Sutherland Sessions Findlay Napier gig in Dornoch on Saturday
Music promoters Sutherland Sessions are delighted to welcome Scottish singer and songwriter Findlay Napier to the West Church Hall, Dornoch, tomorrow from 7.30pm.
Born in Glasgow and raised in Grantown on Spey, Napier now lives with his family on the Isle of Arran
A 1999 graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), he has been touring and releasing music since the early 1990s.
He performed with pioneering trad folk band Back of the Moon, then with nu-folk pioneers Findlay Napier and the Bar Room Mountaineers, and more recently as a solo act.
His breakthrough solo album ‘VIP: Very InterestingPersons’, was number two in The Telegraph’s top folk albums of 2014 and led to a number of high profile gigs including a couple of seasons as the opening act on Eddi Reader’s UK tour.
He is frequently commissioned to write songs including one for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and an anthem for the 125th anniversary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress in 2022.
As a teaching artist, he works as a lecturer at the Conservatorie and also runs songwriting workshops. He founded the Glasgow Songwriting Festival in 2016, and consults on various other songwriting events and festivals across the UK.
He has run many song writing retreats at Moniack Mhor (Scotland’s creative writing centre) and works with Vox Liminu and Feis Rois to run music and songwriting workshops in Scottish prisons.
Local emerging artists Poppy Mackay and Leona Afrin will support Napier at the Dornoch gig.
Tickets priced £14/£12/£5 are available from Eventbrite or at the door on the night.
