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Your hosts are people who live in Ullapool. We want to give you a good Highland welcome, show you around our area and share some good food, drink, music and conversation. We believe in easy going, friendly customer service. You are likely to meet...
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Grant Milne
Grant is a very talented and versatile piper. He plays Highland and Bellows pipes and whistle and teaches piping in Ullapool. Grant fronts celebrated Ullapool band The Grousebeater Sound System who mix traditional intruments with drum and bass and dubstep beats with fast Celtic rhythms and melodies.
Grant and fellow musicians will make sure Shindig is filled with quality live traditional music, maybe even on the beach!
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Andy Grant
Andy is a Gaelic speaker and grew up in Ullapool. He studied Music in Glasgow and recently returned to settle here where he plans to become a teacher.
Andy is the drummer in the other equally celebrated local band The Naked Strangers who we hope will be your late-night gig on Saturday night. Andy will be your guide in the bus.
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Zoe Henderson
Zoe grew up in nearby Dundonnell. We're trying to persuade her to postpone world travel just long enough to join us for Shindig. Zoe is a lot of fun and very helpful too, she can help to sort out any questions or concerns you may have.
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Becky Thomson
Becky is a TV sound technician who moved to Ullapool to start an eco-tourism business and became a salsa dance teacher. Shindig is an offshoot of all that tourism research. Shindig is presented by Escape Lodge Ltd which is Becky's company. Becky takes the rap for the background organisation and administration.
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James Baily
James is Irish, plays the Bodhran and sings. He has been in Ullapool for 8 years and works as a dry-stane dyker. He can answer questions on deer-stalking amongst many other rural subjects and in his spare time he is renovating a sailing boat and studying for a psychology degree.
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