Andy Davis

with James Penny, Rachel Fox and Verona and Raymond Vettese

Angus Words and Songs

Monday 22 September, 19.30

The Retreat Glen Esk

Tickets £6.50/Under 16s £2

Andy Davis started out as a jazz drummer and made his first recording at the age of 11 before taking up bagpipes and becoming the youngest Solo Open Champion and Pipe Major in Western Australia, touring extensively throughout Australasia and South-East Asia. He came back to Scotland in 1992 on a six-week holiday and is still here. Whilst performing/guesting with the likes of the Vale of Atholl Pipe Band, Skiddleybree Quartet, Hamish Moore Trio, Dick Lee and Rick Bramford, Michael Marra, Wolfstone, Brian Kellock, Johnny Rae, Kevin Murray, Phil Bancroft and The Cutting Edge, Andy published his first collection of tunes for the bagpipes and appeared on many albums. He combined a degree in psychology with his musical skills to work as a music therapist and retired from performing when his daughter was born in 1995.

Life took a new direction and in 2004 he began his to return to performing by larking about in the Angus folk scene, playing Scottish small pipes, bodhran, whistles and singing in sessions and with Aff the Cuff. His self compositions tell ordinary stories about everyday life, be it love won and lost, the hard stuff, political awareness/protest, spirituality or the risqué, and can ‘bring a tear to a glass eye or have you fall off your chair laughing’.

Event kindly supported by Les Turriff