Fiddlers' Bid - Upcoming events.

Shetland's Sensational Fiddle Band

"Naked and Bare" - Fiddlers' Bid - Greentrax CDTRAX277
This latest release is considered to be Fiddlers' Bid's best album to date, an
indication of how this popular band has progressed. It is an absolute sizzler.

Upcoming Shows


07 Oct 2005 Queens Hall, Edinburgh
08 Oct 2005 Oran Mor, Glasgow
11 Oct 2005 Alnwick Playhouse, Alnwick
12 Oct 2005 Salisbury City Hall, Salisbury
14 Oct 2005 Rothes Halls, Glenrothes
15 Oct 2005 Public Institute, Fochabers

A few extracts from reviews:-

“Nothing, I repeat nothing, could possibly prepare an audience for the musical tornado known as Fiddlers’ Bid”

“This thrilling seven-piece outfit is currently one of Scotland’s hottest musical exports”

“If they don’t sweep you away, check your pulse”

“One of the most exhilarating acts on the scene”

“For exultant ensemble synergy and irresistibly infectious gusto, there’s no beating Fiddlers’ Bid”

“Album of any year” (“Da Farder Ben Da Welcomer” - CDTRAX218).

Fest 'N' Furious! - Dundee Festival of Scotland's Music!

Concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, open mic and talks.
From the great ballads, Gaelic song and the sound of the Scottish Harp to rip-roaring ceilidhs, Fiddler’s Rally and the best in ethnofunk!

Fri 30th Sept

10.30am - Wighton Heritage Centre
The Wighton Collection: a talk by David Kett on one of the world’s finest repositories of Scottish music.

2pm - Wighton Collection Open Access Afternoon: an opportunity to come and delve into the largest collection of Scottish, Irish and Welsh music manuscripts in Scotland, with Sheena Wellington on hand to answer questions and guide you through its treasures.

8pm - Marryat Hall The Fest’n’Furious Ceilidh with the Orwell Ceilidh Band: bringing you the finest in Scottish dance tunes, there is absolutely no excuse to sit this one out! Ticket price includes a plate of stovies at half time to keep your stamina up…tickets £8/£6


8pm - Braes. Perth Road Open Mic Session with The Midden. Winners of the Danny Award at 2002’s Celtic Connections, with two albums under their hipster belts, The Midden are three brilliant female folk musicians who fuse traditional Scottish folk sounds with a vibrant modern attitude. They’ll be performing their unique trad/pop set before hosting an open mic session for local musicians……….tickets &5/£3

Saturday 1st Oct

10.30 am

Wighton Heritage Centre: Scots song Workshop with Maureen Jelks £2/£1

McManus Galleries Activity Room: Whistle Workshop with Helen Forbes £2/£1

Caird hall café-bar: Come & Try sessions: come along and try your hand at a range of traditional instruments incl. moothie, accordion, fiddle, chanter…………..FREE

11.00am

Marryat Hall:- Cappuccino Concert: Dundee Gaelic Choir. Relax on Saturday morning with a cappuccino, the morning papers and the sweet sounds of Dundee Gaelic Choir under the direction of Wilma Kennedy. Coffee served from 10.30, concert begins at 11am….tickets £3.50 (price incl. cappuccino)

2pm

Wighton Heritage Centre:- Gaelic Song Workshop with Wilma Kennedy: an introduction to Gaelic songs, including waulking songs and mouth music. £2/£1

Caird Hall Café-bar:- Come & Try sessions: come along and try your hand at a range of traditional instruments, with help from Tayside’s finest musicians. Free.

