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Westering Home Again on Islay

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From 18th-20th September Argyll’s Isle of Islay presents the second part of its Westering Home celebration at the Port Mor Centre in Port Charlotte. The first was in August and this time there programme of traditional Scottish and Irish music and featuring popular bands such as Meantime. The event is part of Argyll’s programme for Homecoming Scotland 2009.

Jerry Holland’s in Celtic Connections on Thursday but you can see him in Campbeltown on Friday

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Jerry HollandCape Breton fiddler, Jerry Holland – who has been lured to Kintyre before, is playing at the Cape Breton Connection in Glasgow on Friday in the opening concert of the Celtic Connections programme. Then on Friday he comes to Campbeltown to take workshops and do a public concert for the Kintyre Music and Arts Tuition Group. The Group’s resourceful Iain Johnstone made sure of it. Continue reading →

This was the RSAMD concert at Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop

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LFW Harpist RSAMDEleven third year music students from Glasgow’s Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) gave a concert on Sunday 11th January at Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop. Read about it, see and hear it here with a series of edited videos of the event added below.

The concert was a gift and a celebration – a ‘thank you’ to their commuity for enduring support and a  celebration by the Fiddle Workshop of accolades recently  – but not newly – received. Continue reading →

Video interview with Mark Morpurgo of Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop

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Mark Morpurgo is a founding committee member of Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop, a thriving pioneer in a movement to develop the reach of traditional Scottish music at the modern end of the spectrum. Here he talks about how it all began and a little on where it is today.

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