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**** STOLEN INSTRUMENTS ****

**** STOLEN INSTRUMENTS **** I’ve had some terrible news today that Nigel Forster, who makes my instruments, has had his workshop broken into. A lot of very unique and valuable instruments were taken, including my brand new guitar bouzouki that I’d planned to pick up next week. I can’t tell you how gutted I am! They were taken from Hexham …

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Had an amazing night at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards last night! Not only great to receive the horizon award with the Ímar lads, but also extremely chuffed for the Isle of Man as Mera Royle Music did the island proud in winning the Young Folk Award. 🇮🇲🇮🇲🇮🇲

Had an amazing night at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards last night! Not only great to receive the horizon award with the Ímar lads, but also extremely chuffed for the Isle of Man as Mera Royle Music did the island proud in winning the Young Folk Award. 🇮🇲🇮🇲🇮🇲 Now I just need to get rid of this hangover before …

Amazing to hear that Ímar have been nominated for a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award! Not only that, but a proud day for #ManxMusic as the fab Manx harper Mera Royle is also up for the Young Folk Award, and quite right too :) 🇮🇲🏆🇮🇲🏆🇮🇲🏆

BBC RADIO 2 Folk Awards 🏆🏆🏆 BBC RADIO 2 FOLK AWARDS!!! 🏆🏆🏆 Delighted to say that we've been nominated for the "Horizon Award" in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards!!! We are totally over the moon and hope to see you all in Belfast on the 4th of April!! Also Mohsen Amini has been nominated for Musician of the Year …

What a great weekend! Had an absolute blast playing with Ímar and Slobodan Trkulja & Balkanopolis in Novi Sad, Serbia 🇷🇸. What an amazing country and lovely people! I hope we can return very soon :)

What a great weekend! Had an absolute blast playing with Ímar and Slobodan Trkulja & Balkanopolis in Novi Sad, Serbia 🇷🇸. What an amazing country and lovely people! I hope we can return very soon 🙂 Now after a lot of flying and not much sleep, time for some music making in Ireland with Angelo Kelly Calum Stewart Tomas Callister …

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🎶 STRINGS!! 🎶

🎶 STRINGS!! 🎶 Got a lot of touring coming up with Ímar, The Kelly Family & Angelo Kelly over the next wee while, so I put a in bulk order of D’Addario and Co. strings with Strings Direct Hopefully they’ll last a while! Trying out these new fancy NYXL strings too hoping for fewer breakages #bouzouki #tradmusic #touring #strings

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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Happy New Year! 🎶🎉🍻 HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🍻🎉🎶 We've had an amazing 2017 and are looking forward to even more exciting stuff in 2018! Thanks for all your support and hopefully we'll see you at a gig next year. Bliadhna mhath ùr! / Blein vie noa! / Athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh! xxx #3mar #WhoNeedsYoutubeAnyway #NewYear #NewMusic #2018 …

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Unfortunately when working with a big faceless organisation like @YouTube, when something goes wrong there’s no-one there to help. If you saw any of Ímar’s videos, or would like to see more, give YouTube a nudge and ask that they at least give them a chance to fix whatever went wrong.

Unfortunately when working with a big faceless organisation like @YouTube, when something goes wrong there’s no-one there to help. If you saw any of Ímar’s videos, or would like to see more, give YouTube a nudge and ask that they at least give them a chance to fix whatever went wrong.

If you’ve got a couple of minutes to spare, it’d be really great if you could head on over to the link below and give Ímar a vote for ‘Best Live Act’ and ‘Best Album’ in the 2017 Scots Trad Awards. We’re up against some absolute corkers so spread the word and give us a hand, thanks!

If you’ve got a couple of minutes to spare, it’d be really great if you could head on over to the link below and give Ímar a vote for ‘Best Live Act’ and ‘Best Album’ in the 2017 Scots Trad Awards. We’re up against some absolute corkers so spread the word and give us a hand, thanks! https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TradAwards2017 If you’ve …