Exciting New Festival for the Highlands

BLAS is a brand new music festival for the Highlands in which pride of place is given to tradition, youth and Gaelic.

BLAS is an initiative to establish a new festival to celebrate Highland music and to promote interest in and the use of Gaelic. It takes it name from the Gaelic word meaning flavour, relish and experience, and is funded by the Highland Council and the Millennium Commission, through its Urban Cultural Programme. The Council has contracted Fèisean nan Gàidheal to develop and organise the festival.
 
Blas will feature some of the best acts from this country and from other complimentary traditions, and will be staging performances in many of the remoter villages of the area. A pilot launch as a single day multi-location event last year is followed by a much fuller programme this time around. The festival will run from 2-10 September 2005 at venues in Skye & Lochalsh, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross-shire and Lochaber.

Artists taking part include Cliar, The Barra MacNeils from Cape Breton, Dòchas, Dàimh, Session A9, Seamus Begley and many more. The Arts Journal will bring you an interview with Brian Ó hEadhra, the Artistic Coordinator of the festival, at the beginning of September.

Links

Blas website 

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