Adam Sutherland
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Genre: Celtic
Location Scotland, Un
Profile Views: 43279
Last Login: 2/28/2012
Member Since 5/19/2007
Record Label Unsigned
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Bio
Hello, my name is Adam. I've been playing the fiddle for 24 years. Roughly five years into that I started writing music as well. I started learning from the late Donald Riddell in 1987, and attended the Inverness Strathspey and Reel Soceity on a Monday night, which Donnie led. Shortly after he passed, I started attending a summer school which took place in the Gaelic college 'Sabhal Mor Ostaig' in Sleat, Skye. The tutor and source of huge inspiration and motivation for me and many others was Alasdair Fraser, and our family attended the course religiously for the next few years. I won a scholarship to V.O.M fiddle camp when I was 17 so we made it over there too. I had a few classical violin lessons in my teens, played in the Spectrum Centre Youth Orchestra led by Alex Sieczcarek, also sung in a cathedral choir. The choir weekly schedule: 1 hour on a tuesday, 1 hour on a thursday, two hours on a friday and two services on a sunday for 8 years. I have also spent some time at the R.S.A.M.D. I've been travelling around the world playing being a general vagrant but also had the pleasure of playing the fiddle with many different acts for 7 years or so... Borneo, N.Y.C, Australia, Europe, and a large number of places in Britain, particularly Scotland. Bands (which to varying degrees) I've played with, roughly starting from when I started gigging; The Scottish Stepdance Co, Fire in the Bog, Croft no Five, Dochas, Babelfish, Session A9, Finlay Macdonald Band, Salsa Celtica, The Peatbog Faeries, Cuillinn Music, Frog in Throat, SJP Voyager, Treacherous Orchestra, Avernish, Waste Management Sub-commitee of Babelfish, The Nostalgia Boys, The GrouseBeaters, low-tide revelry, and a bit of 'pub-fiddle' Runrig's newest C.D. I've also had the pleasure of joining Brian Finnegan in one of his solo projects. My two biggest commitments though are the Peatbog Faeries and Session A9. Babelfish rises now and again, most recently (albeit without poet Jock) at the Rock Ness festival. Also look out in the near future for a new act in the brewing featuring the talents of box playing north sider John F Somerville - 'The Nostalgia Boys'. Cheers all ! -
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Influences
Here are some of my heroes/influences. Donald Riddell, Alasdair Fraser, Martin Hayes, Buddy MacMaster, Rodney Miller, Led Zeppellin (in a VERY big way) various choral music composers, Rage against the Machine, Herbie Hancock, Stephane Grappelli, R.H.C.Peppers, Prodigy, Martyn Bennett, Fred Morrison, and all the people I've worked with whom I wont name individually cos there's rather a lot. Actually I really have to mention two very big influences; Andy Thorburn and Iain Copeland - for inspiration, wisdom and knowledge on the topics of harmony, rythm and many other aspects of life, the universe and everything. Some of my favourite composers of contemporary traditional melodies - Fred Morrison, Charlie Mackerron, Phil Cunningham, Ross Ainslie, Allan Macdonald, Brian Finnegan, Brendan Ring, Andy Thorburn, John Somerville, Peter Morrison, Gordon Duncan R.I.P and Martyn Bennet also R.I.P, Kevin O Neill of Rutherglen, Kevin Henderson, Gordon Gunn, and well, just all the amazing new tunes that are constantly emerging. I think we live in very (musically) interesting times! -
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- The Steam Box2 years ago
Musicalement!..................Cheers..........
www.steamboxmusic.com - David Franks: Walkabout…2 years ago
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on MySpace...
Poem cum song 5 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my Blog for details):
STATE TO STATE
(TUNE:
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
C F G F
F G F C
F G F C
F G F C
C F F F)
From Sydney Town,
In uni. break,
I drove out west
To earnings make
Onion picking,
On the fields
Of Echuca,
That year’s yields.
After day’s work,
From Y.H.A.,
A group of us
Would not delay
To walk on down
To the dirt rim
Of the Murray,
For a cool swim.
On one such day,
I do declare,
Some three of us
Had a big dare
To swim across,
From state to state,
The wide Murray -
I took the bait.
Yes, foolishly,
I took the bait -
A choice that I
Would come to hate,
For I almost
Did drown that date,
Making the swim
From state to state.
(C) David Franks 2003 - StereoGoesStellar2 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlmifeXb8QQ
- Gabe McVarish2 years ago
LOL http://tinyurl.com/2wvxsjk
- Kevin Henderson4 years ago
Hi Adam!
Hows the form?
Just watched the Treacherous Orchestra video on youtube, fantastic!
Hope your well,
Kev - New Order Druids4 years ago
The New Order of Druids wishes you a blessed Imbolc!
We have a new NODCast (NOD Podcast) online, listen to our NODCAST IMBOLC EDITION and older edition at this URL:
http://neworderofdruids.mypodcast.com/ - jacq4 years ago
ABC rocked. very well done!
- BRAMAX4 years ago
Thanks very much re the Jakey of the Year awards. We we absolutely delighted to have been honoured in such a way. Twats look for OBE's and shit but all our dreams were fullfilled on that drunken Ullapool night. And freaking hell that jakey punch of Jocks was good!!
- Origo4 years ago
Hi Adam
Great music!
Origo - Sora4 years ago
Hello Adam! Thank-you so very much for the myspace friends. I am so very pleased to be among your myspace friends.
Sora








