Comin’ thro the rye (Robert Burns)
live video clips:
‘As a Scottish ex-
your CD. I hold a Burns Supper in my home each year and Borealis’s music always features at it.’
Mike Harrison Australia
The members of the band have been performing together as Borealis for about six years.
Their music programme is unashamedly nostalgic and is best thought of as tribute to the ‘three minute song’.
A wide ranging, diverse repertoire never fails to charm with the emphasis firmly on leaving an audience with a feel good factor, having enjoyed the music of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Robert Burns, Abba, Neil Sedaka and other great songwriters.
Close harmony singing, easy listening jazz, songs from the shows. It’s all there.
Borealis is one of the only five-piece bands in the south of Scotland pushing the
boat out as an all singing, all playing band going out to audiences with live music
in an easy listening, professional, classy format with a ‘mature’ audience in mind.
Borealis
Borealis presents a very varied musical programme these days, but the band was originally formed in 2005 to specifically perform the songs of Robert Burns in an accessible, colourful, easy listening style. The band members have very different music backgrounds ranging through classical, folk, jazz, pop ... and the pulling together of these resources has been a key element in the band’s success with their Burns’ repertoire. Their approach to Burns’ songs is sophisticated, engaging and challenges the notions of ‘tradition’ as regards how the songs are performed. The band is encouraged that so many of their audience and those who have listened to the CD ‘Borealis, the songs of Robert Burns...in colour’ have embraced this refreshing new look at the songs of Burns. Their audience’s reaction is testimony enough that Borealis has achieved what it set out to do:
... find a fitting tribute to the
‘Scottish Bard.’
The Burns connection
Borealis band members:
Ken Cocks : guitar and backing vocals
Jean Nicolson : bass guitar, piano/keyboards and backing vocals
Stewart Paton: piano/keyboards and backing vocals
Janice Taylor : lead vocals
Andy Wilson : drums, guitar and backing vocals
The band members live in and around the village of Mauchline in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Robert Burns lived in Mauchline for part of his life.
‘We hope the music of Borealis can
provide even just a passing moment
of joy, contentment, amusement or contemplation ...’ Borealis
Borealis have loads of experience and know instinctively what music works in the context of your type of event. Borealis is equally at home in a recital format or as a musical easy listening backdrop to your occasion.
Borealis live, recorded with a microphone in the audience. ‘youtube’ video quality.
