Just a wee reminder...as if you need one :) 6th June – Paul Anderson and Shona Donaldson - Already something of a legend in the time honoured fiddle tradition of Scotland; Paul Anderson is the finest Scots fiddler of his generation. Although only in his forties, he is already something of an icon in Scotland, a fact duly recognised by two specially commissioned portraits of him, a life size one in Aberdeen Art Gallery and a study which is in the care of the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. In the tradition of many of Scotland’s great fiddler’s, Paul is a composer of some repute, having composed over 300 pieces in the Scots style. His music provided the theme tune for the film “Red Rose” about the life of Robert Burns, Paul composed and recorded the theme music for the PBS television show, “Tartan TV” in the USA and in 2008 he was the musical director for HMT Aberdeen’s critically acclaimed production of “Sunset Song” by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. In 2008 Paul performed at a private reception for Prince Charles at Fyvie Castle to celebrate Prince Charles’ 60th birthday and in June 2010 he performed at an 80th birthday party in Edinburgh Castle for Sir Sean Connery at the request of the Scottish Government. In 2011 Paul performed at Scotland House in Brussels for members of the EU parliment and at a Burns Supper in the British Embassy. During his competitive career Paul won most of the traditional fiddle championships in Scotland and in 1995 won Scotland’s premier fiddling event, the Glenfiddich Scottish fiddle championship which is held each year at Blair Castle. A regular on Scottish T.V and radio, and in 2011 he presented a series of features on traditional Scottish music and song for the BBC Scotland programme “Landward.” Paul has toured extensively and recorded eight solo albums and over forty albums with artists like Pallas, Rock Salt and Nails, The Cutting Edge and the Banchory Strathspey and Reel Society. Paul regularly recites the poetry of Robert Burns and in 1993 he played the part of the young James Scott Skinner in the play “The Strathspey King”.Paul was brought up on the family dairy farm at Tarland near the Cairngorm National Park in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire, where at the age of five he discovered an old fiddle under his grandparents spare bed, an old French violin which he plays to this day. Find loads more on Paul at paulandersonscottishfiddler. Shona is without doubt a magnificent singer. She sang at the Tradition Bearer’s concert at the Stonehaven Folk Festival in 2003 when just seventeen and again in 2004 sharing the stage with Arthur Watson, Nancy Nicholson and Gordon Easton. Her career is continuing to grow with a new album released in 2011. Short Nichts and Lang Kisses is a collection of bothy ballads from the Greig-Duncan collection set to Shonas compositions. This will be a superb evening!
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:41:42 +0000
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