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2014 music festivals are go!
A reminder of warm, sunny festival days in 2013 with music fans at HebCelt : 2014 tickets @ http://www.hebceltfest.com/booking/
INSIDE: Glasgow Dirty Weekender : Hebridean Celtic Festival : Tiree Music Festival : Perthshire Amber : Celtic Connections : Knockengorroch World Ceilidh : Hawick Reivers Festival : plus our music festival listings ..... 2014 festivals are underway!
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Glasgow’s Dirty Weekender Glasgow : 28 February - 1 March : www.killieweekender.com
Get your Glasgow Dirty Weekender tickets @ http://www.killieweekender.com/tickets/ Glasgow’s Dirty Weekender shall soon be underway. The dates are set, the venues are set and the acts are all raring to go! From 28 February to 1 March across five wonderful venues, Pivo Pivo, Ivory Blacks, The Admiral, Stereo and Classic Grand this Dirty Weekender is going to bring you out, get you about and have you experience such a diverse and eclectic range of musical talent that your ears are going to be assaulted, caressed, abused, made loved to and make you realise why you loved live music in the first place. The unique aspect about this event is that you can tailor the experience to suit your own needs. You can buy a ticket for your chosen night/nights and or venue/venues or alternatively buy the Weekend ticket allowing you to come and go from venue to venue, you can see who you want to see, go where you want to go and when you’re friends want to catch an act here, when you are watching another act there? That is fine, meet up for a drink whilst watching another act elsewhere on offer. The wonderful, exhilarating city of Glasgow is your oyster throughout! Immerse yourself in this remarkable occurrence and you will understand why it has been created, why Kilmarnock has loved it as much in recent years and why it HAD to come and spend its first weekend in Glasgow. Watch the promo video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9zx95MXkNA Talking about acts, find any of these tickle your fancy? MARK MORRISS (Full Band), MARK GARDENER (Ride), BOMBSKARE, URANG MATANG, TIJUANA BIBLES, MICKEY 9’S, COLONEL MUSTARD AND THE DIJON 5, STONEHOUSE VIOLETS, DED RABBIT, SOLDIER ON, MECHANICAL SMILE, SONIC TEMPLARS, RUSSIAN NINJAS, MADELINE ORR plus many, many more. You have gentle intimacy, eccentricity, rock, indie and balls out danceability. It is the full package! The tickets are priced at: Weekend passes - all venues £20, Day passes - all venues £13. Single venue passes are also available. Tickets from www.tickets-scotland.com and www.killieweekender.com
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The position attracts a salary of £38,000. A car is also provided, as well as a contribution towards a personal pension scheme. Although working a basic 37 1/2 hour week, the demands of this post is such that you will need to be available for work outside normal office hours, for which time off in lieu is available. The annual leave entitlement is 30 days, excluding public holidays. For further details and an application form, please email Lynn Calvin on lynn.calvin@theMU.org Closing date for applications is 6th February 2014
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LEVELLERS AIMING TO MAKE IT A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN STORNOWAY Stornoway : 16-19 July : www.hebceltfest.com
Buy your HebCelt tickets now @ http://www.hebceltfest.com/booking/ Mark Chadwick said: “I am really looking forward to going back to Stornoway in July to play at the HebCelt festival. I can’t believe it’s been eight years since we last played there! It’s a lovely little festival.” Duncan Chisholm, who made his name in bands including Wolfstone, is now internationally acclaimed as a solo artist. He was nominated in two categories in the 2013 Radio 2 Folk Awards (Musician of the Year and Best Traditional Track) and was also shortlisted for Scottish Album of the Year. He performed at the first HebCelt and has made a number of appearances since, notably with Julie Fowlis in 2010 and 2012. This year he will be accompanied by musicians representing the cream of the Trad Folk scene – Jarlath Henderson (uilleann pipes / whistles, Tony Byrne (guitar), Davie Dunsmuir (electric guitar), Ross Hamilton (bass) and Martin O’Neill (bodhrán / drums).
