Low whistle virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield launches a new album, One Great Circle at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow on Saturday March 9th at 8pm.
Featuring music specially written to perform with long-time friends, the outstanding fiddle and harp duo Chris Stout and Catriona McKay, the album forms part of Fifield’s output as Artist in Residence for the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
One Great Circle is inspired by the supernatural stories of Stanley Robertson, the storyteller, singer, and member of the Travelling community of Northeast Scotland, who died aged sixty-nine in 2009 and whose recorded voice lends atmosphere to the live performance.
The piece was premiered very successfully in Edinburgh in October 2023 and follows Fifield’s enthusiastically received album featuring his low whistle prowess, Secret Path.