Session A9

'Best Live Act' at the 2012 Scot Trad Music Awards!

"The best band to come out of Scotland in 100 years" - Dougie MacLean

“Resulting in brilliantly sophisticated arrangements of tunes new and old, brimming with brio and simply oozing class” - The Sunday Herald

Session A9 are playing a very rare London concert at The London Irish Centre in Camden (50-52 Camden Square, NW1 9XB) on Sunday 15th September with support from London based Anglo-Australian folk duo Forbes Moncrieff

Session A9 feature the stunning fiddles of Charlie McKerron, Gordon Gunn, Kevin Henderson and Adam Sutherland with Brian McAlpine on piano, Marc Clement on guitar and vocals and David ‘Chimp’ Robertson on percussion.

Over the last 10 years, Session A9 have earned their reputation as one of the best live bands in the country. With band members having played key roles in Capercaillie, The Peat Bog Faeries, The Boys of the Lough, Fiddler's Bid, Blazin' Fiddles, The Treacherous Orchestra and Iron Horse, it’s no wonder they are frequently described as a “Scottish Supergroup.”

Renowned Scottish singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean testified, “The best band to have come out of Scotland in 100 years!” and The Proclaimers proclaimed Session A9 as “Tighter than James Brown.” - great praise indeed for a band formed in 2001 through informal music sessions up and down the arterial Scottish road, the A9.

What Road?, the band’s highly acclaimed first album, released in 2003, was followed by successful UK tours. Appearances at Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival, Celtic Connections, The Hebridean Celtic Festival, Shetland Folk Festival and The Orkney Folk Festival, with European festival sorties including Lorient (Brittany), Ortiguera (Spain), Tønder (Denmark) and Celtica (Italy), have cemented A9’s reputation as one of the most exciting live acts of the millennium.