Banchory (Scottish Gaelic: Beannchar, 'blessed place') is a burgh or town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, lying approximately 18 miles west of Aberdeen, near where the Feugh River meets the River Dee.

Overview

The name is thought to be derived from an early Christian settlement founded by St Ternan. It is claimed that Ternan was a follower of St Ninian. He established a college on the banks of the River Dee to teach Christianity and agriculture to the local Picts. The village and parish was called Banchory Ternan until the 1970s. The original Gaelic form is almost identical to that of Bangor, of similar meaning, and also the site of a monastery, in Northern Ireland. Relics associated with St. Ternan were preserved by hereditary keepers at Banchory until the Scottish Reformation. Two early Christian cross-slabs survive in or near the old churchyard on the site of the early church. One is built into a corner of the 'mort house' in the churchyard, and shows two crosses incised in a worn pink granite slab. The other is a ringed cross in relief built into the wall facing the main road outside the churchyard.

Banchory is the largest town in the area and has a High Street. There are a number of hotels and restaurants including the Stag Hotel, Scott Skinners Bar and Restaurant, the Burnett Arms, and the Douglas Arms. The shops include newsagents, sports shops and chemists. Since the 1970s, the town has grown steadily. Since 2001 there has been rapid expansion. A large forested area 'the Hill of Banchory', owned by the Burnett family (owners of Crathes Castle), to the north east of the town has been replaced by a large housing estate and an influx of new residents. The Hill of Banchory primary school was opened in 2006 to cater for the increased population.

Banchory is the hometown of 1811 Witchery players Colin Bell and Stewart Allen.

Land use

As a small rural town, surrounded by forestry and agricultural land, Banchory has seen considerable expansion in recent years. Development pressure continues to be strong and the town's population now exceeds 8,000. As Banchory expands, more demands are placed on local infrastructure such as doctors, dentists, sports facilities, swimming pool and schools. In recent years, the Bellfield Doctor's Surgery, the Fountain Dental Surgery, the Morrisons Supermarket and Banchory Academy have all undergone extended and upgraded facilities. In 2010, Tesco's built an eco-store to the West of the town, it is hoped this will encourage further residential development to this end of the village.

Banchory Academy is a state (public) secondary school, with a school roll of over 950. Despite strong opposition from the local community, a retirement home 'Dalvenie Home' was built on land next to the Academy in the 1990s. The planning process was taken to the Scottish Office where local opposition was overruled. The retirement home opened in 2001 and has restricted expansion of the Academy and the adjacent sports centre.

The pressure for development and the value of land in Banchory means that the Primary and Secondary School Campus area is being considered for sale to housing developers, with sites for a new Academy and a new Primary being investigated.

Churches

There are a number of churches in Banchory, including the Church of Scotland Parish Churches of Banchory Ternan East Church on Station Road and Banchory Ternan West Church on the High Street. Banchory Christian Fellowship Church, a non-denominational evangelical church, currently holds Sunday services in Banchory Primary School, near to the Woodend Barn Arts Centre. There is a small Episcopal Church of St Ternan also on the High Street, founded in 1851 and a Roman Catholic Church, St Columba's, at the west end of High Street.

Tourism and culture

Banchory is a tourist destination as the gateway to Royal Deeside. It is surrounded by lovely rural countryside and attractive hills. For the visitor, the town has much to offer with two famous castles nearby, Crathes and Drum - both run by the National Trust for Scotland. The Bridge of Feugh offers the chance to see salmon leaping and there are numerous fine golf courses nearby.

The small town museum recognises that this is the birthplace of James Scott Skinner. Local landmarks include Scolty hill; a hill topped by a tower monument, a memorial to General Burnett who fought alongside Wellington.

Local sports teams include Banchory St Ternan football club, Banchory Boys Club(Football), Banchory Amateurs(Football) the Banchory Beavers swimming team and the Banchory Stags Basketball Club. Banchory has three summer league football teams (Banchory thistle, Banchory youngstars and Banchory stoats) which compete in the mid-Deeside summer league.

Despite an inadequate and shallow 20metre swimming pool, which cannot be used for swimming competitions, Banchory Beavers swim team achieves national success. Despite the local community raising over £100,000 towards the building of a new pool, efforts to bring a respectable swimming pool to the town have so far been unsuccessful.

