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Cellist Wendy Weatherby unveils her tribute to Scots poet William Soutar. Interview by Jim Gilchrist
The cello was once a popular accompanying instrument for the fiddle in the Scottish dance bands of the 18th century, then it was annexed by the classical world as one of its own. It is only in the relatively recent years of the folk revival that it has started to make itself heard again in the context of Scottish traditional music, played as "second fiddle" to singers or instrumentalists or in its own right, by the likes of Ron Shaw, Wendy Weatherby or America's Abbey Newton.
Now Weatherby, well-known as a singer on both the folk and mainstream jazz circuits, as well as a cellist, has matched no less than four cellos to three male voices in her "New Voices" commission for Celtic...