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September 2021
Isle of Jura Music Festival
This will be our 27th annual music festival with concerts, ceilidhs, sessions, storytelling and workshops for adults and kids alike. Various venues around Craighouse village, Jura - Marquee, Jura Hotel and more. Tel. 01496 820 362 juramusicfestival@gmail.com www.jurafestival.com
Find out more »TMSA Aberdeen presents a Joint Session with Howth Singing Circle
Celebrating Howth Singing Circle’s 21st Season, Fingal Folk & Northern Lights will feature Ann Riordan & Ian Russell and will be streamed live on Facebook. To join the Zoom session email rioann@gmail.com.
Find out more »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…
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