The Shee Big Band: Women Make Music
The first full performance of The Shee Big Band will take place at Kings Place London on the 15th March 2019 with support from PRS for Music Foundation Women Make Music. The performance is part of the mini-festival ‘Trad. Reclaimed: Women in Folk’ curated by The Shee member Rachel Newton for the venue’s Venus Unwrapped series.
The Shee Big Band was formed last year for a ten minute performance to open the Scots Trad Music Awards. The Big Band brought together the original six members of The Shee plus five guest musicians to create a mighty sound featuring vocals, electroharps, fiddles, accordions, flute, guitar and drums. The performance was so well received that the band decided they would create and perform a full show, expanding on the material The Shee have written over the years.
The Shee are a 6 piece band with members from across the UK. Their last project Continuum was praised in The Guardian as ‘a sophisticated, unexpectedly emotional set’ and all four of their albums have been critically acclaimed. The Shee band members have won several awards including BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Musician of the Year, Scots Trad Music Awards Instrumentalist of the Year and the BBC Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year. The Shee were nominated as Best Live Act and Band of the Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards and for the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.