Findlay Napier & The Bar Room Mountaineers

As well as having the longest name at this year's festival, Findlay Napier & The Bar Room Mountaineers will be the first of the Scottish Showcase acts to take to a stage at the festival this year.
Supported by the Scottish Arts Council, the Scottish Showcase underlines the role that Cambridge has played in introducing Scots bands to crowds South Of The Border and Cambridge to travelling Scots folk fans.
Findlay Napier & The Bar Room Mountaineers were an obvious choice for kicking off the showcase, not least because of Findlay's involvement in other bands, Back Of The Moon and more recently Queen Anne's Revenge, named after Blackbeard's Ship.
Napier has a distinctive voice with a definite Scottish lilt to it. In teh Bar Room Mountaineers, he has found a collective of musicians that rootsy and agressive equals entertaining.
The songs reflect the attitudes and environs of Glasgow, expects a good crowd for this. It's in the Club Tent so you might want to be there early.

Post Festival Thoughts

As expected there was a good turn out for this one, the first of The Scottish Showcases. It was like a Glagow Bar had been transported to a beer tent in East Anglia, which effectively it had.
Apart from playing "Nobody's Child" to reduce the Scots in the crowd to tears, an emotional and tempetuous set. Glad to have been there for this one.
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