Sc&T Youth Concert - Ross Couper & Tom Oakes
University Of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
Fiddle meets guitar. Foot-tappingly banging. Ear-pleasingly melodic. A beautifully rich combination of string on string that oozes charisma. Ross and Tom keep their music simple – spine-tingling tunes with a sprinkle of banter. Concert opens with performance by the young musicians of SC&T Youth.
This event is created in collaboration with Scottish Culture & Traditions Youth.
2019 Scots Trad Awards ‘Musician of the Year’ nominee, Tom Oakes is regarded as one of the UK’s top Flautists and Multi instrumentalists. Edinburgh based, he has spent the last two decades ploughing many different furrows as a traditional/contemporary musician, composer, producer and sound designer. Known widely for his work with Shetland fiddler Ross Couper, genre-bending pan-Finnish act ‘The Auvo Quartet’ and new Scottish powerhouse OBT.
Working with scenes as diverse as Arabic Hip-Hop + Moroccan Gnawa (In Marrakech and Casablanca) Contemporary Americana, Indian traditional, Classical and Bhangra music (In residency in Mumbai) Scandinavian Traditional music, Jazz and on projects with the Northern Sinfonia, Mr Mc Fall’s Chamber and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Rooted in traditional music. Tom has performed with a veritable who’s who of the Scottish, Irish and English scenes including Tim Eady, Chris Stout, Jackie Oates, Kevin Henderson, Adam Sutherland, Allan MacDonald, Cathal McConnell and many more
Ross Couper started learning the fiddle aged just eight, and went on to Lerwick's Anderson High School where he was taught by his mother, Margaret Robertson, a renowned fiddle teacher who was recently awarded an MBE for her services to Traditional Music. Ross continues to be one of the finest exponents of Shetland's traditional fiddle playing, and although always respectful to the tradition, he is also recognised as a musician who pushes the limits of expectations with the instrument.
Ross has become a firmly established face in the Scottish folk scene performing in duo format with the formidable Tom Oakes, with folk band Bodega and today his explosive fiddle playing lies at the heart of the mighty Peatbog Faeries – one of the best known names in Scotland’s contemporary folk scene.
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