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Award-winning folk rock band Levellers are the latest headliners to be added to this year’s Hebridean Celtic Festival. Regarded as one of the best live acts around, the band have been playing to sell-out crowds for over 25 years and have a string of gold and platinum albums to their credit. They will top the HebCelt bill on Saturday, 19 July, in what will be a welcome return to the island festival’s main stage for the first time since a memorable gig in 2006. The 19th HebCelt, based in Stornoway in the island of Lewis, will be held from 16-19 July 2014. Other headliners Big Country and Donnie Munro have already been confirmed, along with Canadian band Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys and local Lewis outfit Willie Campbell and the Open Day Rotation. The festival has also announced today that the line-up will include internationally-renowned fiddle player Duncan Chisholm; singer Rachel Sermanni; Galway quartet We Banjo 3; Mànran frontman Norrie Maciver; Edinburgh-born songwriter Ross Wilson (aka Blue Rose Code); top Scottish trad outfit Rura; British group Hunter & The Bear; experimental new five-piece Metta; Glasgow group This Silent Forest and 15-year-old Lewis singer/songwriter Eleanor Nicolson. Festival director Caroline Maclennan said: “Levellers are a fantastic live band and we are excited that they are returning to Stornoway this year after making such an impression last time. “We are delighted at the way the line-up is evolving, with a diverse range of artists that I’m sure will capture the imagination of our audience as we seek to build on last year’s record-breaking event.”
Duncan said: “The Hebridean Celtic Festival is a jewel in the Scottish music calendar. I was lucky enough to play the first festival and see it grow into the major event is has become. This year I am delighted to be returning with my band and looking forward to sharing my music on the Island of Lewis once more." Rachel Sermanni, from Carrbridge, who has just released her new EP, Everything Changes, spent much of last year touring North America and Canada, including the Dawson City Music Festival and the Calgary, Ottawa and Interstellar Rodeo festivals, where she shared main stages with the likes of Steve Earl, Sharon Van Etten, The Alabama Shakes and Vampire Weekend. Her music featured in the recent Royal Bank of Scotland ‘Here for You’ TV advert campaign. Rachel, who appeared at the festival in 2011, said: “I've been lucky to go to HebCelt festival once before. I have such fond memories. So much fun was had. The people are wonderful. I cannot wait to return.” Despite her youth, Eleanor Nicolson, who recently issued an EP, Stop Gravity, is already a well-known artist, having played a number of gigs in Stornoway, as well as Ullapool and Inverness. She has also written with the likes of Colin Macleod (formerly known as The Boy who Trapped the Sun) and Willie Campbell. In November HebCelt was hailed as one of the greenest festivals in the world after winning a prestigious environmental award. It was the only Scottish festival to receive an Outstanding award from environmental campaign group A Greener Festival. It was also shortlisted in the Greener Festival category in the UK Festival Awards, alongside nine other festivals, including Glastonbury. Also in 2013, HebCelt was selected for the third year in succession as one of the top ten UK summer festivals by music magazine Songlines and was shortlisted in the Best Independent Festival category in the AIM Independent Music Awards. In 2011 it was ranked Best Large Festival at the industry-sponsored Scottish Event Awards and it won Best Event of the Year award at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards in 2004 and 2009.
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Levellers were formed by Mark Chadwick and Jeremy Cunningham in Brighton in 1988 and were later joined by Charlie Heather (drums), Jon Sevink (fiddle) and Alan Miles (harmonica, guitar and mandolin). Simon Friend subsequently replaced Miles and that line-up continues today, with the addition of Matt Savage on keyboards. Over quarter of a century of performing, the band have seen several albums achieve gold and platinum status and secure chart success with singles like This Garden and What a Beautiful Day. They are regulars on the festival circuit, including Glastonbury and, since 2003, have run their own successful Beautiful Days Festival each August in Devon.
