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Indigo Velvet (pictured) play Bathgate's Party in the Park on Sunday 2 September, read all about it on page 3 www.facebook.com/partyinthepark :: photo by Alice Hadden Photography
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Party in the Park set to rock Bathgate Bathgate :: 2 September :: www.facebook.com/partyinthepark TICKETS @ FREE ENTRY!! Bathgate's 'Party in the Park' is a yearly family focused music festival with two music stages, childrens rides, free face painting, food, stalls, and lots of fun - it's held in the town's Kirkton Park.
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festival cafe), Spring There's a full day of 'Live Music' from both the Distribution, top acts on the Main Stage and also very Dreadnought popular Acoustic Tent plus lots of other activities Rock, Greenwell for the children to keep them amused. Entry is Financial free for everyone with just a small charge for Services, The Now in its 9th year organisers, Friends of snacks and the kids rides, the park opens at Conveyancing Kirkton Park, have built this event up to be one 11am with the music kicking off from 12noon to Practice plus of the most popular events on the West Lothian 6pm. Also keeping the kids amused will be some many other summer calendar, with an attendance of around visitors from West Calder's 'Five Sisters Zoo'! supporters. 5000 each year. And once again organisers are Free parking is available in the grounds of the delighted to welcome back the highly adjacent Bathgate Academy. Planning is entertaining radio presenter and music journalist already Friends of Kirkton Park would like to thank Jim Gellatly to host the main stage. underway to make 2019's 10th everyone who's helped with the funding required Anniversary 'Party in the Park' one to Stuart McLean from the organising team to run such an event and to be able to offer free remember, so keep following their twitter and said: "This year we are delighted to have the entry. These include West Lothian Council, West facebook pages for the latest news! likes of Indigo Velvet on our main stage along Lothian Housing Partnership, Bathgate with local favourite Luke La Volpe and his band Community Centre Management Committee, www.twitter.com/pitpbathgate as well as young 15 year old up and coming old Tesco Bathgate (who sponsor and run the www.facebook.com/partyinthepark
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Ross-shire and beyond prepare for a musical September with Blas Festival Highlands :: 7-15 September :: www.blas-festival.com Tickets @ www.blas-festival.com/festival
Dingwall Gaelic singer, Julie Fowlis, who sang the theme songs for Disney’s Pixar smash hit, Brave, will be one of the headline acts at this year’s Blas Festival. Julie, who went to school in Dingwall, has had an incredible career to date and recently featured on Runrig’s latest single, Somewhere. She has performed with the likes of violin virtuoso Nicola Benedetti, acclaimed singer Aled Jones, Grammy-Award winning James Taylor and Mary Chapin Carpenter. As part of September’s Blas Festival, the finest showcase of Highland culture which takes place at venues throughout the Highlands and Islands over a nine-day period, Julie will be joined by three other highly influential traditional musicians from Ireland and Scotland who have collaborated to create new music and songs inspired by modern and ancient Irish and Scottish Gaelic poems. Julie, Éamon Doorley, Zoe Conway and John McIntyre have been working together over the past 18 months setting music to a diverse collection of poetry, inspired by the work of Seán Ó Riada, Padraigín Ní Uallacháin and others who breathed new life to Gaelic poetry. They will be performing on 13 September at Gairloch Community Hall. Portmahomack will welcome Highland quartet, Cruinn. Featuring four Gaelic singers - James Graham, Fiona Mackenzie, Brian O hEadhra and Rachel Walker – Cruinn are renowned for their mixture of traditional and contemporary Gaelic songs with exquisite harmonies and arrangements. Joining Cruinn at Carnegie Hall on 10th September will be newly formed trio, Assynt. Assynt, who are David Shedden (pipes/ whistles), Graham Mackenzie (fiddle) and Innes White (guitar), recently released their debut album, ‘Road to the North’ which is predominantly compiled of self-penned tunes. Individually, the band members have worked with an impressive array of world class musicians including Capercaillie, Grit Orchestra, Heidi Talbot, John McCusker Band and Karen Matheson. Between them, they have been BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winners, finalists in the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year and have two Celtic Connections ‘New Voices’ commissions.
