Trì means three in Scots Gaelic and the band plays Celtic music rooted in Nova Scotia. Trì features Doug Lamey on fiddle, Matt Phelps on bagpipes and Cliff McGann on guitar/vocals/tin whistle. Lamey and McGann are direct descendants of the Nova Scotia Scottish diaspora, with Doug’s grandfather, Bill, a prominent Cape Breton fiddler in Boston during the 50’s and 60’s. McGann spent summers growing up on his grandparent’s farm in Lanark, Nova Scotia. Phelps, originally from Connecticut, has spent 20-years playing the Great Highland Bagpipes and Scottish smallpipes and is Pipe Major of the Stewart Highland Pipe Band based in Wilmington, MA.
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