Phil Cunningham

Younger brother of Scottish fiddler Johnny Cunningham, Phil Cunningham has combined a mastery of Celtic music traditions along with a melodically rich design of composition. An associate of Silly Wizard from 1976 to 1988, Cunningham, who started accordion lessons at age three, helped to spark a pastime in the original music of his homeland. Furthermore to documenting two memorable single albums — Airs & Graces in 1984 as well as the Palomino Waltz in 1989 — Cunningham offers contributed to several influential musical tasks. Because the demise of Silly Wizard, Cunningham offers periodically caused his older sibling. They documented a duo recording, Against the Surprise, in 1980, and as well as Irish siblings Triona NiDomhnaill and Michael O’Domhnaill, toured and documented two albums as Relativity through the middle-’80s. A cooperation with fiddler Aly Bain from the Boys from the Lough for any 1988 tv program spawned a collaboration that has led to annual duo trips of Scotland and an recording, The Pearl, in 1994. Through the ’80s and ’90s, Cunningham offers focused a lot of his interest on producing additional performers, including Dolores Keane and Altan, and composing and musically directing for the theatre. He offered as musical movie director and published the instrumental music for Expenses Bryden’s creation The Dispatch in 1990, and was the associate music movie director for Bryden’s THE BEST Picnic in 1994. Cunningham was musical movie director of four group of BBC Scotland’s Gaelic/traditional music display, Talla a’ Bhaile, and BBC Scotland’s Hogmanay Live. In January 1997, Cunningham’s orchestral function, The Highlands and Islands Collection was premiered in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Regarding his partner, Wendy, Cunningham opened up a 24-monitor digital studio, Cover Recording Studios, outdoors Inverness within the Scottish Highlands in Oct 1993.