welcome off them, especially as one of the Clanadonia tracks was used in the first series of the show.
“Whenever we have been out performing in the streets we have had fans of the show coming and wanting selfies taken with us. We even had Hollywood star Gerald Butler approach us when we were playing in the middle of Buchanan Street in Glasgow for a photo.”
However Outlander is not the band’s first brush with television and movie fame. At least two members of the group were involved with the close combat stunt crew responsible for some of the most spectacular scenes in Braveheart, Gladiator, King Arthur, The New World and The Clan.
Some of them also appear in the upcoming Scotish feature film The Fairy Flag, which featured in the June issue of iScot, and their music appears on the soundtrack of the movie.
Clanadonia is undoubtedly Scotland’s most famous tribal band and most probably the hardest working.
Playing to audiences of various sizes, from select groups at private parties to stadiums filled with tens of thousands of people, the group is increasingly in demand internationally.
“In the last few years we’ve been to so many countries it’s sometimes difficult to keep track. We’ve played in the US, Singapore, Dubai, South Korea and all over Europe,” said Tu Bardh.
“Whenever we have been out performing in the streets we have had fans of the show coming and wanting selfies taken with us. We even had Hollywood star Gerald Butler approach us when we were playing in the middle of Buchanan Street in Glasgow for a photo.”
: Tu Bardh Wilson
“We’ve played on the main stage at T in the Park, at Murrayfield and Hampden stadiums and even at the opening of the Commonwealth Games - and that was incredible. Wherever we went for weeks aſterwards we had people from all over the world coming up to us and saying how they had enjoyed our music.”
Now this summer Tu Bardh and the band are embarking on another couple of firsts, for them at least.
Having already made a number of albums they have released their first single, ‘Men of Clanadonia’ .
On top of that, whisky distiller Edradour, who sponsor the group, are bringing out a heavily peated 10-year-old single malt whisky called Tu Bardh which will be available from the Edradour distillery from this month (September).
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Photos: Stewart Cunningham
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