Archie Fisher is coming to Pender Harbour on Sunday, Nov. 14, for a 3 p.m. concert at the School of Music.
Master guitarist, singer and songwriter, Fisher is Scotland's foremost troubadour and was the host of BBC Radio Scotland's award-winning Travelling Folk show for more than 25 years.
Fisher was born in Glasgow into a large singing family, which yielded three professional singers - he and his sisters Ray and Cilla Fisher. Constant music combined with his father's appreciation of many musical styles (opera, vaudeville, traditional ballads) proved to be a heavy influence on his musical development, while his mother, a native Gaelic speaker from the Outer Hebrides, was a strong influence on the lyrical quality of his singing and songwriting.
He was inducted into the Scots Trad-itional Music Hall of Fame and in 2006 was awarded an MBE (Distinguished Member of the British Empire), a prestigious honour nominated by his peers and bestowed by Queen Elizabeth. The most recent recognition of his art came from the Goderich Celtic Roots Festival in 2008 when he was granted the Tradition Bearers Award.
Tickets for $20 are available at Harbour Insurance, John Henry's Marina, the Sechelt Visitors Centre Gaia's Fair Trade.
For more information, see www.penderharbourmusic.ca.
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