The Banchory show is held every July and attracts a good sized crowd to King George V Park. There is an Agricultural Show, Dog Show, Craft Fair, Highland Dancing Competition and the Scolty Hill Race, as well as traditional fairground stalls and games.

The Royal Deeside Railway originating at Milton of Crathes will shortly run to Banchory; this line is part of the original line to Ballater.

See also

Banchory Ternan East Parish Church

2367 (Banchory) Squadron Air Training Corps

Aberdeenshire Cricket Association

Banchory Army Cadet Force (Royal Regiment of Scotland)

Glen O'Dee Hospital

References

External links

Banchory Ternan East Parish Church

Banchory Air Training Corps

Rotary Club of Banchory-Ternan

Visit Banchory - Gateway to Royal Deeside

Banchory Community Website

Official Burnett Worldwide Website

Royal Deeside and the Cairngorms tourism website

Category:Towns in Aberdeenshire

of Lind, taken on 14 September 1850 by her Swedish classmate, Poly Von Schneidau from Chicago, at the Mathew Brady Studio in New York City.]]

Johanna Maria Lind (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.

Lind became famous after her performance in Der Freischütz in Sweden in 1838. After this, she was in great demand throughout Sweden and the rest of Europe for a decade. After three acclaimed seasons in London, she was invited to America by P. T. Barnum, where she gave 93 large-scale concerts. She earned $250,000 from these concerts. She returned to Europe, where she became a philanthropist, and, for some years, a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music.

Early life and career

Lind was the illegitimate daughter of a schoolteacher named Anne-Marie Fellborg (1793–1856), who married Niclas Jonas Lind (1798–1858), a bookkeeper, when Lind was 14 years old.]] Lind toured Denmark where, in 1843, Hans Christian Andersen met and fell in love with her. While the two became good friends, she had no romantic feelings for him. Three of his fairy tales were inspired by her: "The Ugly Duckling", "The Angel", and "The Nightingale", the latter making her known as The Swedish Nightingale.

1840s: Mendelssohn; Britain

During most of the 1840s, Lind performed widely in Germany, especially with Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig, and in Vienna. She traveled to London in 1847, where her first performance, in the presence of Queen Victoria at Her Majesty's Theatre on 4 May 1847, was in the role of Alice in Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le diable. Mendelssohn was present at this debut, and his friend, the critic H. F. Chorley, who was with him, wrote "I see as I write the smile with which Mendelssohn, whose enjoyment of Mdlle. Lind's talent was unlimited, turned round and looked at me, as if a load of anxiety had been taken off his mind. His attachment to Mlle. Lind's genius as a singer was unbounded, as was his desire for her success". Mendelssohn worked with Lind on many occasions and wrote the beginnings of an opera, Lorelei, for her, based on the legend of the Lorelei Rhine maidens; the opera was unfinished at his death. He included a high F sharp in his oratorio Elijah ("Hear Ye Israel") with Lind's voice in mind.

An affidavit from Lind's husband, Otto Goldschmidt, which is currently held in the archive of the Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation at the Royal Academy of Music in London, reportedly describes Mendelssohn's 1847 request for Lind (who was then not married) to elope with him to America. The affidavit, though unsealed, is currently unreleased by the Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation, despite requests to make it public. Mercer-Taylor writes that although no hard evidence has been found of a physical affair between the two, "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." 2003 biographer Clive Brown writes that "it has been rumoured that the [affidavit] papers tend to substantiate the notion of an affair between Mendelssohn and Lind, though with what degree of reliability must remain highly questionable."

In July 1847, Lind starred in the world première of Giuseppe Verdi's opera I masnadieri in London. Her successes around this time included her regional tour of Britain and Ireland as well as to her performances on the Continent, and she became extremely popular and wealthy. Lind was devastated by the premature death of Mendelssohn in November 1847. She did not feel able to sing the soprano part in his oratorio, Elijah, which he had written for her, for a year afterwards. The performance in London's Exeter Hall in late 1848 raised £1,000 to fund a "Mendelssohn Scholarship". The first recipient of the scholarship was composer Arthur Sullivan, whom she encouraged in his career.

Lind became also known for her philanthropy of cultural and humanitarian causes, which continued for many years. In January 1849, she performed in a concert in Norwich, organised by the Norwich Choral Society. She stayed with the Bishop of Norwich, whom she credited with developing her charitable spirit. She liked the city so much that she gave two free concerts, a month later, which raised £1,253 for charitable purposes. The money raised was used to buy a house in Pottergate, Norwich, which was converted and opened as the 20-bed Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children, on 3 April 1854.

