Alan Brown

Alan McIntosh Dark brown was created in the town of Dundee within the east coastline of Scotland and lives in the Highland Perthshire town of Aberfeldy, where he is a schoolteacher for nearly 30 years. He’s well-known in the region as a vocalist, article writer, broadcaster, compere, presenter, and journalist. He offers twice received the exclusive Scottish Folk Listing Songwriter Competition and prevailed in a number of songwriting competitions kept throughout Scotland. He takes on acoustic guitar and sings over the folk membership/concert/community hall/resort circuit, and his initial solo record, Some Streets, was an area best-seller. He’s currently documenting his second professional record. He provides published articles, mainly on music and music artists, in periodicals in Scotland (The Scots Newspaper — where he includes a regular column known as Broon’s Reel — and Living Custom), Ireland (Irish Music Newspaper), Britain (Folk Root base), america (U.S. Scots), and Canada (Celtic Traditions). Furthermore, he has already established poetry released in Chapman (Scotland) and Good Upon Tay — an anthology of Scots melody, verse, and prose found in academic institutions. He is a manufacturer/presenter with Heartland FM — Britain’s primary small scale unbiased local radio train station — since its origins in 1992. His every week folk, traditional, and acoustic music program, Scene Around, offers won Station Honours and welcomed musical guests from all around the globe. He in addition has broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland, Clare FM (Ireland), and Radio Tay. He in addition has created and acted inside a play on the life span of Robert Louis Stevenson entitled The Canary-Bird and Ruler Lear, that was performed effectively in the Commonwealth Arts Event in Edinburgh in 1986 and has already established other functions performed in the Pitlochry Event Theater, the Tron Theater in Glasgow, as well as the Cumbernauld Theater. He offers released the In-Concert series for radio broadcast aswell as outdoor occasions such as for example Highland Games as well as for the past 3 years offers compered the well-known outdoor Highland Evenings — the oldest in Scotland — kept weekly each summer season in Pitlochry. He did the rounds from the Melts away Supper circuit throughout Perthshire, Dundee and Fife, becoming asked to sing, to handle the haggis and, eventually, to propose The Immortal Memory space, which he did on several events, lately in Dallas, TX.