Patsy Reid

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Patsy Reid (born 27th May 1983 in Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish fiddle player and singer. She co-founded folk band Breabach in 2003 and saw them nominated for best Folk Band at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2011 before moving on to pastures new that same year.

In 2004, she gained a 1st Class Honours Degree in Applied Music from Strathclyde University, continuing her studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she graduated with a PGCE with Specialist Strings Teaching and PG Dip in Violin Performance. Her next appointment was as Sole Teacher of Music at Kingussie High School, where she taught for two years, before performing music full time from 2008.

Since then she has collaborated with many fantastic musicians in various collaborations.

Collaborations

The Unusual Suspects feat. Corrina Hewat, Dave Milligan, Anna Massie, Eilidh Shaw, Mairead Green, Alyn Cosker.
The Boy and the Bunnet feat. James Ross, Corrina Hewat, Fraser Fifield, Signy Jakobsdottir, Angus Lyon.
VAMM feat. Marit Fält and Catriona MacDonald.
Bridging the Gapfeat. Mhairi Hall, Natalie Haas, Duncan Lyall, Mairi Campbell, Mike Bryan, Iain Copeland, Aidan O'Rourke, Greg Lawson, Anna-Wendy Stevenson.
Struileag feat. Jim Sutherland, Su-a Lee, Seonaid Aitken, Anna-Wendy Stevenson, Fraser Fifield, Angis Lyon
Little Bird Blown off Course feat. Fiona J. Mackenzie, Signy Jakobsdottir, Innes White, Alistair Iain Paterson.
Pulse of the World feat. Zakir Hussain, Kumaresh, Rakesh Chaurasia, Michael McGoldrick, Matheu Watson, John Joe Kelly, Charlie McKerron and Ross Ainslie.
The Cecil Sharp Project feat. Patsy Reid, Steve Knightley, Kathryn Roberts, Andy Cutting, Caroline Herring, Leonard Podolak, Jackie Oates and Jim Moray.
Kathryn Tickell's Northumbrian Voices feat. Patsy Reid, Julian Sutton, Hannah Rickard, Mike Tickell, Amy Thatcher, Kit Haigh.
Folk Nations feat. Hannah James, Dan Walsh, Georgia Ruth, Suhain Yusuf Khan, Saurav Moni.


Albums

With Complements (2003)
The Big Spree (2007)
Bridging the Gap (2008)
The Desperate Battle of the Birds (2010)
Contours of Cairngorm (2011)
VAMM (2013)
The Brightest Path (2014)


External links

Patsy Reid's Official Website
Patsy Reid on Facebook
Patsy Reid on Twitter
Patsy Reid on Soundcloud
Patsy Reid on MySpace

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