With more events across Ross-shire and further afield, this year’s Blas Festival promises to deliver yet another music filled nine days
Julie Fowlis, Eamon Doorley, Zoe Conway and John McIntyre
Other significant Ross-shire events taking place will be ‘Crossing the Minch’ a tribute to the late great PM Donald Macleod in Ullapool on the 8 September, ‘Clann: Family Ties’ at Lochcarron Village Hall on 11 September; an event celebrating musical family ties with West Kerry father daughter duo, Seamus and Mèabh Begley and Gaelic singer Maggie MacInnes and son Calum Park, and a brand new Gaelic song commission by BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner Mischa MacPherson in Applecross Community Hall on the 12 September.
Music. The talented youngsters will take to the stage with the bands they have chosen including traditional music supergroups Skipinnish, Trail West and Breabach along with Brìghde Chaimbeul. A new Gaelic song written by Glasgow-based Gaelic student, Robbie MacLeòid, will be performed by every single musician taking part in the concert, the largest event Fèisean nan Gàidheal will have organised in its 30-year history.
One of the Blas Festival’s youth ambassadors, Lachie Robinson, said: “It is great to be involved in putting together this year’s Blas Festival and This year, to coincide with the Year of Young to have such an exciting programme to look People, Blas has introduced some exciting forward to with some of the acts most admired opportunities for young people to perform, by young people involved in playing traditional design and deliver some of the main festival music. Òran Mòr is going to be awesome and events, which is supported by the Year of Young myself and my young colleagues, are so looking People 2018 event fund, managed by forward to being part of that and other events EventScotland, part of VisitScotland’s Events during the Blas Festival.” Directorate. And rounding off the festival will be two incredible events demonstrating the wealth Blas, which means ‘taste’ or ‘sample’, is of talent amongst the young people of the organised by Fèisean nan Gàidheal in Highlands. partnership with The Highland Council and will take place from 7-15 September. It aims to Following a Ceòl nam Fèis showcase concert celebrate Gaelic culture and the thriving Scottish featuring 100 young musicians under the traditional music scene over nine days of musical direction of Capercaillie’s Donald Shaw concerts, cèilidhs and larger events in venues at the Spa Pavilion in Strathpeffer on Friday 14 across the Highlands and Islands. September, Blas will culminate in an enormous concert at the Northern Meeting Park in The programme of events and full festival Inverness on Saturday 15th. programme can be found at the Blas website along with details of how to Òran Mòr meaning Great (or Big) Song, will purchase tickets, including special prices feature over 1,000 young musicians from for YoungScot cardholders. Fèisean across Scotland as well as various youth music groups and initiatives including the www.blas-festival.com Highland Council Youth Music Groups and the www.twitter.com/blasfestival National Centre of Excellence in Traditional
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Ten Top Gigs For The 12th Glasgow Americana Over Five Packed Days Glasgow :: 3-7 October :: www.glasgowamericana.com TICKETS @ www.glasgowamericana.com
Glasgow Americana has lined up ten gigs featuring overseas and home-based acts for this year’s fiveday-long festival. The onstage action for the 12th Glasgow Americana will take place at six city venues from October 3-7. Fans will be able to enjoy two gigs on Festival Friday, three on the Saturday and the Sunday, including a trio of matinee performances, plus two album launches.
