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Nick Keir

"Skillfully wrought songcraft. Appealing melodies, intelligent lyrics and flavoursome delivery." SUNDAY HERALD

Nick Keir was born in Edinburgh and studied at Stirling University , where he gained a degree in literature. In 1973 he and Tony Ireland founded the now legendary Folk/Rock band Finn mac Cuill, whose vinyl LPs now change hands on Ebay at enormous prices. In the late Seventies he had a spell with 7:84 Theatre (Scotland) writing and performing the bulk of the songs for the shows "Joe's Drum" and "Swings and Roundabouts"In 1982 he was invited to join The McCalmans, Scotland's top folk music trio, and has recorded some 15 CDs and continues to tour all over the world with them. In 2004 , together with the group, Nick was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame on the occasion of being awarded the Lifetime Achievement Prize at the Scottish Folk Awards, and in 2005 the group received the Danish Folk Music Prize at the Skagen Festival. Away from the McCalmans Nick is in great demand as a soloist. In 2004 he was invited to join The Tolkien Ensemble performing to 26,000 people over 2 concerts and singing the role of Bilbo Baggins on the 4CD Box set of the Ensemble's repertoire with Christopher Lee as narrator.