Robert Watt Brown is the genial leader of the Band.  Bobby’s formative years were steeped in Celtic music in his hometown of Dennyloanhead, Scotland.  His mother was a well-known soprano, his father played the fiddle, and other family members played the pipes and drums.  Bobby started piano lessons at age 6 and continued his study until emigrating to Winnipeg, in 1957, at 16, to join his sister Christine.
Starved for his native music, Bobby befriended pipers and drummers in the local pipe band and shortly after, began taking accordion lessons.  Before long, Bobby made his way down to Toronto and was introduced to Stan Hamilton and Bobby Frew and from there joined “The Flying Scotsmen” band as second accordionist in 1961.  In 1974 he formed his own band, The Scottish Accent, and soon after formed a second group, The Cape Breton Symphony Fiddlers (now retired), for a television series on folk music.  Bobby and his two groups have performed at concerts and dances throughout the Celtic world and have toured Europe and Canada several times.