Following a visit to Paris, Lind became, in the winter of 1849–1850, a member of the student fraternity Burschenschaft Hannovera in Göttingen, Germany. She was the only female member in a classical German fraternity. Her membership in the fraternity earned her the name "Little Lady Jenny" among the appreciative male members of the organization.

American tour

lithograph (later Currier and Ives) celebrating Lind's first U.S. appearance at New York's Castle Garden on 11 September 1850. Her last U.S. concert was also at Castle Garden on 24 May 1852.]] By 1849, when Lind was in the midst of her third triumphant London season, P. T. Barnum had become aware of her success and the large audiences she attracted. Earlier in 1845 and 1846 Barnum had toured Europe with his first great attraction, General Tom Thumb. Although he had never heard Lind sing, Barnum knew that concert halls sold out wherever she sang and that she was known for her virtue and charity as well as for her voice. In October 1849, Barnum hired an Englishman, John Wilton, to locate Lind and make her an offer.

Lind wanted to fund new schools in Sweden, and Barnum's offer would allow her to earn a great deal of money. After checking Barnum's credit with a London bank, on 9 January 1850, Lind accepted Barnum's offer of $1,000 a night (plus expenses) for up to 150 concerts in the United States. Lind insisted on the services of Julius Benedict, a German conductor, composer and pianist with whom she had worked in England, and of Italian baritone Giovanni Belletti as assisting artist, since solo recitals were still unknown to American audiences. Benedict's fee was $25,000 and Belletti's $12,500. All told, Barnum had committed to $187,500 (plus expenses) to bring Lind and her musical troupe to America.

Lind's contract called for the total fee to be deposited in advance with the London banking house of Baring Brothers. Barnum had not anticipated front-end payments for Lind, since he always had paid performers as performances were completed. To raise the money, Barnum sought loans from New York bankers, who refused to make the loans based on a percentage of the Lind tour, so Barnum mortgaged all his commercial and residential properties. Still a bit short, Barnum finally persuaded a Philadelphia minister, who thought that Lind would be a good influence on American morals, to lend him the final $5,000. Barnum sent the $187,500 to London.

Few Americans had ever heard of Lind, and Barnum's first press release set the tone of the promotion. "A visit from such a woman who regards her artistic powers as a gift from Heaven and who helps the afflicted and distressed will be a blessing to America." Her biographical pamphlet and photograph proclaimed: "It is her intrinsic worth of heart and delicacy of mind that produces Jenny's vocal potency." Barnum heavily promoted her record of giving frequent benefit concerts for hospitals and orphanages. Before Lind had even left England, Barnum had made her a household name in America. In August 1850, before Lind left England, Barnum arranged for her to give two farewell concerts in Liverpool. A critic engaged by Barnum to cover the concert wrote of the enthusiasm of the Liverpool audience and its grief at Lind's imminent departure. This review was widely circulated in English, European and American newspapers a week before Lind arrived in New York on 1 September 1850. Over 40,000 people greeted her arrival, trying to get a glimpse of the star.

Barnum and Lind renegotiated their contract on 3 September 1850, giving Lind the original $1,000 per concert agreed to, plus the remainder of each concert's profits after Barnum's $5,500 concert management fee was paid. Lind was represented by her lawyer John Jay. Lind gave 93 concerts in America for Barnum, earning over $250,000, while Barnum netted at least $500,000. Lind gave the majority of her U.S. concert earnings to charities, including $1,000 to help build a church in Chicago, and $1,500 to help build the "mother church" of the Lutheran 'Augustana Synod' in Andover, Illinois.

in 1850.]] Lind's first two American performances were given as charity concerts in New York City on 11 and 13 September 1850 at the Castle Garden Theater, now better known as Castle Clinton, with thousands attending and collecting an astonishing $10,141 and $14,200. The first "Regular Concert" was given on 17 September 1850.

In September 1850, Lind gave $5,000 to her Swedish friend, Poly Von Schneidau, to purchase a new camera for his Chicago studio – a camera later used to create one of the earliest images of Abraham Lincoln. On 14 September 1850, Von Schneidau took the first American daguerreotype of Lind at the New York Mathew Brady Studio. His photo of Lind is in the Library of Congress Collection (Call Number DAG 509X).