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JULIE FOWLIS ANNOUNCED AS FIRST ACT FOR TMF 2014 Tiree : 18-20 July : www.tireemusicfestival.co.uk Following a tremendous 2013, Tiree Music Festival (TMF) has announced internationally acclaimed ‘Brave’ singer, Julie Fowlis, as the first act for this year’s festival taking place on 18 – 20 July. Limited early bird tickets sold out in less than 10 hours when they went on sale on 24 January and news about remaining ticket sales will be announced soon. Known as the “Hawaii of the North” for its picturesque white sandy beaches, Tiree gives the festival the most breath-taking of backdrops. It was a memorable fourth year for the event in 2013 which saw tickets snapped up in record time and organisers walk away with four prestigious awards (‘Best Small Festival’ – Scottish Event Awards, ‘Best Cultural Event’ - Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards, ‘Best Cultural Event in Scotland‘ – Thistle Awards, ‘Event of the Year’ – Scots Trad Music Awards). Says Festival Director Daniel Gillespie “I am delighted to announce Julie as our first act of TMF2014 – to bring a world-class international performer to Tiree is a real honour for the festival and island. Julie’s mesmerising voice against the stunning backdrop of the festival is a very exciting prospect to look forward to in July. 2013 was just an incredible year for TMF - we had Mediterranean weather, a sold out crowd and some of the best acts from the traditional and folk scene performing. To then collect four major awards made it a year we will never forget – however we now have to try and make 2014 even better!
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“We’ve added a third day due to demand - more and more people are making a holiday out of it and enjoying Tiree’s outdoor activities and beaches as well as the festival. We also have some exciting changes to the festival site so we can’t wait to welcome music fans to Tiree in July for the 5th Tiree Music Festival”. Julie Fowlis adds “I am very excited to have been invited to the Tiree festival, it's one if my favourite places in the world and it's a real honour to be involved in the 2014 festival.”
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Perthshire Amber Festival’s 2013 International Success Story Perthshire : 24 October - 2 November : http://perthshireamber.com/ this year’s festival had a truly international feel to it. In fact within one small Dunkeld B&B there were festival guests staying from England, Germany, New Zealand, Israel and America. This increase had a knock on effect on the estimated economic impact of the festival on the local economy, which exceeded £1,000,000 for the first time! Songwriter Buddy McDonald from Cape Breton in Canada and SeaStar from Seattle in the USA were very popular additions to the line-up and visitors from 23 countries travelled to the festival to enjoy the autumnal entertainment. A truly varied line-up of Scotland’s finest musicians including Karine Polwart, Karen Matheson, Charlie McKerron, Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson, the Hazey Janes and Anderson McGinty Webster Ward and Fisher and of course Dougie MacLean himself, wowed sellout audiences during the 10-day festival. Festival Director Jennifer MacLean said: “As ever, in addition to the great music, I think what makes the festival unique is the array of wonderful venues: from the quaint and quirky to the atmospheric and historic, to the impressively modern. Murthly Castle Chapel provided an enchanting new venue this year, which we were delighted to have as part of our programme.
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“Wonderful venues, brilliant countryside, warm and friendly team and fantastic music… thanks a million to all involved. It was so worth the trip!” (Joseph Biji, Jakarta, Indonesia)
Our Amber Acoustic Sessions really came into their own in 2013, with afternoon and evening sessions in various carefully selected pubs around Dunkeld and Birnam ... the feedback from those has been excellent. In addition to thanking our festival team, I’d like to extend a big thank you to all our sponsors and PALS (Perthshire Amber Local Supporters) we really appreciate the support which helps us to carry on providing the wide range of concerts, walks, workshops, talks and sessions that make up the Perthshire Amber tapestry.” Looking forward to 2014, there is an exciting year ahead. Dougie MacLean celebrates his 40th anniversary of working as a professional musician and Perthshire Amber celebrates its tenth anniversary, with a top quality programme already being planned. The Festival is delighted to be one of the featured Homecoming 2014 events and will be pulling out all the stops to celebrate an extra special year. Dougie MacLean explains more: “40 years seems to have flown by but I still enjoy performing as much as ever... and certainly the Perthshire Amber audiences are among the most tuneful and friendly in the world! We are all looking forward to next year’s festival. We’ve had so many great names appear at the festival during the ten years and I’m hoping to welcome back many of them to celebrate our special anniversary.”
