Festivals! Scotland's Music
the Scottish music festival supplement from MUSIC NEWS Scotland
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INSIDE: Scribblers Picnic :: HebCelt :: Orkney Folk Festival :: Oban Live :: B-K @ Celtic Connections :: GSFF :: Montrose Music Festival :: Piping Live :: MHS @ Celtic Connections .... PLUS our Scottish music festival listings
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Scribbler's ÂŁ5000 Christmas Gift For Strathcarron Christmas came early for Strathcarron Hospice this week when they were given a cheque for ÂŁ5000 from fundraising festival Scribbler's Picnic A group of local volunteers set up The Scribbler's Picnic in 2001 to hold fundraising music events for cancer related charities following the death of local musician, teacher and writer Graham Whitelaw. Graham's daughter Katy, accompanied by her children Sandy and Corrie, visited the Denny hospice to hand over the cheque. The money was raised at this year's Scribbler's Picnic family music festival and fun day at Stirling Rugby Club. Katy said: "The work being carried out by staff at the hospice is wonderful and makes a massive difference to those being treated there
Katy Whitelaw with Strathcarron fundraiser Jim Brown and Katy's children Sandy (1) and Corrie (6)
and to their families.
Picnic to continue to keep the work of Strathcarron in mind in this way, their generocity is greatly appreciated.
"Everyone involved in our fundraising efforts places a huge value on the importance of end of life care for those suffering from cancer. "Their gift will be put to very good use in making the hospice as comfortable and welcoming as "Christmas is very emotional for those battling possible, and helping to provide the quality of cancer and for their loved ones. We hope this care our patients and their families deserve." money raised can go towards helping support their care during this difficult time." www.scribblerspicnic.co.uk Strathcarron Fundraising Manager Jackie Johnston said: "It is kind of The Scribbler's
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The Waterboys' First Headliners Announced For Hebcelt 2017 Stornoway :: 19-22 July :: www.hebceltfest.com Buy tickets @ www.hebceltfest.com/booking/
Internationallyacclaimed singing legends The Waterboys (see our front cover) are the first headliners to be announced for the 2017 Hebridean Celtic Festival as the island event looks to build on this year’s record-breaking success. HebCelt has also confirmed the festival, to be held in Stornoway from 19-22 July, will feature singer songwriter and former X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan, as well as Tide Lines, a Scottish band with strong traditional influences who launched earlier this year. Further leading acts will also be announced before Christmas.
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was released last year, was recorded in Nashville, produced by Mike Scott and mixed by the award-winning Bob Clearmountain, who has worked with hundreds of artists including Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Bryan Adams, Robbie Williams and Simple Minds.
Robert said: "We’re delighted to be involved in HebCelt 2017. It’s been such a massive event for the Highlands and Islands for so many years and some of us have enjoyed playing there before with other bands. We really can’t wait to take Tide Lines to the festival next year”.
The band will close the four-day festival on Saturday night, 22 July.
HebCelt director Caroline Maclennan said: “We are really excited to have The Waterboys headlining the festival in 2017. They are a great live act and have produced some of the most memorable gigs at HebCelt.
Mike Scott said: “Yes! I am delighted to bring my troupe of musicians back to Stornoway and It will be a third appearance at HebCelt for The Lewis for another fabulous bash at HebCelt! We “Lucy Spraggan and Tide Lines are also fantastic Waterboys formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. Their have some Americans in the band and I look forward to blowing their minds with the beauty young artists with big followings and who will first visit, in 2003, set a record for the biggest bring something new and fresh to the festival.” ever gig in the islands, and their return in 2012 of Lewis and the wildness of the people." was a huge sell-out success. Lucy Spraggan, who describes her music as 'A- Early Bird tickets for next year’s festival are now Their most recent album, Modern Blues which
Flop' - a mixture of acoustic, folk, and hip hop, has three Top 40 albums and several sell-out tours to her name.
