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, and set against contemporary urban beats and mixes for a pulsating musical exploration of Scotland’s bothy culture.
Described as ‘an orchestra like no other’ (The Scotsman) composer and violinist Greg Lawson has written another monumental orchestration for The GRIT Orchestra, which brings together over 80 of Scotland’s finest classical, traditional and jazz musicians for an evening of true musical alchemy, creating new hybrids of ceilidh music, rave and techno culture, and traditional folk instrumentation from around the world.
The GRIT Orchestra performs Bothy Culture on Tuesday 21 August at 8.00pm at the Edinburgh Playhouse.