Glasgow singer-songwriter, Martha L. Healy, launches her new, recorded-in-Nashville album, Keep The Flame Alight, with a full-band matinee show at The Glad Café. In the evening, Be Kind, the latest album by The Starry Skies, will be launched at The CCA, featuring the voice and songs of Glasgow-based singer/songwriter, Warren McIntyre. And at The Glad Café on the Saturday evening are Bennett Wilson Poole whose high quality song writing reflects The Byrds, the harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young with dashes of Petty and Springsteen. There are also three Sunday 7 October shows, kicking off with the festival’s annual concert in association with The Hazy Recollections. This year’s line-up includes North Carolina troubadour, Woody Pines, plus some of the best Scottish acts on the scene, including Yvonne Lyon, Al Shields, Adriana Spina and Noah and The West River Band.
The opening gig on 3 October at Cottiers features Yola Carter, whose singer-songwriter talents were recognised when her track, Home, Tennessee-based singer/songwriter, Nathan Bell, from her acclaimed Orphan Offering EP, won the voted Male Performer of the Year in the Readers’ Poll at the influential Americana-UK website, is in AMA UK Song of the Year Award this year. the Sunday matinee slot at The CCA to perform Emily Barker, the Australian singer-songwriter, material from two new albums, including a live musician and composer whose music has one, due for UK release. featured as the theme to BBC dramas Wallander Bringing the curtain down on Glasgow Americana and The Shadow Line, plays Oran Mor on 4 is Austin-based singer-songwriter, Kimmie October. Rhodes, who has released 16 solo albums in a Her latest album, Sweet Kind Of Blue, with its three-decade career, written and produced three mix of soul, blues, country and folk helped her musical plays, published a novella/cookbook – pick up the UK Artist of the Year 2018 at the UK and written many multi-platinum songs, Americana Awards. recorded by such stellar artists as Willie Nelson, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Ely, Waylon Jennings, On the Friday (5 October) there is a choice of Peter Frampton, Mark Knopfler and Emmylou two gigs. American songwriter, Anthony Harris. D’Amato, who has opened for Ricky Ross, Gretchen Peters and Israel Nash on pervious “We set high standards for Glasgow Americana Glasgow visits, is on at The Glad Café while The and the quality of acts in this year’s superb lineHellfire Club, with members from a number of up reflects that,” said festival director, Kevin Glasgow seminal indie groups from the 1990s, Morris. “We have a good balance to it all, present their take on Americana at The Hug and including two album launches, ensuring great Pint. music throughout the five days. Three gigs are scheduled for Saturday, 6 “Everyone who buys tickets creates a special October: buzz at our shows, and we appreciate their
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continuing support and that of Creative Scotland as well. I hope everyone has a great time.” The full GA line-up at a glance ..... Opening Night Wednesday 3 October - Yola Carter plus The Red Pine Timber Co. Cottiers Theatre 93 Hyndland St, Glasgow G11 5PU. Tickets £15, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start Thursday 4 October - Emily Barker plus guests. Oran Mor Top of Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8QX. Tickets £15, doors 7pm, 7.45pm start Friday 5 October - Anthony D’Amato plus Mabel & Huck. The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG. Tickets £13, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start Friday 5 October - The Hellfire Club plus guests. The Hug & Pint 171 Great Western Rd, Glasgow G4 9AW. Tickets £8, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start Saturday 6 October - Martha Healy Album Launch plus David Latto. The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG. Tickets £9, doors 3.30pm, 4pm start Saturday 6 October - Bennett Wilson Poole plus support. The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG. Tickets £13, doors 8pm, 8.30pm start Saturday 6 October - Starry Skies Album Launch plus Woody Pines. The CA 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD. Tickets £12, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start Sunday 7 October - Hazy Recollections-Woody Pines, Yvonne Lyon, Al Shields, Adriana Spina, Noah and The West River Band. The Admiral Bar 72a Waterloo St, Glasgow G2 7DA. Tickets £10, doors 1pm, 1.30pm start Sunday 7 October - Nathan Bell plus Lynnie Carson. The CA 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD. Tickets £13, doors 3.30pm, 4pm start Sunday 7 October - Finale Night- Kimmie Rhodes plus Yvonne Lyon. The CA 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD. Tickets £15, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start Tickets for all shows available from Tickets Scotland 237 Argyle St, Glasgow G2 8DL & 127 Rose Street Edinburgh EH2 3DT and Tickets Scotland & Ticketweb. Cottiers show tickets available from www.cottiers.com
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True North festival announces further acts and Fringe line-up Aberdeen :: 20-23 September :: www.truenorthfestival.co.uk
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Aberdeen music fans will be in their element next month as the award-winning True North festival attracts the cream of contemporary music to some of the best venues across the city from September 20-23.
