Vicky Gray
INTRODUCING: Vicky Gray https://vickygray.bandcamp.com/releases 📷by Gordon MacKenzie
Hailing from the Shetland Islands, fiddler and composer Vicky Gray blends her traditional roots with a contemporary approach to recording and writing. She’s toured the UK and Canada performing at festivals like Winnipeg Folk Festival, Glastonbury, Heb Celt and is a founding member of indie-folk rock band, Dante. Support has come from the likes of BBC 6 Music, The Herald, The National, Artrocker, and The Scotsman. Atlaness is her debut, solo EP and is partly reworking the tunes she learned from her late great Grandfather, the notable tradition-bearer and fiddler, Gilbert (Gibby) Gray.
We had a wee chat with Vicky,
“I still love listening to the old recordings of my Grandad Gray playing the fiddle and am fascinated by the history of the old tunes and the stories that go with them. He was a great storyteller and had an infectious rhythm to his playing. My friend Jenny Deschenes’ family gave me an old recording of her great grandad, Glybie, playing some wedding tunes and talking about the old traditions that went with them. His playing is beautifully ornamented and full of character. Jenny is also an incredible artist, and created the artwork for the EP. By making a new recording of these tunes, I didn’t want to try to replicate them, but retell them. The four track EP moves from a fiddle-only arrangement, to the last track (Tief on the Lum) which has no fiddle on it at all.”
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Atlaness released on 26 March pre-save http://www.smarturl.it/xvei50
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