on sale via the HebCelt website - www. hebceltfest.com
The 2016 HebCelt was the most successful in the event’s 21-year history. Headlined by Runrig and featuring more than 50 other artists including the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Hayseed Dixie, Julie Fowlis, Eddi Reader, John McCusker, King Creosote and Breabach, it smashed all Lucy’s debut album, Join the Club, was a Top 10 previous records. success and her latest record, We Are, was released on her own label, CTRL Records, after An independent visitor survey and economic she again opted for the independent route. impact report on the 2016 event showed it generated more than £2.2 million for the islands’ This year she is on the road solo for her acoustic economy and helped safeguard 40 tourismtour and has also released a new EP, Home. related jobs. Lucy said: “I did a small acoustic tour of the HebCelt is a not-for-profit charitable event firmly Highlands recently and the audiences were so rooted within its community and is almost amazing. It’s a fantastic place to see and an entirely managed and produced by voluntary even better place to play music, so I can’t wait effort. to be in Stornoway again to experience the festival atmosphere.” HebCelt has grown from a small event attracting less than 1,000 fans, to an international Tide Lines are a four-piece band who were showpiece for roots, Celtic and traditional music. launched on social media in June and their debut It is estimated it has generated more than £20 single, Far Side of the World, entered the UK million for the local economy over two decades. download charts less than 24 hours later. She appeared on the X Factor in 2012 and since then her audition video has been viewed 35 million times on YouTube. She was also the most Googled musician of 2012.
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First four artists announced for 35th Orkney Folk Festival Orkney :: 25-28 May :: www.orkneyfolkfestival.com Buy tickets from April @ www.orkneyfolkfestival.com
With just over five months to go until the 35th Orkney Folk Festival, the first four artistes scheduled to appear at the late May event have been revealed. World-renowned Irish fiddler Martin Hayes will make his debut appearances in the county alongside his long-time duo partner, Irish/ American guitarist Dennis Cahill, as will one of eastern Canada’s most talked-about groups in recent years, The East Pointers. Two acts returning to the festival for just their second visit are the recently reformed English and Irish quartet, Flook, as well as one of Scotland’s most prolific and instantly recognisable voices, Eddi Reader. Flook last visited the festival back in 2001, and so return after a 16 year break, whilst Reader made her debut Orkney appearances in 2012, during the festival’s 30th anniversary.
Eddi Reader at her 2012 debut at Orkney Folk Festival :: photo by Leila Angus
sources, he remains grounded in the music he grew up with in his own locality, in Feakle, These announcements come ahead of the full County Clare. He met Irish/American guitarist line-up release, due in mid-January. Acts still to Dennis Cahill in the 1980s, and their duo be revealed include artistes from the USA, partnership - particularly Cahill’s spare, essential Scotland and England, as well as a great number accompaniment to Hayes’ fiddle - is from Orkney’s own thriving folk scene. Between acknowledged as a major breakthrough for May 25 and 28, an estimated 50 acts, totalling guitar in the Irish tradition. over 200 musicians, will converge upon One of the most innovative and exciting live acts Stromness in Orkney’s West Mainland for the to come from the English/Irish folk scene, Flook 35th festival. weave Brian Finnegan and Sarah Allen’s flutes Next year’s Orkney Folk Festival will take place with the guitar of Ed Boyd and John Joe Kelly’s hot on the heels of the event’s most successful bodhran, into one breathtaking and outing in 2016, which boasted both record ticket groundbreaking sound. Whilst there is no sales and venue capacities well above 90% shortage of virtuosity amongst the the individual across the board. Over just four days, almost members, the unrivalled impact of the group, 7,000 individual event tickets were sold last upon audiences and critics alike, stems from the year, for concerts, ceilidhs, clubs, workshops wholly intuitive, almost symbiotic exchange and talks throughout the county. between the various flutes, frets and skins: a rare blend of fiery technical brilliance, delicate The team behind the festival anticipate that ensemble interaction and a bold, adventurous 2017 will be yet another very busy year, with musical imagination. further big name artists set to be announced alongside those revealed this week. Although relative newcomers, The East Pointers have quickly amassed a devoted following in Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most several corners of the globe, as a multi awardextraordinary talents to emerge in the world of winning, exhilarating trio, whose music more Irish traditional music. His unique sound and than doubles the power of three. Cousins Tim mastery of the fiddle combine to create an Chaisson (fiddle/vocals) and Koady Chaisson astonishing and formidable artistic intelligence. (banjo/vocals/step-dance) are from the seventh Whilst drawing inspiration from many diverse
generation of renowned Chaisson musicians from Prince Edward Island, and here join with guitarist Jake Charron, an Ontario native also from a strong family line of musicians. The trio’s union produces an easily identifiable trademark of Celtic-influenced, yet wholly modern, tunes and songs that have very quickly established them as a formidable force. One of Scotland’s most captivating voices and engaging performers, Eddi Reader needs little introduction. From session work with The Eurythmics and topping the chats with Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, winning three BRIT Awards, and then her relocation from London to Glasgow where she recorded her heralded reworking of the songs of Robert Burns, and subsequent solo albums, hers is a career like no other. From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings joyous life to all forms of song. Her rare blend of true vocals and towering romanticism combine with an astute and pragmatic nature to make her a unique and powerful figure in contemporary British music. Orkney Folk Festival Director, Bob Gibbon, said: “These first four acts give just a taster of what’s to come next year - but already give a good impression of the diversity of the festival programme, and our aim to cater for as many varying tastes and interpretations of the genre. “In Martin Hayes, we have one of the world’s fiddling legends who sells out vast concert halls worldwide - as, of course, does Eddi Reader, who made quite an impact at the festival a few years ago. We’re delighted to have Flook heading back this way as well - though can’t quite believe that it will have been 16 years since their last visit! The East Pointers are a fantastic live act too, and we’re pleased to have aligned with their tour plans this time round to make a trip to Orkney possible.
