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Hi, and welcome to the Longway website !!! Announcing a new band in Scottish Bluegrass music. We're from the Edinburgh & Fife area in Central Scotland, and are proud to present a new line-up with about 100 years of collective experience playing the music we love. |
last updated 22nd March 2006
** Longway at the Rothes Halls in Glenrothes, Friday 31st March. Tickets from this link. http://www.rotheshalls.org.uk/documents/LangspoonFestival.doc Looks like being a great festival, we'll be finishing off the night after Dougie McLean, Karine Polwart, Tam White, Bodega and others. Also on the after midnight session are the Scalded Cats, Jim's other band, including Celtic, Cajun, Zydeco, Country and Blues music. Get your tickets early !!
New album nearing completion, a few gigs lined up, festivals on this year include the Langspoon Festival 31st March in Fife, Coastline Festival in LLandudno in June and possibly Cornwall.
Latest gig to be lined up is in North Tyneside, a bluegrass show at the Victory Club in New Hartley, Sat 22nd April. Tickets from Jim Newman on 0191-2374002
International news :- Tracks from New Roads have been played on Australian radio show "Music from Foggy Hollow", by Mike Kear. This show is also broadcast on the Web, and has already generated interest in the States. We've been asked to play at a couple of U.S. festivals, although it's unlikely we'll manage over this year.
The band was formed in February 2003 from the remnants of the Runaway String Band, with the addition of a former Goldrush member. Robert "Stevie" Stevenson is the main vocalist, and plays guitar, string bass and mandolin. Robin Wallace plays mandolin, banjo, guitar and Dobro. Hugh Kelly is the bassist who doubles on Dobro. The pair also swap bass and baritone harmonies. Jim Hyndman is sometime lead vocalist, main tenor harmony, and plays fiddle, banjo, mandolin and guitar. This obviously makes for an extremely versatile line-up. |
The music is a mixture of hard-driving traditional Bluegrass, Gospel and smoother contemporary material. The key to the band's sound is Big Stevie's powerhouse vocal, which is highly regarded in the British Bluegrass community. Couple this to the driving rhythm, sparkling instrumental acrobatics, and close harmonies that the individual members are known for, and you just know it makes sense for them to be playing together as a tight unit. Our intention is to showcase the range of sounds that Bluegrass music has to offer, and to have fun doing so. |
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