Lochaber based instrumentalist Ingrid Henderson has been steeped in traditional music all of her life. With early guidance from music tutors such as Savourna Stevenson, Angus Grant and strong family influences, Ingrid couldn’t help but fall into a musical career and began performing, touring and recording at a young age.
Winning the BBC Radio 2 Young Tradition Award in her early teens acted as a launch pad and resulted in world-wide performance opportunities including the Vancouver Folk Festival, Lorient, Brittany and Dranouter, Belgium. Thereafter Ingrid focused on performances, touring, and working closely with her brother Allan (Blazin’ Fiddles) to produce a number of albums. This has since developed into more collaborative work and as well as being a member of Gaelic band ‘Cliar’, Ingrid performs regularly in a duo with Skye-based singer Anne Martin.
Ingrid is involved in different elements of work relating to the Gaelic arts field. This includes media work as a performer, musical director and composer, recording work and teaching stints at the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music and the Irish World Music Centre. She has also gained much experience developing youth arts provision with the Gaelic organisation Feisean nan Gaidheal.
Her musical sensibility means she is much in demand as a session musician and accompanist and her name appears on many traditional recordings as a result. Ingrid’s first solo release “The Little Beauty”, co-produced with Donald Shaw (Capercaillie) was released in September 2005 on her and partner Iain MacFarlane’s own music label, Old Laundry Productions. More recently Iain and Ingrid have developed this business by building a state of the art recording studio in their home village of Glenfinnan.
“As though it were needed, here is proof that Ingrid is a musician of quite outstanding calibre, a virtuoso in terms of sensibility….”
Peter Urpeth, Living Tradition Magazine
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