NOT one but two winners of the BBC Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award will play in Bury on March 31.
Ewan Robertson and Rua Macmillan will play the Bury Met in an exciting double-header that will get folk fans’ mouths watering.
Ewan is one-fifth of Breabach, and is known for his unique driving guitar accompaniment and disarming humour on stage.
He also studied fiddle and pipes, at Scotland’s National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music, and was winner of the BBC award in 2008.
Rua is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and is also a member of the Paul McKenna band, who won the award for best up-and-coming act at the 2009 MG Alba Scottish Trad Awards, the same year in which Rua won the BBC prize.
The pair’s albums — Ewan’s Some Kind of Certainty and Rua’s Tyro — have just been re-released to coincide with the tour.
* Ewan Robertson and Rua Macmillan play The Met, in Market Street, on Thursday, March 31. Tickets cost £10, and are available from themet.biz or by ringing 0161 761 2216.
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