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Round off your weekend with some great music from some of the best musical talents.
The Highland Branch of the Clarsach Society is pleased to offer a number of free opportunities for taster harp/clarsach sessions.
The clarsach has a long history in the Highlands and if you’ve always fancied having a go, now is your chance! The clarsach is a wonderful instrument for both adults and children to experience.
All ages are welcome! With ‘Come-and-try a Harp’ sessions in Kingussie, Aviemore and Grantown, hopefully there is something local to you.
The sessions are free, harps are provided, and no musical experience is necessary. Come along, have a look and listen, try out the harps yourself and maybe even start to learn a tune!
The sessions last about 30 minutes.
Places are limited so booking is essential.
The Highland Branch of the Clarsach Society is pleased to offer a number of free opportunities for taster harp/clarsach sessions.
The clarsach has a long history in the Highlands and if you’ve always fancied having a go, now is your chance!
The clarsach is a wonderful instrument for both adults and children to experience. All ages are welcome! With ‘Come-and-try a Harp’ sessions in Kingussie, Aviemore and Grantown, hopefully there is something local to you.
The sessions are free, harps are provided, and no musical experience is necessary.
Come along, have a look and listen, try out the harps yourself and maybe even start to learn a tune!
The sessions last about 30 minutes. Places are limited so booking is essential.
The Highland Branch of the Clarsach Society is pleased to offer a number of free opportunities for taster harp/clarsach sessions.
The clarsach has a long history in the Highlands and if you’ve always fancied having a go, now is your chance!
The clarsach is a wonderful instrument for both adults and children to experience. All ages are welcome!
With ‘Come-and-try a Harp’ sessions in Kingussie, Aviemore and Grantown, hopefully there is something local to you.
The sessions are free, harps are provided, and no musical experience is necessary. Come along, have a look and listen, try out the harps yourself and maybe even start to learn a tune!
The sessions last about 30 minutes.
Places are limited so booking is essential.
Held at Kincraig Village Hall this popular Event is organised by the Community and welcomes locals and visitors to join in their celebration of the National Bard Rabbie Burns.
A traditional supper of Soup, Haggis, Neeps N’ Tatties served wi’ a dram, ‘piped in and addressed’, Tea/Coffee and Shortbread leads into the Immortal memory and traditional toasts – leaving plenty of time to Ceilidh dance afterwards.
If you haven’t been to a Ceilidh dance before then don’t worry – we have a dance caller too!
This event is fully licensed with a separate bar. Gluten free and vegetarians catered for.
Multi instrumentalist and singer Megan Henderson’s profile continues to flourish with the release of her debut solo album Pilgrim Souls. We are delighted to welcome her to St Margaret’s with her newly formed trio comprising of Su-a Lee (Cello/Saw) and Alistair Iain Paterson (Piano/Harmonium). Henderson combines beauty, energy and finesse to create a versatile programme of original music and song.
Megan is multi instrumentalist and singer hailing from the West Highland town of Fort William. Brought up in a large family of highly respected traditional musicians her path to a career in music was almost inevitable. Always keen to explore her creative horizons she moved to Glasgow in 2007 to study Classical Violin at the RSAMD. Upon graduating she joined Scottish folk group Breabach. In her 12 years with the band, Breabach have carved out international recognition as one of Scotland’s most innovative and creative acts. Five-time winners at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards, they have performed at festivals and theatres across the globe including the Sydney Opera House and Central Park, New York. They have appeared regularly on Radio and Television, co- curated cross cultural collaborations and released seven studio albums. Their latest collaborative endeavour saw them combine with Bafta winning animator Cat Bruce to create Dusgadh’ a short film with original musical score.
Her versatility and technical skill make Megan a much in demand session musician, performing and recording with artists including the Grit Orchestra, Salsa Celtica, Kim Carnie and Duncan Chisholm.
‘Dusk Moon’ UK Tour 2023
“one of the most exciting bands of the Scottish folk scene” (Songlines *****)
RURA are set to return to stages across the UK with their hotly anticipated fourth studio album Dusk Moon, in March 2023. The award-winning quartet have been a mainstage highlight at the world’s leading folk music festivals for over 10 years, touring across Europe, Canada, Asia Australia and New Zealand, and return to UK venues this spring.