“We’ve more exciting news to come in January too - watch this space.” Tickets for the 2017 Orkney Folk Festival will go on sale in April, following the programme’s release in March.
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First acts revealed for Oban Live 2017
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Skerryvore :: Skipinnish :: We Banjo 3 :: Admiral Fallow :: Roddy Hart & The Lonesome Fire :: Ceol An Aire & The Argyll Ceilidh Trail ................ MORE ACTS TO BE ANNOUNCED EARLY NEXT YEAR Buy tickets @ www.obanlive.com - next release in early 2017
Argyll’s biggest live music concert, Oban Live, has announced the first six acts for the event on 2-3 June next year in Oban. Glasgow’s Roddy Hart and the Lonesome Fire will take to the stage to perform tracks from their newly released album Swithering, an album co-produced by admired Scottish producer Paul Savage (Mogwai, Emma Pollock, Admiral Fallow). Since releasing their eponymous album in late 2013, the band has been named International Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the Scottish Variety Awards and also played a fivenight residency on The Late Late Show in the US which reached over 12 million viewers.
the audiences’ top favourites. It’s been a big year for We Banjo 3. Their latest record String Theory went straight to Billboard World number 1. They also played for President Obama on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, last year’s Friday night headliners, Skipinnish, have been busy working on their new album due for release next year. The band is well known for their combination of traditional Highland and contemporary sounds. Skerryvore return to get the audience jumping to their unique fusion of traditional music and urban sounds of rock, pop and funk. The band has become an international sensation since forming in Tiree in 2005, selling over 54,000 albums to date. The audience will be treated to tracks from the group’s new album, due for release in 2017. Oban locals Ceol an Aire and The Argyll Ceilidh Trail will join forces to open the show on Friday June 2, 2017. Ceol an Aire was formed seven years ago following the success of the first Argyll Ceilidh Trail. This one-off team are currently getting to work on some new songs and sets that are sure to kick Oban Live off with a blast.
Also on the line-up is Admiral Fallow, a band formed in 2007 by five Glasgow-based students of music. They released their adored debut album, Boots Met My Face, in 2011 and its widely-acclaimed successor, Early bird tickets are now sold out and the remaining Tree Bursts In Snow, the following year. Their headline acts and dates for the full ticket release will extraordinary third record, Tiny Rewards, has received many plaudits since its release in May 2015. be announced early in 2017. Tiree born Skipinnish and Irish quartet We Banjo 3 are back by popular demand. Feedback from the 2016 Oban Live survey revealed the two bands as
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Scots-based roots music agency all set for another great run at Celtic Connections Festival 2017 Celtic Connections in Glasgow :: 19 January - 15 February :: www.celticconnections.com
With Glasgow’s big midwinter jamboree, Celtic Connections just around the corner Brookfield-Knights is preparing for another great run at the festival with nine of their artists due to appear. Since leading Scottish roots music agency Brookfield Knights started presenting acts at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections festival, over the past ten years they have introduced some of the acts that have turned out to be event favourites and many have gone on to become well-established on the world circuit. In 2017, they are hoping the trend will continue when they bring in no fewer than nine acts, all of whom are Celtic Connections first-timers.
