Ryan Young
Date: Saturday 8th October
Time: 7.30pm
Place: The Rockfield Centre
Age: All ages
Cost: £12 Standard
£8 Concession
Free Registered carer's (when accompanying paid ticket holder).
Booking is essential for this event
Live music
Traditional Scots musician Ryan Young brings new life to very old, often forgotten tunes.
Playing in his own unique style, Ryan’s fiddle playing is brimming with fresh melodic ideas, uplifting rhythmic drive and a great depth of dynamics and precision. His distinctive sound takes listeners on an emotional and adventurous journey with international praise for his spell-binding interpretations on the fiddle.
His debut album was recorded with four time GRAMMY winner Jesse Lewis and launched at Feakle Traditional Music Festival in County Clare with accompaniment from renowned guitarist, Dennis Cahill (Martin Hayes; The Gloaming).
Ryan holds both a first class honours and a Masters degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has been a finalist twice in BBC Radio 2’s Young Folk Awards, and the prestigious BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of The Year awards. In 2017, Ryan was awarded ‘Up And Coming Artist Of The Year’ at the Scots Trad Awards, and in 2018, was nominated for the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and awarded Folking.com's Musician Of The Year title.
Further MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards nominations include Album Of the Year, and Folk Band Of The Year. ‘Ryan Young with Jenn Butterworth’ was also the only UK artist selected to perform at the prestigious World Music conference, WOMEX, in 2019.
