Posts for January, 2025

TOMS (The Osprey Music Society) is delighted to welcome back Alba Challah to perform in Boat of Garten. This Glasgow based sextet will showcase an Eastern European repertoire, world folk music and ritual melodies, fusing classical with Klezmer music.

The Ross Couper Band
Live at Glenbuchat Hall
26th April 7.30pm
Tickets
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/aberdeenshire/glenbuchat-hall/the-ross-couper-band/2025-04-26/19:30/t-pqezzkk

The Ross Couper Band features Ross Couper on fiddle, Michael Biggins on Piano and Paul Jennings on Drums, with Sam Mabbett sometimes joining them on accordion. Ross Couper is a known virtuoso with a distinctive Shetland style. Over the past 15 years, Ross has become a firmly established face in the Scottish folk scene performing in duo format with the formidable Tom Oakes, with folk band Bodega, and today his explosive fiddle playing lies at the heart of the mighty Peatbog Faeries – one of the best known names in Scotland’s contemporary folk scene.
The Ross Couper Band was born at Celtic Connections festival in 2023, with Ross joined by the incredible Michael Biggins on piano (BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year for 2021), fellow Shetlander Paul Jennings on drums and percussion, and Sam Mabbett on melodeon.
What followed was multiple approaches to perform at various festivals the length and breadth of the country and a week in the studio to record the band’s debut album , Homeroad, in December 2023.

Tenement Jazz Band
Live @ Glenbuchat Hall
Saturday 1st March 2025 7.30pm
Entrance £15 under 16s £10
To reserve tickets in advance
www.ticketsource.co.uk/glenbuchat-live-music


Tenement Jazz band are a traditional jazz band formed in early 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Brought together by their shared love of New Orleans music, and comprising musicians from various corners of Edinburgh’s vibrant jazz scene, they are on a journey of exploration back to the roots of the music that they play.

Their aims are to capture the raw energy and excitement of the early jazz recordings, to find and revive lesser-heard songs and cultivate their own interpretations of these, all in order to captivate experienced jazzers, dancing persons, and uninitiated ears alike.

In their brief existence so far they have performed at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow Jazz Festivals, collaborated with various musicians via their own Cellar Session residency, and performed their own hit show on the Edinburgh Fringe telling the story of the ‘Red Hot Roots of Jazz’ from turn of the century New Orleans and beyond.

Our family ceilidh is always a sell out evening. We have live music from The Blaeberries, stovies to keep you fuelled and a licenced bar featuring local beers and gins.

Meet at Braemar Mews for a welcome drink of mulled wine, courtesy of the Fife Arms Hotel. Take part in the Torchlit Procession, accompanied by the Braemar Pipers, down to the Highland Games Pavilion for our mountain food evening. Always a popular event so book now to avoid disappointment!

Good Guy Hank
Live at Glenbuchat Hall
Saturday 17th May 2025
Entrance £15
To reserve tickets in advance

www.ticketsource.co.uk/glenbuchat-live-music

From the harmonious Heartlands of Scotland and the musical metropolis of Melbourne, Australia, Good Guy Hank bring all of the heartbreak, joy and everything in-between with blistering bluegrass country guitar, lightning mandolin, virtuoso fiddle playing and three part harmonies galore! Influences range from Hank Williams, Elbow, Lucinda Williams to Drive By Truckers, Gillian Welsh and Calexico.

The Ross Couper Band
Live at Glenbuchat Hall
26th April 7.30pm
Tickets
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/aberdeenshire/glenbuchat-hall/the-ross-couper-band/2025-04-26/19:30/t-pqezzkk

The Ross Couper Band features Ross Couper on fiddle, Michael Biggins on Piano and Paul Jennings on Drums, with Sam Mabbett sometimes joining them on accordion. Ross Couper is a known virtuoso with a distinctive Shetland style. Over the past 15 years, Ross has become a firmly established face in the Scottish folk scene performing in duo format with the formidable Tom Oakes, with folk band Bodega, and today his explosive fiddle playing lies at the heart of the mighty Peatbog Faeries – one of the best known names in Scotland’s contemporary folk scene.
The Ross Couper Band was born at Celtic Connections festival in 2023, with Ross joined by the incredible Michael Biggins on piano (BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year for 2021), fellow Shetlander Paul Jennings on drums and percussion, and Sam Mabbett on melodeon.
What followed was multiple approaches to perform at various festivals the length and breadth of the country and a week in the studio to record the band’s debut album , Homeroad, in December 2023.

