Back of the Moon was a

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from the

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which played both new and Scottish traditional tunes and songs cast in modern sounding arrangements. Since forming in 2000, the band had toured annually throughout the UK, Canada, United States and eight different

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an Countries. Back of the Moon created an acoustic sound through a front line of Scottish border pipes and fiddle, a pairing of low whistle and flute, and their guitar/piano rhythm combo. They were at times augmented by bodhran and Cape Breton Stepdancing, and three-part vocal harmonies in their Scottish songs in which each singer took the lead. They formed in 2000 under the name Gillian Frame & Back of the Moon, with

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joining in 2001, and signed with Foot Stompin'Records. They released their first album, ''Gillian Frame and Back of the Moon'' in 2001, after Frame won the

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award the year before. They changed their name in 2003 to simply Back of the Moon, after releasing their second album. In 2003, they won "Best Up and Coming Act at the

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and "Best Celtic Group" at

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. In 2005, they won "Best Folk Band" at the Scots Trad Music Awards. They played their final US tour in the Kennedy Centre, Washington DC, in November 2007.

Discography

# ''Gillian Frame and Back of the Moon'' (2001) # ''Fortune's Road'' (2003) # ''Luminosity'' (2005)

Band members

2000–2003

* Gillian Frame (fiddle, vocals) * Simon McKerrell (border pipes, uilleann pipes, whistles, vocals) * Hamish Napier (piano, whistles, vocals) *

(guitar, vocals) (joined early 2001)

2003–2007

* Findlay Napier (guitar, vocals) * Gillian Frame (fiddle, vocals) * Ali Hutton (border pipes, whistles, bodhran) * Hamish Napier (piano, whistles, flutes, vocals)

External links

Official SiteFootstompin
the UK record label to which Back of the Moon is currently signed.
Mad River Records
the US record label on which Back of the Moon's album's are currently released in the US.

References

Scottish folk music groups Musical groups established in 2000 {{Scotland-band-stub