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October 2021
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…
Find out more »November 2021
CeilidhFest Glasgow
CeilidhFest Glasgow is a live, 4-week music-and-dance-crammed, hospitality-filled festival. A city-wide big friendly gathering—a Ceilidh in the truest sense; a social gathering for all people of Glasgow happening not just in the city centre, but wherever Glaswegians live there will be events happening under the umbrella of CeildhFest all throughout November! CeilidhFest is for all ages, whatever your taste in music. Featuring some of our most famous international musicians, young neo-ceilidh bands, mash-ups and club nights; the best traditional concerts…
Find out more »Steve Turner at the Wighton Centre
Friends of Wighton are excited to announce that from 2pm–3pm on Wednesday 10 November, they will have their first live recital since March 2020!! The guest performer will be the the wonderful singer, concertina player and multi-stringed instrument player Steve Turner, who was initially scheduled to appear in November last year. Steve Turner is known as a pioneer of highly sophisticated English concertina song accompaniments, stretching the boundaries of traditional forms, with one of the best voices in the business.…
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