In Washington, DC during the 1850 tour, Lind was the first performer in the newly renovated National Theater. The "New National Hall" was enlarged to seat 3,400 people for her arrival. The entire police force was called out to keep order in the crowd clamoring for tickets. Congress was adjourned, and the Supreme Court justices attended.

Lind visited Mammoth Cave in central Kentucky in 1851: at least one feature in the cave was named in her honor, variously described as "Jenny Lind's Armchair" or "Jenny Lind's Table." She left to return to Europe on 29 May 1852.

Later years

While in the United States, on 5 February 1852, Lind married pianist Otto Goldschmidt, at 20 Louisburg Square, Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts. Afterwards, she signed her name "Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt". The couple returned to Europe together in May 1852 on the same ship she came to America on, the S.S. Atlantic. They had three children: Walter Otto Goldschmidt, born September 1853 in Germany, Jenny Maria Katherine Goldschmidt, born March 1857 in England, and Ernest Svend David Goldschmidt, born January 1861 in England.

Following a new tour of Europe after her return from America, Lind paid tribute in many different ways to Chopin's music and his musical legacy. For example, Lind sang to her own arrangement Recueil de Mazourkas de F. Chopin twice for Queen Victoria in 1855–1856 and during her concert tour of Russian-occupied Poland in 1858.

Although she ceased her professional singing career with her return to Europe, Lind continued to perform in a number of oratorios, concerts, and choruses, with a particular interest in Bach. She lived first in Dresden, Germany, and then in England for the remainder of her life, where she became a philanthropist, and for some years, a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music. In 1866, she gave a concert with Arthur Sullivan at St. James's Hall. The Times reported, "there is magic still in that voice ... the most perfect singing – perfect alike in expression and in vocalization.... Nothing more engaging, nothing more earnest, nothing more dramatic can be imagined." Her last public performance was at Düsseldorf on 20 January 1870, where she sang in "Ruth", an oratorio composed by her husband. She apparently commissioned Félix Barrias’ famous painting “La mort de Chopin”, 1885 (Czartoryski Museum, Krakow) and worked in 1879–1887 with Frederick Niecks on his biography of Chopin.

Lind lived her last years at Wynd's Point, Herefordshire, on the Malvern Hills near the British Camp. She died there on 2 November 1887 and was buried in the Great Malvern Cemetery to the music of Chopin's Funeral March. She bequeathed a considerable part of her wealth to help poor Protestant students in Sweden receive an education.

Legacy

]] Lind's fame garnered her many commemorations. The artwork on the Swedish 50 kronor banknote has a musical theme, the front of the note featuring a large portrait of Lind as a tribute to her memory.

Many places and objects have been named for Lind, including the Jenny Lind locomotive and a clipper ship, the Nightingale. Place names include a children's park in Rupert Street, Norwich, England, a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow, streets in Stockholm, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, North Easton, Massachusetts, and Stanhope, New Jersey, Jenny Lind Island in Canada, and the gold-rush town of Jenny Lind, California (despite the fact that she only performed on the East Coast while in the United States). During her visit to America, she was reported to have slept in a bed with turned spindles, leading to the naming of the style of crib or baby bed with vertical bars on all sides as a "Jenny Lind crib" (or cot or cradle).

In Britain, when the Pottergate infirmary in Norwich was closed in 1898, a new Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children was built in Unthank Road, which opened in 1900. The Infirmary closed in 1975, with the children's services transferred to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, St Stephen's Road where, in 1982 a wing of the hospital was named the Jenny Lind Children's Department. When the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital was established in 2001, the Jenny Lind Children's Department moved with it, where it remains today.

A chapel is named for Lind at the University of Worcester City Campus. A hotel and pub is named for Lind in the Old Town of Hastings, East Sussex.

after a daguerreotype by Richards]] Under the name "Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt", she is commemorated in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London. Among the "eminent guests" at the unveiling ceremony on 20 April 1894 was Sir Charles Halle, one of Chopin's close friends from Paris. There is also a plaque commemorating Lind in The Boltons, Kensington, London^{citation needed} and a Blue Plaque at 189 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7, which was erected in 1909.