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In previous years, the Renfrewshire-based agency has presented acts of the calibre of West, The Mike + Ruthy Band, Bronwynne Brent, Pokey LaFarge, The Wilders, The Stray Birds, Woody Pines, Elephant Revival and Greg The Califormia Feetwarmers, Cam Penner, Pharis Trooper. and Jason Romero, Cahalen Morrison and Eli With a track record like that, it’s little wonder that in the process they have built up faithful following as they continue to reinforce their stable “brand.” Head booker Loudon Temple takes nothing for granted and admits that each year, he puts up as big a fight as the last to have their acts – new finds as well as those that are betterknown – accepted for the programme. “We are not complacent but we most definitely ARE pushy when we believe we have acts who will be a perfect fit,” he says.
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He says he is more excited than ever before to be bringing some of their latest finds into the country, mostly from the USA and Canada, in January. “Luckily, most of them have had new albums on release in the UK this year and many of them have been very well received and attracted the right level of attention,” he says. So, who does he feel will be making a big impact at the 2017 event, MUSIC NEWS Scotland asked?
This is what Loudon had to say:
LINDSAY LOU & THE FLATBELLYS (USA) are involved on the opening weekend and are widely “It’s the most competitive time with every other recognised as one of the hottest acts on the agent worth his or her salt all doing precisely the Stateside roots music scene. This year they played most of the big festivals over there and same. they are no strangers to UK either, having “They know, as we do, that this is the most already played HebCeltFest and Shetland Music prestigious event of its kind in the world with Festival where they won rave reviews. festival buyers, the media and other bookers in BEN HUNTER, JOE SEAMONS AND PHIL attendance all eager to make exciting new WIGGINS (USA) perform a particularly tasty discoveries. form of country blues and early American folk Temple, of course, travels widely in his music. Since Ben and Joe won Best Duo title in determination to seek out the best new acts for the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, the agency roster. A regular attendee at Tennessee in 2016, they have become regarded gatherings such as Folk Alliance International, he as a must-have pairing and tour relentlessly. has this year also been a delegate a major music They were sought out by continued on p11 conference in Nova Scotia. Dom Flemons of The Carolina
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Brookfield Knights @ Celtic Connections LINDSAY LOU & THE FLATBELLYS :: BEN HUNTER, JOE SEAMONS AND PHIL WIGGINS :: OZERE :: 3HATTRIO :: LIZABETT RUSSO :: NATHAN BELL :: LAURA CORTESE :: CONNLA :: RUSSELL DECARLE Chocolate Drops when he put
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after they stopped performing together. Joe and Ben are joined here by highly regarded blues harp player Phil Wiggins, with whom they frequently appear in USA. This is as real-deal as it gets.
OZERE (Canada) are fronted by classically trained violinist Jessica Deutsch, formerly of the Balkan-powered party band The Lemon Bucket Orkestra, and her latest line-up is truly a creamof-the-crop package. Jessica re-arranged the string quartet instrumentation to include violin, mandolin, cello, bass, vocals and occasional percussion. Those combined forces create a signature lush string sound flavoured by stylesof-the-world tinctures and lush vocal harmonies.
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3HATTRIO (USA) are based in the desert landscape of southern Utah’s Zion National Park, and the trio created a major impact with the release of their second album in the UK last year. The new album, Solitaire, has kept that momentum going and won them glowing praise from the critics, Folk radio UK describing them as“hugely atmospheric.” Opening the show will be LIZABETT RUSSO, although originally from Transylvania, she is now resident in Scotland, and attracting a lot of attention wherever she appears.
