Known as the “quiet man of Scottish folkmusic,” Iain MacKintosh will perform at Bates College Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. in Chase Hall Lounge. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n
One of his country’s most prominent folksingers, the Glasgow native has traveled extensively throughout his native Scotland, continental Europe and North America for more than 30 years. Risks and Roses<\/em> and Gentle Persuasion <\/em>are among the 13 albums he has recorded.<\/p>\n Although MacKintosh first learned to play music on the Highland bagpipes, his instrument of choice and on-tour companion for more than three decades is the five-string long-neck banjo. He also plays the concertina and harmonica.<\/p>\n “His music delivers a poignant message in a laid-back manner,” according to the Fayetteville Observer-Times. Says MacKintosh, “I got that ‘quiet man’ image because I don’t push too hard. I find it’s more effective if I don’t beat them over the head with social commentary. I make a quiet point and hope they listen to it tonight and think about it tomorrow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Known as the “quiet man of Scottish folkmusic,” Iain MacKintosh will perform at Bates College Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. in Chase Hall Lounge. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[3592,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-22211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-folk-music","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92518,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22211\/revisions\/92518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}