Festivals! Scotland's Music
the Scottish music festival supplement from MUSIC NEWS Scotland
Seckou Keita (pictured) plays AfriFest in Edinburgh on 22-23 October - see page 5 www.facebook.com/AfriFestScotland photo by Andy Morgan
INSIDE: The Spree :: AfriFest :: Belladrum :: Solas :: Electric Fields :: Carrying Stream :: Groove Cairngorm :: ButeFest :: Blas .... PLUS our Scottish music festival listings
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Don't miss The SAY Award 2016 Showcase @ The Spree festival Paisley :: 19 October :: www.thespree.co.uk/event/scottish-album-of-the-year-award-showcase/ Buy tickets @ https://boxoffice.renfrewshire.gov.uk/peo/show.asp As the SAY Award and The Spree both celebrate their fifth birthdays, this very special event will bring the two together to discuss 'How does winning Scotland’s national music prize affect an artist’s career?', 'How does social context affect the way music is made?' and 'When times are hard economically, does culture become more important and valuable?' Hear the answers to these questions and more at this special showcase at The Spree for an exclusive night celebrating five years of The SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) Award; Scotland’s most lucrative music prize. Hosted by the Scottish Music Industry Association’s Chairman Dougal Perman, the event will see past winners of the award, including this year’s winner Anna Meredith, Kathryn Joseph (2015) and RM Hubbert (2013), joined by notable music industry figures, including Stewart Henderson (Chemikal
Hubbert (SAY Award 2013 winner); Stewart Henderson - former Delgados bassist and Scottish Music Industry Association Chairman, and founder of Chemikal Underground Records; Tim Brinkhurst is an Ivor Novello nominated songwriter, producer, manager and label owner;
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Underground) and Tim Brinkhurst (Soul Punk Management), discussing creative processes, influences, Scottish music and what it takes to write and record an award winning album. The event will feature intimate stripped back performances followed by a SAY Award themed DJ set, as we take a look back on five great years championing Scottish music.
Who will be appearing? Anna Meredith (SAY Award 2016 winner); Kathryn Joseph (SAY Award 2015 winner); RM
Dougal Perman - Chairman of the Scottish Music Industry Association, the industry body who developed the SAY Award in 2012 ..... Dougal Perman hosts the SAY Award 2016 showcase at The Spree. For Dougal, creativity and technology are inextricably linked. He runs content company Inner Ear which serves clients and its own creative projects: Radio Magnetic, Walking Heads, TRADtv and collaborative music sync agency ZULU. Dougal advises the Cultural Enterprise Office and Co-operative Development Scotland, and has been involved in the SAY Award since its inception in 2012. GIGnotes: The venue is the The Spiegeltent on 19 October at 8pm, with tickets £8 (£6 conc) from the website above or via Paisley Arts Centre on 0300 300 1210.
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AfriFest: A celebration of African cultures, with live music, dance, art, films, workshop, food, DJs Edinburgh :: 22-23 October :: www.facebook.com/AfriFestScotland Reserve FREE tickets @ http://afrifest16.eventbrite.co.uk AfriFest is a vibrant celebration of African arts and cultures, with live music, dance, art, films, workshops. DJs and food, taking place at Summerhall, in Edinburgh on 22 and 23 October. Set up to mark the unique input black performers have made to the artistic and cultural landscape of Scotland. All events are free and designed to appeal to a wide range of age groups and tastes.
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This two day festival will showcase visual and performing arts, as well as the culture of people of African descent, supporting artistic expression and the pursuit of excellence and innovation. The live programme includes award winning Senegalese master kora player Seckou Keita, whose last two albums hit No.1 in the European world music charts. Clychau Dibon, the fruit of his collaboration with welsh harpist Catrin Finch, won fRoots Critics Poll Album of The Year 2013, Songlines Magazine Best Cross Cultural Collaboration 2014, and two BBC Radio 2 Folk Award nominations. Other performers include some of the best Scottish based writers, singers, musicians and dancers from Botswana, Liberia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe – Samba Sene & Diwan, original Bhundu Boy Rise Kagona and the Jit Jive Band and Makossa, dance group Sankofa Beats (presenting a range of dance steps from north, south and west Africa) - plus storytellers, poets and workshop leaders including Bruno Ashley of Mema Arts Zimbabwe, Mara Menzies and The Cowfoot Prince (London). There will be a film programme curated by Africa in Motion and top DJs to end each night with an exhilarating dance club.