This was the kind of sentiment expressed by so many of the 9,000 The dates for Perthshire Amber Festival 2014 are: Friday 24 October to festival goers and over 300 musicians who ‘experienced’ this year’s Sunday 2 November Perthshire Amber Festival in the heart of Scotland ... and Festival Director Jenny MacLean is declaring the 2013 festival, the best yet! In its 9th year there was again a significant increase in the number of visitors from outwith the region (and indeed from outwith Scotland) and
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BBC ALBA SCREENS THE BEST OF CELTIC CONNECTIONS 2014 BBC Alba : 1 February : www.bbcalba.co.uk The cream of Celtic Connections 2014 concerts will come to our screens in February as BBC ALBA presents a new four part Saturday series of Cuirm @ Celtic, starting on the 1st at 9pm.
sound around Mike Hanrahan’s original songs, they took traditional music and made their own sound, influencing an entire generation of Irish musicians. Mike Hanrahan returns to the Celtic Connection stage with founder members, Paul Roche and Tommy Hayes, plus fiddler Dezi Donnelly and Enda Scahill on banjo and mandolin. The pioneering Blazin’ With the channel once again boasting an eclectic line-up from Celtic Fiddles have revolutionized fiddle music and Connections, the series will feature performances from top acts including have taken old and new tunes to stages all Capercaillie, Julie Fowlis, The Great Gathering, RANT, Stocton’s Wing and over the world. This formidable cast of Blazin’ Fiddles. musicians celebrated their 15th anniversary in 2013, but show no signs of ageing and they Festival favourites Capercaillie launch the series on 1 February with a aren’t about to rest their fiddles yet. Despite concert set celebrating their 30th anniversary tour. Drawing on both their their own accomplishments, they remain fans latest material and a repertoire which has taken the band to the top of of Stockton’s Wing and join musical heroes the music charts, Capercaillie flex their considerable musical might in onstage for a few tunes. front of a packed house. The band are joined by a superb array of special guests including Kathleen MacInnes, Sineag MacIntyre, Kris Drever, The fourth and final programme on February Gerry O’Connor and Mark Duff. 22 upends preconceived notions of where a concert ends and cèilidh dancing begins. Cuirm @ Celtic continues on February 8 with one of the brightest Gaelic Renowned accordionist Alasdair MacCuish and folk artists around - Julie Fowlis - who brings a bigger band to our top Shetland fiddler Chris Stout channel screens, although it’s the songs that shine as she showcases her magic to our screens through a night of songs upcoming fourth album. Some special musical guests, including support and tunes to make something for the head act - the joyous sounding RANT, augment her regular band -the and for the feet. The Great Gathering sees a effortlessly talented trio of Éamon Doorley, Duncan Chisholm and Tony brilliant ensemble cast of contemporary Byrne - here. This quartet of violinists, stars in their own right, are worth musicians taking to the stage of the Old the entrance fee alone for the crowd in attendance. Fruitmarket for a mix of high-octane contemporary folk and ceilidh music. Chris Stout features in The wonderfully diverse in-concert series continues on February 15 with 22 February programme Stockton’s Wing, a trad band who dominated the folk scene of the 1980s www.facebook.com/chrisstoutmusic www.bbcalba.co.uk and 90s, achieving major international success. Developing a folk-pop
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the Knockengorroch World mns Ceilidh names announced collection …. Dumfriesshire : 22-25 May : www.knockengorroch.org.uk Advance tickets are available from : www.knockengorroch.org.uk/tickets/
Celebrating the commonality of roots music, the line-up features music originating from across the world in a collaborative fusion of styles. Vieux Farke Toure, son of the Malian legend Ali Farke Toure and coined as Africa’s next great guitar hero, will journey into the Southern Uplands bringing desert blues to the hills. He will be joined by the founders of the label Ninja Tunes, Coldcut, 80s pioneers in dance music and sampling, Neville Staple of Specials fame bringing a ska staple to the event and the Dub Pistols with dub, hip-hop and big beat. Acclaimed Scottish duo Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson’s reeling melodies will ring out in Knockengorroch’s natural amphitheatre while Mercury Award nominated Sam Lee will perform songs learned direct from Roma people of the British Isles and Kan, lauded masters of cross-fertilisation, comprising top traditional and jazz players from across the UK, will join the gathering.