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Festival organisers Aberdeen Performing Arts have announced a packed programme of Fringe performances, workshops and events taking place across the city centre throughout the festival weekend, which takes place from September 20-23. Headline acts Mogwai, Glasvegas, Traceyanne and Danny, The Magic Numbers and Mull Historical Society have all been announced, as well as a very special tribute evening as Irish vocalist Camille O’Sullivan brings together a line-up of stars to perform the work of David Bowie. The Lemon Tree will host an opening party on Thursday September 20 which promises to kick off the festival in style, with a celebration of grassroots Scottish music featuring the talented and eclectic line-up of Zoe Graham, Solareye and Man of Moon. The hugely popular ‘My First Gig’, designed for 9-12 year-olds, will be a highlight of the weekend, which also includes a three-day workshop for young musicians, as well as panel discussions on subjects covering issues such as mental health and wellbeing in the music industry and funding for artists. Free performances from festival artists and local talent will also be taking place across the city centre, including a pop up stage in the atrium at Marischal Square, under Kelpies artist Andy Scott’s spectacularly imposing Leopard sculpture, as well as performances in venues including Rye and Soda and SPIN Bar and Diner. It is also expected that there will be some further ‘secret gigs’ announced via social media featuring festival artists in unusual or unexpected locations. We are delighted to announce that our friends at the Belmont Filmhouse will be joining in on the fun for True North weekend, showing films that complement the festival line-up perfectly, including Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (Wednesday 19 September, 7.30pm), a film scored by festival headliners Mogwai, and David Bowie’s film The Man Who Fell to Earth (Saturday 22 September, 1.35pm), as a nod to Camille O’Sullivan’s ‘Lady Stardust’ curated tribute evening to the iconic artist. Ben Torrie, Aberdeen Performing Arts’ Director of Programming and Creative Projects said: “We are so excited to be able to release the full programme for this year’s True North festival. The fringe programme is a hugely important part of what makes True North what it is with free performances across the city from both festival artists and the wealth of amazing local talent this city boasts. The festival will also inspire the next generation of music fans and musicians with workshop, panel discussions and the incomparable My First Gig.” Fresh from playing at Belladrum Festival recently, Glasgow-based Zoe Graham is steadily building a reputation for herself on the Scottish contemporary music scene. There is an impressive maturity and attention to detail in Zoe’s music that sets this accomplished young songwriter apart from her peers.
solo album, ‘All These People are Me’ in May, Solareye’s music tells stories, paints pictures, raps about rapping and pushes some boundaries along the way. Critically acclaimed Edinburgh duo Man of Moon will also be joining in the opening night party. This duo’s textured, monochromatic sound belies their young age, and they have already been lauded as the “new kings of art rock”. The Young Bands Workshop, which takes place over three days, will be tailored towards young musicians with an interest in forming bands and working in the music industry. Led by accomplished performer and tutor, Graeme Smillie, young participants will learn about writing songs, setting up gigs and performances, and get a general overview of working in the music industry. The workshop will end with a free sharing of work in The Lemon Tree on Saturday, September 23 at 3pm. 'My First Gig' takes place on Sunday, September 23 in The Lemon Tree Studio. This hugely popular event returns to True North by popular demand, and offers an opportunity for 9-12 year olds to experience their first ever live gig in a safe and supported, yet independent environment within The Lemon Tree. On Saturday, there will be a one-hour panel discussion at His Majesty’s Theatre’s Education Studio at 6pm before Mogwai take to the stage, where industry experts and health professionals will discuss the topic of mental health and wellbeing for artists, musicians and people working in the music industry. This panel will be supported by Help Musicians UK and Choose Life. Finally, on Sunday, there will be a second panel discussion featuring musicians, industry experts and funders which will be a vital insight for anyone looking to start out in the music industry and will reveal where to find out about funding opportunities, writing funding applications and supporting career development. Tickets for the Launch Party, workshop and My First Gig are on sale now, panel discussions are free but ticketed. Buy online @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com in person at the Box Office at HMT or The Lemon Tree, or by phone on 01224 641122. Tickets for the film programme are available directly from the Belmont Filmhouse. All other Fringe events are free and unticketed.