was well-received and captured a barrow-load of sampler: “Consider this your early warning 5-star reviews. system…there is something serious on the horizon and that creative storm is Connla.” Raised in Iowa City, the son of a nationallyrecognised poet, by 1983, he had formed the Their 2016-issued album, River Waiting, won duo Bell & Shore with then-wife Susan Shore. them even more well-deserved exposure. When The two scored a record deal, began touring legendary English folk hero Mike Harding played heavily, and would eventually release a pair of tracks on his radio show, he told listeners: “A records, the second, L-Ranko Motel, scoring rave terrific band - do go and see them if you get the reviews. Their marriage and musical partnership remotest chance!” ended in 1989 and he didn’t pick up a guitar or No surprise, really as they had already been write a song again for almost 15 years. crowned Best New Group in the ‘Live Ireland’ With his latest album, I Don’t Do This for Love, I 2016 Awards. “She played a BBC Introducing session for Bruce Do This for Love he created a song cycle that is MacGregor’s Travelling Folk show at BBC Radio Reviewing the new album, R2 magazine called both moving and timely. The CD won him more Scotland, and the interest that arose from that, the collection “astonishing and intoxicating.” media attention in the space of a few weeks was quite amazing, Loudon said. Awarding the CD a 4-star rating, Songlines than he had experienced for a long time. Playing concluded: “A band this young shouldn’t be this She toured Japan and Seoul in 2015 and 2016, tracks at BBC Radio Scotland, Ricky Ross good!” latterly to showcase material from her latest described him as “really, really special.” He is release, “The Burning Mountain”. Temple says he is doubly pleased as several of opening for James McMurtry at Celtic the acts they have introduced this year, are also Connections and plays a few UK dates before Reviewing the CD for Acoustic magazine, Julian being included in BBC radio coverage of the heading for a string of shows in The Piper applauded her “Björk-like intensity” while event. Netherlands. fRoots praised her “astonishing vocal range” and added: “This is an artist who is well worth “When that happens, it’s the icing on the cake LAURA CORTESE (USA) is perhaps better investigating.” known for her touring duties with the band, The and makes all the hard work worthwhile,” he added with a satisfied smile. Each year we look Dance Cards, but she is a powerful solo When he gave his assessment to Fatea forward to seeing as many of the other acts that performer and an enthusiastic musical magazine, Peter Taranaski wrote: “Why she is are involved as we possibly can. It’s a healthy collaborator. not bigger than she is, I honestly do not know. midwinter tonic and an annual boost that we She is the most interesting new artist I have The Boston-based fiddler and singer-songwriter just couldn’t live without.” heard this year.” will officially launch her latest album while she is Legendary Canadian artist RUSSELL DECARLE in Glasgow. That buzz led to a successful appearance at the famously fronted iconic Canadian country roots 2016 Cambridge Folk CONNLA (Northern Ireland) came together band Prairie Oyster, racking up an impressive while studying at Ulster University. Their debut NATHAN BELL (USA) is another who has won a list of Canadian Country Music Awards, gold and EP won them loads of attention and rave lot of attention from the media this year platinum selling records and Number 1 singles. reviews. Irish Music magazine said of the following the release of his latest album, which As a songwriter, he carried off two Song of the Year accolades. There’s a luxuriously laid back rockabilly edge to the fluent mix of blues and R&B-tinged western swing that pays homage to some of his all-time favourites. Back to much more pared-back rootsy basics to tour in trio format and, bound together by a superb level of playing and performance that is rare and precious, he is joined by superlative seasoned sidekicks Denis Keldie (Tex-Mex accordion) and Steve Briggs (acoustic guitar) to become as close to joined-at-the-hip perfection as can ever be encountered. When they toured here in 2016, some venues and promoters said it was “the best show” they had ever had the pleasure to stage. Maverick magazine said they were “astonishing” and Country Music Peoeple declared: “this is oldschool masterclass.” See page 2 for Brookfield-Knights concert dates and keep updated on the links below.
