Traditional music concert at Campbeltown’s White Hart Hotel

In their first joint concert of the year and with with Kay Johnston as MC, the Kintyre Music & Arts Tuition Group, Kintyre Fiddlers, The Kintyre Cultural Forum and The Mull of Kintyre Music Festival have announced the line-up for their first joint concert of this year on March 19th in the White Hart Hotel.

Headlining the concert are fiddle and vocal duo Gillian Frame and Fiona MacAskill who will be joined by Canterach who include a strong local presence in their line-up.  Also confirmed to appear are Frank Rochford on fiddle, Sam Hales on guitar.

Gillian Frame, who hails from Arran, is well known in Campbeltown having played at the first ever Kintyre Music Tuition Group concert in 2003 with her band, Back of the Moon and at the Mull of Kintyre Music festival in 2005.  Gillian, accompanied by Lorne MacDougall and Rebecca Brown also opened last year’s Music Festival Ceilidh Night.

Fiona MacAskill who will tutor the intermediate and experienced fiddle workshops in the afternoon currently plays with The Catriona Watt Band and with the new five piece Scottish/Norwegian collaboration Samling.

Gillian and Fiona are joined on stage by Canterach, featuring four members with strong local ties to Campbeltown and Kintyre.  The line up for this concert will include Ross Kennedy on guitar & vocals, Lorne MacDougall on highland pipes and whistle, Rebecca Brown on fiddle and Jamie Kennedy on percussion.  Canterach have played at the Mull of Kintyre Music Festival supporting Eddi Reader in 2006, headlined the Dalriada Connections Concert in 2007 and played at the Music of Kintyre Night concert in the Kirk Street Hall last year.

The concert will end a day of fiddle, guitar and percussion workshops. all held in the White Hart Hotel, These will be tutored by many of the night time artists, with Fiona MacAskill tutoring the intermediate and experienced fiddle workshops from 5.15pm; Sam Hales tutoring guitar starting at 4.15pm; and Jamie Kennedy tutoring percussion at 5.15pm.

Tickets cost £5 and are available from AP Taylors, Main Street and Argyll Voluntary Action Centre, Longrow, Campbeltown. All the money raised going towards the development of musicians in Kintyre.

For more information or to book a workshop place or concert tickets:
email kmatg@hotmail.co.uk or jigevents@hotmail.co.uk
phone 01586 552034.

Fiddle Workshops
4.15: Beginners (Rebecca Brown)
5.10: Internediate (Fiona MacAskill)
6.05: Ecperoenced (Fiona MacAslill)

Guitar Workshops
4.15: (Sam Hales)
5.10: Intermediate (Sam Hales)
6.05: Experienced (Sam Hales)

Percussion Workshop
5.15: Beginners (Jamie Kennedy)

Future events for the diary:
23rd April: Fiddle and Guitar Workshops with Rebecca Brown and Sam Hales
7th May and 21st May: Fiddle and Guitar Workshops With Rebecca Brown and Sam Hales
18th June: Fiddle and Guitar Workshops With Rebecca Brown and Sam Hales