Kris Drever

Award winning musician and harmonic alchemist returns to Birnam Arts. As well as creating award-winning original songs and instrumental pieces with the trio Lau, Kris Drever has a fruitful solo career exploring the cracks between classic and modern songwriting, and the traditional music of the Orkney Islands he hails from. Drever’s sound is rooted in the earthy and hypnotic rhythms of much older music, but there’s a sophistication to both the lyricism and the instrumentalism which places him skilfully in the present. He has an extensive collection of BBC R2 Folk awards, plus a fistful of Scottish NaTrads awards for everything from best album, best singer and best live act, to best original song. Drever has worked with many excellent musicians, including Jack Bruce, Eddi Reader, Mark Knopfler, Jerry Douglas and Roddy Woomble, and is a member of the beautiful multi-media project Spell Songs: The Lost Words. Currently, Kris is preparing for a series of Lau events around the UK, writing music for a new solo album and learning some old tunes for reasons he can’t quite explain!