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Lammermuir Festival - ten days of ‘beautiful music in beautiful places' East Lothian :: 14-23 September :: www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk TICKETS @ www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk/tickets/
East Lothian's Lammermuir Festival takes place from 14-23 September, presenting ten days of ‘beautiful music in beautiful places’. Lammermuir Festival won the prestigious RPS Award (the Oscars of the classical music world) for ‘Best UK Festival’ last year, and in this its ninth year, presents its most ambitious programme yet. As well as some of Scotland’s great orchestras and ensembles, including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Dunedin Consort, the festival brings Scottish Opera for the first time, with a unique production of one of Britten’s great Church Parables The Burning Fiery Furnace. The multi-talented Mark Simpson is 2018’s Artist In Residence, and is showcased as both composer and clarinet soloist. As well as two concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, he plays with Red Note Ensemble in a programme featuring two of his own works, paired with John Adams’s minimalist classic Shaker Loops and virtuosic clarinet work, Gnarly
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Buttons. Lammermuir Festival’s Composer is Association is one of Scotland’s most interesting and successful composers of the moment, Stuart MacRae. This is the second year of his association, and the premiere of the second piece in his trilogy of works on the theme of Prometheus, performed by the Hebrides Ensemble, tenor Joshua Ellicott and harpist Emily Hoile.
versa are presented in a co-production with BBC Radio 3. These are performed by jazz star pianist, Jason Rebello (whose career has included recording and performing with Sting, Peter Gabriel, Joss Stone and many more), pianist Alisdair Hogarth and singers of the Prince Consort.
Add to this the Danish String Quartet, Van Kuijk Quartet, Marian Consort, Stile Antico, international mezzo-soprano Anna Stéphany in recital and more, in venues including Lennoxlove Over 150 performers from Dunbar and the House, Fountainhall, St Mary’s Haddington and surrounding area join a cast of professional the idyllic village of Dirleton, then we begin to soloists and instrumentalists of Music Coget an idea of the wide range of music OPERAtive Scotland to present the premiere of a Lammermuir Festival offers, all set in one of new community opera An Cadal Trom written Scotland’s most interesting and beautiful specially for the festival by critically acclaimed landscapes, that hidden gem of a county, East Scottish-Gabonese composer Matthew Rooke, Lothian. conducted by Sian Edwards and directed by Jack Furness. www.lammermuirfestival.co.uk www.twitter.com/lammermuirfest A fascinating series of concerts exploring the www.facebook.com/LammermuirFestival influence of classical music on jazz and vice
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Organisers Promise “A Feast Of Folk” For Milestone Year Linlithgow :: 5-9 September :: www.linlithgowfolk.com TICKETS @ www.linlithgowfolk.yapsody.com
Linlithgow Folk Festival organisers are promising a real "Feast of Folk" at next month's event, which is celebrating its 20th year in 2018. The Festival will run from the 5-9 September. Fresh from organising the recent sell-out concert with Celtic music giants, Skipinnish, the Folk Festival Association is delighted to announce that this year’s headline artist will be the legendary Ralph McTell. The revered singer/songwriter has been an influential figure on the UK Folk music scene since the 1960s.
