Back of the Moon

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Back of the Moon is a musical group which plays both new and traditional tunes and songs cast in modern sounding arrangements. Since forming in 2000, the band have toured annually throughout the UK, Canada, USA and eight different European Countries. Back of the Moon create an acoustic sound through a frontline of Scottish border pipes and fiddle, a pairing of low whistle and flute, and their guitar/piano rhythm combo. They are at times augmented by bodhran and Cape Breton Stepdancing, and three-part vocal harmonies in their Scottish songs - in which each singer takes the lead.

2005 saw them win 'Best Folk Band' at the Scots Trad Music Awards, having received "Best Up and Coming Act" at the awards back in 2003 and "Best Celtic Group" at Festival Interceltique de Lorient 2003.

[edit] Discography

  1. "Gillian Frame and Back of the Moon" (2001)
  2. "Fortune's Road" (2003)
  3. "Luminosity" (2005)

[edit] Band members

2000-03

  • Findlay Napier (guitar, vocals) (joined early 2001)
  • Gillian Frame (fiddle, vocals)
  • Simon McKerrell (border pipes, uillean pipes, whistles, vocals)
  • Hamish Napier (piano, whistles, vocals)

2003- present day

  • Findlay Napier (guitar, vocals)
  • Gillian Frame (fiddle, vocals)
  • Ali Hutton (border pipes, whistles, bodhran)
  • Hamish Napier (piano, whistles, flutes, vocals)

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