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Festival Ceilidh Night
Friday
22nd August 2008
Victoria Hall, Campbeltown
Tickets - £14.00
Skipinnish
Bodega
Gillian Frame Trio
Kintyre Schools Pipe Band
This years Festival Ceilidh on Friday the
22nd in the Victoria Hall is a night that offers all the
family an evening that goes with a swing. West coast
based Skipinnish, provide the ceilidh set with
concert sets being provided by young Scottish band
Bodega and the Gillian Frame Trio
consisting of herself, Rebecca Brown & Ross Kennedy.
The Kintyre Schools Pipe Band will start the night
in their usual rousing style in what promises to be a
night to remember.
Skipinnish,
with accordionist Angus MacPhail from Tiree and piper
Andrew Stevenson from Lochaber leading the band, have
over the years built up a great reputation on the
ceilidh scene
maintaining their dedication to
quality music, true to its roots in the Highland
tradition. The band was formed in early 1999 when
accordionist Angus and piper Andrew joined musical
forces. At the time, they were both studying in their
first year at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
Drama, and having played together at various impromptu
sessions, they realized that both their musical styles
and their outlook on Traditional Music were very
similar. Never self-consciously attempting to adapt and
modernize Highland music to make it suit the ears of a
non-Highland audience, these boys give their audience
the real thing, and with both barrels!
Web Site:
www.skipinnish.com
The concert set will be provided by
Scottish band Bodega,
a young, five piece band drawn from the Highlands and
Islands of Scotland. The band was formed in March 2005
while all five members were attending high school at The
National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music.
Winners of the BBC Radio2 Young Folk Band award for
2005/06 they released their first self titled debut CD
on Greentrax in 2006. Since then, the band has played
at most of the prominent UK festivals including Celtic
Connections 06,07 and 08 where they shared the stage at
a major concert with Moving Hearts.
Web Site:
www.footstompin.com/artists/bodega
Gillian Frame, Rebecca Brown & Ross
Kennedy:
Gillian plays at the Festival for the third time having
appeared twice before with her former band “Back of the
Moon” as well as playing and tutoring at the Kintyre
Music and Arts Tuition Day in 2003. Gillian comes from
the Isle of Arran, where she was introduced to
traditional Scots and Irish music at an early age. In
January 2001 Gillian was the inaugural winner of the
Young Scottish Traditional Musician Award. Since then
she has been rapidly gaining experience in all areas of
traditional music, using her talents as fiddle player
and singer in both performing, recording and teaching
contexts, and in 2002 graduated from The Royal Scottish
Academy of Music and Drama with BA (Scottish Music) Hons
degree. Her tunes and arrangements can be heard on
recordings by Back of the Moon, The Bar Room
Mountaineers and Queen Anne's Revenge. She is currently
touring with Findlay Napier and the Bar Room
Mountaineers... debut album due out later this year...
and working as Development Officer for Glasgow Fiddle
Workshop alongside her regular teaching commitments.
Rebecca
Brown will accompany Gillian on Fiddle and as one of her
former pupils she should be very familiar with her
playing style. Local musician Ross Kennedy will provide
guitar and vocals to make up a unique trio to start of
the stage performances.
Kintyre School
Pipe Band: The KSPB need
little introduction since their inception they have been
prolific in winning practically everything they have
entered often more than once. They have opened the
Festival Ceilidh for the past few years on some
occasions it was first official public appearance since
winning the World Pipe Band Championships the week
before. The sight of the full band performing in the
Victoria Hall can be quite breathtaking and makes it
well worth turning up early for.
To find out how to buy tickets click
here
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