This rather beautiful song, "Miracle Sun" is the first single from Don McGlashan's solo album 'Warm Hand' (2006 Arch Hill Records).

Don McGlashan is an iconic New Zealand musician and songwriter who has been a member of bands such as The Plague, From Scratch, The Whizz Kids, Blam Blam Blam, The Front Lawn, and The Mutton Birds. He composed several pieces for the Limbs Dance Company and he also composed the song "Anchor Me" on the previously posted video.

He is multi-talented and has played a number of different instruments throughout his musical career. Some of his earliest instrumental work was with the French horn and percussion for the Auckland Symphonia. Working with From Scratch from around 1979, McGlashan played a number of more eclectic percussion instruments, such as PVC piping struck with jandals; the name of the group came from the fact that they produced their own instruments "from scratch".

With Blam Blam Blam, McGlashan played drums and euphonium. He later played guitar with The Front Lawn and The Mutton Birds. McGlashan has also collaborated with other New Zealand musicians, playing the euphonium in tracks by Dave Dobbyn "It Dawned On Me", Tim Finn, and on the 2007 reunion CD by Crowded House.

Don McGlashan won the "Best Song" award in the 1982 New Zealand Music Awards, for the Blam Blam Blam song "Don't Fight It Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both Of Us". In the 1989 awards, McGlashan, along with Harry Sinclair, received three awards for their work as The Front Lawn: "Best Film Soundtrack /Compilation", "Most Promising Group", and "International Achievement", "Album of the Year", "Single of the Year" (for "Nature" - I wish I could find a decent clip for this song), and "Best Group".

McGlashan won the 1994 APRA Silver Scroll, a prestigious award for songwriting, for Anchor Me - performed by The Mutton Birds. In 2006, McGlashan had two songs nominated for this award - a feat last achieved by Dave Dobbyn in 1995. Bathe in the River, written by McGlashan for the film No. 2, later won the award. (Bathe In The River sung by Hollie Smith is the first video I posted here on Multiply.

In 2001, McGlashan received a University of Auckland Literary Fellowship for song writing.