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STEVE BYRNE | | vocals, bouzouki, cittern, guitar
"One of Scotland's finer singers in a traditional vein" fRoots
From Angus, in Scotland's eastern lowlands, founder member Steve has been immersed in traditional music since early childhood, and continues to write and arrange songs in his native dialect.
After graduating from Edinburgh University's School of Scottish Studies, Scotland's leading folklore institution, he was a finalist in 2001's inaugural BBC Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year competition. For five years from 2002, Steve was the Traditional Arts Officer for the City of Edinburgh Council, where he co-ordinated the city's annual Cèilidh Culture traditional arts festival.
An experienced folk music tutor, he has taught in the UK, Romania and Canada. Steve appears on Dr Fred Freeman's monumental Complete Songs of Robert Burns on Linn Records, as well as appearing in Dr Freeman's live shows of the songs of Burns and Hamish Henderson, and the new Complete Songs of Robert Tannahill series of recordings.
Steve also features on albums by renowned Scots singers Jim Malcolm (ex-Old Blind Dogs) and John Morran (Deaf Shepherd).
For three years, Steve was a member of Emily Smith's touring band, (2002's BBC Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year), appearing on her acclaimed second album A Different Life. In the past he has been a regular guest with top Scottish band Deaf Shepherd.
He is an occasional accompanist for stellar piper Fred Morrison, and 2007 also saw him touring with BBC Radio 2 Horizon Folk Award Winner, Julie Fowlis.
Steve's solo project of Angus songs and poems set to his own original music, Songs from Home was released on Greentrax Recordings in February 2006. Following this, Steve was nominated as 'Best Scots Singer' in the 2006 Scots Trad Music Awards, and once again in 2009.
From summer 2007 until the end of 2009, Steve returned to the School of Scottish Studies to work with the national Scottish archiving project, Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches, which aims to catalogue, digitise and make available online 12,000 hours of field recordings of songs and other folklore in Gaelic and Scots, largely from the School's archives at the University of Edinburgh.
:: Visit Steve's own website here
more: MARK DUNLOP :: FIONA HUNTER :: DAVE WOOD :: MIKE VASS
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