MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
MORE INFO HERE Curated online performance showcase events broadcast to communities across the Highlands & Islands on the 20th and 27th August. A preview of what could be touring to our community post-COVID! These sessions are being hosted in conjunction with our Keep Rural Arts Live Crowdfund Campaign, which we urge you to support. DONATE NOW The Spotlight Sessions […]
"Hailing from the Highlands of Scotland, Elephant Sessions exploded onto the indie folk scene to unparalleled effect with their last album 'All We Have Is Now. ' The band have since gone on to be finalists as Best Group at the BBC Radio 2 awards and are already winners of the 2018 Scots Trad Live […]
“Ecdysis (In Vivo) is a sculptural happening, durational performance, momentary glimpse, promenade narration, chapters from a life, one moment in a life-time.” - Alex Rigg, Director Exploring transformation, Oceanallover has collaborated with legendary corset maker and iconic socialite Mr. Pearl, whose bespoke craftsmanship will be unveiled through a shedding of costume-skin during performances by singer […]
In the absence, of the full Same Sky 30th anniversary show (rescheduled to spring 2022), Horse has prepared a special ‘trio’ show. She will focus on the songs from this album as well as a selection from the rest of her back catalogue. Horse is accompanied by Gemma Roberts on piano and Lorna Thomas on […]
Common Sound What’s special about live music? Why do we gather together to listen to it? What part does the audience play in a live performance? Why not…just stay at home and stick a recording on? During Common Sound Scottish Ensemble will be exploring these questions through live performance and conversation, guided by BBC 6 […]
In the absence, of the full Same Sky 30th anniversary show (rescheduled to spring 2022), Horse has prepared a special ‘trio’ show. She will focus on the songs from this album as well as a selection from the rest of her back catalogue. Horse is accompanied by Gemma Roberts on piano and Lorna Thomas on […]
In the absence, of the full Same Sky 30th anniversary show (rescheduled to spring 2022), Horse has prepared a special ‘trio’ show. She will focus on the songs from this album as well as a selection from the rest of her back catalogue. Horse is accompanied by Gemma Roberts on piano and Lorna Thomas on […]
John Dew on pipes/whistles, Dylan Cairns on Guitar and Eoghainn Beaton on Bodhran play progressive traditional music and good old fashioned tunes. They met in Glasgow whilst studying on the BMus Traditional Performance degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Glasgow and playing at regular Glasgow sessions and RCS gigs. Their debut album ‘Mackerel Sky’ will […]
A nine day multi-artform winter festival bringing big music to small halls around the Isles of Skye and Raasay and Lochalsh with the emphasis on civic celebration – everyone is welcome. SEALL brings some of the nation’s finest traditional musicians to our remote rural townships, using Scotland’s national day – St Andrew’s Day – as […]
The Living Mountain is an evocative, uplifting and compelling audio-visual performance inspired by the celebrated book of the same name, written by Aberdonian Nan Shepherd in the 1940s and still hugely relevant today. Devised and performed by musician Jenny Sturgeon, The Living Mountain considers human connections with wild places through lyrical and melodic interpretation of […]
Shona is a bright, occasionally explosive, new voice in Scottish storytelling whose highly physical style and knack for facilitation has taken her around the world uncovering, gathering and sharing remarkable stories. She was a family story guide in the Musee du Louvre, Paris, ran story education company Fosforo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil and has travelled […]
Martin Stephenson has been one of the the UK’s best-loved songwriters for over 30 years, performing as a talented solo artist or with his band The Daintees. Always popular on the circuit, Stephenson’s “must see” live performances are an exuberant tour-de-force combining heart-in-your-mouth intimacy with playful humour and warm self-deprecation. The Daintees’ critically acclaimed 1986 […]
Fara is four musicians at the forefront of today’s Scottish folk scene. Their fiery Orkney sound has won them acclaim, including a nomination for Folk Band of the Year at the 2019 Scots Trad Music awards. Recently joined by Assynt pianist Rory Matheson, the band's sound is as exciting as ever. This December they return […]
Spending October on tour with Roger Taylor (Queen), Lewis singer songwriter Colin Macleod will be back home to entertain island audiences for Christmas with his An Lanntair show on Thursday 23 December. Colin lives an intriguing dual existence. His 2018 debut album ‘Bloodlines’ earned widespread critical acclaim, leading to shows with Roger Waters and Robert […]