McManus Galleries Activity Room:- Scottish harp workshop with Alison Kinnaird: a rare opportunity for intermediate and advanced harp enthusiasts to work with one of Scotland’s finest exponents of traditional harp music. Book early as places are strictly limited. £5/£3


7pm
McManus Galleries, Gallery 6:- Alison Kinnaird in concert: One of the most illustrious and innovative scholar-musicians in Scottish traditional harp music will be performing from her vast repertoire. £6/£4

7pm
Caird Hall:- Fiddlers Rally
The Dundee Rally is a firm fixture in any fiddler’s calendar, and this year’s programme is as outstanding as ever. Glamis’ Ian Duncan will be presenting with guest artists to include Aileen Craig, Maggie Finlay, Alison Macdonald & Ian Lees (artists tbc – check website for updates). £10/£8 concessions, Family ticket £5 per person, seated on the balcony.


7.30pm (note – venue change from What’s On)
Reading Rooms, 57 Blackscroft:- Croft No. 5 plus DJ Dolphinboy.
Described as a cross between a Celtic Gotan Project and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Croft No. 5 pick up their influences from the Highlands to the Balkans and beyond. This is the Dundee debut for the Scottish ethno-funkers.
“Irresistibly beaty grooves… the band were slam-tight and funky and boy were they fun!” (The Scotsman).
“They go from strength to strength, making lots of noise, perfecting their mixture of traditional sounding tunes with a very un-traditional funked-up rhythm section” (The Times). Tickets £6/£4

Sunday 2nd Oct

12.30pm:- McManus Galleries Activity Room:- Cello workshop with Wendy Weatherby

2pm:- McManus Galleries Gallery 6:- Sheila Stewart & Sheena Wellington in concert.
We are particularly proud to present the first ladies of traditional song, performing together for the first time in Dundee. Sheila Stewart is the doyenne of Scottish traditional singers. A member of the famous traveller family “The Stewarts of Blair” her powerful and compelling voice has won her international acclaim.

Sheena Wellington needs no introduction to most Dundonians: this fine traditional singer has a repertoire that includes ballads, Burns and the best of contemporary songwriting. Tickets £6/£4

7.30pm Caird Hall:- Blazin’ Fiddles + Randan (support)
No other band quite captures the excitement, passion and sensitivity of Scottish Music as Blazin’ Fiddles. Live Band of the Year at the 2004 Scots Trad Music Awards, with “enough craic to fuel an entire festival”, the Blazers will be making their long awaited return to Dundee a night to remember. Bring your dancing shoes. Tickets £14/£12

Monday 3rd Oct

11am McManus Galleries Activity Room:- Fiddle Masterclass with Aidan O’Rourke. Workshop for intermediate and advanced fiddlers led by Blazin’ Fiddles own Aidan O’Rourke. Book early as places are strictly limited. £5/£3

Tickets for all events are available from the City Box Office: tel: 01382 434940

Fest ‘n’ Furious is sponsored by Dundee City Council; Scottish Arts Council: McEwans Sessions

New Perth Concert Hall Open

An exciting first season at the new concert hall in Perth is in prospect. Artists such as Capercaillie, Salsa Celtica, Blazin Fiddles, The Proclaimers, Runrig, The Unusual Suspects, The Average White Band, Belle and Sebastian and The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra will be performing. To find out more log onto http://www.horsecross.co.uk

For a full list of music events in Scotland log onto http://www.musicinscotland.com/gigguide.htm

Fiddle 2005

The tenth Scots Fiddle Festival will be held in the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh from Friday 18th November through Sunday 20th.

Friday night starts on a high with Blazin Fiddles, the Dan Cassidy Swing Quartet and Ross Thomson - Glenfiddich winner of 2004. Ceilidh Band Annasach lead in the ceilidh.

Saturday brings us two greats of fiddle music - Alasdair Fraser with Natalie Haas and Tommy Peoples - joined by Lauren MacColl, Young BBC Traditional Musician of 2004. The Benachally Ceilidh Band lead off at the ceilidh.

Recitals, talks and workshops are as attractive as ever with special highlights such as the Cambells from Donegal and Sharat Srivastava from India. There are also great favourites such as Pete Clark, Alistair McCulloch, Bruce MacGregor, Gregor Borland, Gavin Marwick to name but a few.