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Also on the line-up; grounded in klezmer and gypsy styles, the saxophone and accordian fronted Alejandro and the Magic Tombolinos, avant garde traditional melodies literally pumped out by Breton band Plantec and Glasgow based international stars, long term Knockengorroch residents Mungo’s Hi Fi Sound System. Many other acts from across Scotland and further afield will join the party and the festival will ring out with impromptu sessions and tunes traditional, experimental and upland inspired. As well as music the event will present comedy, theatre, dance, film and spoken word. A collaboration with Reel Festivals will highlight a Scottish Middle Eastern connection, featuring filmmakers, writers, musicians and poets in a performance and discussion event. Workshops, real ales, dedicated children’s activities, a sauna, heritage and environmental workshops and much more will feature. Located in one of Europe’s only designated Dark Skies Parks and a recognised UNESCO biosphere site near the Southern Upland way the Knockengorroch World Ceilidh festival environs are considered some of the most bio-diverse and beautiful in Scotland. The festival incorporates the natural locality and social history central to its design. The festival will take place from 22 to 25 May, with advance tickets including family and concession tickets are available from www.knockengorroch.org.uk/tickets/
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Hawick Reivers announce plans for 2014 festival Hawick : 23-25 March : www.hawickreivers.com 2014 is a big year in Hawick and one of the earliest events on the calendar is the Reivers Festival. As always music is at the heart of Hawick Reivers Festival and Session A9 and Scocha will provide the focus for this. There are a number of new innovations this year and plans are being finalised for an exciting weekend. As the town hall is unavailable the main concert venue switches to the Old Baths where Scocha will kick off the festival in their own inimitable way. Saturday night however will have a completely different focus when the Session A9 : www.facebook.com/sessiona9 first Reivers Banquet will be staged again in the Old Baths. A three course meal will be served in the style of our reiving ancestors and there will be entertainment to keep everyone amused. This is likely to be a very popular event which is suitable for all the family and the committee are inviting folks to dress up in the style of the period if they would like to (though this is optional) - tickets are limited and are likely to go fast! The committee are also delighted to have a big input from our schools this year and with this in mind they have decided to focus much of the activity on Saturday. The current plan is to move the main 16th century market and re-enactments out on to the High Street while using the Civic Space and Lovel Court for performances. St Mary’s Church and Drumlanrig Tower will also act as venues for the primary schools’. Sunday has the ever popular lunchtime concert. Hawick Rotary Club has secured the services of two excellent speakers to round of the weekend. “Reiving and Bereaving” is the topic of Dr Kaye McAlpine and Lucy MacRae, from the University of Edinburgh’s department of Celtic and Scottish Studies. They will be outlining for us the historical background to the ballads and their characters. Year on year this event has been a fascinating highlight of the weekend and this year will be no exception. For further information contact 01450 372962, and tickets are on sale from www.borderevents.com
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2014
Wee Dub Festival Edinburgh 7-9 March
JANUARY Celtic Connections Glasgow 16 January - 2 February Celtic Connections 2014 comprises a wealth of concerts, ceilidhs, talks, workshops, free events and late night sessions taking place over 18 days across various venues in Glasgow. Celtic Connections 2014 will also use the brand new SSE Hydro, Scotland’s biggest ever music venue. Tickets are on sale now. www.celticconnections.com
FEBRUARY
The 2014 edition of Wee Dub Festival is by far the best line-up yet, featuring giants of UK dancehall culture, top live bands, and hot upcoming talent. For the artist line-up and programme go to the website below. Tickets are now on sale for all 5 sessions, as well as Earlybird Weekend tickets and Wee Dub Mega Tickets, which get you into both the festival and Wee Dub Hogmanay for a healthy discount. We look forward to welcoming you to another weekend of roots, culture and good vibes in Edinburgh in March 2014. www.weedubfestival.co.uk
Niel Gow Scottish Fiddle Festival Dunkeld & Birnam 21-23 March
Fife Jazz Festival
The 2014 Niel Gow Festival will be held in the beautiful Perthshire village of Dunkeld & Birnam, Fife home of Niel Gow. The annual festival was 7-9 February established in 2004 to celebrate the life and The 7th edition of the Fife Jazz Festival. Whether music of Perthshire's fiddle legend. It is envisaged that through time the festival and you're a jazz and blues specialist or a casual listener, we hope that you're going to find plenty other activities will gather enough funds to erect a fitting memorial to Niel Gow in Dunkeld & to enjoy. Thanks to all the musicians who are Birnam. Niel Gow (not Neil Gow) was born in going to give us such a great weekend, and thanks to Fife Council for enabling us to re-open Strathbraan on 22nd March 1727 and grew up in the village of Inver, by Dunkeld. The Byre Theatre to put on such an exciting programme in St Andrews. www.niel-gow.co.uk www.fifejazzfestival.com
