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Simon Kempston is a Scottish singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist from Dundee, Scotland.

Simon Kempston
Kempston in Nis, Serbia, 2018
Background information
Born	Edinburgh, Scotland
Genres	Folk blues classical
Occupation(s)	Musician singer-songwriter guitarist
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, slide guitar
Years active	2008–present
Website	simonkempston.co.uk

Career

Simon Kempston is now based in Edinburgh. The Herald has referred to him as 'one of Scotland's very best singer-songwriters'.[1][2][3]

He has released fifteen albums and one EP,[4] ten of which have been engineered and co-produced by Scottish folk musician Ian McCalman of The McCalmans.[5] This discography consists of nine song-based albums, one song-based EP, four instrumental acoustic guitar albums and two alt-blues albums under the pseudonym Man Gone Missing.[6]

Simon Kempston has performed in 35 countries across the world, and in 2019 performed more than 120 concerts across four continents,[1][7] whilst in the past has performed at many major music venues and festivals including Celtic Connections, Sligo Live, Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Cropredy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[8][9]

Discography

Simon Kempston

• Our Land, Their Freedom EP (2008)
• Carefree Prisoner (2009)[10]
• Impasse (2011)[11]
• How We Once Were (2012)[12]
• A Fine Line (2013)[13]
• The Last Car (2015)[14]
• Vanishing Act (2016)[15]
• Broken Before (2018)[1]
• Hand On My Heart (2020)[16][17]
• You Can't Win Every Time (2022)

Simon Kempston (Instrumental Acoustic Guitar)

• The Loss of an Unknown (2009)
• Estranged (2014)
• Onwards She Travels (2017)[18]
• In Gratitude of Solitude (2020)[19]

Man Gone Missing

• Beyond Desolate (2009)[6]
• Burn You (2010)[20]

References

External links

• Official website

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