International singer and violinist Simone Welsh has garnered a worldwide reputation for her fresh approach to traditional Scottish music while remaining respectfully true to the genre’s roots.
From Robert Burns to Judy Garland, her performances effortlessly marry traditional classics with contemporary counterparts. In the last decade she has toured extensively throughout the world, having the pleasure to play for a host of luminaries including both the British and Spanish royal families, sporting legends Pele and George Best and Hollywood royalty Tom Hanks. Equally Simone has never lost the common touch, this was personified when she received a standing ovation from 50,000 rugby fans when she played Murryfield stadium.
Simone was born in a small mining village on the west coast of Scotland and began playing the violin at the tender age of five. Her ability was soon recognized by the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland who made her a representative, giving her the opportunity to tour Europe with many orchestra’s including La Joven Orquesta Nacional de España.
While attending the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, studying a Bachelor of Arts in music, Simone was in constant demand as a session musician. The experience at such a young age of playing a wide variety of musical styles was to stand her in good stead on the cabaret circuit.
The List said: “An outstanding talent…… Her voice has the hurt of country music with a chill out twist”
Time Out said: “Songs of war and tears written over a quarter of millennia ago have a mellow, melancholic glow, while still holding 21st Century relevance.”
Simone is recording her debut album “Diving for Pearls” which is due for release in 2008.
guess who's failing her music history exam in an hour and 15 mins.
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i hate this. gunna change either to photography or art history...either one i'l take a language with just coz i like languages :) i think that'll make a LOT more sence than me doing music. it's too much of a personal thing for me, and i HATE people listening to me, and judging me ken!? so aye, just thought id let you know :) hope i see you VEEEEERY soon! cant wait til u get back.
Hey Simone hows it going back in sunny scotchland? Hope all is well, did you enjoy yer chippy? We are soooooooo Jealous, We will see you in September when your back in the Biggish Apple. D&A xx
simone welsh
Hey! I'm back from the tour, and i made a little video of some of the highlights of 2006....complete with an encounter i had with a Japanese toilet!! If you get a chance....you can see it on youtube....click here to watch it. Anyway, take care and i hope to see you somewhere on the road....i hit it again in May!
Kevin
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Hey!
I'm good and the academy is going well. Sorry it's taken so long to reply, jusy been busy with essays etc, from uni. Counting down the days to the Easter holidays! Going to Skye next week with the rest of my year for a weeks Gaelic tution and then we are doing a concert on the Wednesday so it should be fun! A lot of drinking I presume! hehe!
Hope everythings going well over in New York and your CD is going well too!
Anyway, take care,
Shona x
p.s. i'm wearing a FUCKING "fratellis" tee. you'd love it. and your shoes you gave me that are all brown and yellow and red. and i just figured out that the canadian that's been staying with us for the past two weeks is gay and hasnt come out the closet yet. and also, i think somewhere in a dream is a fucking amazing song! XD
but on a down note, i drank buckfast last night :(
but just so i don't leave you feeling all down, iv got a conditional to do music at edinburgh uni :D proud?
ahah! it's pishin down with rain right now. but i went a walk anyway...my head hurts now tho.
MON BACK TAE BLOODY SCOTLAND WHERE THE RAIN POURS ON YER HEID, WHERE YOU GET LAUGHED AT FOR WEARING ANYTHING OTHER THAN BLACK, WHERE WHEN YOU ASK FOR A CHIP BUTTY THEY KEN WHAT IT IS, AND WHERE YER NEEDED AND LOVED THE MOST!!!!
please. coz that would be quite a nice thing for you to do...call it a good deed :)
simone i am not amused 2 c tht louise is in ur top friends and im not :O i mean come on..think of all the good times weve had.. lol just kiddin... lovee claire xxx
don't laugh at me for not living in new york tho :( not my fault i have no money to!! one day i will...and you'll have lost ALL your money, and will be living in a cardboard box on john finnie street in killie, and i'll be over for my world wide tour of everywhere (because everyone everywhere WILL love me) and i'll stumble upon you in the street...and then i'll sing that song to you, even if it's not your birthday, because you won't know when your birthday will be anyway because you won't have a calendar. so then you'll think that it's your birthday, which will make you less embarrassed when i give you money (which i'll actually just be giving you because i feel sorry for you).
ahahah, then we'll see who the one laughing is!! aye missy, it'll be ME, so unless ur wantin a kickin i suggest u stop laughin and MON BACK HERE AND STOP HAVIN FUN IN NEW YORK!!!
I really like all your new pics Simone!
Looks like you're having a fab time in the big NY =]
Mega jealous now, lol!
Hope its all good and that you and Keith enjoy yourselves hunners so you've got loads of stories for us when you get back!
Take care and stuff,
Em xxx
