"Intelligent Lyrics, Absorbing Melodies and Tuenful delivery" (Scotland on Sunday)
NEW CD OUT NOW
Born Edinburgh, and formed the now-legendary Folk Rock band Finn mac Cuill at the age of
19 and produced 2 LPs with them.
Joined 7:84 Theatre company and wrote most of the music for
their productions 1979-81
Joined Scotland's top Folk Trio The McCalmans in 1982 and still tours with them.Inducted into the Scottish Folk Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and awarded the Danish Folk Prize the same year..
Since 2005 he's been a soloist with the Copenhagen-based Tolkien Ensemble, whose hugely-acclaimed 4CD box set was released in 2006...the only authorised musical setting of the songs from the Trilogy "Lord of the Rings", with Sir Christopher Lee narrating.
After the success of their 2008 tour, the Tolkien Ensemble will be doing a 28 concert tour of Northern Europe in early Spring 2009 with the 80 piece Hollywood Orchestra and Choir, and a new production, (with Nick as lead) will be unveiled at the Official Opening of the new Danish Radio Broadcasting Centre in March 2009.
Nick's stunning new solo CD "Fishing Up The Moon" is NOW AVAILABLE. Guest artistes include Emily Smith, Oyvind Ougaard, The Morten Ryelund String Quartet, Aaron Jones and Trine Brosboel Hansen
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