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| Folklife Festival 2003 > Scotland > Performers > Music > Page 3 |
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| Dr. Ed Miller (Edinburgh/Austin, TX) | |
| —Singer, folklorist, teacher,
well known to American audiences as a performer at festivals, clubs,
Highland Games and Robert Burns Suppers. Also hosts "Folkways"
on KUT-FM Austin; leads folk song-based tours to Scotland and teaches
at folk music camps throughout the United States. www.songsofscotland.com |
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| Fin Moore (Dunkeld) | |
| —An excellent piper, Fin will also be assisting his father, Hamish Moore (see below), in demonstrating the making of Highland and Scottish Bellows Blown pipes. | |
| Karine Polwart (Edinburgh) | |
| —This important young singer and
songwriter is already a veteran of several major groups, including
Battlefield Band, and is currently performing with Malinky. www.malinky.com |
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| Anne Reid (Cullerlie, Aberdeenshire) | |
| —With her late husband Tam Reid (who was renowned as "King of the Bothy Ballad"), Anne transformed the traditional farm where he had lived since 1935 into Cullerlie Farm Park, a small agricultural museum. For many years, the Reids' ceilidhs and festivals at Cullerlie have been a mainstay of the Aberdeenshire cultural scene. An excellent singer in her own right, Anne is also an excellent cook and will be demonstrating her skills in both areas during the Festival. | |
| Fiona Ritchie (Perthshire/Matthews, NC) | |
| —Host/producer "The Thistle
& Shamrock®" from National Public Radio. Broadcasting
weekly across the United States, Ms. Ritchie is one of the best known
Scottish voices on American media. She will be hosting concerts and
presenting and interviewing Scottish performers at the Festival. www.npr.org/programs/thistle/ |
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| Dr. Ian Russell (Aberdeen) | |
| —The Director, Elphinstone Institute,
University of Aberdeen, Dr. Russell is an eminent folklorist and researcher
of northeastern Scotland culture and will assist with artist interviews
and concert presentations. www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone |
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| The Singing Kettle (Kingskettle, Fife) Cilla Fisher Kevin Macleod Gary Coupland Artie Trezise |
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| —Famed throughout
the U.K. for their presentation of children's songs. Smithsonian Folkways
Recording has just released The Singing Kettle: Singalong Songs from
Scotland in conjunction with the Festival. www.singingkettle.com |
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| Sheena Wellington (Dundee) | |
| —Excellent performer and eloquent
expert on Scottish music and culture. Wellington is probably best
remembered for her a capella rendition of Burns's "A Man's a
Man for A' That" at the opening of Scottish Parliament in 1999
and her participation in the Scottish Women's Tour. www.scotfolk.com/wellington/ |
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| Gary West (Pithlochry, Perthshire) | |
| —A noted piper, who played for 18 years with the acclaimed Vale of Atholl pipe band. A mainstay of the Scottish folk music scene, West joined Coelbeg in 1988 and was a founding member of the Scottish supergroup Clan Alba. In addition to being much in demand as a musician, he is a full-time lecturer in the University of Edinburgh's Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, and a host of BBC Radio Scotland's weeking piping program, Pipeline. www.garywest.co.uk | |
| The Wrigley Sisters/Jennifer & Hazel
Wrigley (Orkney Islands) |
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| —Excellent young fiddle and piano virtuosos from Orkney. The Wrigleys are preserving Orkney's local musical traditions while at the same time composing important new material. They are also outstanding spokespeople for Orcadian culture. www.wrigleysisters.com | |
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