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I started playing guitar around 8 years old and started making up songs and music when I was 14. I also had classical guitar lessons which taught me a good basic technique and how to read music.
After I left home in Scotland and moved to London in 1971 I became influenced by the playing of Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn learned many of their tunes. Pretty soon I started playing in folk clubs and other acoustic music venues.
My first tours of Belgium and Germany took place in 1976. In the same year I was signed by the Jazzland record label and recorded my first LP, the eponymous “Dave Keir”.
In 1982 I made my 2nd LP “I Can See Dover”. However, for family reasons I decided to get a ‘real job’ and quit earning my living playing music. In 1986 I started playing in public again in and around London.
In 1992 our family moved to Aberdeen and started recording the songs for my first CD, “Interim Reports”, which was released in 2006. This was followed by the release of “Uneasy Listening” in 2008 and the recording of the songs that would be on the subsequent CD “Good Grief”.
We moved to Edinburgh in 2010 where “Good Grief” was tidied up, mastered and released in 2012. For several years I played gigs in and around Edinburgh until the Covid pandemic interrupted all public performance.
In 2021 I was approached by, and signed a contract with, Seelie Court Records to re-release my 2 vinyl records “Dave Keir” and “I Can See Dover”. These will be released in early 2022.
After I left home in Scotland and moved to London in 1971 I became influenced by the playing of Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn learned many of their tunes. Pretty soon I started playing in folk clubs and other acoustic music venues.
My first tours of Belgium and Germany took place in 1976. In the same year I was signed by the Jazzland record label and recorded my first LP, the eponymous “Dave Keir”.
In 1982 I made my 2nd LP “I Can See Dover”. However, for family reasons I decided to get a ‘real job’ and quit earning my living playing music. In 1986 I started playing in public again in and around London.
In 1992 our family moved to Aberdeen and started recording the songs for my first CD, “Interim Reports”, which was released in 2006. This was followed by the release of “Uneasy Listening” in 2008 and the recording of the songs that would be on the subsequent CD “Good Grief”.
We moved to Edinburgh in 2010 where “Good Grief” was tidied up, mastered and released in 2012. For several years I played gigs in and around Edinburgh until the Covid pandemic interrupted all public performance.
In 2021 I was approached by, and signed a contract with, Seelie Court Records to re-release my 2 vinyl records “Dave Keir” and “I Can See Dover”. These will be released in early 2022.
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