RURA

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RURA won a prestigious Danny Kyle Award Celtic Connections festival 2011 which was the start of an exciting year for the band. The band have spent the year featuring at festivals and venues across Scotland and Italy. Highlights from summer 2011 include Speyfest, the Hebridean Music Festival and Glasgow’s international festival Piping Live, where the band took to the stage at The Old Fruitmarket.
RURA’s powerful sound comes from a line-up of pipes, whistle, flute, fiddle, bodhran and guitar. The band are:

Steven Blake (pipes, whistles)
Jack Smedley (fiddle)
Adam Holmes (guitar, vocals)
David Foley (bodhran, flute)
Chris Waite (guitars)

They feature 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 2012 with Greentrax Records.