James Penny

with Andy Davis, 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

A native of Arbroath, James Penny left school at fifteen to begin an apprenticeship as an engineer. On its completion he served as an engineer officer in the Merchant Navy for a spell, then joined the Army where he spent six years with the Black Watch and sixteen with the Special Air Service, retiring in the rank of WO2.

David Stirling, the founder of the SAS, then employed him in the formation and management of a Salmon Fishery District Board on the west coast of Scotland. After eight years as Superintendent he returned to the east coast to try his hand as a self-employed watercolour artist, painting mainly land- and seascapes, before taking early retirement.

His novel Albannaich is a further result of his complete inability to resist trying something ‘different’. An avid reader of history, he chose to write of the kingdom of Alba in the eleventh century, a period that intrigues him and about which he has an intimate knowledge.
James spends an inordinate amount of time in pubs indulging in his first love of Scots and Irish traditional music. A very fine singer, he is also a player of various stringed instruments and is a songwriter in the traditional idiom.

He is married, with three sons and two grandchildren, and has settled in Monifieth, only a few miles from where he was born.
 

Visit James' homepage here

Event kindly supported by Les Turriff