THETEN ISLANDS

The Ten Islands - A different view on scottish music. The results of this international musical collaboration combine the most beautiful elements of Scottish traditional music... Since discovering the traditional music of his native Scotland thirty years ago, Nigel Gatherer has been passionately involved in collecting, researching, teaching and performing Scottish music. He has formed mixed instrument ensembles around the country, and has recently formed a mandolin and guitar orchestra in Edinburgh. While he has taught many students mandolin, his abiding ambition is "to get people playing music together, to share the joy that making music in groups produces, and simply to change people's lives with music. I know it can be done because I see it happening all the time!" Nigel lives in Perthshire with an artist and a cat.