WHETHER interpreting traditional or Burns songs, or voicing thoughtful new compositions by herself and her husband, Dave Francis, Mairi Campbell’s poised vocals – described by one reviewer as “a voice to stop the clock” – have been a familiar strand within the Scottish folk scene for the past couple of decades. Her fiddle playing and […]
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Opportunity! Mountain Melodies 2018
St Margaret’s Braemar, in partnership with Live Music Now Scotland, will host a week-long music and composition project during the 2018 October holidays called Mountain Melodies, for talented young musicians from the local area, combining composition workshops, one-to-one tuition, talks, seminars and performances. Up to 20 places for available for the project, running from Friday […]
Killin Music Festival 15-17th June
The Perthshire village of Killin will come alive with music on the 15th, 16th and 17th of June with the third Killin Music Festival! Acts this year include Blazin’ Fiddles and Niteworks on the Friday, Peatbog Faeries, MecLir and HoRo on the Saturday and a seated concert with Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain on the […]
Adam Sutherland’s Interesting People Podcast – Aonghas Grant
Here is a new podcast from Adam Sutherland. Check it out below! For this episode of ‘Adam Sutherland’s Interesting People’ I have the pleasure of the company of the famous left-handed fiddler of Lochaber, Aonghas Grant. Also joining me this time is my father, Alex Sutherland. Aonghas is very well known across the world as […]
Trad Music Spotlight: Kim Carnie
Hands Up for Trad’s Trad Music Spotlight is a monthly feature on a band or solo artist. It was first launched in February 2015 and features musicians who are working in the trad scene – both in Scotland and around the world. We asked Kim Carnie a few questions. What’s happening? Well, I’m just home […]
Liet International 2018 – The results
Congratulations to Gerda Stevenson & Kyrre Slind who came third in the Liet International 2018 competition. Jury Award: 1. The Rowan Tree (Cornish) 2. Nastasia Zürcher (Galician) 3. Gerda Stevenson & Kyrre Slind (Scots) Besides, Nastasia Zürcher also won the Musicians’ Award, for which all the bands voted. https://liet-international.com/and-the-results-are/
Trad Music Spotlight: Hamish Napier
Hands Up for Trad’s Trad Music Spotlight is a monthly feature on a band or solo artist. It was first launched in February 2015 and features musicians who are working in the trad scene – both in Scotland and around the world. We asked Hamish Napier a few questions. What’s happening? I’ve moved back to […]
A Life in Trad Music: David Francis
Scotland is very fortunate in the depth and strength of its traditional musicians. At any given time, there are several generations working in the music sector and as the workforce naturally changes through time, older musicians have different priorities to their younger colleagues. In order to better appreciate these differences, Hands Up for Trad are […]
The GRIT Orchestra returns with Martyn Bennett’s Bothy Culture
Following the sell-out performance of Martyn Bennett’s GRIT in 2016, The GRIT Orchestra returns to the Edinburgh Playhouse for one night only in a truly epic celebration of Celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett’s kaleidoscopically rich 1996 album Bothy Culture. The album fuses together Islamic and Gaelic cultures, drawing inspiration from traditional Punjabi, Turkish, Scandinavian and Irish music, […]
Silly Wizard Fiddler Johnny Cunningham to have a street named after him
City of Edinburgh Council have provisionally given the name Cunningham Square to a square in Portobello, Edinburgh. Named after Johnny Cunningham, born in Portobello in 1957, Johnny was a folk musician widely considered responsible for spreading interest in traditional Celtic music around Europe and America as a member of the band Silly Wizard (amongst others).