But Calum has been on a journey to add the uilleann pipes, which he has described “very versatile” and speaking “directly to you no matter what culture you are from”, to his range of instruments. If you are at all familiar with Calum Stewart’s previous recordings, you will think of him as a flute player that being the only instrument he played on his recorded work up to and including the 2012 ‘does what it says on the tin’ release with fiddler player Lauren MacColl titled Wooden Flute and Fiddle – read our review here. It is an album that illuminates his distinctive position at the intersection of the worlds of Scottish, Irish and Breton traditional music and demonstrates his outstanding playing on the uilleann pipes – together with his high-quality compositional abilities. Calum Stewart grew up in the north east of Scotland, an area he describes as being ‘rich in history and legend antiquity deeply rooted within her bold landscapes’, and which provides the inspiration for his new album Tales From The North.
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