Elephant Sessions exploded onto the indie folk scene to unparalleled effect with their last album. The band have since gone on to be finalists as Best Group at the BBC Radio 2 awards and are already winners of the 2018 Scots Trad Live Act of the Year. A truly great band to see live in […]
Flitsang takes the union of Christie Williamson’s poetry with Christopher Stout’s music that set off with Da Flit for Refresh Now and makes for deep waters. With their sails full of Catriona McKay’s Scottish Harp music, come and join them with special guest Ainsley Hamill and the North Ness Boys at Mareel to explore family and migration, land […]
Vienna – the city where the concert halls are golden and the music simply sparkles! It wouldn’t be New Year without the music of Vienna’s most famous son Johann Strauss and his friends: let us whirl you away to a world of elegant waltzes, playful polkas and good old-fashioned romance with Scottish tenor Jamie MacDougall. […]
The Skids featuring Richard Jobson, Bruce Watson and Jamie Watson will be touring the UK with a series of 'Unplugged' dates in support of their recent acoustic album 'Peaceful Times' and upcoming new acoustic album due to be released soon. Don’t miss your chance to see them perform these classic songs and listen to the […]
The brainchild of Scottish-Canadian reggae artist Jason Wilson, Ashara presents a joyful blend of Scottish folk and reggae that surveys those rebel musics that have traversed the Black Atlantic over the past 400 years. Wilson, who provides vocals, guitar and piano, is joined by Jamaican-Canadian guitarist Carl Harvey (Toots & The Maytals) and award-winning Scottish […]
Leading-edge East Coast pop/folk trio The East Pointers have always been furiously energetic, musically complex and technically brilliant and now a family grounding as the seventh generations of traditional Prince Edward Island and Ontario-based Celtic players and writers has effortlessly parlayed into the folk/pop arena. Fiddle tunes are grounded in irresistible EDM-style bass lines, a […]
Written and illustrated by Jason Chapman Music by Paul Rissmann Enjoy all the fun-filled musical adventures of our favourite dog-and-cat duo – live! When their flute-playing neighbour heads to La Scala Opera House in Milan to judge the competition for the Greatest Orchestra in the World, Stan and Mabel decide to follow – and to […]
In February 2020 Astrid released the first single from their Storm Sessions EP. It was an acoustic re-working of one of their popular early singles Distance. A cover of Jeff Bridges’ Falling & Flying from the movie Crazy Heart came next - it charted at number 20 in the Scottish Singles Chart a few months […]
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle – Name a more iconic trio… I’ll wait. Each having undertaken many other musical projects in the past, these veteran musicians have played with the likes of Bob Dylan, John Cale, Joan Baez, Eddi Reader and Paolo Nutini. McGoldrick is first-class in flutes, whistles and Uillean pipes. McCusker, […]
A wonderful show that weaves together song, stories and personal anecdotes, exploring themes of marine conservation, exploration and the magnitude of the sea. Armed with a guitar and her mesmerising clear voice, Nicolette creates a beautiful seascape of sounds, overlaid with folk songs, her originals and some popular classics. This show gives us the opportunity […]
Featuring the hits and lesser-known gems of the repertoire - think La Bohème, Faust, Billy Bud, Die Fladermaus, and more - in one fast-paced, heartfelt show. These memorable melodies are mixed into an original story celebrating the grit and glamour of old-fashioned vaudeville, as well as (many!) talents of a brilliant cast of four fingers […]
With 14 Scottish trad music album releases since forming in 1992, these Old Blind Dogs never run out of new tricks. Join us to hear their latest effort live, the uplifting ‘Knucklehead Circus’, released this winter. They will play a mix of songs and tunes with guitars, pipes, whistles, percussion instruments, bass, vocals and even […]
A wonderful show that weaves together song, stories and personal anecdotes, exploring themes of marine conservation, exploration and the magnitude of the sea. Armed with a guitar and her mesmerising clear voice, Nicolette creates a beautiful seascape of sounds, overlaid with folk songs, her originals and some popular classics. This show gives us the opportunity […]
A nomad, both geographically and musically, Ross Wilson aka Blue Rose Code writes straight from – and to - the heart. His songs address universal themes of love, loss, travel, home, accepting the past and embracing the future in a deeply personal way. They are variously painted with the vibrant colours of folk, Americana, jazz, […]
A wonderful show that weaves together song, stories and personal anecdotes, exploring themes of marine conservation, exploration and the magnitude of the sea. Armed with a guitar and her mesmerising clear voice, Nicolette creates a beautiful seascape of sounds, overlaid with folk songs, her originals and some popular classics. This show gives us the opportunity […]