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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

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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!!