Victoria Hall, Campbeltown £14, doors open 7.30pm
Skipinnish
Bodega
Gillian Frame & Friends
Kintyre School 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.
Angus MacPhail and Andrew Stevenson from Skipinnish
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: http://www.skipinnish.com
Bodega
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: http://www.footstompin.com/artists/bodega
Gillian Frame
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.
Web Site http://www.myspace.com/gillianframe
Kintyre Schools Pipe Band
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.
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Tickets on sale from June 26th at 9am from A.P. Taylors, Main Street, Campbeltown, phone Ticketweb at 08444 771 000 or go to http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region ... rface=mull
Iain
