Posts for January, 2025

TOMS finale concert for the 2024/2025 season features annual favourite, Maxi Martin (SCO Principal Clarinet) and The Maxwell Quartet who return to Boat of Garten after 4 years. The programme featuring this amazing combination will comprise Sir James MacMillan’s Tuireadh, a Haydn String quartet and the Brahms Clarinet Quintet.

Tunnell Trust prizewinners, the Asaka String Quartet, will be hosted by TOMS (The Osprey Music Society) as part of their celebratory Scottish tour. Their programme will include music by Schubert, Mendellssohn and Brahms.

Burns Night celebration with comperes David Nisbet & Ewan MacGregor doing the formalities and frivolities. A 3-course meal with haggis will be served at 7.30pm after you have bought your drinks from the bar.

Lyall Kinnaird is the piper and Burns’ songs will be performed by Stuart Anderson.

Buy your tickets (cash sales only) at Strathspey Legion, Grantown OR ring 01479 873690 to reserve your tickets, which must be paid for before commencement and preferably in advance. (N.B. Tickets bought for original date before re-scheduling of this event are still valid).

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.