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October 2021
11th Haal Folk Festival – Folk At The Salmon Bothy – POSTPONED to 1-3 October 2021
Our 2021 11th Haal Festival is now scheduled to be run on the weekend of 1/2/3 October 2021, when we hope folk will be able to gather again in safety. Most guests previously scheduled for the 2020 event have signed up again for the Oct event. Concerts, sessions and workshops! Loads of opportunity for visitors to perform. Artists include Archie Fisher, Peggy Seeger and Calum McColl, Eliza and Martin Carthy, Arthur Watson, Chris Miles, Brian Ó hEadhra, Fiona Mackenzie and…
Find out more »Folk at the Salmon Bothy’s 11th Haal Festival
A weekend of songs, tunes, stories, poetry, dance, workshops and sessions to be held in and around Portsoy, Aberdeenshire.
Find out more »Sepia Time & Blue Space book launch with Archie MacAlister & Margaret Bennett
Raised in a family of sea-faring Glasgow Highlanders, Archie MacAlister’s love of stories began in boatyards and sail-lofts. Wartime years in Argyll broadened his horizons as he listened to grandparents and local worthies such as the shoemaker ‘with a mouthful of segs’. Others showed him the landscape of Diarmuid and Grainne, told him of ancient times, sang songs and handed on the traditional wisdom of the Gael. As a student of architecture in Edinburgh, he was drawn to Patrick Geddes’s interpretation of…
Find out more »Doric Concert with TMSA Aberdeen Branch
Live on Facebook with confirmed live performances from Natalie Chalmers, Catriona Smith, Denis Shepherd, Geordie Murison and Allan Taylor as the MC. Also featuring The Country Quines with a recorded set and there may be one or two more acts. 8pm on Facebook Saturday the 9th of October. You can make a donation to the TMSA Aberdeen branch to via their PayPal account—you don't need a PayPal account to do this; just Google PayPal and input the email address aberdeentmsa@gmail.com…
Find out more »Scottish International Storytelling Festival
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival brings together a large number of Scottish and international storytellers and musicians. It takes place in October each year, as the seasons change with long nights drawing families and friends around the hearth, inspired by the Scottish ceilidh tradition and its sense of togetherness – a community gathering full of tales, anecdotes, music, songs and ballads. Performance, workshops, talks and children’s events radiate out from Scotland’s capital, as the best of Scotland’s storytelling talent merge with invited…
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