Nick Keir

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Nick Keir (b. 1953) is a musician from Edinburgh, Scotland who is best known for his work with The McCalmans. More recently he has emerged as a singer/songwriter, producing two solo albums and performing as a soloist with The Tolkien Ensemble.

Keir studied at Stirling University, where he founded Finn mac Cuill, a folk/rock band which for a while expanded into The Finn mac Cuill Folkshow, a small touring theatre group, for which he wrote the scripts. In the late 1970s he joined 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland as a writer and musician, and soon after joined The McCalmans Folk Group.