Ian Davison...

The song-writers’ songwriter.

Ian originally helped organise and perform in Scottish Lowland folk clubs, especially in Glasgow and Rutherglen.

Ian is known mostly as a top songwriter, with almost 300 songs in traditional and modern styles, half of them written in the 1990’s.  His songs are being sung in clubs and festivals all over the world, and recorded by artists like Peggy Seeger, Archie Fisher, Adam MacNaughton, Ed Miller, Brian McNeill and Toni Wood. Ian has won every song-writing competition in Scotland including all of them in one year, and retired from competition a number of years ago.

Ian also teaches song-writing at festivals and university adult classes. He judges song-writing competitions, and is an active member of the Glasgow Song-Writers Club and Glasgow’s ‘Live at the Star’ folk club.

As a performer, Ian has sung on both radio and television, in folk, poetry and music clubs and festivals, in Scotland, Ireland and England. Many years ago his Group did the first recording of the popular “Jeelie-Piece Song”, and performed frequently as support to famous names like Tom Paxton, Marr McGinn, Billy Connolly, The Corries, Christy Moore and Eric Bogle.

In less than ten recent years, Ian has produced several CDs of newly written songs, and a double CD and a triple CD packs containing “Best of...” from which some tracks are regularly broadcast.