As the Modern Country Music craze continues to spread across the globe, ‘Nashville At Heart’ is a show that celebrates the music of some of modern country music’s giants including Luke Combs, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Darius Rucker, Chris Stapleton, Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain & many others.

On the back of a sold out UK tour, the band are returning to the road, backed by one of the finest session bands that the UK has seen for a generation, the show’s male and female vocalists’ prowess is second to none with every nuance of the Nashville sound reproduced in this stunning live spectacle.

“This is exactly what a Country Music Show should be! Hit after hit from Artists that any country fan loves” – Ollie Harding, The Shires (Drummer)

“This is as close to that modern Nashville sound that you’ll get without jumping on a plane and heading across the Atlantic” – Ben Marshall – Award Winning Music Producer

Three unique musical voices unite to deliver a powerful yet intimate blend of old-time Appalachian songs, alongside a collection of beautifully crafted soulful originals.

Fiddler and singer-songwriter Hannah Read met banjo player Michael Starkey at an Appalachian old-time session in Edinburgh in late 2019. The moment they struck up a tune together marked an immediate meeting of musical minds. They have since become a dynamic fiddle and banjo duo, playing repertoire sourced from deep in the old-time tradition, as well as new self-composed tunes and songs. Their compelling sound can be heard on the critically acclaimed debut album Cross the Rolling, released on Hudson Records in June 2022.

Hannah is an award-winning Scottish musician based in Brooklyn, NY. She moved stateside to study American fiddle styles and to immerse herself in the thriving string music scene. She has toured extensively, performing solo and collaborating with musicians such as Tony Trischka, Sarah Jarosz and Jefferson Hamer, as well as being one part of the BBC Folk Award-winning Songs of Separation.

Michael is a multi-instrumentalist, music teacher and old-time banjo enthusiast living in Scotland. His mission as a musician is to keep things simple: clear melody lines underpinned by solid, infectious rhythm. Recent collaborations include work with Wayward Jane (an Edinburgh-based UK/US folk and roots music four-piece) and Faultlines, a collection of Lisa Fannen’s poetry set to music.

Originally hailing from the high desert of northern New Mexico, Cahalen has toured solo, as a duo with Eli West, and with his band Western Centuries over the past 15 years, and has performed on stage with the likes of Tim O’Brien, Kelly Joe Phelps, Hot Rize, David Grisman, Dirk Powell, Crooked Still, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas, Phil Cunningham, Aly Bain and Kris Drever.

Well known for his singular turn of phrase and curiously poignant songs, Cahalen dips deep into the well of tradition while the pushing boundaries of contemporary songwriting. He is equally at home on guitar, banjo, mandolin, singing three-part harmony or unaccompanied.
Cahalen has played all over the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Western Europe, and at festivals that include the Transatlantic Sessions, the Strawberry Music Festival, the Shetland Folk Festival, Celtic Connections, and many more.
Cahalen is based in Glasgow. Currently working on an exciting new project, he is also a regular at many sessions, eats as much black pudding as he can and is to be found most evenings in one of the city’s many parks or along the Clyde with his dog.

This is a BYOB event.
Doors open at 7.30pm.

TOMS (The Osprey Music Society) will host three singers from the Opera Bohemia ensemble: Douglas Nairn – Baritone and Piano, Catriona Clerk – Soprano and Connor Smith – Tenor. The evening’s entertainment will have a Burns theme.