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Singer/Songwriter
e.mail info@sheena-wellington.co.uk
SCOTLAND'S
CLASSIC BALLAD SINGER.
SHEENA WELLINGTON's singing of “A Man's
A Man For ‘a That” at the Opening Ceremony of the first Scottish
Parliament for three hundred years was by critical and popular
acclaim the highlight of that very special day.
“..... the most
moving moment of all”- (The Times, London).
“.... a moment to
open the muscles of the heart.......” (The Scotsman, Edinburgh).
Scotland's leading
traditional singer, SHEENA WELLINGTON was born in Dundee into a family of singers
and factory weavers.
SHEENA’s repertoire covers
everything from Burns to ballads to the best of contemporary
songwriting, drawing from the rich Scottish tradition passed from
musician to musician through the ages.
A passionate and
articulate advocate for traditional music, she has played a leading role
in the fight for recognition, status and improved funding for Scotland's traditional arts.
“..she can lay fair claim
to being chiefly responsible for the seriousness with which her
branch of the arts is now taken ...” The Herald (Glasgow)
Honours bestowed on her
for her work include Doctorates from the Universities of St Andrews
(2000) and Dundee (2006)) and
the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama (2007), The
Heritage Society of Scotland’s award for her outstanding contribution
to Scotland's culture, the UK-wide Association of Speakers Clubs
Speaker of the Year 2001 and the coveted Herald Archangel for her
Edinburgh International Festival’s series of traditional song
programmes “Work, Sex and Drink”.
She is a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, an Honorary Life Member and
Patron of the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland
(TMSA), Vice-President of the Voluntary Arts Network and patron of
Voluntary Arts Scotland, and is a trustee of both the Scottish Arts
Trust and the Dewar Awards.
Sheena was made an Honorary President of Greenock Burns Club (The Mother
Club) in January 2006, when she became the first woman in the Club’s
204 year history to be invited to give The Immortal Memory.
In November 2009 she was installed in the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame joining such
luminaries as Jimmy Shand, Aly Bain, the Corries and Sheila Stewart.
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