Died Fort William, Scotland Role Multi-instrumentalist Name Ewen Henderson | Occupation(s) Musician Genres Folk rock | |
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Instruments fiddle, bagpipe, penny whistle, piano, vocals Albums Line Up, Room Enough For All, Manran Music groups Manran, Battlefield Band (Since 2010) Similar People Gary Innes, Alasdair White, Alan Reid, Brian McNeill, Karine Polwart | ||
Associated acts The Battlefield Band | ||
Great highland bagpipes ewen henderson percussion wil sifontes dougie hudson
Ewen Henderson (born 1987) (Scottish Gaelic Eòghann Mac Eunraig) is a multi-instrumentalist folk musician from Fort William in Scotland.
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- Great highland bagpipes ewen henderson percussion wil sifontes dougie hudson
- Musical career
- With Mnran
- With Battlefield Band
- With The Donnchadh Bn Boys
- With Afro Celt Sound System
- References
Musical career
Henderson comes from a musical family, with his sisters Megan (of Breabach) and Ingrid and brother Allan (formerly of Blazin' Fiddles) in particular being musicians of renown. He started learning the fiddle at the age of five under the tutelage of Aonghas Grant Snr.
Besides fiddle, Ewen regularly performs on bagpipe, penny whistle and piano. He is also fluent in Scottish Gaelic and sings in the language.
He has been a member of Battlefield Band (2010-2014), the Pneumatic Drills and Skipinnish but is currently most often found performing with Mànran, the band he helped found in 2010. His Scottish Gaelic singing has been aired on BBC Alba broadcasts. Since 2015, Ewen has also performed regularly with World music pioneers the Afro Celt Sound System.
Henderson is in high demand as a composer and created the soundtrack to the 2016 BBC Alba documentary "The Wee Govan Pipers/ Pìobairean Beaga Bhaile Ghobhainn". At 2017's Celtic Connections festival, Ewen Henderson was Musical Director of "Strì is Buaidh: Strife and Success", a show covering Gaelic political music over the last 600 years.
A keen follower of the sport shinty, he has played for Glasgow University Shinty Club.