Finlay Balfour

Spring has sprung! With last month’s hectic preparations, this month feels like the payoff after the grind. March featured my first wedding bookings of the year, and it was a pleasure to get back to my favourite type of performance! This month’s weddings felt particularly special, as they were all intimate celebrations, and these always tend to remind me of my own small wedding (coming up on two years ago, now!). No matter how many couples I work with, that feeling never seems to fade: the...

We musicians are constantly searching for meaning. During every performance, there is always a latent journey of seek and discover. Every song forges new pathways, new perspectives, new relationships. Each note is a summit from which we aim for the next. This process can be tremendously exciting, and it's an important part about what makes music special. But it's also true that this dopamine-saturated process can, just like any other, result in the development of 'siloed' thinking: at best,...

February feels like it’s gone by in a whirlwind. I’m not sure if it’s made worse by the fact it’s actually shorter, but it definitely feels like I could fit in less stuff than I can normally. January turned out to be a record month for enquiries, and March features my first weddings bookings of the year, so I found myself eating somewhat of an ‘admin sandwich’! No complaints of course, but an increase in desk-time is an artefact of this phase of Finlay Gigs - where I’m pivoting from almost...