Fraser Fifield with Chris stout and Catriona Mckay

one great circle - a musical tribute to stanley robertson

Original music by Fraser Fifield performed in a trio setting with the superb fiddle/harp duo Chris Stout and Catriona McKay. 

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Secret Path Trio

Fraser Fifield -Low Whistle | Paul Harrison - Wurlitzer piano | Tom Bancroft - drums/bodhran

Jazz North East: "Thanks so much to everyone that made it down to the brilliant Fraser Fifield ‘Secret Path’ Trio with Paul Harrison and Tom Bancroft at The Globe on Sunday night. I can honestly say that was one of THE BEST groups I’ve ever booked working with Jazz North East! It was just SO GOOD!!! To all my promoter friends around the country call up Fraser and get that trio to your venue."

"There is a lovely tone to the whistle in Fifield's hands. Clearly a virtuoso, his mastery of the instrument shows". read the full review here  

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Fraser Fifield and Graeme Stephen

Two of Scotland’s most accomplished – and least categorisable – musicians

"In Graeme Stephen, he has the ideal partner and, over 16 years, they have forged an understanding that means wherever one goes the other will join him intuitively, be that into a moving lament or the kind of electric guitar and Border pipes ferment witnessed on Chase It Catch It that, if he were that sort of bloke, might see Fifield with his foot up on a monitor, posing like a heavy metal hero. At heart, Fifield is a melodist and his gifts as such are here in abundance - filed under adventure". wrote Rob Adams for The Herald

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pibroch

by john bolland | music by fraser fifield

How does it feel to find oneself on a ‘burning platform’ with a pressing need for change but limited options? Pibroch is a multimedia theatre production which explores parallels between the Climate Emergency and the Piper Alpha Disaster in 1988.

Created by Aberdeenshire – based writer and artist, John Bolland, this exciting new production uses words, live music and striking visual imagery to represent the personal and social experiences of Piper Alpha survivors and their relationship to the challenges each of us face in a warming world.

Co-directed by Mark Thomson, former Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, Pibroch is crafted by an outstanding team of theatre professionals. John Bolland’s words are complemented by Fraser Fifield who provides live musical accompaniment.

LOLANDERS

"Two days later, in the neighbouring Strathclyde Suite, came the debut of another new Scots-born chamber ensemble, this one combining musicians supported by Dutch Performing Arts with three locals: Hardeep Deerhe on tabla, jazz guitarist Graeme Stephen and the whistle and pipes of Fraser Fifield. There was groove-aplenty from the LoLanders too – no matter whose composition was on the music stand, these experience hands could mine a riff for all it was worth. This was the finest context for Fifield’s talents I have heard, and communication between him and the viola and vocals of Oene Van Geel was the igniting spark, mirrored in Deerhe’s combination with percussionist Udo Demandt, and Stephen’s lick-trading with bassist Mark Haanstra". wrote Keith Bruce for the Herald.

obsfuscation

Gill russell | Pete stollery | Fraser fifield

A growing awareness of challenging global issues and a realisation that the process of negotiation between humans and nature has gone awry have created a new reality - the consciousness of the world as a single place and the need to re-assess our relationship with the planet.

In the deluge of confusing and bizarre news information directed at us by multiple media sources, we are told what to think, feel and hear. Skim-reading from terrifying news items reporting  extreme weather events to lifestyle tips, sport, health and fashion. How much can we comprehend, control, understand, or believe? 

Throughout time, humanity has turned to mythology and religion, invoking supernatural beings to take responsibility and to explain the mysteries and confusion of the world around us. Ancient myths, for example from Greek and Celtic mythology, resonate in the strangeness of the world today and humankind’s inability to fully understand it.

Pete, Fraser and Gill are exploring all this through an interweaving of art forms.  Gill has created imagery and generated (found) poems from extracts of the media. Pete has developed sound pieces. Imagery, sounds and texts have been interwoven into a narrative to which Fraser has responded, contributing to the live performance with improvised and composed material.

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