cellist               *               singer               *               composer

Wendy Weatherby

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Since graduating from the RSAMD in 1983, Wendy’s interest in jazz and folk music has led her to play and sing at festivals throughout the UK, Europe, the USA and the former Soviet Union.

She has worked and recorded with many top Scottish musicians including Hamish Moore, Billy Jackson, The Pearlfishers, Michael Marra and Phil Cunningham and has two solo albums to her credit.

Theatre work includes The Ship and The Big Picnic (Bill Bryden), John Bett’s adaptation of Burns’ The Jolly Beggars for Wildcat, Catherine Wheels The Story of the Little Gentleman, and Wee Stories Arthur and Tam O’ Shanter, for which she also composed the music.

The Jolly Beggars, back row, left to right: Alan McHugh, George Drennan, Billy McColl, Norman Chalmers, Wendy Weatherby (on table), John Sampson, Jenny Gardner, Sandy Neilson, in front: Susan Nisbet, Lesley Robertson. Composer and MD for the show was cellist Ron Shaw.

Programme cover for

The Jolly Beggars.

Wendy recorded the music for a scene in the David Puttnam film ‘My Life So Far’ in which French actress Irene Jacob played the cello. Simon Thoumire and Jim Prime also provided music for scenes in the film.

Other compositions  include film scores A Thief in the Night, Tickets for the Zoo, and Saved shown on Channel 4 and BBC-2.    In 2001 a commission from the prestigious Celtic Connections Festival led to the creation of Daybreak on the World’s Edge, poems of William Soutar, set for four cellos and three male voices, and in 2004, another larger scale work based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song. 2005 sees the creation of Cloud Howe for a similarly large group, with the complete Scots Quair trilogy to be performed at the 2007 festival.

Wendy has hosted many workshops in both cello and singing. She is regularly featured in Dr Fred Freeman’s illustrated lectures on Robert Burns, performing alongside Marc Duff (ex-Capercaillie) and John Morran (Deaf Shepherd) and is in demand as singer and cellist at events worldwide.

Wendy (back row right) and Phil Cunningham (centre) pictured at ‘Junior Showtime’ in Newcraighall Miners’ Welfare and Social Club in 1971.

The Wellpark Suite, left to right: George Jackson, Chris Miller, John Martin, John Gahagan, Wendy Weatherby, Ron Shaw, Cy Jack, Jim Sutherland, Iain Macdonald, Alec Baird, Tony Cuffe, Maggie Macinnes, Peter Cairney, Billy Jackson.

The Hamish Moore Band, left to right: Stuart Smith, Wendy Weatherby, Mike Travis, Hamish Moore, Dick Lee, Jim Hannah.

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