Alan Reid (founding member of Scotland's Battlefield Band)
Schedule
Sun, 25 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm
Location
Chaucer's, 122 Carling Street, London, ON, Canada, Ontario N6A1H6 | London, ON
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Glasgow born Alan Reid has been taking Scottish folk music all over the world since 1975. He joined the fledgling Battlefield Band in 1969 while studying at Strathclyde University and subsequently toured and recorded almost 30 albums with this hard-working and enduring band up until 2010, in that time garnering a reputation for his playing and his singing. His groundbreaking keyboard work along with his story-style songwriting and sensitive renditions of traditional song helped cement the band’s reputation as one of the most influential Celtic bands of its generation. With the band Alan toured the world, bringing Scottish traditional music to audiences in five continents and playing in many prestigious music festivals and venues. In 2009 he was nominated in the Scots Traditions Awards in the ‘Composer of the Year’ category. Along with former Battlefield Band colleagues he was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in November 2016 in recognition of their contribution to Scots traditional music.From achingly beautiful ballads (like The Riccarton Tollman’s Daughter and The Pleasure will be Mine) to an entire musical cycle centered on the life and times of Scots native John Paul Jones, Alan has long fostered a reputation for songs in English and Scots that are strong in melody and historical content.
In recent years Alan has taught Scots Song at the prestigious annual “Swannanoa Gathering” in North Carolina, USA. He was also a guest artist in the Linn Records mammoth 12 CD recording of the songs of Robert Burns, Scotland’s beloved National Poet, whose poems, songs and music have endured over the centuries. As well as the recordings with Battlefield Band and with Rob Van Sante, Alan has released two solo albums, The Sunlit Eye and Recollection.
"A master storyteller in song" - Hylton Arts Center, Manassas VA
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