Glasgow’s Dirty Weekender Glasgow 28 February - 1 March
Hawick Reivers Festival
APRIL Edinburgh International Harp Festival Edinburgh 4-9 April The Clarsach Society & Edinburgh International Harp Festival is an annual celebration and gathering of musical talents. Find out more about us at www.clarsachsociety.co.uk The Clarsach Society (Comunn na Clarsaich) encourages interest in the instrument, especially amongst young players, who enjoy its adaptability to solo work, accompaniment or ensemble playing. The Society also presents the Edinburgh International Harp Festival - an annual celebration and gathering of musical talents. Every Spring we bring harpists from across the globe together to rub shoulders with you, the audience. www.harpfestival.co.uk
Wikeed Day Out Glasgow 5 April Wikeed Day Out is a brand new festival coming to Glasgow and being held at Nice N Sleazys. The event will see 7 acts in one day come together from across Scotland in one venue. https://twitter.com/WikeedDayOut www.facebook.com/WikeedDayOut
Glenfarg Folk Feast Glenfarg 11-13 April
Hawick 23-25 March
Ran by Glenfarg Village Folk Club the festival may be small but its stature and longevity are huge to say the least. We pride ourselves on As always music is at the heart of Hawick Across 5 wonderful venues, PIVO PIVO, IVORY running a friendly event with workshops and Reivers Festival and Session A9 and Scocha will BLACKS, THE ADMIRAL, STEREO and CLASSIC competitions to suit all tastes, and the World provide the focus for this. There are a number of GRAND this Dirty Weekender is going to bring famous Puff-a -Box competition just has to be you out, get you about and have you experience new innovations this year and plans are being seen to be believed! finalised for an exciting weekend. As the town such a diverse and eclectic range of musical talent that your ears are going to be assaulted, hall is unavailable the main concert venue caressed, abused, made loved to and make you switches to the Old Baths where Scocha will kick www.glenfargfolkclub.com off the festival in their own inimitable way. realise why you loved live music in the first place. Immerse yourself in this Northern Nashville remarkable occurrence and you will understand www.hawickreivers.com Country Music Festival why it has been created why Kilmarnock has Caithness loved it as much in recent years and why it HAD 18-20 April to come and spend its first weekend in Glasgow. MV Festival Aviemore In 2004 we took a gamble and ran our first ever Tickets from www.tickets-scotland.com and 28-30 March Northern Nashville Caithness Country Music www.killieweekender.com watch at www. Festival (NNCCMF), which thankfully was a great youtube.com/watch?v=E9zx95MXkNA A weekend of comedy, music and thrills on the success. Over the years it has gone from hills in Aviemore. The festival will be based in strength to strength, with country music fans www.killieweekender.com the Macdonald Aviemore Resort with two other converging on Caithness over Easter Weekend venues in the town being used as well. 2013 to be part of this 3-day 5-show extravaganza of Scottish Alternative Music Award (SAMA) ‘Best Rock Act’ winners Culann are the first band to be live country music. This is truly an international event featuring top class acts from the USA, announced. Tickets from www.ukgigsonline.com at £22.50 for a Friday or Canada, Europe, Ireland and the U.K. alongside our wealth of local talent and youth bands. Inverness Music Festival Saturday ticket and £37.50 (online) for a weekend ticket. Proceeds from the Festival go to Inverness www.nncmc.co.uk the Children's Hospice Association Scotland 1-14 March (CHAS) and Disability Snowsport UK. Inverness's Music Festival is a competitive event www.mvfestival.com attracting over 1000 entrants to venues throughout the city. Prizes are awarded in a multitude of styles across Vocal, Instrumental, Speech, Gaelic and Scottish disciplines. 34th Shetland Folk Festival Shetland www.invernessmusicfestival.org/Festival/ 1-4 May
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our festivals lisitings - to be included email details to: carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com The Festival as the UK's most northerly folk festival is regarded a prestigious event for performers, locals and visitors alike. Organised by a voluntary committee (and run by an even bigger pool of volunteers) the Festival prides itself in reaching out to even the most far flung areas of Shetland. Concerts are organised throughout the isles, consisting of some of the best International, British and Shetland music that the world has to offer. In fact, visiting artistes are regularly dumbfounded by the quantity and quality of local musicians that our remote isles have to offer. www.shetlandfolkfestival.com
Thornhill Music Festival
Knockengorroch World Ceilidh Kirkcudbright 22-25 May If you prefer a bigger festival in a smaller pot you are a Knockengorrocher! Join us beside the glittering Water of Deugh beneath the broad shoulders of southwest Scotland's great mountain peaks to celebrate some of the finest music from the Celtic diaspora and everywhere in-between. The World Ceilidh melds together the most ancient roots music with the latest cutting edge sounds. This first truly backwoods upland music fest in Scotland hosts some of the best musicians and performers from across the world. All are invited to journey over hill and dale by rock and stream to our natural greenfield auditorium and to our upland stage to experience the biggest little festival this side of anywhere!
