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Thread #100133 Message #2004010
Posted By: Effsee
22-Mar-07 - 09:58 AM
Thread Name: Mandolin Concert, London, Sat 24th March
Subject: RE: Mandolin Concert, London, Sat 24th March
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Ewan MacPherson: Born in Liverpool, Ewan was one of the first ever intake of students at Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Ewan has performed with a wide range of artists including Fine Friday, BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winner John Spiers (Spiers & Boden), Dàimh, Emily Smith, Bùrach, Cantrip, and All-Ireland champion Claire Mann. and has a strong interest in Scandinavian music, working with Fribo (with vocalist Anne Sofie Linge Valdal - Jim Sutherland's Cold Weather Dancing - and fiddler Sarah-Jane Fifield), and pan-European six-piece Althing. Ewan is also one of the organisers of the Northern Streams Scandinavian music festival in Edinburgh each spring and works for Stoneyport music agency. An active member of the Edinburgh session scene, Ewan is becoming recognized as one of Scotland's most versatile multi-instrumentalists.