CONCERTS RECITALS ADULT & YOUTH WORKSHOPS CEILIDHS STALLS SESSIONS www.scotsfiddlefestival.com NOVEMBER th -18 th EDINBURGH 16 the pleasance pleasance the COMMITTEE VOLUNTEERING Thank You The festival is organised by a group of Volunteers help make the festival happen. The Pleasance Theatre, University of Edinburgh volunteers who work all year round to bring We need you! Various great roles are available, – Blair Barrows and all the staff for helping us you a great weekend of music. examples include: venue co-ordinators, get settled in to our new home. This year the committee comprised: stewards, artist liaison assistants, information Moray Munro, Munro Audio for sound desk hosts, stage management assistants and Malcolm Gillies (Chair) many more. John Weitzen Lighting Services for lighting Rosie Munro (Artistic Director) There are also year-round opportunities Helen of Wylliecat Design for programme design Katie Dekeizer (Treasurer) as part of the committee. Get in touch at Previous Board members, Committee members Elaine Appleby [email protected] and volunteers. Sarah Brown Thanks to our funders & supporters: Fiona Campbell Dugald McArthur Donald Murray Moira Weitzen SCOTS FIDDLE FESTIVAL SCOTS Reiach and Hall Architects MORE INFO AT WWW.SCOTSFIDDLEFESTIVAL.COM Chair's Welcome We started in 1996, and now 2018 sees us moving to a new home at the Pleasance, coming back under one roof, a desire expressed by many of our supporters. Many thanks to Edinburgh University Students’ Association for hosting us. Following feedback we have made a few changes this year, simplified ticketing being the major one. We have also expanded workshop provision, and the Pleasance gives us higher quality rooms for these. The Pleasance café and bar will be available all day and into the evening, and there is more space for ad hoc tunes, should you wish. What has not changed is a quality weekend, run and organised by dedicated volunteers (to whom many thanks for a shedload of work), a friendly place to meet and enjoy good music, be it listening, playing or performing. Never tried it? Come along and have a bash, meet and chat to the professionals, say hello to old friends and make new ones, or just sit and enjoy the atmosphere. Finally thanks to you “the customer” - folk travel from all round the world to attend this weekend, it wouldn’t work without all of you, so say hello, let us have your feedback, but most importantly enjoy the weekend! Rosie Munro - Artistic Director CONTENTS A fiddle player herself, Rosie Munro graduated from Newcastle University in 2016 with a BMus FIDDLE FESTIVAL SCOTS degree in Folk and Traditional Music, and went on to study a postgraduate course in Arts, Friday night 3 Festival and Cultural Management. Rosie took over the role as Artistic Director from Eilidh Steel Saturday & Sunday night 4 in 2017 after volunteering as an SFF committee member. Now based in Glasgow, she splits her time between programming the festival and performing. Saturday Recitals 6 Sunday Recitals 8 Ceilidhs 10 Registered Office: The Scots Fiddle Festival Ltd Sessions etc 11 Stuart House, Eskmills, Station Road Musselburgh EH21 7PB Timetable 12 e: [email protected] www.scotsfiddlefestival.com Workshops Saturday 14 Workshops Sunday 16 The Scots Fiddle Festival is a Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in Scotland No: SC217588 and a Scottish Charity No: SC031564. Youth Programme 19 The programme is correct at time of going to press but may be subject to minor changes beyond our control. Tickets 25 BOOK TICKETS AT WWW.BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM 1 Blossom house THE BEST OF SCOTTISH MUSIC AND CULTURE A small family run B&B in the Southside of Edinburgh. Excellent bus service. 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His debut album was recorded and produced Pillars is a multi-media experience and musical suite from Scottish musician by triple GRAMMY winner Jesse Lewis, who has worked with the likes of Mike Vass. Based on the four major tune types of the Scottish fiddle Yo-Yo Ma and Béla Fleck. Ryan was nominated for the Horizon Award at tradition - the slow air, the march, the strathspey and the reel - Mike’s the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and was named ‘Best Musician’ in the piece captures the grandeur of Scottish fiddle music. The performance 2018 Folking Awards. Accompanied by Jenn Butterworth, one of the features an ensemble of four solo fiddle players (Mike, Patsy Reid, Lauren foremost acoustic folk guitarists in the UK, Ryan brings new life to old, MacColl and Jenna Reid) each performing one movement, accompanied sometimes forgotten tunes by playing them in his own unique way. by string quartet, piano and tuned percussion with a film element as well as sampled spoken word excerpts. FRIDAY CONCERT FRIDAY Ryan Jenn by Sean Purser Mike 3 7.30 - 10pm PLEASANCE THEATRE (doors open at 7pm) YOUTH ENGAGEMENT KINNARIS QUINTET SALTFISHFORTY PROJECT WITH ADAM Fiona MacAskill (fiddle), Laura Wilkie (fiddle), Aileen Saltfishforty are a hugely entertaining, fresh and Gobbi (5 string fiddle), Laura-Beth Salter (mandolin) dynamic duo hailing from the Orkney Islands which SUTHERLAND and Jenn Butterworth (guitar) collectively form the comprise Douglas Montgomery on fiddle and viola and Young musicians from all over Kinnaris Quintet. Between them they have Brian Cromarty on guitar, mandola and vocals, Scotland, led by Adam Sutherland. performed with Shooglenifty, Fiddlers’ Bid, combining the rich traditional music of Orkney with See page 19 for full details. Niteworks, the Shee, Salsa Celtica, Ross Ainslie & original compositions. The powerhouse partnership Jarlath Henderson Band, Fat-Suit, Songs of have won a devoted following throughout the UK and Separation and Phil Cunningham to name but a few. beyond, brilliantly transcending the duo’s conventional Living in Glasgow has brought these 5 musicians confines. Currently linchpin figures in a flourishing together and what makes Kinnaris Quintet’s revival of Orkney’s traditional music scene, they unite dynamic and compelling sound is the marriage of these deep-rooted sources with an exhilarating their diverse musical backgrounds, influences and breadth of influence and expertise, catalysed by a styles. Intermingling new compositions, traditional creative empathy born from decades of friendship. SATURDAY CONCERT SATURDAY Scottish and Irish, Bluegrass, Old-Time and Classical The result is a sound of equally thrilling raw attack and Adam music, their musical styles form a sound which is multi-dimensional richness. uplifting, fresh, honest and powerful. And Malcolm says the chat is pretty good as well! Kinnaris Q L-R: Laura-Beth, Aileen, Jenn, Fiona, Laura Salftishforty: Douglas & Brian 4 MORE INFO AT WWW.SCOTSFIDDLEFESTIVAL.COM 7.30 - 10pm PLEASANCE THEATRE (doors open at 7pm) SARAH-JANE SUMMERS & JUHANI SILVOLA THE POOZIES An impassioned, versatile musician, Sarah-Jane Summers was taught The ever-adventurous Poozies are back, showing off their fantastic new by the late, great Donald Riddell, who learnt his fiddling from a relative line-up and all new material, most of which makes up their hard-hitting of hers, Alexander Grant of Battangorm. Now based in Norway, she has new album ‘Punch’. Newbies Sarah McFadyen and Tia Files have joined a master’s degree in Norwegian traditional music and improvisation on founding member Mary Macmaster and long-term collaborator Eilidh Hardanger fiddle. Her recent album, SOLO, received fantastic reviews Shaw, and together they continue to play a dazzling, joyfully eclectic mix with The Strad praising her “dazzling folk virtuoso”.