Many artistic works have honored or featured Lind. Anton Wallerstein composed the ">"Jenny Lind's Lieblings-Polka" in 1845. In the 1930 Hollywood film A Lady's Morals, Grace Moore starred as Lind, and Wallace Beery appeared as P.T. Barnum. In 1941 Ilse Werner starred as Lind in the German-language film Schwedische Nachtigall, with Joachim Gottschalk as Hans Christian Andersen. In 2001, a about Hans Christian Andersen featured actress Flora Montgomery portraying Lind. In January 2005, Elvis Costello announced that he was writing an opera about her, called The Secret Arias. It includes songs by Hans Christian Andersen, who had fallen in love with Lind.

A number of popular dances and tunes, for example the "Jenny Lind Polka", were named for Lind.

Since 1948, the legacy of Lind has been honored by the Barnum Festival, which takes place each June and July in Bridgeport, Connecticut. P. T. Barnum once served as mayor of Bridgeport, and a museum there bears his name. Through a national competition, the Festival selects a soprano as the Jenny Lind winner. Her Swedish counterpart, chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the People's Parks and Community Center in Stockholm, visits during the festival and the two perform several concerts together. The Singing Society Norden (est. 1902) of Bridgeport also hosts the Swedish Jenny Lind winner. In July, The American Jenny Lind winner traditionally travels to Sweden for a similar joint concert tour. The Jenny Lind archive is at North Park University in Chicago. The 2010 BBC TV documentary Chopin – The Women Behind the Music includes discussion of Chopin's last years, during which Lind "so affected" the composer.

See also

American Swedish Historical Museum

Justina Casagli

Elisabeth Frösslind

Elisabeth Olin

Lina Sandell

Jenny Lind crib

Jenny Lind locomotive

Jenny Lind soup

Jenny Lind Tower

List of Swedes in music

References

Notes

Bibliography

Boyette, Patsy M. "Jenny Lind Sang Under This Tree", Olde Kinston Gazette, Kinstonpress.com (March 1999)

Bulman, J. Jenny Lind (1956)

Chorley, Henry F., ed. Ernest Newman, Thirty Years' Musical Recollections, New York (1962).

Goldschmidt, Otto. Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, Her Early Art — Life And Dramatic Career — 1820 to 1851 (1891)

Holland, H. S. and W. S. Rockstro, Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt, 2 vols. (1891)

Jorgensen, Cecilia and Jens. Chopin and The Swedish Nightingale, Icons of Europe, Brussels 2003, ISBN 2-9600385-0-9

Kyle, Elisabeth. The Swedish Nightingale: Jenny Lind, Holt Rinehart and Winston Inc (1964)

Kielty, Bernadine. Jenny Lind Sang Here Houghton Mifflin (1959)

Maude, J. M. C. The life of Jenny Lind (1926)

Rogers, Francis. "Jenny Lind" in The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jul., 1946), pp. 437–448

Rosen, Carole. "Lind, Jenny (1820–1887)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 7 Dec 2008

"People & Events: Jenny Lind, 1820–1887, pbs.org (2000)

Profile of and links to information about Jenny Lind, the Barnum's American History Museum site

Profile of Lind at Scandinavian.wisc.edu

External links

Currier & Ives print of the First Appearance of Jenny Lind in America

The Jenny Lind Tower on Cape Cod

Review of Arthur Sullivan concert at St. James's Hall in The Times, 13 July 1866

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Ivan Drever is a folk singer, songwriter and guitarist popular not only with the Scottish folk scene but also in other European countries such as Norway, Denmark and Spain. He often tours with popular fiddler Duncan Chisholm who founded the folk rock band Wolfstone which Drever joined in 1990 but left in later years. For three decades, Drever has produced a unique music sound, mixing traditional folk with some rock and roll sounds.

Life

Drever spent his childhood as one of ten children on Sanday one of the islands of Orkney in Scotland. Interest in music was clear from a young age with Drever winning youth talent shows at 12. He enjoyed country music and Jim Reeves. In 1974 he founded the band 'Knowe O'Deil' and stayed until the late 80's. In the 90's Ivan moved to Easter Ross and joined Wolfstone. Drever spent many years in the Scottish town of Inverness which inspired many songs. His album 'Waterfront' is named after a favourite bar and restaurant there. Ivan has 4 children, including musician Kris Drever.

