Mairi Campbell
| Mairi Campbell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Mairi Campbell 1965 Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Home town | Portobello, Scotland |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | folk music, Scottish music |
| Instruments | Viola, Fiddle, piano, vocals |
| Years active | 1989 – present |
| Website | www.mairicampbell.scot |
Mairi Campbell (born 1965) is a Scottish folk singer and musician. Campbell’s songs and music have a rooted and powerful quality that range from the everyday to the universal, both in sound and subject matter.
Campbell has been much praised for her singing voice and musical skills. She has won multiple awards including Scots Singer of the Year, Female Musician of the Year, Neil Gow Composition of the Year, and Tutor of the Year. In 2015 Campbell created her first solo theatre show Pulse, an autobiographical account of a musician seeking pulse, co-devised and directed by Kath Burlinson. Tracks from her 2015 album Pulse, a collaboration with the producer David Gray, feature in the show.
Campbell is one half of the duo The Cast, whose version of the Robert Burns poem Auld Lang Syne featured in the blockbuster movie Sex and the City.
Campbell is also a member of the ceilidh band The Occasionals, and is a guest musician with the baroque ensemble Concerto Caledonia.
Campbell was born and raised in Morningside, Edinburgh. She was brought up alongside her three sisters by their mother, the artist Marjorie Campbell and their father Archie, an academic at Napier University. Her mother and father ensured that all four sisters had a strong grounding in music. The sisters formed their own string quartet when Campbell was 11.
Campbell studied the viola with Michael Beeston at The City of Edinburgh Music School from age 16. She went on to study with Csaba Erelyi at Guildhall School of Music in London where she was penalised for playing her own composition in her final exam.
Campbell was a member of the Kreisler String Orchestra, an award-winning conductorless string orchestra, from 1989 to 1994. However she felt a strong hankering for traditional music and felt the need to "come home" to her own cultural roots.
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