Gypsy Dave Smith annual Highland Tour 2010

Aviemore The Old Bridge Inn October 8th
Ullapool Loch Broom FM Medicine Show Guitar Festival Special Noon October 9th
Ullapool Argyll Hotel Saturday after Noon Medicine Show 2.30PM October 9th
Ullapool Argyll Hotel In Concert 9pm October 9th
Conon Bridge (By Dingwall) Druthy Duck Sunday Afternoon 3pm
Inverness Ceol Mor October 10th 9pm

A well kent face in The Highlands since being introduced here by Martin Stephenson, in the 80's who see Dave as a musical mentor. Dave's family were from Buckie his grand father a herring fisherman who left for Australia, when the great barrier reef fisheries opened and the North Sea herring run out, so he has a strong affinity with the Highlands and built a strong following over the years for his brand of Folk Blues, with regular tours and festival appearances at Belladrum where he is a gegular fixture on the Potting Shed Stage and Grass Roots stage and for the Highland Festival of old, where he presented a show with Dave Peabody The Hot Licks Cookies and The Hokum Hot Shots called "Shining Like a National Steal Guitar".


A veteran of the dobro blues guitar, (The Dobro was invented by Jozef Dopyera to amplify the guitar by means of a resonator before the advent of electrical amplification and subsequently became the instrument of choice amongst Bluesmen ) he left Australia for the life of Robert Johnson in his 20's, (30 years ago) with a 1933 Dobro earned from soul. His amazingly authentic picking style recalls the hard travelling' days of Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Mississippi John Hurt, in every note and timber, and steered his journey half way round the world from Newcastle Australia to find his soul mate, family and musical home in Newcastle UK. On visiting The Highlands with Martin Stephenson (long time collaborator and traveling partner) in the early 80's he set about finding new fans (and lost family) in Scotland, including regular returns for events like the Highland Festival, where in 1998 he headed up a steel guitar review called "Shining Like a National Steel Guitar". In the same year he was invited to take part in the Jozef Dopyera Festival in Slovakia to celebrate the Inventor of the Resonator Guitar and 90th anniversary of the innovative instrument. More recently he's become a regular and musician in residence at The Belladrum Festival in The Highlands.

Now a regular on a great many other profile European Festivals, in addition he is a musician and character of renown to many venues around the Toon and around the rest of the Blues community of the UK.


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