Back Of The Moon
Glasgow, Scotland
Celtic
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Gillian Frame |
Hamish Napier |
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Ali Hutton |
Findlay Napier |
Back of the Moon got its start in 2000 when three founding members of the band- Gillian Frame, Hamish Napier and Simon McKerrell-were all finalists in that year's BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. They were soon joined by Findlay Napier who had played with Gillian and Hamish on Margaret Bennett's 2000 solo album In the Sunny Long Ago.
Gillian Frame comes from a family of musicians on the Isle of Arran on the west coast of Scotland. She was introduced to traditional Scots and Irish music at an early age and, in 2001, she won the prestigious Young Scottish Traditional Musician Award. Since then she has gained experience in all areas of traditional music, and has been playing fiddle and singing in a variety of performing, recording and teaching contexts, Gillian is experienced now in a variety of traditional musical styles. In 2002 she graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD).
Originally from Strathspey, Hamish Napier comes from a family also steeped in traditional music: his mother, Marie-Louise Napier, is a singer/composer/harpist and his older brother Findlay is a singer/songwriter/guitarist. Hamish plays piano, flute, whistle, sings and does traditional Scottish tap dance. He was a finalist in the Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year Award 2006 and was nominated for Best Up and Coming Artist at the Scots Traditional Awards 2005.
Findlay Napier was among the first ten students to graduate from RSAMD and studied Scots song under noted singers Andy Hunter and Alison MacMorland. In 2002, as a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award competition, he conceived the idea for a non-competitive stage for young musicians. This highly acclaimed Master and Apprentice and Young Tradition concert series, which showcases the best young talent in Scottish music, is now in its fourth year.
Ali Hutton is from Methven in Perthshire, Scotland, and has been playing the Highland bagpipes since the age of 7 and has studied Scottish music at the RSAMD under multi-instrumentalist Brian McNeill. Ali also plays guitar, whistle, bouzouki and bodhran and has toured throughout Europe with the Vale of Atholl pipe band for a number of years, winning the national youth pipe band competition as their pipe major. Through this he received tuition to study from the virtuoso piping brothers Gordon and Ian Duncan.
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