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Skalder
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- Skalder formed in 2006, originally consisting of Orcadians, Jennifer Austin on piano, Louise Bichan on fiddle, Kevin Gray on drums and percussion and Finlay Bichan on accordion. They played for various ceilidhs, weddings and events around Orkney and further afield, including the Orkney Folk Festival's Island Hop, which involved touring some of Orkney's smaller Isles, Woodwick House's Third Orkney Feast of Music, on the Nation Geographic Liner while it was anchored in Orkney and in a Spiegeltent in Dunfermline for the 2007 Carnegie Book Awards. In January 2007 Skalder were invited to play for a Burn's Supper Ceilidh in Muscat, Oman, for the Caledonian Society and following it's success, travelled back again in 2008.
After leaving Orkney for University in Glasgow in September 2007, Jennifer and Louise began working on new material as a duo. They went on to win the Orkney Folk Festival's Open Stage in 2008, support Ally Bain and Phil Cunningham in Orkney and play on Celtic Music Radio as part of Glasgow's Merchant City Festival.
In January 2009 Skalder, joined by new member James Lindsay on double bass, won the prestigious Danny Kyle Open Stage Award at Celtic Connections. They then went on to play in the Strathclyde Suite of the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow and to support Box Club at the City Halls, Glasgow, as part of their tour of Scotland. Skalder will be performing at various venues throughout Scotland this year.
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bloody fife council!!
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'i've been to the standing stones, they were behind the cathedral!'
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Congratulations guys!! Grand pic in the paper to!! Well done!! xxxxxxxx
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! its gona be 28 degrees at day time!!!!!!!!!!!!! sun sun sun sun sun!!!!! sooooo xitid!!!
yes O fRIckin MAN! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA yay xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
OMAN! AGAIN ! woweee lucky ducks !
hell ya we are!!! and ross - ayeeeee shudup!!!
So we play the tunes better Louise, you play them at choochter speeds!
r we doin dunferline?
i like ths skin- quite omanish, i like! xxxxxxxxxx
Never Mind the Banjo IS the tribute band of Skalder! ha! i thin kul find Skalder came 1st!!!
Some love for the Never Mind the Banjos tribute band.
Great set on Flotta Guys and Gals, all the best for the rest of the hop
today!!!!
Hey guys & gals it's yer Flotta fan base, when yah coming back?
hey guys hope u all do wel for ur Gig this wkend IN good old evie!! woohoop! hope u dont make to much noice t wake up seans peedie lambs lol joke! good luck xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ITS 2MOROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!
hahahaaaapy new yr!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR SQUAD