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Tobago, Jamaica, St Vincent, Barbados and Black Scottish Community. Their artistic works include visual arts, many genres of music including drumming, jazz, hip-hop, gospel, spoken-word.
Food will be provided by Knight’s Kitchen, Khartoum Café, African Flavour, 10 To 10 In Delhi and Culture Lounge. It is also free, offering a chance to sample a rich variety of AfriFest will also provide a platform for artists to tastes from around the African continent. share their talents and their various AfriFest is organised and curated by Africa experiences, foster mentoring and networking Together - Artistic Director and musician Samba and provide exposure for young and talented Sene (Senegal) and Producer Wezi Mhura artists. Audiences can try their hand at African (Malawi) whose CV includes La Banda Europa, drumming and dance led by experienced Struileag (Children of the Smoke) and Iron teachers including Mockolo Sawane Oxide. AfriFest is supported by Big Lottery Fund (Casamance) and Dougie Hudson (Drumergy). and Creative Scotland. AfriFest aims to be a potent symbol of how While all events are free, it is anticipated that people from different backgrounds and cultures many will be in high demand and advance can come together in common purpose, united. booking is highly recommended @ Artists participating in the festival will be drawn http://afrifest16.eventbrite.co.uk from Diasporas from Senegal, Malawi, Nigeria, www.facebook.com/AfriFestScotland Ghana, Sudan, Gambia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, https://twitter.com/AfriFestScotlan Uganda, Somalia, Eritrean, Ethiopia, Sierra www.facebook.com/events/1151472018242494/ Leone, Liberia, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and
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‘We Are Family’ As Bella Goes On Sale And Announces Thursday Headliner Sister Sledge Beauly, Inverness-shire :: 3-5 August 2017 :: www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk Buy tickets @ www.skiddle.com/festivals/belladrum/?sktag=12774
Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, from 3 - 5 August; at Beauly, Invernessshire, has its tickets on sale now for the 14th staging of the event which will feature Sister Sledge, the 'queens of the disco era', as the opening Thursday night headliners.
E-tickets will be on sale via the festival website at www. tartanheartfestival.co.uk and via www.skiddle.com And printed tickets will be available from the usual agents including: Inverness – The Ironworks, Eden Court Theatre, Caffery’s and Hootananny’s; Kiltarlity – Post Office; Beauly – Morrison’s; Dingwall – Sweet Treats; Elgin – Sound & Vision; Aberdeen – Aberdeen Performing Arts; Edinburgh and Glasgow – TicketsScotland.
Bella patrons will need a three day ticket to see Sister Sledge headline the Garden main stage on the Under the night sky at Belladrum 2016 :: photo by Paul Campbell Thursday night. The Philadelphia sisters have charted in the UK since 1975 with hits like ‘We Are Family’ and ‘He’s The Greatest Dancer’, Rogers and Chic. line with Skiddle, Bella patrons are working successfully with Nile being given an opportunity to “What could be better than contribute to the Archie Foundation, generations of Bella fans singing a charity which is helping to Madness play Belladrum 2016 :: photo by Paul Campbell along to ‘We Are Family’ on the improve children’s hospital facilities opening night of the event? It will in the Highlands. be one of those Bella moments to savour,’ said promoter Joe Gibbs. Bella sold out in record time again in 2016 for the eighth year in a row Three day tickets including Sister so fans are urged to buy early to Sledge and a programme of artists avoid disappointment. on the main stage on the Thursday night are on sale as well as Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival traditional two day tickets which takes place in the beautiful Highland allow access to the rest of the surroundings of Belladrum Estate, festival (excluding main stage) from near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The Thursday night onwards. independent festival has built a Campervan/ caravan, BellaDub VW reputation for its eclectic line-ups, Campervan and electric hook-up its offbeat non-musical tickets will also be available. entertainments and its all-ages approach. The festival won a Thursday car parks and camping VisitScotland Thistle Award in 2009 areas will be open from 0800 again and is a past winner of the after this year’s successful effort to Grassroots Festival Award at the UK encourage patrons to arrive in a Festival Awards, the festival steadier flow throughout the day to industry’s ‘Oscars’. reduce traffic congestion. Arenas www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk will open from 1300 on the Thursday. When buying tickets on- www.facebook.com/belladrum https://twitter.com/BelladrumFest
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The dust has settled on a the mns brilliant Solas Festival ..... collection …. Blackruthven, Perth :: 23-25 June 2017 :: www.solasfestival.co.uk Buy tickets @ www.solasfestival.co.uk/box-office/
Solas 2016 was magical in so many ways, and not least because of all the people who came and created a very special festival community.
