Back of the Moon is a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 musical group

Band (music)

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 which plays both new and Scottish traditional tunes and songs cast in modern sounding arrangements. Since forming in 2000, the band have toured annually throughout the UK, Canada

Canada

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, USA and eight different Europe

Europe

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an Countries. Back of the Moon create an acoustic sound through a front line of Scottish border pipes and fiddle, a pairing of low whistle and flute, and their guitar/piano rhythm combo. They are at times augmented by bodhran and Cape Breton Stepdancing, and three-part vocal harmonies in their Scottish songs in which each singer takes the lead.

2005 saw them win 'Best Folk Band' at the Scots Trad Music Awards

Scots Trad Music Awards

The Scots Trad Music Awards celebrate Scotland's traditional music in all its forms and create a high profile opportunity to bring the music and music industry into the spotlight of media and public attention.-2010:...

, having received "Best Up and Coming Act" at the awards back in 2003 and "Best Celtic Group" at Festival Interceltique de Lorient

Festival Interceltique de Lorient

The Festival Interceltique de Lorient or Gouelioù Etrekeltiek An Oriant was founded in Lorient, Brittany in 1971 by Polig Montjarret...

 2003.

Having completed their final US tour, the band played their last-ever gig in the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C. on November 21, 2007.

Discography

1. Gillian Frame and Back of the Moon (2001)
2. Fortune's Road (2003)
3. Luminosity (2005)

Band members

2000-03

• Findlay Napier (guitar, vocals) (joined early 2001)
• Gillian Frame (fiddle, vocals)
• Simon McKerrell (border pipes, uillean pipes, whistles, vocals)
• Hamish Napier (piano, whistles, vocals)

2003- 2007

• Findlay Napier
  Findlay Napier
  Findlay Napier, is a Scottish musician, guitarist and songwriter.-Biography:Napier was born in Glasgow in November 1978 and that winter, during coldest winter on record, his parents moved to Grantown on Spey...
  
  (guitar, vocals)
• Gillian Frame (fiddle, vocals)
• Ali Hutton (border pipes, whistles, bodhran)
• Hamish Napier (piano, whistles, flutes, vocals)

External links

• Official Site
• Footstompin, the UK record label to which Back of the Moon is currently signed.
• Mad River Records, the US record label on which Back of the Moon's album's are currently released in the US.