OBAN Live has announced its line up for 2019, which will feature the award-winning Irish quartet We Banjo 3, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Lucy Spraggan, Elephant Sessions, Talisk and JigJam.
They will join headliners Skerryvore at the event next year.
Tickets are on sale for the festival, which takes place on June 7 and June 8 at the town’s Mossfield Stadium.
We Banjo 3 will also reunite with Skerryvore for a collaboration.
In a statement, We Banjo 3 said: “We had an amazing time with our good friends Skerryvore on our North America Celtic Brotherhood tour this year so to bring our battle of Bagpipes versus Banjos back to the Celtic homeland will be something truly special.
"We last played at Oban Live in 2017 and it was incredible. The audience were out of this world so we can’t wait to see you all again for some banjo madness."
Red Hot Chilli Pipers play their first Oban Live on June 7.
Elephant Sessions are winners of Live Act of the Year at the 2018 Scots Trad Music Awards.
They are currently finishing their third album due for release in March next year and Oban Live will be part of their UK album tour.
More acts for Oban Live 2019 will be announced in the coming months.
www.obanlive.com.
ELEVEN theatre and dance projects will tour venues across Scotland as part of a new national touring theatre and dance fund.
The projects backs by the £1.2m funding will tour in spring 2019 and summer 2020.
This marks the first round of award from the fund and includes theatre and dance performances at venues from Dumfries and Galloway to Moray, the Scottish Borders to the Highlands and Islands.
Company Chordelia will tour The Chosen, Rob Heaslip will tour new contemporary folk-dance theatre piece Endling, Karl Jay-Lewin will tour Extremely Pedestrian Chorales, and the fund also sees the creation of a new Dumfries and Galloway Dance Network.
In theatre, Independent Arts Projects will tour critically acclaimed productions Eaten by Mamoru Iriguchi and Waves by Alice Mary Cooper.
Red Bridge Arts will tour three productions: The Secret Garden based on the children’s book, Space Ape, inspired by the history of animals as the first pioneers in space and Stick by Me, a show about friendship.
Two Destination Language will tour two productions: Fallen Fruit based on real life memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall and a production featuring British Sign Language and multimedia, Fault Lines.
Rapture Theatre will tour two new productions of classic plays: Clybourne Park and The Seagull, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov classic play.
2Magpies Theatre will tour contemporary theatre performance Ventoux exploring the epic battle between Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani in the 2000 Tour de France.
www.creativescotland.com/funding/funding-programmes/targeted-funding/touring-fund
THE Dunedin Consort has announced its chief executive, Alfonso Leal del Ojo, is to become the new chief of the English Concert.
Mr del Ojo has been managing the Consort since 2010.
Muir Russell, chairman, said: "We wish him well in this challenging new role.
"We are sorry to be losing Alfonso - since 2010 he has played a key role in shaping Dunedin to be the international success story it is today.
"He leaves us with a strong forward programme, a fine recording history, and good relationships in Scotland, the UK and internationally.
"In John Butt and Dunedin colleagues, and in the body of musicians who perform with us frequently, we have a strong team to maintain our achievements."
The search for a new chief executive will begin in the New Year.
www.dunedin-consort.org.uk
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