{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Davy Steele | image = | caption = | image_size = <!-- Only for images smaller than 220px! --> | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1948|12|10}} | birth_place = Summerlee by Prestonpans, Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2001|4|11|1948|12|10}} | instrument = vocals, guitar, bouzouki, bodhrán | genre = Scottish Folk | occupation = Musician, songwriter | years_active = 1980s–2000 | label = | associated_acts = Drinkers Drouth, Ceolbeg, Clan Alba, The Battlefield Band }}
'''Davy Steele''' (10 December 1948 – 11 April 2001) was a Scottish folk musician and songwriter. He sang with Drinkers Drouth, Ceolbeg, and was a founding member of the Scottish folk supergroup Clan Alba. In 1998, Steele joined the Battlefield Band as lead vocalist and guitarist, and he also played the bouzouki and bodhrán. He was married to Patsy Seddon, a founding member of The Poozies. They had one child together and Steele had three more children from an earlier marriage. Steele was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died on April 11, 2001, in a hospice in Edinburgh.<ref>{{Cite news |website=BBC News|date=17 May 2001|title=E-mail tributes to folk star|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1282500.stm|access-date=12 May 2021}}</ref>
==Tributes== In 2011, ten years after his death, a tribute to Steele was presented at Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket as part of the Celtic Connections festival and subsequently released as an album, ''Steele the Show''. Performers included Patsy Seddon, Phil Cunningham, Dick Gaughan, Andy M. Stewart, Karine Polwart, Kate Rusby, Sally Barker, Siobhan Miller, Mary Macmaster, Karen Tweed and Eilidh Shaw.<ref>{{cite news |title=Davy Steele, folk singer-songwriter |url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/profile-davy-steele-folk-singer-songwriter-1686612 |access-date=13 May 2021 |work=The Scotsman |date=1 February 2011}}</ref>
Rusby wrote and recorded the song ''Who Will Sing Me Lullabies?'' for her 2001 album ''Little Lights''. The song is sung from the point of view of Steele's young son following his father's death.<ref>{{cite web |title=Song of the Day (Revisited): Kate Rusby... ''Who Will Sing Me Lullabies?'' |url=https://www.salutlive.com/2014/11/song-of-the-day-kate-rusby-who-will-sing-me-lullabies.html |website=Salut! Live |date=19 November 2014}}</ref>
Steele was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame during the 2014 Scots Trad Music Awards.<ref>{{cite web |title=Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame: Performers |url=https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/hall-of-fame/performers/ |website=Hands Up for Trad |access-date=13 May 2021}}</ref>
== Discography == === Solo === *''Long Time Getting Here'' (1983) *''Summerlee'' (1990) The review in ''Folk Roots'' said that this album "confirms his status as one of the leading singer-songwriters on the Scottish scene".<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Hedgeland |first1=Neil |title=Davy Steele: ''Summerlee'' |magazine=Folk Roots |date=April 1991 |issue=94 |page=76 |department=Review}}</ref> *''Chasing Shadows'' (1997) Steele was described as "one of the best male vocalists in Scottish music" on this album.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Henderson |first1=Dave |title=Davy Steele: ''Chasing Shadows'' |magazine=Folk Roots |date=August 1997 |issue=170/171 |page=93 |department=Review}}</ref>
=== With Battlefield Band ===
{{Main|Battlefield Band#Discography}} *''Rain, Hail or Shine'' (1998) *''Leaving Friday Harbor'' (1999)
=== With Drinkers Drouth=== * ''A Tribute'' (retrospective)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Murray |first1=Alan |title=Drinkers Drouth with Davy Steele: ''A Tribute'' |magazine=The Living Tradition |date=July 1997 |issue=22 |department=Review |url=https://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/webrevs/cdtrax223.htm}}</ref>
== References == <references />
==External links== * {{cite news |newspaper=The Herald |date=20 April 2001 |department=Obituary |title=Davy Steele |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12170049.davy-steele/}} * {{cite web |website=Hands Up for Trad |access-date=13 May 2021 |department=Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame |url=https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot/hall-of-fame/davy-steele/ |title=Davy Steele}} * {{cite web |publisher=Temple Records |access-date=12 May 2021 |title=Davy Steele |url=https://www.templerecords.co.uk/pages/davy-steele}} {{Battlefield Band}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Steele, Davy}} Category:1948 births Category:2001 deaths Category:20th-century Scottish male singers Category:Scottish male songwriters Category:Scottish folk musicians Category:Battlefield Band members