This year’s headline artist will be the legendary Ralph McTell. The revered singer/ songwriter has been an influential figure on the UK Folk music scene since the 1960s
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as Jonathan explained:
"In recent years, Ralph has been working closely with young emerging artistes and we are delighted that the headline concert on Saturday September 8th in the Academy will feature three Announcing this year's programme, of Scotland’s finest – award-winning singer Iona association secretary, Jonathan Moore said: Fyffe, accompanied by musicians Jack Badcock and Ross Miller, Linlithgow’s very own world "Ralph is perhaps best known for his Streets of champion town piper. London, which has been covered by over two thousand artists around the world, and for his Another wonderful young artist making an tale of Irish emigration, From Clare to here. He appearance in Linlithgow will be the BBC Young is often described as "Folk music royalty" and is Traditional Musician of the Year, Hannah Rarity still playing to packed houses all over the from Dechmont, West Lothian, who is earning country". rave reviews all over the country. Ralph McTell will have a tremendous support act, Describing the event as "one of the highlights of the weekend", Jonathan Moore revealed: "Hannah and her band will head up the second Songs and Reels at the Rose event at the Rose Social Club on 6 September. Her first outing at Linlithgow Festival will also be the West Lothian launch of her hotly anticipated debut album Neath the Gloaming Star, which features a whole host of musicians, including Phil Cunningham". International visitors this year will include the lively bluegrass band, The Whitetop Mountain Band, from Virginia USA, who will give a concert in the Rose Club on Friday 7 September. First staged in 1999, the Festival is firmly established on the traditional music scene and all the mainstay events will take place again. These include the popular sessions in the Black Bitch and other venues. musical cruises on the canal, workshops, the family ceilidh at the Vennel, the Hub at the Masonic Hall, the Bluegrass Concert and Gospel Session, and the outdoor Nora Devine Stage at the Cross.
Festival. Full details of the programme can be found in the 12-page full colour Festival guide, which is available at “Far From the Madding Crowd” bookshop, the Burgh Halls and other local venues. A comprehensive run-down on who's playing where also appears on the website
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Lindisfarne Festival on brink of sell out as final acts and event schedule are announced Beal Farm, Northumberland :: 30th Aug - 2 September :: www.lindisfarnefestival.com TICKETS @ www.lindisfarnefestival.com/2018-tickets With only days to go until the 4th annual Lindisfarne Festival, the 3 day music and camping event has added even more acts to its 200-strong line up and is on the brink of reaching the coveted ‘SOLD OUT’ status, with less than 20% of tickets remaining for the intimate 4500 capacity festival.
emerging artists, improved facilities & décor, a wider range of food vendors and non-music entertainment. Comedians, poets, fire dancers, holistic therapists, conspiracy debaters – you name it we’ve got it! We’ve even got an onsite Turkish steam room and are offering helicopter rides for the first time this year. We wanted to give festivalgoers the opportunity to take full advantage of our stunning coastal location – we are in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty after all, overlooking Holy Organisers of the independent North East event, Island with views stretching from Bamburgh Castle to Goswick Sands!” which is held on Beal Farm, Northumberland from 30 August to 2 September, have confirmed Playing the mainstage on Friday ticket sales were almost 50% ahead of this time night are headliners Happy Mondays, last year, with the biggest sales period still to Dub Pistols, Ferocious Dog, Mad Dog come prior to the festival gates opening at 5pm Mcrea, plus local acts Dansi on Thursday 30 