author of a collaborative memoir chronicling the 10-year odyssey researching and making the American Epic documentary films and The American Epic Sessions.
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Allison McGourty was the co-producer of a series of album releases that accompanied the American Epic films.
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Allison McGourty was the editor and compiler of American Epic: The Best of Blues which Robert Christgau awarded with an A grade and made his number 2 Best Album of 2017.
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Allison McGourty was the unit still photographer for the American Epic film production and has photographed portraits of numerous authors for their books, including Charles Shaar Murray, Cathi Unsworth, and Tony Barrell.