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First Events On Sale For 2017 Glasgow Short Film Festival ... With Live Music Performances Glasgow :: 15-19 March :: www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff Buy tickets @ www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff The 10th anniversary edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival in 2017 offers An Evening With Bukowski, featuring UK Premiere of recently uncovered interview with the legendary writer plus performances from poet Stephen Watt and Jacob Yates And The Pearly Gate Lock-Pickers amongst others, and Jazz Is Our Religion, the rarely-screened John Jeremy total jazz film featuring the photography of Val Wilmer The festival also announces a partnership with Glasgow’s latest arts and party venue, Joytown Grand Electric Theatre in Garnethill, with the first major events for the 2017 Glasgow Short Film Festival now on sale. Scotland's largest celebration of short film, the festival - which celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2017 and runs at the CCA, GFT and Joytown Grand Electric Theatre from 15 - 19 March toasts some major cult heroes with two unmissable nights of film, poetry and music. An Evening With Bukowski (Fri 17 March) features the UK Premiere of Matteo Borgardt’s documentary You’ve Never Had It - An Evening With Bukowski, based on a video interview conducted by Silvia Bizio in January of 1981 with writer Charles Bukowski at his home in San Pedro, California. The film covers a long night of smoking cigarettes and drinking wine with Bukowski and his soon to be wife, Linda Lee Beighle, talking about all kind of subjects, from writers to sex, love and humanity. The interview was shot on Umatic tapes which have been digitised and edited along with new shots in Super8 of scenes of Los Angeles today and poems read by Bukowski himself. The night continues in true barfly style, with live performances from poets including Stephen
Watt, whose 'crime poetry’ addresses Glasgow's gritty underbelly and from musicians including Jacob Yates And The Pearly Gate Lock-Pickers. Jazz Is Our Religion (Sat 18 March) is a rare 35mm screening of John Jeremy's 1972 exploration of a musical form spanning several generations. The film uses legendary female jazz photographer Val Wilmer’s huge archive of images capturing the scene from the 1950s to the 1970s, with a soundtrack of music and spoken word recordings from the likes of Rashied Ali, Charlie Parker, Lol Coxhill and Ted Joans. The screening will be followed by an afterparty including live performances to be announced and a set from top London jazz DJ Donna Leake (brilliant corners). An Evening With Bukowski and the Jazz Is Our Religion afterparty will take place at the newlyreopened Joytown Grand Electric Theatre in Jacob Yates And The Pearly Gate Lock-Pickers :: www.facebook.com/jacobyatesandthepglps Garnethill. Previously serving as an exhibition hall, theatre, early cinema, zoo and snooker club, Joytown Grand Electric Theatre will become an inclusive and relaxed Festival club Tickets for both events are available from www. for four days and nights, with food, drink, screenings and special events from midday until glasgowfilm.org/gsff The full festival programme will be announced on 1 February. Glasgow Short late. Film Festival is funded by Creative Scotland and Glasgow Film. Festival director Matt Lloyd said: I’m over the moon to have reached this significant anniversary, thanks to the dedication of the many short film-lovers who have generously contributed their time and passion to the festival over the last decade. We’re marking this birthday by introducing an exciting new venue, providing a base for our loyal audience and the ever-growing number of international filmmakers flocking to Glasgow each March. And we’re celebrating short film’s links with music and poetry with two unique crossover events. More special guests to be announced!
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Deacon Blue To Headline Opening Of Mofest 2017 Montrose :: 26-28 May :: www.montrosemusicfestival.co.uk Buy tickets @ www.ticketline.co.uk
Deacon Blue are making a return to the MoFest stage to celebrate the festival’s tenth anniversary. The Glasgow band will headline the popular North East festival, opening the weekend of live music with an outdoor show on the East Links, Montrose on Friday 26th May 2017. The band, which next year will celebrate 30 years since the release of Raintown, previously headlined the festival back in 2009 in the Town Hall, and is making a return for this special, milestone weekend. Lead singer, Ricky Ross, said:“We’re having great fun touring right now, and are really looking forward to returning to MoFest next year. We're going to make it a big show and with a lot of favourites, old and new! Don't expect to go home too early!"
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Singer Lorraine McIntosh, said:“We remember our show at MoFest 2009 with great fondness. We’re really excited to be heading back to Montrose and being part of its special tenth anniversary celebrations. We promise a great show and hope to see lots of our fans there.”
“MoFest 2017 promises to be a special, memorable weekend and we hope that music lovers from across Scotland will come and join us for a weekend of great live music. In addition to the headline shows on Friday and Sunday, there will be around 200 bands performing over the course of the weekend, in various locations around the town. There will be a varied genre of Deacon Blue headlined the Montrose Music Festival in 2009. Other artists that have followed music available, so there really is something for in their footsteps include: Bryan Adams; Status everyone.” Quo; Jools Holland; and Madness. The Montrose Music Festival takes place between Friday 26th and Sunday 28th May 2017. Deacon David Paton, Chairman of the Montrose Blue will headline the festival, kicking off Music Festival, said:“We’re delighted to proceedings with a concert on the East Links on welcome back Deacon Blue as headliners for MoFest 2017. They were absolutely superb when Friday 26th May. The Beach Boys will bring the they performed at MoFest in 2009, and we were festival to an end on the Sunday night. keen to bring back one of our original headliners Concert promoter, LCC Live, is working in for this special weekend. partnership with the Montrose Music
Festival, to host the headline shows. Its Director, Claire Kidger, said: “We’re delighted to be bringing Deacon Blue back to the Montrose Music Festival. They are enormously appealing and are enjoying great success on tour at the moment due to their expansive catalogue of hits – some great ones from the past, which they mix so well with some of their fantastic new songs. It’s going to be a great night – come and join us!” Tickets are now on sale from www.ticketline.co. uk or call 0844 888 9991) or in person from MoFest HQ, 66 New Wynd, Montrose between 10am and 2pm on Saturday 17 December.
