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Over
the past ten-to-fifteen years, very well-sold/packed houses at gigs
as diverse as Ronnie Scott's Club (London and Birmingham), The Queen's
Hall (Edinburgh), The Acoustic Music Centre (Edinburgh), Southport
Arts Centre, The City Hall (Glasgow), The Old Fruit Market (Glasgow),
The Isle of Bute Folk Festival, Strathaven Folk Festival, Penicuik
Folk Festival, Birmingham Town Hall, Traquair Fair, Aden Country
Park have been grabbed by this striding talent of a blues writer
and singer.
TAM
WHITE's on-stage presence insists that we will enjoy ourselves.
His gravelly voice - it is no surprise to find that his trade is
stone-masonry - commands immediate attention whether fronting the
nine-piece big band (definitely a hot, cooking band) or in perhaps
a more restrained mode with his acoustic blues trio.
TAM's
was the voice behind Robbie Coltrane's Big Jazza in the highly successful
BAFTA award-winning BBC TV series, Tutti Frutti. Close your eyes
and you are immediately in Chicago listening to hard-working, hard-living,
hard-hitting blues.
In
recent years TAM WHITE has had several TV and film roles culminating
in 1994-95 in the recently-released, Braveheart, starring and directed
by Mel Gibson and in which Tam plays the chief of Clan MacGregor.
At
sixty years old now, TAM WHITE has been around. From rock 'n roll
with the renowned Boston Dexters around the early club days of the
1960s in Edinburgh, to London from whence Scottish Television lured
him back north of the border with an offer of a series and a 'monkey
suit'. "Worst decision I ever made.", quo' the man. learned
a lot in the intervening years!
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