The Glasgow Barons

To build hope, resilience, teamwork, listening and communication through music in Govan

Govan faces tremendous economic and social hardship. So, named after the ship building barons, The Glasgow Barons have been helping make music in Govan since 2017 with schools, community groups and local people. We bring diverse audiences together in a wide range of local venues, be it Fairfield Club, Govan & Linthouse Parish Church or the Billiard Room Sessions in the Pearce Institute.

Local groups build music programmes with our support, such as our asylum-seeking Musicians In Exile and The Linties’ golden oldies singalong group. We also support local singer-songwriters and rappers to tell Govan’s story. We pay local folk to support our charitable objectives. We align closely with the NSPCC Together for Childhood Govan and other local partners to maximise and sustain our impact.

The Glasgow Barons are based in Govan where our Artistic Director is also a resident and community councillor.

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Our Team

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Executive Artistic Director & Conductor
Paul MacAlindin has conducted orchestras and ensembles all over the world, from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the RSNO, the SCO, Oulu Sinfonia and Armenian Philharmonic to the ensembles of the Düsseldorf Symphoniker, Psappha and Cantiere Montepulciano.
He has recorded for BBC Radio 3, WDR and Radio New Zealand. His most striking role to date has been as Music Director of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, whose story he told in UPBEAT: the Story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq. In December 2017, he received the first-ever Global Blue Ocean Shift Award for innovative business strategy from the Prime Minister of Malaysia at the Global Entrepreneurship Community Summit in Kuala Lumpur.
He was a finalist for the conductor category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards of 2021, and now musically directs The Glasgow Barons.

Creative Producer
Ciarán Devlin is a music producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and DJ with a background in social care work and education. As a health and social care worker he spent a decade 10 working with disabled people based in Glasgow and Govan, and he has a number of years of experience delivering educational programmes for Palestinian refugees and wider civil society in the West Bank with the British charity Unipal. He partnered with NGOs across Palestine to create summer camps for inner city youth in Nablus and Hebron delivering politics lectures, English classes and music courses for young people, and coordinated groups of volunteers within the region to effectively cater to hundreds of refugee children.
As an artist, he has written soundtracks for short films shown at international film festivals, makes records with seedling artists from his own recording space, Rev Studios in Glasgow city centre, and has performed as an instrumentalist and DJ at venues and festivals from Cairo to Austin. He has won a SAMA award for Best Alternative Act, and has performed at TRNSMT, London Fashion Week SXSW, T In the Park, Tramlines, Belladrum and BBC Radio 6 Music Festival amongst others.

Creative Communities Producer
Tommy Dey comes from a combined background of third sector community work and music. He is one of the most prominent voices in Scotland’s hip-hop and grime scenes. In his day job, he has supported people with Motor Neurone Disease, Young People with mental health difficulties and care leavers amongst others.
Musically, he is a producer and songwriter. He has opened his own music studio, worked with young offenders in HMP Polmont with songwriting classes and supported esteemed acts such as BRIT Award Winner CasIsDead and MOBO award winner Scorcher. His music has been featured on the BBC, The Skinny, Scotland on Sunday and Wordplay Magazine. His most notable achievement in music was producing and performing at a Scottish rap takeover event in Marseille, which saw seven Scottish artists travel to France to perform.
In community work he has worked as an advocacy worker for MND Scotland, supporting the rights of people with terminal illness. As a project lead with the Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare forum, which saw him organise a grant giving project for young care leavers following the pandemic; and as an advocacy worker for Partners in Advocacy, through which he helped set up the nation wide project for young people going through the Children’s Panel process: My Rights, My Say.