Festival 2009 - Fèis 2009
Fred Morrison Trio - An Lanntair, Thursday
Ask any young Scottish piper to name their musical heroes, and it's odds-on that Fred Morrison will rank high on the list. Ask their counterparts in Brittany, Galicia, Asturias, Cape Breton and other bastions of the bagpipe world, and he'll be cited almost as often. Morrison's playing transcends boundaries of technique or tradition, speaking directly from his own to the listener's soul, in music of extraordinary virtuosity and power.
A record-breaking champion on the international competitive piping circuit, he has also featured in the seminal Scottish bands Clan Alba and Capercaillie, and since focusing on his solo career has affirmed his place among Celtic music's most profoundly skilled and audaciously inventive exponents.
Morrison maintains a busy touring schedule, having settled into working with a hand-picked pool of leading instrumentalists and appears at the festival this year with Martin O'Neill (bodhran/percussion) and Ed Boyd (guitar).
New CD Outlands due to be released on Ridge Records in June 2009
Also appearing at Bresaclete Community Centre, Wednesday, 15th July.