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Record-breaking Piping Live! worth £2.3 million to Glasgow Glasgow :: 7-13 August :: www.pipinglive.co.uk
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It’s been a piping hot summer for Glasgow, as it has been revealed Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping Festival generated a staggering £2.3 million for the local economy after a record number of tourists flocked from across the globe to attend this year’s event.
50% using public transport to get around. Additionally, each visitor spent around £550 during their stay in in the city. Piping Live! is The 13th year of Piping Live! saw over 830 artists from 16 nations perform at over 150 events throughout the city, with a stellar line up including RURA, Anxo Lorenzo and the world-renowned Red Hot Chilli Pipers. The National Piping Centre, renowned as the centre of excellence for piping music, is the home of Piping Live!. Both the festival and venue receive support from public bodies including Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, Event Scotland and Creative Scotland - each playing an essential role in the continuing strength of traditional music in Scotland’s cultural scene. Roddy MacLeod, Piping Live! Glasgow International Piping festival organiser, said: “This has been a tremendous year for Piping Live!, as we broke all our previous records. We’ve had our highest number of visitors and concert tickets sold since the festival began, which is incredible.
A visitor survey and economic impact report found that the Piping Live!, which ran from 8th – 14th August, celebrated its most successful year “Piping Live! is such an important event in Scotland’s cultural calendar and this report to date in 2016, attracting 41,131 people to reflects a worldwide thirst for traditional music Glasgow for the festival. that is continuing to thrive. The survey, commissioned by Economic and “Additionally, it’s a huge draw for tourism in Social Development (EKOS), shows the festival Scotland, as well as Glasgow, bringing vital continues to play a vital role in bringing visitors custom to local businesses, including hotels, from overseas to Glasgow each August - with bars and restaurants. We look forward to 74% of attendees travelling from outside the welcoming an even bigger crowd in 2017 and city and 31% arriving from outside Scotland. breaking more records.” The festival drew performers and audiences Councillor Frank McAveety, Leader of from countries including New Zealand, France, Glasgow City Council and Chair of Glasgow Canada, USA, Switzerland, Belgium and many City Marketing Bureau, said: more. With the average overseas visitor staying in Glasgow for 5.6 days, there was a notable increase in sales for local businesses, with 48% of visitors booking hotels within Glasgow and
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CELTIC CONNECTIONS ..... Mull Historical Society and Martha Ffion Glasgow :: 3 February :: www.mullhistoricalsociety.com Buy tickets @ www.celticconnections.com
Multiinstrumentalist, songwriter and author Colin MacIntyre celebrates his latest album Dear Satellite and awardwinning debut novel The Letters of Ivor Punch with a night of words and music in the beautiful surrounds of Saint Luke’s in Glasgow on 3 February.
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SCOTTISH MUSIC FESTIVALS to be included in our festival listings email details to: musicnewsscotland@gmail.com DECEMBER Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Edinburgh 30 December - 1 January 2017
showcases dynamic engagement with Scotland’s History and Heritage as well as providing a platform for up and coming talent in the world of Trad. Look out for the Battle of the Folk Band event as part of the finale performances this year!