Glasgow’s Dirty Weekender. This will take place between the 28 February and the 1 March over three of the city’s venues, Pivo Pivo, Ivory Blacks and Stereo. The Dirty Weekender crew will take its years of experience and deliver a unique and diverse event to Glasgow for the first time. www.killieweekender.com
JUNE Solas Festival The Bield at Blackruthven 20-22 June
In what promises to be a exciting year in the spotlight for Scotland, Solas will entertain you with a mixing pot of art, music, dance and comedy whilst covering everything from jazz to www.knockengorroch.org.uk ceilidh dancing, and hip hop to slow food. Our 20 plus band cross-genre Music Festival in Dumfriesshire, early May Bank Holiday, Run by Kilmarnock's Dirty Weekender brilliant variety of acts and friendly atmosphere make it a great destination for families. UnderLewis Hamilton Music. The village is an Kilmarnock 12s go free. The festival aims to create a attractive and vibrant community of some 2,000 23-25 May generous, hospitable space in Scotland where people, and Dumfries and Galloway is a wellknown music destination, hosting such Kilmarnock’s Dirty Weekender music festival was the arts can be performed and enjoyed by all. The programme also makes space for successful events as the Wickerman, Moniaive established in 2012. In 2013 the event challenging debate with activists, writers and Folk and Bluegrass Festivals. Thornhill lies at the expanded with over 40 acts performing and a thinkers from across the political, cultural and junction of the A76 Dumfries to Kilmarnock and third venue being added to include an all agers religious spectrum. A702 New Galloway to Edinburgh roads in the stage. In 2014 Kilmarnock’s Dirty Weekender mid-section of the beautiful Nith Valley in will see further growth with the inclusion of the www.solasfestival.co.uk Dumfriesshire. 1300 capacity Grand Hall venue. 2014 will also see the development and implementation of www.facebook.com/pages/Thornhill-Music-Festival/487819717906138 Dumfriesshire 2-4 May
Girvan Folk Festival Girvan 2-4 May 2014 marks the 40th Girvan Folk Festival. The Festival started in 1975, a time when folk music in Scotland was increasingly exploring its own roots. Concert venues, competitions, ceilidh dance childrens events, sessions for tunes and songs, Open Stage, workshops,secure campsite. So please tell all of your friends and help to make this the biggest Girven Festival ever! There will be plenty of room and plenty of music for all to enjoy. www.girvanfolkfestival.co.uk
Riverside Festival Glasgow 3-4 May Scotland's premier electronic music festival Electric Frog returns this May Bank Holiday weekend with Electric Frog & Pressure Riverside Festival. Organisers have today revealed plans to add a second day and return to the spectacular Riverside Museum site for the second consecutive year for the 2014 instalment, with what’s set to be their biggest event yet. Organisers have reconfigured the site to feature two stages aiming to maximise the space and enhance the festival experience for the thousands of electronic music fans expected to descend on the event over both days. The party will continue late into the night at various venues in the city. Line-up and ticket details will be announced soon. www.theelectricfrog.co.uk
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