World's best blind musicians open up on challenges in Scottish radio series

Sally Clay, Scotland’s first blind theatre musical director, still bristles with anger when she remembers how, ready for a night out clubbing with colleagues, she was turned away by bouncers at a venue in Dundee because her cane was “too dangerous”.

But rather than let the incident define her, Clay’s story of overcoming adversity, discrimination and unemployment and making it in the music business can be heard on ‘Blind Notes’ – a seven-part series of radio interviews featuring blind musicians from around the world.

The line-up, which features all genres of music from jazz to pop and classical, includes the legendary Robin Millar, CBE, multi-instrumentalist and record producer who has 140 gold and platinum discs to his credit as well as the ten million-selling ‘Diamond Life’ by Sade.