Vocals - Mharhi Baird
Fiddle - David Lombardi
Bouzouki - Alan Reid

Van Diemens Land

Just a nice wee memento from my time on the MA Irish Music Performance course.  Playing here with the fabulous Joanna Hyde (fiddle) & Tadhg O Meachair (piano); two great friends & exceptional musicians!

Taking a slightly more classical approach (just for the craic!), the piece is a Danish Valse which I learned from a recording of The Danish String Quartet - check them oot!

Don't judge the flute playing too harshly... Tis all just work in process.  

Many thanks to the Dewar Arts Awards Agency who funded my year of study. I'm extremely great full for their generosity, having gained so much from my time in Limerick... both musically and personally.    

Valse Dec 8

A fun wee chat with Mharhi about her new post at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and its up-coming events.

Interview in the first 40mins 

Radio chat with Mharhi & Gordon Hotchkiss at Celtic Music Radio

Bobby Robb - A gem of a man and one of my earliest musical influences.

I have many fond memories Bobby at Girvan Folk Club and Folk Festival as well as on our club jaunts to Ireland.  I still have the sailors bunnet (his trade mark look) he gave me on my 16th birthday.

This track is from his album "A Man You Dont Meet Every Day", recorded at the Living Tradition Music and Technology Summer School in 2007 by John Weatherby & Kris Koren of Sound Sense Studios.

Bobby Robb - Bonny Udny

So here is a wee snippit from my demo roughs with mighty fine playing from David Lombardi (fiddle) and Alan Reid (bouzouki and vocals). 

Sheep in the Boat (preview)

Mharhi Baird (Ayrshire) is a talented flute player and singer, who since her formative musical years in the remote Outer Hebrides, under the tutelage of renowned piper Iain MacDonald, has gone on to complete a BA Scottish Music & an MA Irish Traditional Music Performance. She received two highly sought after awards from the Dewar Arts Awards Agency in 2008 & 2014 and has performed & taught for numerous festivals & organisations across Europe and the US. 

Mharhi Baird

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