Pigtown Fling now has a new member!

We are delighted to welcome Christine Beveridge to join us on our travels into music and beyond.

Chris comes from a variety of places (?) including Yorkshire and now stays in Taynuilt, Argyll.

She plays among other things fiddle, concertina and clarsach. No doubt more instrumentation will appear through time but that’s all she’s telling us about for the moment.

Chris’s fine playing was first witnessed by me at one of the sessions in Oban where she played fiddle and concertina. It was noticed very quickly her aptitude for picking up new tunes and playing them as well as anyone else just after hearing them for the first time.

(I still don’t know how she does it. I’ve been looking for wires and other tell-tale signs of robotics but nothing yet)

Then she brought along her clarsach and it was then we knew we had to snap her up before someone else did!

Anyway

Chris brings another new and exciting dimension to our already wide variety of sounds and textures.

The new line up and instrumentation now goes like this:

Stephen McNally: Border pipes, gaita, whistles, mandolin, vocals

Robert Woods: Guitar, mandola, banjo (hopefully), harmonica (ever so slightly), vocals

Christine Beveridge: Fiddle, clarsach, concertina

We have been working on new material and hopefully will have something recorded quite soon to put on site and on to demos to send out to all you lucky people.

We have also invited Chris to join us on what will hopefully be a mini tour of southern England and Brittany at around the Easter holidays 2008.

Only one booking as yet but we hope we will add to this and get a mini tour from our trip.

Also joining us will be Rob Welsh, who helped make our carnival trip in February so memorable.

I doubt it will be as wild as our trip to Slovenia but you never know!