Findlay Napier at Roberton Village Hall
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Findlay Napier at Roberton Village Hall

Songs stories and lots of laughs with the acclaimed singer songwriter

Presented by: Findlay Napier
0 BIGGAR: Roberton Village Hall (info)
P Saturday 15th November, 2025
N Door time: 7:00pm
Start time: 7:30pm
. All ages
C Music - Folk/blues/world

Event information

Tickets available here online, via the hall committee or on the door. Advance booking highly recommended!

ABOUT FINDLAY NAPIER

From the Main Stage of Cambridge Folk Festival with folk rock supergroup The Magpie Arc to an
intimate acoustic show in the back room of a pub Findlay Napier is widely regarded as one of the
finest performers on the UK music scene. This fact was further highlighted when Napier was the
first solo act ever to be nominated for Live Act of the Year at the Scot’s Trad Music awards in
2018. Tirelessly creative he has been touring and releasing music since the early naughties. First
with groundbreaking trad folk band Back of the Moon, then with Nu-Folk pioneers Findlay Napier
and the Bar Room Mountaineers and most recently as a solo act working under the guidance of
legendary songwriter Boo Hewerdine.
His breakthrough solo album VIP: Very Interesting Persons, produced by Boo Hewerdine, was
number 2 in The Telegraph’s top folk albums of 2014. He followed it with 2017’s Glasgow
described by The Scotsman as “a paean to his adopted home town” which led to a number of
high profile gigs including a five tours as the opening act for Eddi Reader. In 2021 he released It Is
What It Is a collaboration album in all but name with producer and multi-instrumentalist Angus
Lyon which Folk Radio UK called, ”A captivating, indispensable work; it is what it is and what it is,
is magnificent."
Described as a “miracle lyricist’ by the Sunday Herald and “an original and engaging treat” by The
Telegraph his skills as a songwriter and collaborator have led him to work on some surprising and
interesting projects. In 2017 he was invited to take part in Greg Russell’s ‘Shake the Chains’
project with Nancy Kerr and Hannah Martin where they toured, recorded and released a double
live album. After meeting award winning songwriter Megan Henwood at an EFDSS songwriting
retreat he formed the duo The Story Song Scientists writing songs about science releasing two
EPs and touring the UK. In late 2021 he joined folk rock supergroup The Magpie Arc with Martin
Simpson, Tom A Wright, Alex Hunter and Nancy Kerr performing on festival main stages and arts
centres across the UK. Their debut album Glamour in the Grey, featuring three of Napier’s original
songs including a co-write with Maz O’Conner was released in October 2022.
He is often commissioned to write songs including one for The 2014 Commonwealth Games in
glasgow, two songs for Morgan Fisher’s Miniatures 2020 and more recently penning the anthem
“Union Strong” for the 125th anniversary of the Scottish TUC.
As a teaching artist he regularly runs songwriting workshops. He set up Glasgow Songwriting
Festival in 2016 and consults on various other songwriting events and festivals around the UK. He
has hosted many songwriting retreats at Moniack Mhor (Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre)
alongside Boo Hewerdine, Karine Polwart and Bella Hardy and works with Vox Liminus and Feis
Rois delivering music and songwriting workshops in Scottish prisons.
Findlay lives on the Isle of Arran with his family. His next solo album Outsider will be released in
early 2024 accompanied by a UK tour.

WHAT THE PRESS SAY

"... one of the finest songwriters and storytellers of the contemporary Scottish folk scene." Folk
Radio UK (Glasgow)
"Coming on like a Caledonian Loudon Wainwright ... A superbly crafted compilation of
Songs" Acoustic Magazine (Glasgow)
“★★★★★ #2 Twelve Best Folk Music Albums of 2015:  An inventive and engaging album...
Findlay Napier (the sweet voice behind the beard)... an original engaging treat." Martin Chilton, The
Telegraph (VIP)
"He's good and he's really funny too! He's got that classic brilliant banter with the audience as well.
Lovely to hear the storytelling in the songs as well as inbetween. A wonderful cacophony of bizarre
and brilliant tales of real people." Edith Bowman- BBC Quay Sessions (Live

Tickets

General Admission

40 tickets available

Total price: £16.50
Ticket price: £15.00, Booking fee: £1.50

Venue information

BIGGAR: Roberton Village Hall
0 Roberton Hall
Mill Road
Roberton near Abington
ML12 6RS
> www.slleisureandculture.co.uk/info/335/roberton_hall
! 01698476247
` Roberton Hall is situated in the picturesque village of Roberton, which is located just off the A73, between Abington and Lanark. The hall was formerly the local primary school and sits opposite the church.

The premises comprise a 60sqm in area main hall, a small meeting room, kitchen and toilet facilities.

It can accommodate up to 100 people seated in concert style and 80 for a catered function.

The kitchen is suitable for small functions and customers can provide their own teas and coffees.

There is a small car park to the rear of the hall.

This facility can be used for a variety of community, social and commercial activities including but not restricted to Courses and Classes, Arts and Crafts, Sports Activities, Community Meetings, Birthday Parties, Engagement Parties, Discos, Wedding Receptions, Slimming Clubs, Martial Arts etc.

Entrance is ramped. Assistance may be required for disabled users. Assistance dogs are welcome.

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