The tremendous instrumental talent, the tunes and the sheer energy of the band had, by the end of the night, seeped irresistibly out to the audience and had the whole room on its feet. Hailing from the scottish isle of skye, the peatbog faeries had a simple life working as carpenters on the island. The peatbog faeries playing the dancing feet set trip to llanis. Peter morrison, peter tickell, tom salter, graeme stafford, innes hutton, and stu haikney, have another great release with their 11track instrumental cd, dust, which features original material written by peter morrison and peter tickell.
A little bit about the peatbog faeries colourful history the bands first performance under the name peatbog faeries took place in an bothan in the skye village of edinbane on the 31 st of may 1991. Weary weve beendancing feet is one of the albums most upbeat tracks and features the brief. The traditional music of scotland is blended with hardedged funk, deep dub reggae, and modern jazz influences by the peatbog faeries. Macedonian womans rant angus mackinnon leaving the road weary weve been dancing feet maids of mount cisco mellowosity. Starting out they played at local hotels and pubs, but when half the island would.
Add or edit the setlist and help improving our statistics. Theyve taken their own individual brand of scottish tunes to audiences around the world, from european festivals, to asia. Discover top playlists and videos from your favorite artists on shazam. Music scotland scottish bands peatbog faeries peatbog faeries mellowosity. Listen to your favorite songs from blackhouse by peatbog faeries now. Based on the isle of skye, the band have become one of scotlands best known names in contemporary folk music. Scrobble songs to get recommendations on tracks, albums, and artists youll love. Browse peatbog faeries tour dates and order tickets for upcoming concerts near you.
Regularly selling out and attracting new fans, frequently cranking up the euphoria and have now taken it. They opened the tradfest concert, which also offered skipinnish and the afro celt sound system, with a 40minute set of full power but with a good sound mix, no let up music, which really got the dublin audience on their side from the start. Listen to peatbog faeries soundcloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create scotland. Mellowosity is the debut studio album by scottish celtic fusion group peatbog faeries. Peatbog faeries tour dates 2019, peatbog faeries concert. Nothing prepares you for the high octane music of the peatbog faeries. Formed in 1991, they are based in dunvegan on the isle of skye, scotland. Goodnatured, festivalfriendly set fuses traditional scottish sounds with funk, reggae, dance music and more, writes robin denselow. P eatbog faeries provide another reminder of the strength and variety of the scottish music scene. Their music embodies many styles and influences, including folk, electronica, rock and jazz, but their main influence is traditional celtic music. Peatbog faeries playing the dancing feet set at wickham festival 2011 tune 5 of 10 in the set list.
Check out mellowosity by peatbog faeries on amazon music. Peatbog faeries shifting peat and feet live youtube. Peat and feet strictly sambuca folk police humours of ardnarmurchan. It is a compilation album of live tracks from two of the bands concerts in their 2008 tour, and is the bands first album to have been released in a digipak. The peatbog faeries have become one of scotlands best known names in contemporary folk music. Closing the festival on sunday night, the peatbog faeries induced even greater audience activity.
Published on may 17, 2016 the dancing feet set by peatbog faeries from their album live in 2008. The skyebased fusion outfit never let up in energy or intensity in the course of this first live recording, taken from concerts in edinburgh and durham last year. Music scotland scottish bands peatbog faeries peatbog faeries live. Got blown away by the peat bog faeries in concert last week, and bought this album as it was one of the 2 available to hear samples from.
The peatbog faeries are a largely instrumental celtic fusion band. When it came to keeping the audience on their feet, there was no. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from peatbog faeries. The peatbog faeries are a band who put their all into their performance. Find the song lyrics for peatbog faeries top tracks. No songs of other artists were covered by peatbog faeries yet. Live is the first live album by scottish celtic fusion band peatbog faeries, released in 2009 by peatbog records. Formed in 1991, they are based in dunvegan on the isle of skye, scotland their music embodies many styles and influences, including folk, electronica, rock and jazz, although their main influence is traditional celtic music. Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped out with a smart degree of techno attitude, while crossrhythms ricochet over a heavy bass that hits you forcefully like a massive heart beat. Long before the current wave of synth and electric guitartoting scottish trad bands, there was the peatbog faeries. Find similar artists to peatbog faeries and discover new music.
Based on the isle of skye, the peatbog faeries are one of scotlands bestknown names in contemporary folk music. Blackhouse by peatbog faeries on amazon music unlimited. Crazy joe wacko king hako theres a girl behind the bar who thinks shes garbo still drunk in the morning the dancing feet set folk police caberdrone all about windmills. Live is the first live album by scottish celtic fusion band peatbog faeries, released in 2009 by. The faeries are from skye and edinburgh and their trade mark is a high energy techno groove putting reggae, ska and dub into the melting pot with the tradition and coming up with music you have to dance your socks off to. Find your preferred location and add it to your address book dispatch to this address when you check out learn more 9 new from. Faerie stories by peatbog faeries on amazon music unlimited. Passing clouds, london goodnatured, festivalfriendly set fuses traditional scottish sounds with funk. They are multiple award winners and were recently added to the scottish traditional music hall of fame. Music scotland scottish bands peatbog faeries peatbog. Reverbnation is not affiliated with those trademark owners. They are multiple award winners and were recently added to. As is unsurprising with an album called mellowosity its a little more contained than the amazing wild and free set they were playing live.
Weary weve been, dancing feet at wickham festival 20 tune 9 of in the set list. A quick glance at the credits on the back reveals a synthesizer alongside all the usual traditional instruments bodhran, fiddle, whistles, pipes, etc. A ninth album by the dynamic, highenergy peatbogs to commemorate their 25. Mellowosity, the debut cd from the scottish band the peatbog faeries, is wonderfully misleading in its packaging. Based on the isle of skye, off the northwest coast of scotland, the original lineup of the band comprised peter mor. Their new album faerie stories is out on greentrax and is the longawaited follow up to their unique debut mellowosity. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. Hailing from the isle of skye, legendary scottish trailblazers the peatbog faeries create a glorious mixture of traditional sounds and dancefloor grooves that has been embraced worldwide drawing upon a dazzling myriad of influences from jigs and reels through dance music, jazz, african, and more, they bring the sound of scotland freshfaced and breathless to the new audiences around the. Theres a very good reason peatbog faeries have twice been voted live act of the year in the mg alba scots trad music awards.
The awardwinning band takes a bold stance on this release with celtic fusion music that crosses genres and inspires. Follow based on the isle of skye, the peatbog faeries have been nominated for best live act at the bbc radio 2 folk awards 2012 and described as the future of celtic dance. Listen to your favorite songs from faerie stories by peatbog faeries now. The peatbog faeries are a phenomenal live experience and a powerful band in every sense of the word. We were asked to do a wee promotional video and having seen the professional quality of the videos of the other bands we realised ours had to be of the absolute highest quality, so heres our effort starring peter and ross. Stream tracks and playlists from peatbog faeries on your desktop or mobile device. The dancing feet set by peatbog faeries from their album live in 2008. They have taken their own individual brand of scottish tunes to audiences around the world, from european festivals, to asia, africa, america and australia. Wacko king hako peatbog faeries larry kirwans celtic invasion. So were looking forward to playing this summer at one of our favourite festivals, the hebridean celtic festival in lovely stornoway. Peatbog faeries peatbog faeries at celticconnections.
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