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Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham

The Blinkin' Buzzards

0	LONDON: The Union Chapel
P	Saturday 24th March, 2012
N	7:00pm

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At the Union Chapel, Islington.

In 1986, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham got together to work on a pilot TV show, and a partnership was born. The combination of their unique, exquisite and exciting musical talents has held audiences enthralled for quarter of a century.

Their recipe for success has been their shared love of strong melody. They borrow not only from their native traditions of Shetland and Scotland, but also from Scandinavia, French Canada, Eastern Europe. in fact anywhere that melody shines. Phil and Aly take these tunes and craft them with their respective instrumental skills, playing with soul and passion that is unsurpassed. Phil's self penned airs, now very much a part of the living tradition regularly leave the audience searching for a Kleenex once Aly has coaxed every ounce of emotion from the notes. Their mind boggling dexterity has to be seen to be believed.

Two of Scotland's best loved musicians, still friends after all these years, continue to forge a path for the music they love, individually and collectively gathering accolades along the way, including 10 honorary Doctorates between them, 2 MBEs and a Professorship, countless industry awards but most importantly to them... the love and respect of their peers and their audience.

MSP Mike Russell said, "They are quite simply the best traditional musicians you are ever likely to hear."