Stanley Odd at Solas 2016
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Now that the nights are starting to draw in, here in team Solas we are looking towards next June, when the days will be long and warm, and the nights filled with music and dancing. Unfortunately, we can’t reveal anything yet – but rest assured we are thinking big. Solas Festival 2017 is set to be an absolute cracker! We are looking to make Solas Festival more accessible to Deaf and disabled audiences. We have already started - check out the new access section on our website with updated, detailed access information – but we would like to do more and we need your help! If you are disabled (or know someone who is) and have attended Solas (or considered it) – we’d love to hear from you about what we can do better. Get in touch with: debs@solasfestival.co.uk
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We also have a volunteer opportunity for British Sign Language interpreters. This August Solas Festival took a group of artists to Palestine. The Hallanshankers threw a celidih in Bethlehem, Hector Bizerk’s Louie Bhoy rapped with young musicians in Jenin, and Declan Welsh was backed by Oud and Qanun in Ramallah. The connections made by the artists, and the injustices they saw will, I am sure, stay with them for a lifetime, and we’re excited to share more about Solas Festival’s twinning with Bet Lahem Live in Palestine over the coming year. We are delighted to offer the mural, painted by Katie Guthrie (aka Hell Yeah!) over the festival weekend
Be Charlotte at Solas 2016
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Electric Fields 'Early Birds' sold out .... but more available soon! Dumfries & Galloway :: 1-2 September 2017 :: www.electricfieldsfestival.com Watch out for the next release of tickets @ http://electricfieldsfestival.com/tickets/
Electric Fields, Scotland's acclaimed boutique, independent and homegrown music festival, will return to Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries & Galloway on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 September 2017.
quality world cuisine and the Our Kids Electric childrens' area make Electric Fields a truly special, all-round festival experience for music lovers of all ages.
This summer Electric Fields emphatically lived up to the promise of its new two-day format and cemented its place in the UK festival calendar, with a world-class line-up of 91 local, national and international artists playing across four stages, topped by career-spanning headline performances from The Charlatans and Primal Scream.
Electric Fields has also been nominated for ‘Best Small Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards 2016, www.electricfieldsfestival.com the category for events with a capacity of less https://twitter.com/Electric_Fields than 10,000. Electric Fields is also nominated in www.facebook.com/electricfieldsfestival
Electric Fields co-founder Nick Roberts said: "This year's Electric Fields was everything we hoped it would be when we decided to expand to two days, and in truth it surpassed our expectations. It was quite honestly the best atmosphere I've ever experienced at a festival. We can't wait to reveal our 2017 line-up and welcome everyone to our beautiful home at Drumlanrig Castle once again."
the coveted ‘Best Toilets’ category. Fans can vote for Electric Fields at www.festivalawards.com Nick Roberts said: “We’re really proud to be nominated for Best Small Festival after only the third year of Electric Fields. We love the size of the festival and the very special community, which is all down to the lovely people who come and join us at Drumlanrig. To be up for Best Toilets is great as well, that’s the one all the festivals really want to get. We can’t reveal the 2017 line-up just yet, but I can say that we’re rather excited about who we’re talking to at the moment."
