Robin Williamson
If the phrase ‘Renaissance Man’ were copyright it would be an expensive business writing about Robin Williamson. It’s hard to think of anyone else on the contemporary music scene who can demonstrate such a dizzying range of accomplishments. Besides being a musician whose instrumental inventory runs to over forty plucked, blown, bowed and struck devices drawn from all over the planet, Robin is a songwriter of undisputed stature, a distinctive interpreter of traditional song, a published poet and novelist and author of instructional works for the fiddle and penny whistle, a leading light in the recent revival of storytelling, and...well, you get the idea. Nor, after such a prolific output in so many different fields, is he inclined to rest on his laurels. He still tours widely with his repertoire of songs and stories, both in the UK and abroad.