For full details visit www.scotsfiddlefestival.com

A weekend of Scottish Folk Lore

A weekend of Scottish Folk Lore & Acousticswith Storyteller Singer & Musician Scot AnSgeulaich at Ledaig House.

Friday pm Arrive, Relax, meet other guests and enjoy a wee complimentary nip
Saturday 9am enjoy a Full Scottish Breakfast followed by A guided walk with Scot to DunUisnaich, setting for one of the Three Sorrows of Irish Folk Literature, inspirer of Songs of Deirdre".
Saturday 6pm Traditional 3 course Scottish Dinner followed by Storytelling Music & Song

Bring your own guitar fiddle or drum and join in and if you don't play don't worry you can sit back and enjoy listening to others and perhaps join in with the singing

Sunday Am Full Scottish Breakfast Departure Optional Extra Tarot Consultations with your hostess Soraya.

Available Dates
Arrive Friday 14th October Depart Sunday 16th October
Arrive Friday 21st October Depart Sunday 23rd October
Arrive Friday 11th November Depart Sunday 13th November
Arrive Friday 18th November Depart Sunday 20th November
Arrive Friday 25th November Depart Sunday 27th November

Please note numbers are limited to 16 per weekend so book early to avoid disappointment.

Cost for the weekend per person £89 per person

For more information click here

Music In Scotland Newsletter - September, 2005

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CDs

Runrig - The Best: 30 Year Journey Ref: RR037
Compiled by the band from their albums since 1987, and with a newly recorded version of The Greatest Flame. Runrig as they see themselves: the Celtic rockers, the Gaelic superstars ... and the boys in the band with the music for the people.

1. Wall Of China
2. Empty Glens
3. The Greatest Flame
4. Book of Golden Stories
5. Big Sky
6. Abhainn An T-Sluaigh
7. Maymorning
8. Alba
9. Canada
10. An Uhbal As Airde
11. Proterra
12. Running to the Light
13. Recovery
14. Loch Lomond
15. The Old Boys
16. In Search of Angels (Bonus Track)

Price: £11.40 £13.40 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Edinburgh Military Tattoo - 2005 Ref: EMTCD122
It's Tattoo time again! Edinburgh Castle Esplanade hosts a very enthusiastic audience responding to the skill and antics of musicians. marchers, Highland lassies and a limbo dancer! Massed pipes and drums. Cossack dancers. Trinidad and Tobago Steel Orchestra, the Marching Guard of The King Of Norway ...

1. Fanfare for The First Sea Lord
2. Massed Pipes & Drums
3. Band & Bugles of The Light Division
4. Massed Highland Dancers
5. Trinidad & Tobago Defence Force Steel Orchestra
6. Russian Cossack State Dance Company
7. The Guard of His Majesty The King of Norway
8. The Massed Military Bands
9. The Combined Massed Military Bands & Massed Pipes & Drums
10. Finale & Lone Piper
11. March Out

Price: £11.45 £13.45 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Boys Of The Lough - Twenty Ref: LOUGH009CD
Tradition evolves and develops its own character; this originally all-Irish band now has members from Northumberland, the Highlands and Shetland too. Their music reflects local influences in tunes and styling, but with a good old whistle, box and fiddle based sound they are ready for anything. Tunes from the traditions, skills from the angels.

1. The Tenpenny Bit / The Airth Rant / The High Geese in the Bog (jigs)
2. I must Away Love
3. Proudfoot's Hornpipe / Miss Thomson's Favourite / Albert House (hornpipes)
4. Mo Ghra'sa Mo Dhia -My God My Love (song)
5. Big John's Reel / Da Nipping Ground / Square Da Mizzen / Wha'll Dance Wi Wattie? (reels)
6. Ned Kelly (song)
7. Eamon An Chnoic -Ned of the Hill (song)
8. Monea Castle / Big Terry McAloon's Reel (strathspey & reel)
9.Bridgie Con Mat's / The Lakes of Sligo / Thadelo's (polkas)
10. The Willow Tree (song)
11. The New Kid on the Mountain (slip jig)
12. Da Lerwick Lasses / Da Scallowa' Lasses / Da Underhill / Over the Isles to America (reels)
13. A Last Farewell to Stirling O (song)

