About Me
GAVIN MARWICK is a fiddle player and composer from Edinburgh. As a performer he has played at hundreds of festivals, concerts and dances across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. Bands he plays/ has played/ recorded with include Iron Horse, Cantrip, Burach, a successful fiddle duo with Jonny Hardie, Ceilidh Minogue, The Roundhouse Ceilidh Band (formerly The Marwicks, formerly The Amazing Spootiskerry Ceilidh Band), and most recently, Bellevue Rendezvous. As a session musician he has performed/ recorded with The Unusual Suspects, Session A9, Wolfstone, Arz Nevez (BRZ), Malinky, LeoMcCann, Old Blind Dogs, Annie Grace Band, Jimi Shandrix Experience, Stevie Lawrence, RSNO, and Sogdiana (UZB) amongst others. He is a prolific and enthusiastic composer of tunes and has been greatly inspired by musicians and cultures he has met on his travels. As well as recording some of these tunes with his own projects, some of them have been recorded by other musicians like Marie Fielding, Old Blind Dogs, Dochas, Liz Docherty and Give Way. He has written for TV, radio and theatre, mostly the Traverse in Edinburgh where his work includes the music for Outlying Islands, Heritage and Faith Healer. He has also worked with NTS in Gobbo and the Watchmaker, and with Licketyspit in their production of Molly Whuppie. With Bob Turner he has been writing and recording the soundtracks for Art Ecosses’s ‘Around Scotland’ series of DVD’s. He is very active in the ceilidh scene and also teaching and educational work (Falkirk Fiddle Workshop, Feis Rois, ALP, Newcastle University). In his spare time he likes playing the fiddle and composing.
