I am particularly pleased to promote this latest update from Friends of Wighton, given Kyle Howie's performances at Blackness Library's Rhymetime!
Brilliant young Dundee musician Kyle Howie will be the guest at the Friends of Wighton Lunchtime Recital on Wednesday 3rd March. The Recital is from 1.15 – 1.45pm in the Wighton Heritage Centre, Central Library, Dundee, and will be an occasion to celebrate Kyle’s success in gaining a place on the prestigious piping degree course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow
Kyle has been playing pipes since the age of nine having only been on the practice chanter for six months. Since then, he has played in a number of pipe bands, from the local 13th Boys Brigade to the world renowned Vale of Atholl Pipe Band who he is currently with He has also been a member of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland for a number of years.
Kyle has played pipes in a number of countries, including France and Italy and has played on the Edinburgh Military Tattoo two years on the trot, firstly with The Black Watch then last year with The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. There have also been stage appearances with the Dundee Rep's "Sunshine On Leith" where he toured with them to Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Kyle also got a much coveted spot on the Gordon Duncan - National Treasure 2 concert in Perth, playing Gordon’s "Jolly Tinker Set".
For Kyle's fifteenth birthday he got an Overton E flat low whistle, with which he recently delighted mothers and babies at Blackness Library’s Rhymetime. This led him into picking up a handful of instruments. Not only does he play the Great Highland Bagpipe, but Scottish smallpipes, Borderpipes, whistles, accordion and piano are the other instruments in his repertoire.
Brilliant young Dundee musician Kyle Howie will be the guest at the Friends of Wighton Lunchtime Recital on Wednesday 3rd March. The Recital is from 1.15 – 1.45pm in the Wighton Heritage Centre, Central Library, Dundee, and will be an occasion to celebrate Kyle’s success in gaining a place on the prestigious piping degree course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in GlasgowKyle has been playing pipes since the age of nine having only been on the practice chanter for six months. Since then, he has played in a number of pipe bands, from the local 13th Boys Brigade to the world renowned Vale of Atholl Pipe Band who he is currently with He has also been a member of The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland for a number of years.
Kyle has played pipes in a number of countries, including France and Italy and has played on the Edinburgh Military Tattoo two years on the trot, firstly with The Black Watch then last year with The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. There have also been stage appearances with the Dundee Rep's "Sunshine On Leith" where he toured with them to Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Kyle also got a much coveted spot on the Gordon Duncan - National Treasure 2 concert in Perth, playing Gordon’s "Jolly Tinker Set".
For Kyle's fifteenth birthday he got an Overton E flat low whistle, with which he recently delighted mothers and babies at Blackness Library’s Rhymetime. This led him into picking up a handful of instruments. Not only does he play the Great Highland Bagpipe, but Scottish smallpipes, Borderpipes, whistles, accordion and piano are the other instruments in his repertoire.