The successful Friday and Saturday format will return in 2017, with the capacity remaining at an intimate 5000 people. Electric Fields is just a 75 minute drive from Glasgow, 90 minutes from Edinburgh and within easy reach of the north of England. As well as all the great music, attractions such as Boutique and Family Camping, The Real Ale Festival, high
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The Carrying Stream Festival 2016 A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of Hamish Henderson Edinburgh : 9-16 November : www.carryingstreamfestival.co.uk Keep up to date @ http://efc1973.com/carrying-stream-festival
The Carrying Stream Festival is organised annually in November by the Edinburgh Folk Club to celebrate the life and work of the great Scottish folklorist and writer Hamish Henderson. The festival this year runs from 9-16 November.
annual festival - which coincides with his birthday on 11 November - dedicated to his life and legacy. But the Carrying Stream Festival is not just a shrine to the great folklorist, song collector, poet and songwriter, political activist and convener of inspired colloquia in Sandy Bell’s – it is a Festival in the spirit of Hamish Henderson: celebrating traditional music, song, storytelling and poetry in all their historical and contemporary contexts, presenting established tradition bearers alongside international acts and up-and-coming talents. It is looking backward and forward as part of the carrying stream of the folk tradition.
Hamish Henderson died in 2002 aged 82 and he was one of Scotland’s most prominent cultural figures. He was a leading architect of the Hamish Henderson, who was born in 1919 and Scottish folksong renaissance and co-founder of died in 2002, is often referred to as the ‘father of the Scottish folk revival’. Since the year of his the University’s School of Scottish Studies. death, Edinburgh Folk Club has kept the Hamish's many interests included being a memory of this remarkable man alive in an folksong collector, a cultural historian, a Scottish nationalist, and an international democratic socialist. A committed Europhile, he was also a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a campaigner against Apartheid and injustice in general. From the late 1930s there is information in the 'Hamish Henderson Archive Trust' about Henderson’s attempts to help smuggle Jews out of Germany, and in the cold war era there is correspondence with the American Embassy in London calling for clemency in the 1952 case of convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were eventually executed for passing nuclear secrets to the Russians.
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Henderson wrote the song “Men of Rivonia” in the 1960s in support of Nelson Mandela and the South African freedom fighters. The Trust's archive contains a letter of thanks from the ANC to Henderson. He met Mandela when the South African visited Glasgow in 1993 following his release. You can find out more about the Trust @ www.hendersontrust.org
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Groove Cairngorm The UK's Snowsports Festival returns Aviemore :: 24-25 February 2017 :: www.groovecairngorm.co.uk Buy tickets @ www.groovecairngorm.co.uk/buy-tickets
Groove Cairngorm returns for its second outing over the weekend of 24-25 February 2017, hosted in partnership with CairnGorm Mountain Ltd. Launched last year as the UK’s first resort based snowsports festival, Groove Cairngorm combined winter snowsports, along with a selection of DJs and acoustic acts performing over two stages up the mountain, followed by an Apres-ski party until the early hours at Badaguish Outdoor Centre featuring acts including Grandmaster Flash, Hot Chip and Radio 1’s Monki amongst many others. “We are delighted to be taking Groove back to the Mountain next year. After the incredible success and positive feedback from our inaugural festival we are looking forward to recreating some of the magic again in 2017 with a winter snowsports festival on home snow that doesn’t break the bank” said one of the Groove founders Dougie Brown Emma Beagrie, Senior Marketing Manager at Natural Retreats added “Natural Retreats CairnGorm Mountain is the perfect location for a