Price: £10.82 £12.71 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Shepheard, Spiers and Watson Ref: SPRCD1042
The Gaugers were a prime folk club catch: after the untimely death of member Peter Hall, his co-folkies Arthur Watson and Tom Spiers palled up with Peter Shepheard to continue their musical tradition - old songs, old style but with plenty of life and vigour. Button boxes, fiddles and whistles enhance the sound of voices in harmony with old Scots songs.

Jock Hawk's Adventures; The Fair o Balnafinnan; The Last o the Clydesdales; The Nutting Girl; Bonnie Ship The Diamond; Calder's Clear Stream; Glenlogie (Bonnie Jean o Bethelnie); Grat for Gruel; Banks of Newfoundland; Atween Stanehive and Laurencekirk; Rhynie; Bleacher Lassie o Kelvinhaugh; My Auld Sheen; Dowie Dens o Yarrow; Ye Boys o Callieburn.

Price: £10.20 £11.99 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

John Douglas Scottish Dance Band - It's Just For Fun Ref: JDM010CD
Three boxes, fiddle, drums, piano and bass, and the voice or John Caskie too - a fine round sound from John Douglas and the boys with dance tunes, marches, a fiddle solo for a good old Scottish evening's entertaInment.

Price: £10.20 £11.99 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Daniel McPhee - A Highland Dram Ref: CDPAN014
A generous splash of traditional music from button-box maestro McPhee. Daniel plays a ceilidh dance album in fine old style, backed by piano, drums, bass, and sax, as well as second and third accordion.

1. Loch Ruan, Leslie Angus. Thomas Saunders.
2. Fraser and Kevin McGlynn Conundrum.
3. Household Brigade.
4. Memories of Willie Smith.
5. Australian Ladies. Atholl and Breadalbane Gathering.
6. Gordon Schottishe.
7. Miss Rowan Davies.
8. Ballochyle. Pipe Sgt John Barclay.
9. The 80th Regiment Scottish Horse. Gordon The Goalie.
10. The Ash Grove.
11. Ness Botham. Geordie MacIntosh of Grantown. Ronnie Hunter, Tennpenny Bit.
12. Glasgow Highlanders. Campletown Kilitie Ball. A Scotsman In America, Isobel's Mothers Birthday.
13 Waltz for Kylin, New Year Waltz. Trip to Broadford.
14. Frank Jamieson.
15. New Irish barn Dance.
16. The Apple Tree. Miss Susan Cooper, Hurlock's Reel. Pottinger's Reel.

Price: £10.20 £11.99 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

kate Rusby - The Girl Who Couldn't Fly Ref: PRCD017
Touched with Kate's everyday magic, old tunes and words spin to life in their new settings. Kate's delicate guitar playing and North country accent weave their own spells around the folk music, augmented quite appropriately by the boys from the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass, and the Coldstream Guards Brass too.

1. Game of All Fours
2. The Lark
3. No Names
4. Mary Blaize
5. A Ballad
6. You Belong To Me
7. Elfin Knight
8. Bonny House of Airlie
9. Moon Shadow
10. Wandering Soul
11. Fare Thee Well
12. Bonus Track: Little Jack Frost

Price: £10.99 £12.91 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Ordinary Angel Ref: SKYECD38
A beautifully produced album - the dedication involved is tremendous. A superb collection of specially recorded pieces, much-loved tracks and personal favourite tune sets, this album celebrates the talent of artistes dear to Skye-based Stephen and Sheila McCabe. Anne Martin, lngrid Henderson. Donnie Munro, Blair Douglas, Michael Marra, Peatbog Faeries and other tremendous stars gave their talents for this fundraiser for the Liver Unit at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

