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Shooglenifty are at the forefront of the folk/fusion Celtic music scene, with their trademark combination of superb musicianship, ensemble cohesion and inventiveness.
10 tracks: McConnell's Rant * Excess Baggage * The Trim Controller * Charlie and The Professor * Loreen's Tune * Ful' Tae The Heid O' Troots * The Eccentric * The Patient Nurses * Walter C Douglas * Jane's Dance.
One track features the extraordinary vocals of North American Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis. Shooglenifty first met Tanya in the Canadian Yukon territory, where they were thrown together during a workshop at the Yellowknife Folk Festival.
They were reunited at the Salmon Arm Festival in the Canadian Rockies, where again the band and Tanya found their kindred spirits took the roof off the venue. Tanya's urgent otherworldly vocals meld uniquely with the band's rhythmic and melodic textures.
Angus Grant (fiddle), Luke Plumb (mandolin, bouzouki, tenor banjo, piano, guitar), Malcolm Crosbie (guitars), Garry Finlayson (banjos, banjax, guitar), Ranald (Quee) MacArthur (electric and double basses, programming) and James Mackintosh (traps kit, percussion, programming).
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