Neil Beattie

My musical interests are very eclectic but my real feeling was always for folk music. In my 30s and 40s I was a member of a Ceilidh Band that grew out of an acoustic session in The Almondbank Hotel in Carnoustie. I only started singing, for more than chorus duties anyway, around 12 years ago and I finally arrived at Newport Folk Club towards the end of lockdown. in 2025 I was one of the ‘bands’…