snowsports festival and after the success of this Ness returned in 2016 year’s event we’re excited to host what is sure to with another host of be another great weekend in 2017.” international electronic acts including Duke The full 2017 line-up will be announced in the Dumont, Boys Noize coming weeks. and Leftfield. Tickets, on the link above, for this year’s festival Natural Retreats are now on sale and have been kept at 2016 CairnGorm Mountain, prices. Tickets are priced at: Mountain one of the most Snowsports + Apres-ski Big Top Entertainment 2 popular snow sport Day - £115 (Fri/Sat) 3 Day - £140 (Fri/Sat/Sun). destinations in Apres-ski Entertainment Only (Fri/Sat) 2 Day Scotland, is located within the Cairngorms £65. Shuttle Busses will operate between National Park and has been offering snowsports Inverness and Aviemore - full details will follow for over 50 years. The mountain has 30km of ski shortly. runs, 11 lifts, including the UK’s longest Groove Cairngorm launched in March 2016 as funicular, a fully maintained freestyle park and the UK’s first resort based snowsports festival, an on-site Snow School that caters for all levels and combined snowsports throughout the day and ages. CairnGorm Mountain has routes and with an Apres-ski party featuring a raft of local runs suitable for beginners, intermediates and and international acts until the early hours of the experts, and the slopes are also home to a morning. collection of fun freestyle areas for the more advanced. In the summer Natural Retreats Heralded as a nightclub under the stars, the CairnGorm Mountain offers a number of inaugural Groove Loch Ness took place on Loch activities including mountain biking, hiking and Ness in August 2015, with 4,500 revellers. After bird watching - www.cairngormmountain.org the overwhelming positive feedback of the event which saw a raft of international DJs including www.groovecairngorm.co.uk Groove Armada, 2manydjs, Tensnake and B. www.facebook.com/groovecairngorm Traits along with a wealth of talent from the Highlands and throughout Scotland. Groove Loch https://twitter.com/GrooveCairnGorm
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ButeFest sends thanks to sponsors and supporters Isle of Bute :: 28-30 July 2017 :: www.butefest.co.uk Watch this site for 2017 tickets @ www.butefest.co.uk/buy-tickets/
ButeFest organisers have expressed their thanks to a large number of sponsors and supporters, including CalMac, EventScotland, Bute Family Charitable Trust, Argyll & Bute Council, NHS Scotland, Awards for All and many others have supported the festival this year. ButeFest treasurer Emma Cooper said “We are very grateful to all of our sponsors and grant funders this year. From the provision of funding to advice, they enable us to run a very high quality event. This year support has included volunteer training, equipment and support, high calibre artists and performers, educational and engaging activities for all ages, and even support to market and promote the event. “An enormous amount of work goes into organising ButeFest throughout the year, with a small committed team of people organising everything from performers, to water supply to first aid and on-site art installations. An incredible team of people then come together to make the festival actually happen, volunteering in the weeks leading up to the event or cleaning up afterwards. “Despite all of this, and a great deal of local companies and individuals
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Blas 2016 Reaching for the Stars Beul na h-Oidhche gu Camhanaich - Mouth of the Night to First Light The 12th Blas Festival, held in September, commissioned a new production to celebrate the dark skies of the Highlands through Gaelic culture, global history and 21st century science. This featured Mary Ann Kennedy, Nick Turner and a small ensemble. Beul na h-Oidhche gu Camhanaich - Mouth of the Night to First Light - took audiences on a surround sound journey through the heavens and constellations with stories, songs and music connected to the sun, moon and stars and fir chlis, or Aurora Borealis, of the Scottish Skies.
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Mary Ann explained: "The Highlands and Islands are such a great place for stargazing, with so little light pollution - and Nick and I often sit outside at night in Ardgour, watching for shooting stars. Having celebrated the sea and the land in previous commissions for Blas, the idea of the skies seemed like a natural next step." As part of the new work, there was a special sequence remembering Mary Ann's 'sister in music', cousin Maggie Macdonald who sang with Cliar, Inverness Gaelic Choir and was a tutor and Board member with Fèis Rois. Maggie died a few weeks ago after a short illness and was likewise a fan of the night skies. Grioglachan (Constellation) - a song by fellow chorister Marcas Mac an Tuairneir and Mary Ann - and She Watches the Stars will lead into the Aurora Borealis, a particular favourite of Maggie's.
