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Old Blind Dogs have a wonderful way of showing how traditional music can evolve and still feel authentic. They play mainly the typically Scottish instruments including whistles, bagpipes, fiddle and mandolin. And they sing with such power! Guitar, bass and congas make the sound a little richer and more full-bodied to use terms usually associated with the Scots’ beverage of choice. Old Blind Dogs come from Aberdeen and they have burrowed their noses deeply into the soil that is music of the north coast. It was in Aberdeen that they early on developed a taste for the bothy ballads (songs about rural life sung by the agricultural workers who lived in little cottages called bothies). When you hear these ballads, pipe tunes and marches remade in completely new ways you realize that their longing still has the same blue colour. There seems to be no reason why you shouldn’t include a rough and rowdy harmonica solo and really take things to another level in a bagpipe blues! These dogs are not blind at all when it comes to noticing what goes on in the musical world around them, but their musical excursions always come to an end and they soon find the tracks that lead them back home. The band has been around since the early nineties. Jonny Hardie, who plays the fiddle and the mandolin, is one of the band’s founding members, Buzzby McMillan who plays the bass and the low whistles is another. Jim Malcolm, singer and songwriter, joined them after a while, just like Rory Campbell, who plays whistles and bagpipes and Paul Jennings, percussion. | Saturday Main Stage 13.00 |
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Old Blind Dogs
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