1. Aly Bain MBE was born on 15 May 1946 and is a Scottish fiddler who learned his instrument from the old-time master Tom Anderson.
15 Facts About Aly Bain
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Aly Bain was born in the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.
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Aly Bain was one of the members of the band "Gordon Hank and the Country Ramblers", which included Gordon Smith, Ian Stewart and Jack Robertson in 1967 and was based in Shetland.
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Aly Bain became nationally prominent as a founding member of The Boys of the Lough, a Scots-Irish folk group, with whom he played for over 30 years.
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Simultaneously, Bain pursued a solo career in collaborative and television projects with Pelicula Films director Mike Alexander and producer Douglas Eadie, working on several international television series: The Down home Recordings, The Shetland Sessions, Aly Meets The Cajuns, and six series of the Transatlantic Sessions.
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In 1989, Aly Bain played at the Carnegie Hall in New York, USA, to a capacity crowd.
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In 1999 Aly Bain played at the first opening of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh.
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In 2000, Aly Bain played at the funeral of the Scottish first minister Donald Dewar.
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In 2010, Aly Bain made a further hour-long television programme for BBC with Pelicula Films and Billy Connolly: Fishing for Poetry, celebrating the life and works of the Scottish Poet Norman MacCaig.
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Aly Bain has received many honours for his services to music.
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In 1989, he received a Silver Disc from the Record Industry Association for his Aly Bain Meets the Cajuns recording.
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Aly Bain has received five honorary Doctor of Music degrees from: Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama; Stirling University; The University of St Andrews ; The Open University and Edinburgh University.
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In 2010, Aly Bain won the BBC Radio 2 Folk "Good Tradition Award".
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Aly Bain has received several honorary doctorates in the US.
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Aly Bain endorsed the independence campaign in the Scottish independence referendum, 2014.