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Connect Festival video passes 1 million views on You Tube

Wednesday, 29th October, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Festivals, Media, News, Tourism | None

We said we’d let you know when this happened, so… Last night, only six weeks after Thank You For Dancing (the video on Inveraray’s Connect Music Festival 2008) was posted on You Tube, it danced over the threshold of one…

Argyll’s Connect Music Festival shortlisted for two UK 2008 Festival Awards

Friday, 24th October, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, Festivals | None

Argyll’s two year-old Connect Music Festival at Inveraray has been shortlisted for two UK Festival Awards this year. It’s in for Best Medium Sized Festival Award and for the Innovation Award. These awards recognise the work of the organisers as…

Scotland to host minority language music festival in 2010

Wednesday, 15th October, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, News | None

In 2010 The Eden Court Theatre in Inverness will host Liet Lavlut - a music festival for speakers of minority languages - solo singers and bands. Hi-Arts has announced the event and that two winners at this June’s Nos Ur…

Massive You Tube hit for Connect Music Festival video made by Out There For Argyll tutors

Friday, 10th October, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Business, Festivals, News | None

Today - 600,672 hits in the three weeks since publication. Yesterday it stood at 580,000. This is the performance to date of Thank You For Dancing, Connect 2008 Music Festival made by the Scottish Community Foundation funded Out There For…

Ceòl Cholasa 2008 – an outstanding success

Monday, 22nd September, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Festivals, News | None

Colonsay’s first-ever Folk Festival finished on Sunday night 21st September with an epic on-stage ensemble performance by all of the visiting artists – these included “Rallion”, “The Anna Massie Band”, Karine Polwart and her band, plus Iain MacDonald, Kathleen MacInnes,…

Series of Connect videos to see

Tuesday, 9th September, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, Festivals | None

Here is a series of three of our Connect Festival videos from Inveraray - looking at the life behind the music and shot by our Connect photographer, John Fyfe Patrick.

First comes one on the specialist Argyll food and drink providers…

Tarbert Music Festival 2008

Sunday, 7th September, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Events, Festivals | None

[ September 19, 2008 to September 21, 2008. ]

September 19, 2008 to September 21, 2008

The 2008 Tarbert Music Festival from 19th - 21st September includes concerts, a ceilidh and performances from local shoolchildren.

Ullapool scores with Loopallu Festival

Saturday, 6th September, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, Events | 2

[ September 19, 2008 to September 20, 2008. ]

September 19, 2008 to September 20, 2008

No prizes for working out Loopallu’s name but its lightheartedness captures the essence of this small, fun festival up in the north west on Loch Broom on 19th and 20th September. Now in its fourth year,…

Colonsay Music Festival has ‘all the artists we hoped would come’

Wednesday, 3rd September, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Community News, Festivals, Tourism | None

Colonsay’s first music festival - Ceol Cholasa 2008 - tunes up on 18th September and organisers report  their deight and amazement that all the artists they hoped would come will actually be there. Check out the Festival web page for the…

Connect Festival a great success - its rickshaws travelled more than 2,000 miles - and here are our own 2000 photos

Tuesday, 2nd September, 2008 | Arts & Entertainment, Business, Festivals, Local Government, News | One

THe Whip onstage at Connect. Photo John Fyfe Patrick Geoff Ellis, organiser of the 2008 Hydro Connect Festival in Inveraray, reports that over 15,000 fans were at the Festival on each of the three days of ‘a magical weekend’, with ‘an atmosphere on site that was incredibly laid back’.…