Highlands commissioned by the festival. All of those pieces have had a life beyond Blas and have gone on to be performed at other festivals including Duncan Chisholm’s Kin, Iain MacFarlane’s Arthur Cormack of Fèisean nan Mìorbhail nam Beann, Margaret Gàidheal, which delivers the Stewart’s A’ Bhanais Ghàidhealach Blas Festival in partnership with and Julie Fowlis’ Heisgeir.” The Highland Council, said: “It Arthur added: “All those new has been one of the particular pleasures of Blas to enable artistes pieces have celebrated aspects of our unique Highland Culture, our to bring new works to fruition. Since 2005 a host of fine traditional people, history, language and musicians have brought new music traditions and have left a lasting legacy of works that may be and song to stages across the
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revisited in the years ahead. We congratulate Mary Ann and Nick on securing this year’s commission after an open competition, and look forward to seeing the fruits of their creative minds with a commission that will make use of 21st century technology in celebrating our culture.” Beul na h-Oidhche gu Camhanaich during Blas was perfomed in Drumnadrochit, Ullapool, Sleat and Acharacle.
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The Perthshire Amber Festival brings together many musicians and entertainers from different parts of the world who have been involved with Stonehaven Dougie MacLean over the years. This unique 8 October The sparkling Blue Rose Code will do the honours festival shares Dougie’s inspiring music, and open the 10th anniversary Glasgow celebrates the history and culture of Perthshire One day music festival based in the NE of Americana Festival in October. On Wednesday 5 in the heart of Scotland and showcases the Scotland showcasing the countries finest October in St Andrew’s in the Square' Man beautiful scenery. The concerts are staged in a Americana / Roots / Country and Acoustic acts. behind the music, Ross Wilson has rightly won variety of wonderful venues from prestigious Stonehaven is tuning up for a boot scooting new huge praise for live, sell-out performances theatres to historic castles to an Iron Age Americana music festival aimed at visitors and including joyous sessions for the BBC. crannog on Loch Tay, to atmospheric Dunkeld locals alike.The one day (family) festival will Cathedral. feature 6 Scottish bands with Americana roots www.glasgowamericana.com including The Holy Ghosts (Edinburgh), Colin www.perthshireamber.com Clyne (Stonehaven), Daniel Meade (Glasgow), Ullapool Guitar Festival The New Madrids (Perth), Mikey Maclennan (The Carloways, Bridge of Earn) and The Malpaso Ullapool Carrying Stream Festival Gang (Aberdeen). 7-9 October Edinburgh 9-16 November www.facebook.com/DoricanaFest So why is the UGF so special? Perhaps it’s the mix of music old and new, of electric and The Carrying Stream Festival is organised acoustic, of steel and nylon, of seasoned Falkirk Live! annually in November by the Edinburgh Folk performers and those, like the students from the Club to celebrate the life and work of the great Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, just starting out Falkirk Scottish folklorist and writer Hamish Henderson. 14-16 October on their careers. Perhaps it’s the location on Loch Broom and the drive up through some of www.carryingstreamfestival.co.uk Scotland’s most spectacular scenery. Perhaps it’s Falkirk Live! is a brand new three day music festival with its inaugural events taking place the informal air of the whole weekend: there’s from 14 to 16 October, featuring various music no “us and them”, no VIP area. Everyone Fiddle 2016 mingles, and you’re likely to find yourself sitting genres including Jazz, Blues, Hip-Hop, Funk, Edinburgh Gospel + much more. beside a guitar legend in the Festival Club – or 18-20 November even jamming with them on one of the trade www.falkirklive.com stands. One of Scotland's biggest traditional music Glasgow 5-9 October
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Feis na Mara Mallaig 7th - 9th October An exciting array of award-winning talent at this years Fèis na Mara festival in Mallaig. What better way to start your October break than to hit the stunning little town of Mallaig for a weekend of glorious Scottish music? This year’s line-up includes Dàimh, Niteworks, The Scott Wood Band, The Federation of the Disco Pimp, The League of Highland Gentlemen and The Mischa MacPherson Trio, with sessions, ceilidhs and parties around every corner! Mallaig is truly on a roll this year, with the opening of the beautiful new crannog and bakery, the impressive refurbishment of the iconic West Highland Hotel, and the Scottish Hospitality Awards’ ‘North Restaurant of the Year’ going to Mallaig’s Cornerstone Restaurant. All this, and the might of this year’s line-up in a limited capacity village hall suggest these tickets won’t be around for long!
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