Career

In 1989 he released his debut album, Homeland. In 1990 Drever joined Wolfstone where he played guitar, cittern, whistle, mandola and pipes as well as providing lead vocals and songwriting but pursued a flourishing career of solo and duo work. In 1998 Drever and Duncan Chisholme released their own album, Lewis Blue. In the early 90's Drever released a duo album with fellow Wolfstone member, Struan Eaglesham. 'Long December Night' is a recent duo album (also released as DVD) with Duncan Chisholm. Apart from his continuing collaboration with Duncan Chisholm, Drever has often joined up with other musicians, either as a duo with Bruce MacGregor, as Band with "The Vast Majority" or with former Wolfstone members Mop Youngston and Andy Murray as "The Black Sheep" in 2007. Due Mop Yongston's illness, they could not continue touring.

The Ivan Drever Band

The Ivan Drever Band is a folk-meets-rock band featuring Ivan Drever, Andy Murray, Finlay Wells and Iain Findlay. They have released an EP with 5 songs: Every Beat of the Drum, Harbour Lights, Ballad of Jimmy Fry, Walk Beside Your Shoes and Stranger's Tongue. A full album, 'Sea Air', is to be released soon after their current tour of the UK and Denmark.

Career highlights

2001- One of Ivan's most popular projects which gained huge media interest was a Californian dance spectacular named 'Celtic Fusion' in which he provided the music and toured not only in the UK but in the US with the high-profile team. He was the chief songwriter.

The popular Irish band The Dubliners have recorded some of his tunes.

The 1997 film Good Will Hunting included one of Ivan and Duncans songs.

In 1988 he recorded a duo album, 'October Bridge', with Dick Clarke

In 1996 he hosted a BBC Radio 2 documentary about the Islands of Scotland

Solo albums

Homeland (1989)

Isles Ne'er Forgotten (1992, re-released in 1999)

Four Walls (1996)

Black, White And Blue (2000)

The Orkney Years Vol. 1 (1998, Collection of previous songs 1986-1992)

The Orkney Years Vol. 2 (2006)

Tradition (2004)

Waterfront (2006)

Notes from an Island (2010)

Duo albums

The Knowe O'Deil (with Ian Cooper)

Orkney Anthem (1986)

The Viking's Bride (1987)

with Dick Clarke

October Bridge (1988)

with Wayne Mackenzie

Drever Mackenzie (1991, re-released as a Wolfstone album "This Strange Place“ in 1992)

with Struan Eagelsham

Back to Back (1994)

with Duncan Chisholm

The Lewis Blue (1998)

A Long December Night (2004, also as DVD)

Other albums

This Strange Place (1998) (marketed incorrectly as a Wolfstone album)

Celtic Fusion (2003)

Number One (2007, EP "The Black Sheep")

Every Beat of The Drum (2009, EP "Ivan Drever Band")

Wolfstone albums with Ivan Drever

Unleashed (1991)

The Chase (1992)

Burning Horizons (1993)

Year of the Dog (1994)

The Half Tail (1996)

Pick of the Litter (1997)

This Strange Place (1998)

References

External links

Career Summary MP3.com

Official Website

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Coordinates	31°6′12″N77°10′20″N
Name	Duncan Chisholm
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Born	October 31, 1968Inverness, Scotland
Instrument	Fiddle
Genre	Folk, folk rock
Occupation	Musician
Years active	1980s-present
Associated acts	Wolfstone, Julie Fowlis, Ivan Drever, Blazin' Fiddles
Url	http://www.duncanchisholm.co.uk/

Duncan Chisholm (born 31 October 1968) is a Scottish fiddler and founder member of folk rock group Wolfstone. As well as Wolfstone, he often tours with Scottish Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis' band and Wolfstone's previous lead singer Ivan Drever. He is a former member of ensemble Blazin' Fiddles. Duncan has a strong solo career, having recorded four solo albums, the latest of which is Canaich, released in 2010.

Discography

Solo

Redpoint (1997)

The Door of Saints (2001)

Farrar (2008)

Canaich (2010)

with Wolfstone

Unleashed (1991)

The Chase (1992)

Year of the Dog (1994)

The Half Tail (1996)

Pick of the Litter (1997)

Seven (1999)

''Not Enough Shouting (2000)

Almost an Island (2002)

Terra Firma (2007)

with Ivan Drever

The Lewis Blue (1998)

A Long December Night (2004)

Guest appearances

Proterra - Runrig (2003)

Day of Days - Runrig (2004)

Heart of America - Donnie Munro (2006)

Everything You See - Runrig (2007)

Uam - Julie Fowlis (2009)

Awards

MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards - Album of the Year 2008 - Farrar

References

Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:Scottish fiddlers