{"id":14880,"date":"2022-01-18T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=14880"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:48:36","slug":"the-new-tradition-rejuvenation-ailis-sutherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/the-new-tradition-rejuvenation-ailis-sutherland\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Tradition: Rejuvenation – Ailis Sutherland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ailis Sutherland<\/strong> is performing at Celtic Connections festival’s The New Tradition: Rejuvenation<\/a> concert on Saturday 22nd January at 1pm in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall<\/p>\n

We asked Ailis about the music they will perform in the concert.<\/p>\n

I’m Ailis Sutherland, a piper and flute player from Kirriemuir, Angus. I started learning the pipes at the age of 9 and was taught by her father, Alec Sutherland.<\/p>\n

After years of competing and performing with my local pipe band in Brechin, and the National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland, in 2015, I won the Grade 1 World Pipe Band Championships with Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia.<\/p>\n

Since then, I’ve performed at festivals and venues around the world including Noite Celta de Porc\u00eda (Asturias), National Celtic Festival (Australia), Festival Interceltique de Lorient (Brittany), Piping Live! Festival (Scotland) and in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Romania, Switzerland and The Netherlands.<\/p>\n

While studying in South Uist, I picked up the wooden flute and learned from Iain MacDonald (Iain the Whaler) of Glenuig. It was here I started folk trio \u2018Hecla,\u2019 nominees at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards.<\/p>\n

Having graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Applied Music in August 2018, I’m an instructor at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

Just before the pandemic, I read a book from the mind of an explorer who became the \u2018first person to reach the North Pole, the South Pole and the summit of Mount Everest on foot.\u2019 The author drew a correlation between thought and footsteps and how a person can get to know landscape through their body. I was captivated by the idea that walking is a conversation between a person and their surroundings. Whenever I\u2019m out and about, I find comfort in the idea that everything around me is a sounding-board for my internal thoughts. When I\u2019ve walked for long enough, musical phrases have been coming to me – some I\u2019ve known for a long time and some original. I’ve never had a practice chanter in my hands when they’ve appeared, so I’ve been singing into my phone and developing them later.<\/p>\n

Some of these melodies are getting their first outing at this concert and I\u2019m delighted to get to share them with you. They’re all tunes which I’ve named after people I’ve got to know over the years and places I’ve visited or lived. It\u2019s been lovely to frame some fond memories in this way. I\u2019ve also included a few of my friends’ tunes which I really enjoy playing.<\/p>\n

Find out more about Ailis at their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks for Celtic Connections and Stonehaven Folk Club’s Folk In Crisis Fund for supporting this concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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