Steve Byrne
Steve Byrne (* 1978 in Arbroath , Angus , Scotland) is a Scottish folk musician , songwriter and ethnomusicologist . He is best known as a founding member of the Scottish traditional folk band Malinky .
Life
Byrne comes from a rural region on the north east coast of Scotland. He graduated from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh as a music ethnologist . From 2002 he was Traditional Arts Officer of the City of Edinburgh Council for five years , where he was responsible for organizing the annual Cèilidh Culture - traditional arts festival, which takes place every spring . At the same time, he promoted the maintenance and spread of the Gaelic language in the form of the Gaelic Language Plan of the Scottish capital. In summer 2007 he returned to the School of Scottish Studies to take on a large-scale archive project. 12,000 hours of musical recordings from ethnological field research are to be processed in digitized form and made available to the public.
On the side, Byrne pursued his career as a folk singer, songwriter and string instrumentalist. As a founding member of the folk band Malinky , he took part in countless appearances around the world and abroad as well as three successful albums between 1999 and 2007. In 2006 he released his first solo album, Songs from home .
Byrne was 2001 finalist in the BBC contest Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year . He was part of Dr. Fred Freeman's Live Shows with songs by Scottish national poet Robert Burns and the homage to Hamish Henderson A the Bairns o Adam . He played on albums by John Morran (Deaf Shepherd) and accompanied the renowned Piper Fred Morrison. In the Emily Smith Band, he toured as a bouzoukist for three years . At the national Scots Trad Music Awards in 2006 he was named Best Scots Singer .
On a solo tour of Germany in 2007, Steve Byrne showed himself to be an accomplished folk entertainer. The specialist journal Folker! praised him in the review of his album as an "intense and varied folk singer".
Awards
- Best Scots Singer in the Scots Trad Music Awards 2006
- Finalist in the 2001 BBC Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year competition
Discography
- Songs from home solo album, Greentrax Recordings (CDTRAX 275), February 2006
- The unseen hours (with Malinky) 2005
- Three Ravens (with Malinky) 2002
- Last Leaves (with Malinky) 2000
- Complete Songs of Robert Burns on Linn Records (leading role in Dr. Fred Freeman's project)
Web links
Sources and Notes
- ↑ http://www.celtscot.ed.ac.uk/
- ↑ http://www.ceilidhculture.co.uk "
- ↑ Tobar to Dualchais / Kist o Riches ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Folker! 4/2006
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 13, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Byrne, Steve |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British folk musician, songwriter and ethnomusicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arbroath, Angus , Scotland |