Nobles Presents - Hector Shaw + Fraser Fifield and Graeme Stephen

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Hector Shaw, the Glasgow-born singer-songwriter, blends intimate, folk-inspired songwriting with powerful lyrics that explore themes of queerness and self-reflection. His music has earned praise from BBC Radio and Folk Radio UK, and his recent EP Fawns expands his sound with lush arrangements and soaring harmonies, which earned him a nomination for Best Acoustic at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards Hector has toured with Roddy Woomble (Idlewild), supported Scottish indie favourites like Katie Gregson-Macleod, Lizzie Reid and Jacob Alon, and played the likes of Cambridge Folk Festival, Celtic Connections and Belladrum's Tartan Heart.

Fraser Fifield has been described by the Sunday Herald as having “emerged as one of today's outstanding talents” and by Jazzwise magazine as “an outstanding product of the Scottish jazz-folk scene who at one moment can blow a low whistle like Charlie Parker steaming his way through ‘Ko-Ko’ and at the next knock out an air on a sax like a Highland traditionalist”, he's consistently been guesting and collaborating as a whistle/sax/bagpipe player with a long list of bands and artists in the Scottish music scene and beyond for 30 years and has released 12 solo albums. Fraser held the post of Traditional Artist in Residence at University of Edinburgh's Celtic & Scottish Studies Department from 2022-26.

Graeme Stephen was born in Aberdeen, Scotland and has been playing guitar since the age of 9. Today he leads and contributes to a multitude of musical projects in Scotland and overseas, playing a wide array of styles from free improvised jazz to Scottish folk. Stephen’s peerless improvisational skills and talent for composition make him one of Scotland’s most exciting and prodigious musical talents.