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In the liner notes of his final album, Departing Lerwick Harbor, documented weeks before his death in 1993, Shetland fiddler Willie Hunter was praised for his “unrivaled vitality and lyricisim”. In his early-sixties when he passed away, Hunter was a significant impact on such Scottish fiddlers as Aly Bain from …

b. 15 Feb 1923, Edinburgh, Scotland, d. 2 Sept 2007, Carshalton, Surrey, Britain. Thinking about music from an extremely early age group, Mackenzie first performed accordion before taking on saxophone. After departing college he became an apprentice engine mechanic but in the mean time required music lessons. As the 40s …

b. Heather Williamson, 26 Dec 1950, Crosshouse, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. A Scottish ballad vocalist with an excellent, clear tone of voice and an evergrowing reputation. Williamson got always experienced performing around her house, but it had not been until hearing an record by Martin Carthy that she began to broaden …

b. 4 June 1945, Braemar, Grampian, Scotland. Waller produced his name as the greater fractious half from the Peter And Gordon duo in the middle-60s. When their romantic relationship finished in acrimony in 1967, Waller elected to go after a solo profession, though he’d never experience a good part of …

In the later ’90s, David Francey surfaced being a celebrated folksinger and storyteller across Canada. Blessed in 1954 in Ayrshire, Scotland, Francey’s lifestyle was surrounded with the respect from the functioning class as well as the solace of traditional Scottish music. By age group 12, he and his family members …

Originally referred to as Battleheart, Alestorm, the purveyors from the fairly unexplored musical territory referred to as “pirate metal,” formed within their original (pre-nautical) phase in 2004. As Battleheart, the group was a duo shaped by Gavin Harper (electric guitar) and Christopher Bowes (vocals and keyboards), and documented its initial …

Guitarist/bassist/vocalist and Glasgow local Hamish Stuart is best-known for his stint among the most actively contributing people of Scottish soulsters the common White Music group (best-known for his or her 1974 number 1 smash “Grab the Items”). He also performed in Paul McCartney’s music group through the ’90s and over …

Hamish Imlach had a multi-layered performing career, as an anti-nuclear activist, comedian, folk-singer, and politics satirist. A indigenous of Scotland, he started his recording profession in 1966 on Transatlantic Information’ XTRA label and eventually cut eight well-known LPs for the business over another seven years. He cherished traditional folk tunes, …

Paul Flynn’s recordings as DJ Q possess an intermittent flourish of Detroit techno but mostly depend on restricted but vibrant jazzy home. The Glasgow indigenous, area of the city’s middle-’90s music renaissance (masterminded by Slam and arranged through their mixed membership/label concern, Soma), started DJing early in the 1990s being …

Dance manufacturer Calvin Harris went from publishing his music online to producing materials for Rihanna and offering large numbers under his own name within a couple of years. A talented remixer and DJ aswell, he has earned Grammys and MTV VMA honours, broke Michael Jackson’s record for one of the …