Ronnie Browne

Ronnie Browne has had a major effect on the evolution of traditional Celtic music for nearly four decades. A founding member of The Corries, Browne joined with cambolin inventor, builder and player Roy Williamson to create one of the first of Scotland's great folk revival bands. Since Williamson's death, from a brain tumor in 1990, Browne has continued to perform and record as a soloist. The seeds for Browne's musical career were planted when he met Williamson and multi-instrumentalist Bill Smith at Edinburgh College Of Art and formed the Corries Trio in 1962. The group was ...