Dillon Barrie, Scotland On Sunday, 17 November 2024
Dillon Barrie | Off Axis Artist of the Week in Scotland On Sunday, 17 November 2024
The winner of this year’s Sound of Young Scotland Award, Dillon Barrie is one to watch, write Derick Mackinnon and Olaf Furniss read Scotsman.com
Dillon Barrie grew up in Pitlochry drumming and programming beats on his laptop, with no connection to the outside world of music he craved to be in. This changed when he moved to Glasgow in 2021 to take up a place on Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s (RCS) jazz course and he swiftly set about immersing himself in the local scene.
For two and a half years, Barrie ran the successful Supersonic Thursdays, a live music night which led to a spin-off clothing brand called Forma. Featuring a diverse range of genres, including jazz, hip-hop and dub, it also helped connect Barrie to creative collaborators such as Noushy Nanguy, as well performing with the Rebecca Vasmant Ensemble.
In March he was appointed creative director of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra to preside over the NU-Age Sounds” Tour and in the summer picked up the RCS’s George Duncan Prize for jazz composition 2024.
The success continued last month when he won the Sound Of Young Scotland gong at the Scottish Album of the Year awards. Incredibly, all this has been achieved while studying full time and his debut LP, released next summer, looks set to coincide with his graduation visit https://www.instagram.com/nooollid
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