Haddington’s Trad on the Tyne festival (www.tradonthetyne.com), which takes place in the town from 29 – 31 August, has published its final programme, with the headline acts – Karine Polwart, Blazin’ Fiddles, the Friel Sisters (in the Music to Dine For evening), and Alex Hodgson – being joined on the bill by the Victorian Trout […]
Festivals
Folk for Folk Festival
Reely Jiggered will bring a new FOLK for FOLK FESTIVAL to the Inverclyde area having received funding from Creative Scotland and Enterprise Music Scotland. Alison McNeill has put together a programme of Summer Folk Music Workshops for young people and adults, concerts showcasing the participants of the workshops, a concert featuring BBC Young Traditional Musician […]
Border Gaitherin Fri 30th May – Sun 1st June
Don’t miss this brilliant wee festival! It’s the fourteenth year and held in Coldstream, Scottish Borders! Artist/tutors: Chris Stout (fiddle masterclasses), Corrina Hewat (harmony singing for everyone), Paul Chamberlain (accordion masterclass & balkan/tango workshop), Siobhan Miller (Scots singing for everyone), Aaron Jones (guitar/bouzouki workshop), David Foley (flute/whistle & bodhran workshops), Lori Watson (performance skills & […]
Flowers of Edinburgh Concert 2014
Saturday night’s Flowers of Edinburgh concert in Teviot House was a blast. It was great to hear so much brilliant music from Rona Wilkie and Morag Brown, Jamie Steele, Fiona Rutherford and Amy Duncan, Lucy Pringle and Chris Wright, Hugh MacDiamid’s Haircut, Mike Katz, Mark Maguire, Simon Thoumire, Amy MacDougall and Mary Macmaster, Steve Byrne […]
Edinburgh in the Nineties
The Edinburgh folk scene in the nineties was amazing. When I first got the call from Jim Sutherland to go along to The Tron Pub on Blair Street I hadn’t really been to many sessions apart from one at Rothbury festival. When I got there I met The Wrigley Sisters as well as Jim and […]
Edinburgh International Harp Festival
Announcing a stellar array of performers appearing at the annual gathering that has established Edinburgh as a World class centre of harping. Harps of all sorts are featured with the Clarsach, our own Scottish Harp, at the heart of the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and the organisers are proud of their reputation of creating an […]