THE FEIS Rois Ceilidh Trail 2017 continues with concerts across Scotland during July and into August. The project gives young traditional musicians work experience as touring artists and following an intensive training week spent honing their skills in stage craft, calling for Ceilidh dancing and setting up their own live sound system, three groups are performing in venues ranging from pubs and village halls to festivals and historic sites. Musicians from this year’s trail will also appear at the prestigious Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany, which attracts an audience of 750,000, and all three groups will join forces for a grand final concert at Eden Court, Inverness on Saturday, August 12. feisrois.org.uk
CANADIAN singer-songwriter Kyle Carey plays a house concert at Celtic Music Radio’s studios in Kinning Park, Glasgow on July 31. Brooklyn-based Carey, pictured, is a fluent Gaelic speaker and honed her pronunciation with leading Gaelic singer Christine Primrose while studying the language at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Gaelic College on Skye. She recorded her first album, Monongah, with Donogh Hennessy of Irish traditional band Lunasa and is set to release a new album, North Star, featuring Americana multi-instrumental master Dirk Powell, cellist Natalie Haas and Shetland fiddle virtuoso Chris Stout.
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CHARLIE Dore makes a quick return to Scotland with two Fringe concerts at the Acoustic Music Centre’s new home in the Ukrainian Centre in Royal Terrace on August 16 and 17. Dore toured Scotland in early June with her long-time collaborator Julian Littman to mark the release of her latest album, Dark Matter.
Best known for her own hit, Pilot of the Airwaves, she has written songs covered by many artists including George Harrison, Tina Turner, Lisa Stansfied, Sheena Easton, Celine Dion, UB40, Status Quo, Paul Carrack, and Jimmy Nail, who had a UK number one with her Ain’t No Doubt.
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LEADING glass artist Alison Kinnaird MBE stages an exhibition of her work in her home studio at Shillinghill in the conservation village of Temple, twelve miles south of Edinburgh, from August 4 to 28. Kinnaird, who is also an influential and ground-breaking exponent of the Scottish harp, has developed an international reputation for using the ancient technique of wheel-engraving, often combining it with cutting-edge technology such as LED lighting. Her work ranges from small intimate pieces to architectural scale projects and is in many public and private collections, including the V&A Museum, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. The exhibition is open daily from 10:00am to 6:00pm.
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