1 Nov 2005 in Features, Festival, Music
The Celtic Colours International Festival in Cape Breton was one of the models for our own Blas Festival, and has achieved top ranking in the world of Celtic music. LINSAY MOWAT grabbed the chance to visit this celebrated event
14 Sep 2005 in Features, Festival, Highland, Music
STEVE ROBERTSON sets the scene for Hayseed Dixie’s Loopallu festival
10 Sep 2005 in Features, Music, Orkney
ALISTAIR PEEBLES investigates the work of violin maker Colin Tulloch in Birsay, via a detour to Knoxville, Tennessee
1 Sep 2005 in Features, Highland, Music
DÀIMH are one of the headline bands in this month’s Blas Festival. In the last of the Arts Journal’s Band Profiles series, we take a look at this West Highland-based outfit.
1 Sep 2005 in Features, Gaelic, Highland, Music
BRIAN Ó HEADHRA sets the scene for the first full-scale running of the Blas Festival
1 Sep 2005 in Features, Highland, Music
The Arts Journal catches up with GILLIAN FRAME and FINDLAY NAPIER of Back of the Moon as the band release their third album
1 Aug 2005 in Features, Festival, Highland, Music
JOE GIBBS, the organiser of the Tartan Heart Festival at Belladrum, explains the changes in this year’s second running of the festival.
1 Aug 2005 in Features, Highland, Music, Shetland
PHIL CUNNINGHAM and ALY BAIN are currently embarking on their annual Scottish tour, filling venues all around the country with their inimitable brand of virtuoso music and comic patter
1 Aug 2005 in Features, Festival, Highland, Music
BLAS is a brand new music festival for the Highlands in which pride of place is given to tradition, youth and Gaelic
1 Aug 2005 in Features, Festival, Highland, Music
STEVE ROBERTSON casts his eye over the Highland talent lining up at the Tartan Heart Festival.
