The Faeries are an extremely approachable crew. Fun-loving, highly skilled individuals who very clearly love what they do. Hailing from Scotland, the members are:

Peter Morrison - Bagpipes&Whistle

Ben Ivitsky - Fiddle

Ali Pentland – Guitar*

Nürudîn - Keyboards

Innes Hutton - Bass / bodran

Iain Copeland - Drums/percussion

For those who have tasted Mellowosity and found it good, there's more in store on Faerie Stories, their freshly minted CD. It's a more aggressive take on the Faerie flavor, so very complimentary, and available soon in the U.S. See their discography for more information on these remarkable albums.

*LINE-UP CHANGES FOR 2001....

Tom Salter –unofficially the Spice Fairy, will be replacing Ali Pentland on guitar, Ali being the proud father of his third. Tom has been a guest on previous performances in the Czeck Republic. Amongst other things, Tom has played extensively with the legendary Vocalist / guitarist Ali Farka Toure from Timbuktu, so we will all be treated to some authentic African style guitar thrown into the musical melting pot. We here at Celtic Grove wish the best for Ali and his growing family!

Nurudin--We've received news from Nurudin, keyboard player extraordinaire, that he will bid adieu his Faerie enclave and move on from Scotland to Spain. While future collaborations have not been ruled out, his former faerie fellows are on the lookout for a replacement, preferrably one who can perform a little webpage magic on his keyboard as well. Read on.......

What others think...

Nothing in the recognisable front line of bagpipes, fiddle, synthesiser, bass & rhythm guitar with a straight drum kit at the back, prepares you for the high octane music the Peatbog Faeries create. Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped out with a smart degree of techno attitude, while cross-rhythms ricochet over a heavy bass that hits you forcefully like a massive heart beat. Reggae, dub & soca rhythms all play their part with a lot of gorgeously undulating modal melodies from Macedonia and further, so the packed audience who crowd around the stage can almost salsa as well as perform the high-jumping ceilidh moves such music encourages. With no time wasted with chat other than the odd tune title, the band induce an uninhibited joy. One sylph-like woman, hair reaching well below her bottom, sinuously undulated all night, removing items of clothing as the place & pace gets hotter until she is in quasi-belly dance garb. Sexy is not a word normally associated with Celtic music but this certainly is. (Jan Fairley - The Scotsman 25/8/99)

"...The Peatbog Faeries' increasingly adventurous melting pot of fragmented fiddle & pipe tunes...deep dub basslines and all-round spacy electronica comprehensively rocked the house" The Scotsman 1 July 1999 (Concert for Kosovo - Edinburgh Playhouse)

"These boys can play a mean tune, twisting ambient synth round insistent bass & the pipes. Imagine The Orb meeting a Ceilidh band in the mind of Irvine Welsh. This is it. Billy Nasty might have mixed pipes & dance on the decks but the Peatbog Faeries can play it live and it blew the audience away." Edinburgh Evening News 1 July 1999 (Concert for Kosovo - Edinburgh Playhouse)

"The Peatbog Faeries...rock"! Norma Waterson Sunday Times June 1999

"Loud and proud, at once timelessly earthy and boldly futuristic, this is a band unafraid to aim for the majestic, yet gaining all the time in finesse." The Scotsman 15 June 1998