‘..a fabulous addition to any festival line-up!’ Caroline MacLennan (Hebcelt Festival)
MG Alba Scottish Traditional Music Awards ‘Up and Comming Act of the Year 2011′
RURA simply haven’t looked back since bursting on to the Scottish folk scene last summer. Announced as winners of a prestigious Danny Kyle Award during last year’s Celtic Connections festival; 2011 has been an exciting year for the band. RURA have spent the year featuring at festivals and venues across Scotland and Italy, highlights from this summer include Speyfest, the Hebridean Celtic Music Festival and Glasgow’s international Piping Live festival where the band took to the stage at The Old Fruitmarket.
RURA’s powerful sound comes from a line-up of song, pipes, whistle, fiddle, flute, bodhran and guitar. The band, Steven Blake, Jack Smedley, Adam Holmes, David Foley and Chris Waite, features three ‘BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year‘ finalists and an ‘All Ireland‘ bodhran champion. Talented singer/songwriter Adam Holmes is the latest addition to the RURA line-up, impressing audiences over the past few months fusing his own sound with the strong folk influence of RURA as the band moves from strength to strength.
RURA are set to release their debut album early next year with Greentrax Records.
“..it’s great when the band turns out to be a real class act. And RURA were just that! Great musicianship with the fiddle and pipes combination giving the tunes a real contemporary feel. They’ll be back at Speyfest for sure!” Brian Milne
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