1. Peighinn ni h-Iodhlann (Blair Douglas)
2. Voyage (Michael Marra)
3. An t-Oighr Og (Anne Martin)
4. A Mhairead Og (Donnie Munro)
5. Dr Stephen & Mrs Sheila McCabe (The Jennifer Forrest Band)
6. An Ath-dhoras (Mackenzie)
7. Seudan a'Chuian / Chloe's Passion / Nighean na Caillich (Dr Angus MacDonald)
8. Green Fields Of Rossbay / Dunmore Lassies (Peatbog Faeries)
9. Calum Sgaire (Arthur Cormack)
10. A' Chaileag Bheag / The Broken Reed (Ingrid Henderson & Iain MacFarlane)
11. Flow Gently Sweet Afton (Rod Paterson)
12. The Homeless Do Not Seem To Drink In Here (Michael Marra)
13. The Atholl Highlanders / Calliope House / Morag's Ceilidh / The Boys Of Ballymore (The Jennifer Forrest Band)
14. Chain Up The Swings (Michael Marra)

Price: £10.92 £12.83 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Back Of The Moon - Luminosity Ref: CDFSR1730
Back of the Moon are an award-winning band blending fiddle, bagpipes, vocals and three part harmonies with a solid guitar-piano rhythm section. Voted "Best Celtic Band" at Lorient Interceltic Festival in Brittany and "Best Up and Coming" in the Scots Trad Music Awards, Back of the Moon have toured across the UK and Europe as well as three tours of Canada.

Back of the Moon are:Gillian Frame - fiddle, viola, vocalsAli Hutton - border pipes, whistle, bodhranFindlay Napier - guitars, vocalsHamish Napier - piano, flutes, vocals

1. Lumsden's Rant
2. Glenlogie
3. Nine Stone Rig
4. Eggs in the Kitcheen
5. Ship in a Bottle
6. Joey's Beauty's
7. Hawp
8. The Mill Mill O
9. Goodfellas
10. The Brewer Lad
11. The Final Trawl
12. Voodoo Chilli

Price: £10.20 £11.99 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Glenelvan Scottish Dance Band - Real Time For Old Time Ref: GLENCD01
A nice mix of Old Time and Ceilidh dance sets from the Glenelvan - fiddle, box, drums and bass with a sound rhythm and a good balance of classic tunes. ....Take your partners!

David Scott (accordion), Judith Linton (fiddle), Jim Nichol (keyboard/bass) and George MacLeod (drums).

15 Tracks including Gay Gordons, Ruby Wedding Waltz, Shiftin' Bobbins, Eva Three Step, Viennese Swing, Boston Two Step, Millennium March, Southern Rose Waltz, Postie's Jig, White Heather Foxtrot, St Bernard's Waltz, Black Mountain Reel, Palais Glide, Gay Gordons Two Step & Roxburgh Castle.

Price: £10.20 £11.99 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Café Celtica: Chilled Contemporary Celtic Music Ref: TMKCD034
The words "Celtic Chill" may bring to mind driech days of cold Scottish rain, but this album might just change your thinking. Julienne Taylor, Twin Peaks, Celtic Spirit and The Munros are the artistes at the forefront of the contcmporary laidback sound. Eighteen tracks of Caledonia's ultimate Cafe mix. Cappuccino with haggis sprinkles, anyone?

Price: £7.99 £9.39 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Alan Bell - The Definitive Collection Ref: CDTRAX285
On this album Alan returns to his roots as a singer and, to meet many requests from around the world, Alan and and his friends have re-recorded the most popular and requested songs written in his forty-year career as a songwriter.