By far their most collaborative record to date, Dusk Moon is a continuation of the creative journey RURA embarked upon in 2018 with producer Euan Burton, with the release of their critically acclaimed album In Praise of Home.
Inspired by a deep sense of reflection and hope, Dusk Moon sees the band’s progressive, emotive and powerful sound continue to develop, connecting with fans and music lovers around the globe. Renowned for cinematic arrangements that draw from people and landscape throughout Scotland, their spellbinding live show is not to be missed.
The band’s sixth release, Dusk Moon is the latest milestone for the Glasgow-based group who continually evolve and push boundaries.
Most recently, RURA stepped back from their own writing to arrange and record with five of the biggest names in the UK folk scene. Our Voices Echo was performed to a sell-out crowd at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal during Celtic Connections 2022, with an all-star band including collaborators Julie Fowlis, Duncan Chisholm, Michael McGoldrick, Ross Ainslie and Hannah Rarity.
Jazz is the main category with Classical being second with elements of Folk music. Through my compositional style in my piece Chasing Sakura, I hope to push genre boundaries by mixing these different musical styles into one common style -music. My goal is to bring Jazz to the Classical music platform, Classical to a Folk audience, and Folk into the Jazz realm. I believe this is music which transcends the need for pigeon-holing -with a flavour of many styles of music to be enjoyed by all music lovers. I also offer music from the Great American Songbook with intricate, jazz/classical styled arrangements to cater for the jazz fan
Having seen his first three albums nominated for an array of awards, including Scottish Album of the Year (in 2014, 2017 and 2018) and the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Adam’s masterful songwriting and enchanting voice has seen him work with the likes of producer John Wood (Nick Drake and John Martyn), Simon Heyworth (mastering engineer and co-producer of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells) and two-time BRIT award winner Eddi Reader.
Conjuring comparisons to The Band and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Holmes combines elements of rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures, which have seen him featured widely on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 3, BBC Scotland and Edith Bowman’s BBC Scotland Quay Sessions show and Virgin Radio, amongst many others. He is also a regular on the UK and European festival and touring circuit, having shared bills with the likes of Laura Marling, Van Morrison, Richard Thompson, Jason Isbell, The Avett Brothers, Sturgill Simpson and Chvrches.
“Captivating… Entrancing…a potent style of his own…” Metro
“An ideal example of everything that’s good about acoustic / traditional music…” Folk Radio UK
“The best Scottish male singer of his generation…” The Courier
“Sweetly mournful melodies”
The Scotsman
“Adam Holmes is one of the brightest rising stars on the UK roots music scene” The List
“Classy” Stephen Malkmus
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners, Irish/Manx/Scottish quintet Ímar are amongst Glasgow’s hottest folk property.
With a wide-reaching fanbase throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Canada, the quintet have fast become one of the trad scene’s most talked about group – thanks in no small part to their debut video, L’Air Mignonne, becoming a viral smash in 2016, catapulting the group to the attention of audiences and media worldwide.
Their two albums – Afterlight and Avalanche – have since amassed a devoted listenership, whilst live audiences are transfixed by Ímar’s collective and individual technical prowess. With a line-up boasting a heavyweight haul of top solo prizes – including nine All-Ireland and eight All-Britain titles – the group’s collective synergy and live energy is positively electric.
Adam Brown (bodhrán), Adam Rhodes (bouzouki), Mohsen Amini (concertina), Ryan Murphy (uilleann pipes) and Tomás Callister (fiddle) share a strong background in Irish music; a grounding that underpins many of Ímar’s distinctive qualities, in both instrumentation and material. Indeed, the group’s very being embodies a personal reconnection with its members’ formative years, dating back long before their recent camaraderie around Glasgow’s celebrated session scene.
The shared cultural heritages between Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man are well documented: all three once shared the same Gaelic language, and a similar, clearly potent, kinship endures between their musical traditions.
“striking musicianship, artful arrangements and sheer absolute delight” / Songlines
“genuinely jaw-dropping collective virtuosity supplied frills to burn” / The Scotsman
“The energy that’s seemingly bursting to let loose is tempered by a variety of instrumental formations and an attention to pacing that showcases the tunes’ melodic strength, and even when the floodgates open the effect is all the more exhilarating for the underlying control and musicality.” / The Herald
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