www.tracscotland.org/tradfest Three days of spectacular events, incredible bands and amazing crowds from every corner of the globe. See Shetland Vikings bearing firelit torches, hear beautiful choral singing in St Giles' Cathedral, enjoy birling to traditional Scottish music in the Old Town, and watch top stars and Southside Fringe incredible fireworks from Princes Street Gardens. Glasgow Edinburgh's Hogmanay shows the world how to 12-18 May 2017 party! With their festival programme running from the www.edinburghshogmanay.org 12th-28th of May 2017, Southside Fringe is now gearing up for its 5th year. Online event applications launch on the 30th of November, you can register your event via www. southsidefringe.com . Building on the success of 2016 with 50 venues hosting more than 200 Celtic Connections events, Southside Fringe are now putting the call out for all kinds of events to be part of next Glasgow year’s festival – Theatre, Music. Comedy, Art, 19 January - 5 February Cabaret, Spoken Word, Family, Heritage, Food & Drink, Health & Wellbeing, Film, and Literary/ Celtic Connections 2017 comprises a wealth of concerts, ceilidhs, talks, workshops, free events Books. Closing date for applications, 17 and late night sessions taking place over 18 days February 2017. For more information, contact: corinna@southsidefringe.org.uk across various venues in Glasgow. From Thursday 19 January to Sunday 5 February 2,100 musicians from across the globe will take www.southsidefringe.com part in 300 events at venues throughout Glasgow, Scotland, for one of the leading annual Orkney Folk Festival festivals of world, folk and roots music. The festival is supported by Glasgow City Council and Orkney 25-28 May 2017 Creative Scotland, and delivered by Glasgow Life. 18 days of concerts, ceilidhs, talks, art One of Scotland’s longest-running folk festivals, exhibitions, workshops, free events, late night celebrating its 35th outing in 2017, the Orkney sessions and a host of special one-off musical Folk Festival is one of the most prolific events in collaborations will once again light up the Scottish winter when Celtic Connections returns. the Scottish and UK folk calendars, and one of the highlights of Orkney’s diary of community events. An entirely voluntary run event, the www.celticconnections.com festival annually attracts artists from all corners of the folk world - from leading international names to up and coming fresh faces - to Stromness, in Orkney’s West Mainland, for four days of concerts, ceilidhs, clubs, sessions, talks Groove CairnGorm and craic. Artists and audiences are welcomed Cairngorms by and into Orkney’s own thriving folk scene, 25-25 February 2017 with Orcadian artists providing around two thirds of the festival programme. Line-up announced Launched last year as the UK’s first resort based across December-March, with tickets on sale in snowsports festival, Groove Cairngorm combined April, around six weeks ahead of the event. This winter snowsports, along with a selection of DJs is relatively close to the festival itself, as the and acoustic acts performing over two stages up festival consists of around 35 individually the mountain, followed by an Apres-ski party programmed and ticketed events, rather than until the early hours at Badaguish Outdoor offering all-in-one day or weekend tickets. Centre featuring acts including Grandmaster Artists visiting the festival perform on several Flash, Hot Chip and Radio 1’s Monki amongst occasions, though, offering a number of chances many others. to catch them over the weekend.
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APRIL TradFest Edinburgh | Dùn Èideann Edinburgh 26 Apr – 7 May 2017 Experience Scotland Live with a seasonal feast of living traditions and local cultures. Encounter music, storytelling, dance, craft, song and folk drama at venues – indoor and outdoor – across Edinburgh and the Lothians. Rooted in the past yet resonating in the present, TradFest
makes space for challenging debate with activists, writers and thinkers from across the political, cultural and religious spectrum. Solas Festival offers a creative and entertaining programme for festival-goers of all ages in a safe environment. www.solasfestival.co.uk
JULY Hebridean Celtic Festival Hebrides 19-22 July Fantastic four-day festival set against the rich cultural backdrop of the Outer Hebrides, featuring top quality music from around the Celtic nations and beyond. Stornoway and throughout Lewis and Harris. The cream of international folk and Celtic music have heaped praise on HebCeltl as it celebrated its 20th year in 2015 by hosting its biggest number of live performances ever. Award-winning artists who took part in this year's Hebridean Celtic Festival hailed it a huge success after bosses laid on new venues and returned to its roots for the showpiece event. www.hebceltfest.com
ButeFest The Isle of Bute 28-30 July 2017 A three day festival of music, food and fun. This accessible and hugely friendly family festival all takes places a mere thirty-five miles as the crow flies from Glasgow. Butefest has endeavoured to compile a richly varied and superb line-up that includes both the contemporary and the classic of the music world and runs that gamut from rock to roots and folk to dance. www.butefest.co.uk
AUGUST Tartan Heart ‘Belladrum’ Festival Beauly 3-5 August 2017
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Get yourself a ticket to Scotland’s all ages wackiest festival of music and performing arts. Bella is back in its beautiful Highland setting with all the crazy variety that makes it Scotland’s premier boutique festival. ''Belladrum - quite simply, it’s what everyday life should be like, if only everyday life didn't get in the way.'' - Clare Damdoaran, eFestivals. Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival takes place in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic line-ups, its offbeat non-musical entertainments and its allages approach.
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