August. (Newcastle), The Warehouse The dog friendly, over 18’s only festival, which is Announcement (Berwick) and unique for its quirky “no kids, but dogs allowed” emerging stars Social Room policy, will play host to over 200 acts across it’s (Sunderland), who were crowned winner of the 2018 Lindisfarne 10 unique stages, with acts spanning every possible musical genre. Top of this year’s bill are Festival & Musician’s Against Homelessness Unsigned Band Madchester legends Happy Mondays and folkpunk heroes The Levellers, who are celebrating Competition. their 30th Anniversary this year. Saturday will see The Levellers headlining the mainstage, Holy Moly Following a successful crowdfunding campaign & The Crackers headlining the at the launch of this year’s event, the Dingle Dell stage and the UK’s best Lindisfarne Festival team were able to secure £75k within 6 weeks, providing a much needed part time band Bombskare investment boost to make this year’s festival the headlining the Viking Brewhouse, which is proudly sponsored by The Alnwick biggest and best to date. Brewery. Conleth Maenpaa, founder of Lindisfarne BBC Music Introducing will be taking over the Festival said; “The programme of music, festival mainstage on the Saturday afternoon, entertainment and workshops we’ve got this putting a spotlight on upcoming talent with a year is absolutely incredible, if we do say so ourselves. For a small, independent festival, the line up including Statik, Ghost//Signals, Talk Like Tigers and Talent Show. amount of stuff we have going on is quite frankly insane! Our line-up is right up there with The festival, which proudly supports the some of the big festivals on the circuit this year. Musicians Against Homelessness (MAH) campaign, has also added yet another new We have invested in every area of the event to stage for 2018 to help further their mission to make it the best end of summer party imaginable, including bigger headline acts, more provide opportunities to emerging artists. The
new MAH Stage will play host to numerous unsigned acts, with performances from The Moods, Deep Sleep (MAH Comp Finalist), Fake Hippy, The Pastures, Sara N Junbug (MAH Comp Finalist), Hector Gannet, Feet of Clay, Bugman and Wagjammer. Conleth Maenpaa, founder of Lindisfarne Festival added; “When we launched Lindisfarne Festival in 2015, we could only have imagined where we would be today as we embark on what promises to be our best event yet! Our ambition was always to create a festival the region could be proud of for many years to come, so it was important to build organically from the ground up, gaining people’s trust, rallying support and building partnerships across the region to make this a true Northumbrian festival, with a global appeal. We have built a strong loyal following and ticket sales this year have exceeded all our expectations. With the successful crowdfunding campaign and support from Arts Council England and our sponsors behind us, we’ve pulled out all the stops to make Lindisfarne Festival 2018 the most epic small festival the UK has ever seen. We can’t wait to share it with everyone and urge people to snap up those final tickets and come and be part of it.” The final festival tickets are on sale now, currently priced at £65 - £105 (camping included) and can be bought on the link above. Only a handful of full festival passes (Thurs – Sun) remain and are anticipated to sell out. A range of ticket add-ons including VIPee posh toilet passes, campervan passes and glamping packages are still available.
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SCOTTISH MUSIC FESTIVALS to be included in our festival listings email details to: musicnewsscotland@gmail.com AUGUST Electric Fields
Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfries & Galloway 30 Aug - 1 Sept
artist will be the legendary Ralph McTell. In this Year of Young People, there will also be another staging of the popular Youth Festival Showcase, which will give young musicians of school age from all over Scotland the opportunity to perform at the very heart of the Festival.
