{"id":14016,"date":"2019-11-25T14:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=14016"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:31:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:31:05","slug":"blas-festival-culminates-this-weekend-with-st-andrews-day-celebrations-across-the-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/blas-festival-culminates-this-weekend-with-st-andrews-day-celebrations-across-the-highlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Blas Festival culminates this weekend with St Andrew\u2019s Day celebrations across the Highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Blas Festival<\/a><\/strong>, which is currently taking place at venues across the Highlands and Islands, will finish with an impressive array of musical entertainment to celebrate St Andrew\u2019s Day this weekend.<\/p>\n

In association with St Andrew’s Fair Saturday, supporting HiMRA (Highland Migrant & Refugee Advocacy) and Highland Supports Refugees, Blas Festival will hold seven Gaelic music events this Saturday from Inverness to Portree.<\/p>\n

Arthur Cormack of F\u00e8isean nan G\u00e0idheal, organisers of the Blas Festival, said: \u201cIt is fitting to end the Blas Festival with a range of events in collaboration with St Andrew\u2019s Fair Saturday, contributing to the global Fair Saturday movement and the celebration of St Andrew\u2019s Day. Fair Saturday aims is to boost social inclusion, fairness and sharing and we hope to celebrate our culture with some of the migrants and refugees who have settled in the Highlands and raise some funds for the organisations which support them.  The Highlands is well-known for its warm welcome and friendliness and we hope people will come out to support their work and enjoy entertainment from some of the best traditional singers and musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inverness will host two events; a family c\u00e8ilidh dance with members of Meantime will be held at 3pm at the Spectrum Centre whilst Gaelic singer Mairi MacInnes will sing in the beautiful St Andrew\u2019s Cathedral in the Highland capital, along with award-winning Inverness Gaelic Choir, local fiddler Ruairidh Gollan and Cape Breton duo, Dawn and Margie Beaton; the perfect way to celebrate Scotland\u2019s official national day.<\/p>\n

The people of Nairn will be treated to a c\u00e8ilidh dance with the Glenfinnan C\u00e8ilidh Band at the Arts and Community Centre at 8pm and Gary Innes, former shinty player and presenter of BBC Scotland\u2019s Take the Floor, will be providing the tunes and craic, along with his band (Kim Carnie, Ryan Murphy, Ali Hutton and Rory Matheson) at Shielbridge Village Hall, Acharacle, at 7.30pm.<\/p>\n

For those who enjoy a modern take on traditional Scottish music, neo trad trio, Project Smok will be entertaining at Strathy Village Hall and will be joined by the next generation of young musicians from F\u00e8is Air an Oir.<\/p>\n

At Ben Nevis Distillery, Fort William, Jo Macdonald, Rachel Walker and Ewen Henderson will take a light hearted look at Gaelic song. Gaol no Gonadh?, this year\u2019s Blas commission, will include some of the most beautiful Gaelic songs of love or loss, accompanied by interesting stories and introductions by Jo MacDonald. The songs and accompanying stories will explore courtship, heartbreak, marriage, the marital state and the consequences of remaining single; ensuring an evening of beautiful songs, tears and laughter!<\/p>\n

Finally, at the \u00c0ros Centre, Portree, in partnership with Urras an Eilein, there will be a concert with some of Gaeldom\u2019s finest musicians and singers including Dr Angus MacDonald, Kathleen Macinnes, Christine Primrose, Alasdair Whyte, Stuart Jackson, Mhairi Hall, Allan Henderson and some young Fe\u0300is participants.<\/p>\n

Blas, which means \u2018taste\u2019 or \u2018sample\u2019, is organised by F\u00e8isean nan G\u00e0idheal in partnership with The Highland Council and aims to celebrate Gaelic culture and the thriving Scottish traditional music scene over nine days of concerts, c\u00e8ilidhs and workshops in venues across the Highlands and Islands.<\/p>\n

The full programme of events can be found at www.blas-festival.com<\/a> along with details of how to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s Blas Festival, which is currently taking place at venues across the Highlands and Islands, will finish with an impressive array of musical entertainment to celebrate St Andrew\u2019s Day this weekend. In association with St Andrew’s Fair Saturday, supporting HiMRA (Highland Migrant & Refugee Advocacy) and Highland Supports Refugees, Blas Festival will hold seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-newsletter","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2019\/11\/image-2.jpg","featured_image_src":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2019\/11\/image-2.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/files\/2019\/11\/image-2.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"simon","author_link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/author\/simon\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcv15g-3E4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14017,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14016\/revisions\/14017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}