The Pictish Players Live’ is a double CD, recorded live at the Northern Meeting Summer Ball in August 2014 at Fort George, Inverness. It is a mixture of full length Scottish dance music sets and popular songs, and captures perfectly the exhuberence of the dancers and the spontaneity of the evening. The sound quality is excellent throughout.

The Pictish Players commenced life as a Scottish Dance Band in 1961 and have played at highland balls, private dances, weddings, etc all over the UK and overseas in Paris, Vienna, Venice, Istanbul, and Rajastan.

The band has evolved over the years, with numerous players coming and going, and two LPs were produced in the 1970s.

The players have remained unchanged for the past fifteen years and the strong fiddle line-up evokes memories of the Tim Wright Band in the 1940s and 50s. The band: Fiona Brodie, Julian Cann, Clare Douglas, Feargus Hetherington, Julia Robinson Wilmott (violins), Charlie Bell (accordion), Harriet James (vocals), Johnny Stirling (trumpet), Ollie Clark (guitar), Jo Calder (bass), Steve Hamper (drums), and Hamish Leslie Melville (keyboard).

CD1 – Dashing White Sergeant, My Baby Just Cares For Me (song), My Blue Heaven, Eightsome Reel, Foursome Reel, Walking After Midnight, Good Rock’n Daddy, Duke of Perth, Duke of Perth 2, Be My Baby (song), Folsom Prison Blues (song), Reel of the 51st Highland Division
CD2 – Kandahar Reel, Crazy, Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie, Inverness Country Dance, Inverness Country Dance 2, Careless Love, Jambalaya, Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, Don’t Mess With My Man, Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home, Machine Without Horses, Last Waltz

For further information email: jiml@musicinscotland.com