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Colin Clyne<\/strong> is a multi award winning Scottish singer\/songwriter (Alt-Folk \/ Americana).<\/p>\n

Having previously spent 10 years in California, Clyne is now back in Scotland blazing a trail in the UK music scene. He left San Diego as a 2 time winner of \u2018The Best Acoustic Act\u2019<\/strong> at the prestigious San Diego Music Awards<\/strong>. In the US, NBC<\/strong> featured Colin in a top 12 list of best singer songwriters associated with San Diego in among Tom Waits<\/em><\/strong>, Jewel<\/em><\/strong> and the late Jim Croce<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In addition to his previous album, Doricana<\/strong>, The Never Ending Pageant<\/strong> was produced by Grammy Award Winning Engineer<\/strong>, Alan Sanderson<\/em><\/strong>, (The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Ryan Adams, Burt Bacharach).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

STV (Scottish TV)<\/strong> hailed Colin as a ‘…rising star of Scotland…’<\/em> with The Sun<\/strong> newspaper describing his ‘The Never Ending Pageant’ album  as ‘…a glorious selection of folk and county rock numbers…’<\/em> akin to Ryan Adams<\/em><\/strong> or Bruce Springsteen<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Clyne has become a seasoned road vet, impressing crowds at venues from  Hollywood\u2019s infamous Viper Room to Aberdeen, Scotland’s The Blue Lamp. He has racked up numerous festivals appearances including The<\/strong> Tartan Heart Festival (Belladrum), Southern Fried Festival<\/strong>, Enjoy Music Festival<\/strong>, True North<\/strong> and sold out The Edinburgh Fringe Festival.<\/strong> Clyne appeared at the 2012 Stonehaven Hogmanay Party in Scotland, where he opened the stage for International touring band The Red Hot Chilli Pipers<\/em><\/strong> in front of 6,000 party goers.<\/p>\n

He has also shared the stage with the likes of Dave Arcari<\/em><\/strong>, James Grant (Love & Money)<\/em><\/strong>, Big Country<\/em><\/strong>, Donnie Munro (Runrig)<\/em><\/strong>, Justin Currie (Del Amitri)<\/em><\/strong>, Skerryvore<\/em><\/strong>, Mark Olsen (Jayhawks), Nigel Clark (Dodgy) <\/em><\/strong>and performed at a VIP event for Elton John<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Radio play for Colin’s most recent single releases (Where The Ships Go To Die, You Can’t Wish A Good Guy Away, Within Hindsight and Wishing Winter Away) and his back catalogue continue to be celebrated with airplay from \u201cWhispering\u201d Bob Harris<\/em><\/strong> on BBC Radio 2<\/strong>, Keith Greentree<\/em><\/strong> with BBC Radio Norfolk<\/strong>, Baylen Leonard<\/em><\/strong> of BBC London\/Amazing Radio<\/strong>, Chris Hawkins<\/strong> on BBC Radio 6 Music<\/strong>, Iain Anderson<\/strong> on BBC Scotland<\/strong>, BBC Radio Nan Gaidheal<\/strong>, BBC Radio Cumbria<\/strong>, BBC Radio Shropshire<\/strong>, BBC Tees<\/strong>, BBC <\/strong>Merseyside<\/b>, BBC Hereford & <\/strong>Worcester<\/b>, BBC Cambridgeshire, BBC Suffolk,<\/strong> Amazing Radio<\/strong>, XFM<\/strong>, Best Country Radio (The Iceman<\/em>)<\/strong>, Roots & Fusion<\/strong>, Chris Country Radio<\/strong>, UKCountryRadio<\/strong>, Blues & Roots Radio<\/strong> and many more radio stations across the globe.<\/p>\n

In April 2023, Clyne’s new band The Broken Creels<\/strong> released their debut single ‘Friend or Foe’ to some critical acclaim. It reached No.1 on the UK iTunes Rock chart upon it’s release.<\/p>\n

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Colin Clyne is a multi award winning Scottish singer\/songwriter (Alt-Folk \/ Americana). Having previously spent 10 years in California, Clyne is now back in Scotland blazing a trail in the UK music scene. He left San Diego as a 2 time winner of \u2018The Best Acoustic Act\u2019 at the prestigious San Diego Music Awards. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":143,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinclyne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}