1. The Lakeland Fiddler
2. Windmills
3. The Minstrel
4. Alice White
5. Fair Stood theWind
6. The Band in the Park
7. Song for Mardale
8. The Ballad of the Working Man
9. The Dark Island
10. Letters from Wilfred
11. The Jacinta
12. Spring Song
13. A Sailor's Sky
14. Bread and Fishes
15. In My Homeland
16. So Here's To You

Price: £10.20 £11.99 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

BOOKS

Bill Forbes - Craigievar Book Of Dances 5 Ref: SHIELBK05
Another neat, replete volume of Scottish Country Dances from the fertile brain of Bill Forbes. Reels, jigs, strathspeys and a medley to commemorate people and places. Thirteen dances. full explicit instructions and suggestions for suitable tunes.

Price: £4.65 £5.46 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

Highland Collections Ref: EA09
A beautiful1y produced volume. in a gorgeous heather-purple cover! Neatly defined by its subtitle "The Collections of Seven 18th and 19th Century Fiddler-composers From The Highlands of Scotland", this clearly printed book brings back into circulation around 500 tunes collected or composed by William Christie. lsaac Cooper, Angus Cumming, Charles Grant, Donald Grant, James Henry and WillIam Morrison. A heautiful gift. .. particularly for oneself!

Price: £19.99 £23.49 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)

DVDs

Islands Of Scotland Ref: WOSDP005
Region 0 (worldwide) - 150 minsSuperb aerial photography and a resonant narrative carry this DVD well above the usual well-meaning limp travel guide. Six journeys around Scotland's islands, with stunning scenery, detailed commentary and, wait for it, sunshine, make this well worth the watching. Shetland, Orkney, Western Isles; far in and far out, they are beautifully represented here, with the voice over in English or Gaelic.

Price: £10.50 £12.34 with VAT at 17.5% (European Union only)


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The Poozies in concert - Birnam House Hotel

Only Perthshire Date For Top Band

Top female folk band The Poozies will play their only Perthshire date of this year at the Baronial Hall of The Birnam House Hotel on Thursday September 15th.The concert, which starts at 8.30pm, is the latest event to be organised by "The Fiddle Tree", a voluntary, non-profit making promotions group based in Birnam. The date is part of a UK-wide tour by the popular quartet, which also includes appearances at prestigious venues such as The Purcell Rooms in London, Tyneside's Sage Centre and The Spiegeltent at the Edinburgh Fringe.

The Poozies have been evolving as a band for just over a decade. From their early beginnings with pop/rock singer Sally Barker, through their contemporary folk phase with Kate Rusby, their music has reflected their intense interest in many different genres of music. Their current incarnation takes them back closer to their roots in traditional Celtic music and includes founder members Karen Tweed (piano accordion, vocals), Patsy Seddon (electro-harp, clarsach, fiddle, vocals), Mary Macmaster (electro-harp, clarsach, vocals) alongside new girl Eilidh Shaw (fiddle, vocals).

The musical chemistry between Karen Tweed and Eilidh Shaw is simply stunning. The exquisite accordion and the delicate interweaving fiddle create a magical blend of harmony and counter-melody, decorated and melded by the nylon and metal strung harps of Patsy Seddon and Mary Macmaster. The incredible sound of the Camac electro-harp beautifully underpins the arrangements, and Patsy's twinned fiddle injects layers of irresistible rhythms into the mix.

Even more spine-tingling are their close vocal harmonies, drawn not only from the rich veins of the Scottish & Gaelic Traditions but from a range of influences that crosses many musical and cultural borders.

Irrepressibly imaginative treatment of traditional and contemporary tunes, glorious harmonies and uplifting performances have ensured The Poozies' place at the forefront of the folk/roots music scene in Britain today. Their success is evidenced by their continued popularity with audiences. They play to packed houses where ever they go and they are constantly in demand at festivals throughout the summer months.

Advance tickets for the Birnam show cost £9 / £7 (concessions). If available, tickets on the door will cost £12 / £9.

To take advantage of the discounted advance prices, purchase you tickets now from The Birnam House Hotel (01350) 727462 or Birnam CD (01350) 727158

Details of future Fiddle Tree promotions can be found at www.thefiddletree.com.

For more info. on The Poozies, visit http://www.blogger.com/.