Posts for January, 2025

Join us at Aviemore Resort for the one and only Scottish Elvis Festival from Friday 4 April to Sunday 6 April 2025. Celebrate the life and legacy of the greatest entertainer that ever lived, Elvis Presley.

Enhance your festival experience with our exclusive Dinner, Bed, and Breakfast offer at the 4-star Aviemore Resort, available exclusively to Elvis Festival ticket holders.

World’s Best Elvis Tribute Artists: Enjoy live shows from renowned artists such as Shaun Hamilton (Scotland), Juan Lozano (Wales), Jay Dupuis (USA), Emilio Santoro, Rob Willis, Louis Brown (England), and Johnny Lee Memphis (Scotland), backed by The Memphis Showband throughout the event.

Your Festival Experience Includes
Hosting by Gary Gobstopper: The event will be hosted by the one and only Gary Gobstopper (England), MC, with nightly afterparties managed by Johnny Elvis (England). Prepare for an unforgettable entertainment experience!

Exclusive Festival Features:

Champagne reception for all guests
Complimentary brochure showcasing the weekend
The E Factor Contest
A sensational live band for the full three days with live performances by our world class Elvis Tribute acts
The Priscilla look alike competition
The Live Gospel Show – not to be missed
Amazing after parties in our JUNGLE ROOM

Laura has toured across the world in various different groups and artists within the contemporary folk music scene, including Kinnaris Quintet, guitar-virtuoso Ian Carr, Ross Ainslie, Salsa Celtica, NITEWORKS and with Scots Singers, Claire Hastings, Beth Malcolm & Siobhan Miller.

As a founding member of Glasgow-based Jazz/Funk/R&B/Synth/Folk Juggernaut, Fat-Suit, Laura has been inspired to play with elements of improvisation in different styles, making her a versatile influence on each project. Collaborations include performing, writing and arranging with top bands and artists including Shooglenifty, Man of the Minch, Rachel Sermanni, The Elephant Sessions, Paul Towndrow’s Keywork Orchestra, Fatherson, GRIT Orchestra and many more.

Now is the time for Laura to shine in her own right and demonstrate what a versatile, creative and adept artist she is.

In celebration of their 10th anniversary, Orkney born folk quartet FARA embark on a whistle-stop tour around the UK in 2025, returning to some of their favourite venues and towns from a decade of touring.

Presenting an evening of highlights from their three critically acclaimed albums, FARA’s fiery fiddles, foot-stomping piano, and enchanting three-part vocal harmony will take you on a joyful journey through their time performing at the forefront of Scotland’s folk music scene.

‘Gifted, imaginative, complex and engaging…a sound that just exudes joy’ – FRUK

In 563 AD, St. Columba arrived on Iona from Ireland with 12 companions, changing Scotland’s history forever.

Iona weaves together music, poetry and visual art in this world premiere taking audience on a journey delving into the lives of Vikings, kings and saints vividly brought together by actor and director John Bett’s magical script.

Composer and maestro of the fiddle Paul Anderson MBE leads a gifted ensemble blending together new music with poetry by Francey Devine and visuals of John Lowrie Morrison. ‘Iona’ promises to be an enchanting evening bringing audiences an unforgettable experience.

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.