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Perthshire Amber -
Electric Fields, Scotland’s best small festival, Blas has announced that Public Service Highlands Broadcasting, RIDE, The Horrors, Hollie Cook, Dream Wife, The Orielles, Halo Maud, 7-15 September Feet, Makeness, WomenSaid and Scope will The programme for this year’s Blas Festival be joining them at this year’s festival. has been launched and revealed an outstanding line up of musicians from www.electricfieldsfestival.com Scotland and further afield as well as some exciting opportunities for budding young Lindisfarne Festival musicians and composers. nFollowing a Ceòl Beal Farm, Berwick-upon-Tweed nam Fèis showcase concert featuring 100 30 August - 2 September young musicians under the musical direction of Capercaillie’s Donald Shaw at the Spa Following a successful Lindisfarne Festival Pavilion in Strathpeffer on Friday 14 2017, which saw a 38% increase in September, Blas will culminate in an attendees from the previous year and a enormous concert at the Northern Meeting 3500+ strong crowd, organisers are giving Park in Inverness on Saturday 15th. festivalgoers and businesses an opportunity to get more involved and shape the future of www.blas-festival.com the Northumberland music & arts festival by launching an exciting crowdfunding Lammermuir Festival campaign for the 2018 festival. East Lothian 14-23 September www.lindisfarnefestival.com
Midstock Festival
Dalkeith 31 August - 1 September Midstock Festival will take place on Friday 31 August and Saturday 1 September 2018 and an eclectic mix of bands and artists will take to the stage over the two dates. www.midstockfestival.com
SEPTEMBER
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NOVEMBER The Dougie MacLean Festival Perthshire 2-4 November The Perthshire Amber Festival brings together many musicians and entertainers from different parts of the world. This unique festival shares Dougie’s inspiring music, celebrates the history and culture of Perthshire and showcases the beautiful scenery. The concerts are staged in a variety of wonderful venues from prestigious theatres to atmospheric Dunkeld Cathedral. www.perthshireamber.com
Scots Fiddle Festival Edinburgh 16-18 November
Fiddle 2018 is moving to The Pleasance the well-known music and Fringe venue, owned by The University of Edinburgh. It has recently had a £6 million refurbishment, taking its facilities to a new level, with East Lothian's Lammermuir Festival takes greater accessibility and space options, place from 14-23 September, presenting ten enabling the Scots Fiddle Festival to take days of ‘beautiful music in beautiful places’. place in one location. Lammermuir Festival won the prestigious RPS Award (the Oscars of the classical music www.scotsfiddlefestival.com world) for ‘Best UK Festival’ last year, and in this its ninth year, presents its most ambitious programme yet.
DECEMBER
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True North
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Edinburgh 31 December
Aberdeen 20-23 September
Tickets are now on sale with 10,000 Street Party tickets reserved for Edinburgh Party in the Park residents at discounted price of £20. After a The festival, which runs from 20-23 Bathgate September, announced a curated line-up of successful Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 18 which 2 September saw festival goers snap up all tickets to extraordinary talent which also includes events across the 3 days, and terrific Mogwai Glasvegas, Tracyanne and Danny, Bathgate's 'Party in the Park' is a yearly feedback on the revamped Street Party, family focused music festival with two music Magic Numbers and Mull Historical Society, as well as a very special tribute to the music Underbelly today announced tickets for this stages, childrens rides, free face painting, year’s Edinburgh’s Hogmanay will go on sale food, stalls, and lots of fun - it's held in the of David Bowie by Camille O’Sullivan and at 10am on Monday 21 May. Tickets can be some of the country’s finest musicians. town's Kirkton Park. This year we are bought online or on 0131 510 0395. delighted to have the likes of Indigo Velvet Recognising the importance of support from www.truenorthfestival.co.uk on our main stage along with local favourite those who live in the city, Edinburgh’s Luke La Volpe and his band as well as young Hogmanay is discounting 10,000 tickets for 15 year old up and coming old singer EH postcode holders, twice the number of songwriter Fraser McLean. last year. These tickets will be £20.
OCTOBER
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Linlithgow Folk Festival Linlithgow 5-9 September
Glasgow Americana Glasgow 3-7 October
Glasgow Americana has lined up ten gigs featuring overseas and home-based acts for this year’s five-day-long festival. The onOrganisers are promising a real "Feast of Folk" at stage action for the 12th Glasgow next month's event, which is celebrating its 20th Americana will take place at six city venues year in 2018. The Festival will run from the 5th from October 3-7. Fans will be able to enjoy to the 9th of September. resh from organising two gigs on Festival Friday, three on the the recent sell-out concert with Celtic music Saturday and the Sunday, including a trio of giants, Skipinnish, the Folk Festival Association is delighted to announce that this year’s headline matinee performances, plus two album
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