label re-released Grit to coincide with the stage show. Greg Lawson, who had been friends with Bennett and who scored Liberation for a performance at Celtic Connections in 2006, went on to recreate Grit with an orchestral score for live performance. Lawson spent more than a year working on Nae Regrets, working out how an orchestra might recreate Bennett's precise arrangements. He assembled eighty musicians to form the Grit orchestra. On 15 January 2015, just over a decade after Bennett's death, Lawson conducted the Grit orchestra at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, to perform the Opening Concert at Celtic Connections. The concert was later named as the event of the year at the 2015 Trad awards. A further performance was given on 23 August 2016 at the Edinburgh Playhouse as part of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Bothy Culture, and the 25th anniversary of the Celtic Connections festival, Lawson and the orchestra, now containing some 100 traditional folk, classical and jazz musicians, performed the show Bothy Culture and Beyond at the SSE Hydro, Glasgow on 27 January 2018. Discography Martyn Bennett (1995) Bothy Culture (1997) Hardland (with Martin Low) (2000) Glen Lyon (with his mother, Margaret Bennett, on vocals) (2002) Grit (2003) Mackay's Memoirs (performed by City of Edinburgh Music School) (2005) Love And Loss (with his mother, Margaret Bennett, and Cameron Drummond) (2008) Compilations Aye (2012) References External links Greg Lawson conducting "Chanter" at the Celtic Connections, 2015, on the BBC 1971 births 2005 deaths Celtic fusion musicians Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Scottish folk musicians Musicians from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Great Highland bagpipe players Deaths from cancer in Scotland Real World Records artists People educated at Broughton High School, Edinburgh 20th-century Canadian male musicians 20th-century Scottish musicians People from Kingussie