Julie Fowlis & Band in Concert
BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award 2006 WinnerGaelic Singer of the Year Scots Trad Music Awards 2005 Best Up & Coming Artist (D”chas) Scots Trad Music Awards 2004 WinnersGaelic Singer of the Year Scots Trad Music Awards 2004 Saturday February 28, 2009 6pm doors, 7pm show at the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue Denver, Colorado 80212 Box office 303-455-2124.AWARDS and NOMINATIONSBBC Radio 2 Folk Music Awards 2008 Winner – Folk Singer Of The YearScots Trad Music Awards 2008 Winner – Album Of The Year (Cuilidh)Scots Trad Music Awards 2008 Winner – Gaelic Singer Of The YearBBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year 2007 NominationBest Folk Band (D”chas) Scots Trad Music Awards 2006 ”traditional music at its most seductive.” DAILY TELEGRAPH”sings with mesmerising beauty and passion.” WORD MAGAZINE”Sings the songs of the Outer Hebrides with coolest grace” SONGLINES”Fowlis could be the first Scottish Gaelic crossover star in the making”DAILY TELEGRAPHMark Radcliffe, BBC Radio, hailed her voice and songs as “enchanting, beguiling and asfascinating as songs by Kate Bush and Bj”rk” and KT Tunstall described hervoice as “formidable and amazingly rhythmic”. The elfin figure they aredescribing is Julie Fowlis, a talented singer and instrumentalist fromScotland. She is the BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year 2008 and in a fewshort years has taken the music scene by storm, gathering a small army offans around the world including an impressive list of celebrities includingthe afore mentioned Mark Radcliffe, KT Tunstall plus Ricky Gervais and PhilSelway from Radiohead. In 2007 she was invited to appear on “Later…withJools Holland” and was a special guest on the critically acclaimed”Transatlantic Sessions” series and has entertained millions of radiolisteners around the world with her engaging live sessions and liveperformances.However she is somewhat of an enigma as she sings in a language onlyunderstood by around 60,000 people – which accounts for only approximately1% of the population of Scotland. She sings in Scottish Gaelic and spendsher time touring around the world bringing ancient songs form the HebrideanIslands to new audiences. She is an accomplished musician as well – playingHighland bagpipes, smallpipes, whistles, oboe & cor anglais and threewaltzes on the one row melodeon.Recently Julie has delved a little into broadcasting, and has had theopportunity to present two flagship music programmes on BBC Scotland – thetraditional music programme “Travelling Folk” and the world music show”Global Gathering”. A one hour documentary on Julie and her musical travels,entitled “Bliadhna Julie/Julie’s Year” was also broadcast by the BBC in2007. She was publicly voted Gaelic Singer of the Year 2007 at the ScotsTrad Music Awards and her album “cuilidh”, produced with husband EamonDoorley, was voted “Album of the Year” at the same awards. She has a clutchof other awards, including BBC Radio 2 Horizon Award 2006 for Best EmergingArtist (the first ever Gaelic Artist to be nominated for such an award) andwas also voted Gaelic Singer of the Year 2005 at the Scots Trad MusicAwards. She remains the only singer to have won this prestigious awardtwice. She is very chuffed about this and her Mam and Dad have the awards upin the living room.Bringing centuries old songs from the windswept islands of the Hebrides to amodern audience, Julie remains steadfastly true to her roots in North Uist.If you haven t heard her before, be prepared to be surprised by her musicand her “breathtaking vocal power” (Folking.com).This is true Gaelic music. Come have a listen.www.JulieFowlis.com