Bio

-Hailing from Paisley, Scotland from a folk-Americana loving family Timmy Allan started playing guitar at age 9. The Allan mother enforced a heavy emphasis on music with Bob Dylan, Iris Dement, Paul Simon and baroque legends Bach and Handel. Timmy Allan started out his music career aged 11 playing in the church band.  He then started busking the streets of Glasgow with folk trio ‘Wandering Sons’ from age 17 when he wasn’t in church on Sundays in the church band. Desperate to play his guitar even more he trudged into Glasgow City Centre daily playing with everyone and anyone who would have him. From this effort  he joined the western swing band ‘Awkward Family Portraits’ playing in pubs and clubs and then onto festival slots around UK and Europe with radio coverage in Scotland, Netherlands, Spain. From this visibility he gained from Awkward Family Portraits he joined Glasgow soul/jazz singer ‘Kitti’s band playing sold out shows around UK and gaining valuable experience in the jazz discipline. When lockdown hit Allan got more obsessed with jazz and its historical background and overall story. He started his undergraduate degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on their jazz course where he started to hone his craft playing bebop guitar and jazz double bass. While in Birmingham he won the Phil Miller Guitar Prize 2023. He then returned to Glasgow to study in Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to finish his jazz tutelage. It was here where he won the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the year 2024 on guitar, and was first nominated for the ‘Rising Star’ by the Scottish Jazz Awards in the same year. He then started playing with Scotland’s greats Brian Kellock, Seonaid Aitken,  Alyn Cosker, Paul Harrison, Fergus McCreadie and later appearances with UK legend ‘Joe Webb’ at the Edinburgh International Festival 2025 playing double bass.