Hamish Napier

Hamish Napier joins Ewan Petrie for this weeks episode of "The Tracks That Take Us Back". Hamish is a Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist, educator and composer who hails from Strathspey in the Highlands.  An integral part of the Scottish folk and traditional music scene, Hamish has cemented his place as one of Scotland's leading musicians. After many years of living in Glasgow, and a year studying at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Hamish returned to the Highlands to begin his ambitious 10 year project "The Strathspey Pentalogy", in which Hamish would produce 5 landscape inspired albums. This has resulted in the release of "The River" (2016), "The Railway" (2018) and "The Woods" (2020). With the later winning "Album of the Year" at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards. Join Hamish and Ewan as they embark on a journey of music and memories for this week's installment of "The Tracks That Take Us Back".