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NEXT  SCC  EVENT!!!

-an intimate celtic evening with-

Internationally Acclaimed Scottish Singer, Songwriter and Performer

Brian McNeill

Friday, April 24th
The Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts / Southall-Moore Annex
7:30 PM!!



Seating will be limited to 75 persons!!!

SEE DETAILS BELOW!!!





"Shoals Celtic Concerts have put Alabama firmly on the map for
celtic bands touring America. Great venue, warm southern
hospitality and an appreciative audience - brilliant!!"

Jim Malcolm, The Old Blind Dogs


"Having toured and travelled all over the USA and the world,  there are several
places which stand out as exceptional venues for Dervish. Florence, Alabama
has joined that list!  Beautiful town, excellent venue, warm and enthusiastic

audience and to top it all off the very best of hospitality for the musicians.
Shoals Celtic Concerts are the type of promoters who make it a pleasure
to play and Dervish will be back again and again!!"

Michael Holmes / Cathy Jordan
Dervish



Shoals Celtic Concerts is dedicated to bringing the best performing artists Celtic Music has
to offer to the North Alabama area. To date the series has hosted the incredible talents of

Jim Malcolm
The Old Blind Dogs
Teada
Dervish
Ed Miller
Danu
 Alasdair Fraser  &  Natalie Hass
Rosheen
GiveWay
Cara


Come out and support us as we continue our mission
to allow the Shoals area to experience some of the finest music in the world.

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Brian McNeill
Friday April 24th

Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts / Southall-Moore Annex
Florence, AL

7:30 PM
seating will be limited to somewhere between 75 and 100 max!!



Internationally Acclaimed Scottish Singer, Songwriter and Performer

The Incredible
Brian McNeill



"A mature album from a master musician and a great writer revealing yet more of the depth of the McNeill talent."

Living Tradition Magazine


"..A quietly passionate celebration of tradition without boundaries......A rare balance of integrity and personality.."
Q Magazine


"..plays with a skill and an ease which would make anyone who has ever held a fiddle weep.."
Stornoway Gazette


"Magnificent interpretations of great songs dredged from traditional and contemporary sources..”
Oban Times




Tickets are $10 each and available at the Kennedy Douglass Center for the Arts!

SEATING WILL BE LIMITED!!!


This intimate concert will be held in the new Southall-Moore Annex right beside the Kennedy-Douglass Art Center.

We *think* we can get 75 - 90 lucky ticket holders into this show.  However, we will sell exactly 75 tickets in advance and hold the remaining 20 tickets at the door to see how OR IF we can squeeze everyone into the concert! When the rooms are full -- then it is a sellout!!  We will not know exactly how that plays out until that evening!!


If you are one of the 75 ticket holders who bought in advance - then you must be there by 7:25 PM. OTHERWISE, we will probably start to allow those waiting for tickets to begin to utilize the remaining 20 we will sell at the door!!

This is a tight fit folks so PLEASE work with us on this!!


Brian McNeill
www.brianmcneill.co.uk/


"Scotland's most meaningful contemporary songwriter" The Scotsman

BRIAN  McNEILL's professional career spans more than three decades and he is now acknowledged  as one of Scotland's  great  musical forces; as a songwriter, composer, producer and musical director, as well as a performer. He was born in 1950 in Falkirk and began his musical training in his early teens with violin lessons, but soon forsook that for the electric guitar. There followed a comprehensive musical education  and mildly misspent  youth - until his student  years brought  him to Celtic music.  As a direct consequence, in 1969 he formed the Battlefield Band, which became one of Scotland's best known ensembles. 

Brian plays fiddle, octave fiddle, guitar, mandocello, bouzouki, viola, mandolin, cittern, concertina, bass and hurdy gurdy. The importance of his songwriting, mostly  about Scotland's  past and future, has long been recognised. Songs including The Yew Tree, The Lads O' The Fair, The Snows of France and Holland, Strong  Women Rule Us All With Their Tears, Any Mick'll  Do and No Gods and Precious Few Heroes have established  him as one of Scotland's leading songwriters.

Brian has two published novels, the first of which, The Busker came out in 1989 and the sequel, To Answer The Peacock, published a decade later. In 1990 Brian left Battlefield Band to concentrate more on writing and solo projects. Since then he has also toured with Dick Gaughan, Clan Alba, Kavana, McNeill, Lynch and Lupari, Martin  Hayes, Natalie MacMaster and his old friend, the late Iain MacKintosh.

In 2001 Brian took up the post of Head of Scottish Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

His audio visual shows, The Back O' The North Wind, about Scottish emigration to America, and the sequel, The Baltic Tae Byzantium, which explores the influence of the Scots in Europe, have won wide critical acclaim.


DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!!



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