Fiddler of Strathspey Festival, Grantown

Fiddler of Strathspey Festival

23-25 June 2017

Details of a fiddle festival - lots of fiddling events, recitals, sessions, workshops, masterclasses - and all in Grantown, home of the strathspey.  RCS alumna and tutor Lauren MacColl is amongst the many stars who will be there. Visit:-
http://thegrantownsociety.org/page5.html

16th International Kozani Music Seminar August 19-31.2014 Kozani Greece

'Whittaker' received notification of a Greek music seminar this summer.  Details can be found online:-

http://kozanimusicseminar.com/

19-31 August 2014, Kozani

Festival, Conference and Competitions

Photo gallery - click here

Any Scots with relatives in Cape Breton?

If a branch of your family left Scotland in the Clearances - did they emigrate to Cape Breton?  Or more recently?

Celtic Colours

5-13 October 2012

Chestico Place is Port Hood's heritage Centre.  They're hosting the Celtic Colours 2012 festival, October 5-13.  Find out more about your Celtic cousins and their heritage, here.

Burns an a' that - Festival, Ayrshire

Burns an a' that

Festival , 30 May - 3 June 2012

http://www.burnsfestival.com/

A selection of Scottish music links for trad and contemporary musos

See if there are any links here that you haven't come across before!

• An Comunn Gàidhealach - Royal National Mod : Home
• Fiddle Music of Cape Breton, Ireland and Scotland - Cranford Publications
• Youth Music Forum Scotland
• Digital Gallery - National Library of Scotland
• Digitised Glen Collection, National Library of Scotland
  
• Edinburgh International Festival
  
  BBC - BBC Radio Scotland Programmes - Celtic Zone

• The Hope Street Collective Facebook page
• Hope Street Collective Craitgmonie Centre Drumnadrochit
• NYOS
  Reflections on a Creative Scotland
  
• Year of Creative Scotland 2012
• Concertina.com
  Peter Cooke's Website - Biography
  Tobar an Dualchais
  Blas Festival - Welcome
  Sabhal Mòr Ostaig - Colaiste Ghàidhlig na h-Alba
  Hebridean Celtic Festival 2012 - the biggest homecoming party of the year!

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Plugging Plug

Plug

23-27 April

 Ah, Spring.  Time for Plug, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's contemporary music festival. With 50-odd up-and-coming composers involved, not to mention staff composers Alistair Macdonald and Gordon McPherson, it's going to be quite a week.

Plug, the festival - more info here.

Featuring, amongst many others:-

• Alistair Macdonald (Don't miss Alistair MacDonald at 50 - Electroacoustic Plug, with the Scottish Ensemble, at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 25 April)
• Oliver Searle
• Red Note Ensemble
• Scottish Ensemble
• Richard Ayres
• Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP)

A must - Macdonald's birthday bash!

'Whittaker' is hopeful that the Library will be able to collect and promote compositions by the individuals involved in Plug, so watch this space.  If we attract anything that might tickle your fancy, we'll let you know, and we'll certainly add it to the library catalogue!
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Retro Dundee blogpost about Gordon McPherson - read it here.

A rare early photo of McPherson