MNS 'Scottish' FESTIVALS! supplement

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Lau prepare for their own Lau-Land Festival this week! See page 5 photo by Louise Bichan - www.facebook.com/LBichan / https://twitter.com/louisebichan

INSIDE: Hebridean Celtic Festival : Lau-Land : Eden Festival : Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival : Knockengorroch : Loopallu ..... plus our 2014-2015 Scottish music festival listings! www.gonorth.biz

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Tourism Award Is Music To The Ears Of HebCelt The internationally acclaimed Hebridean Celtic Festival has capped another successful year by winning a prestigious tourism award. The festival has won the Best Event or Festival category at the annual Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards.

influx of music fans from overseas made up half supporters are. They are enormously important the estimated 14,000-strong audience which to this vital event's success. provided a major economic boost for the islands.

Earlier this year HebCelt was selected as one of Caroline Maclennan, the festival director, said: the top 10 UK summer festivals for the fourth “Winning this major award is another major year in succession by influential publication achievement in what has been a very rewarding Songlines. year. Recognition of this nature is a fitting tribute for the all the hard work done by an www.hebceltfest.com army of volunteers who help ensure HebCelt https://twitter.com/HebCelt continues to grow and thrive. It also emphasises www.facebook.com/HebCelt just how crucial our funders, sponsors and

HebCelt, an annual four-day event which was held from 16-19 July in Stornoway, now automatically becomes a finalist at the Scottish Thistle Awards 2015, along with the frontrunners from the North East, Central South East and Central South West areas of Scotland.

HebCelt, which will mark its 20th anniversary next year, has a major economic and cultural impact on Lewis and the wider islands community. It is a passionate supporter of the Gaelic language and of young, emerging talent as well as traditional music.

This year’s festival staged its biggest ever programme of 40 acts, headlined by Big Country, Levellers and Donnie Munro. A huge

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Lau create their own festival and bring 'Lau-Land' to Edinburgh's Queens Hall Edinburgh : 27-29 November : http://www.lau-music.co.uk/lau-land-home/ TICKETS! @ http://thequeenshall.net/whats-on/shows/lau-2014

Free thinking visionary folk trio Lau (Martin Green, Aidan O’Rourke and Kris Drever) follow the huge acclaim received for their ‘Race The Loser’ album and tour by curating their own festival at The Queens Hall/Summerhall in Edinburgh.

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'Lau-Land' invites you to enter into Lau’s musical world and experience some of the inspiring workshops on Saturday 29 November including artists who have influenced Lau’s inventive Kris Drever presenting a Guitar Workshop at approach to their own music.

2pm, Aidan O’Rourke an advanced fiddle workshop at 2pm, Allan MacDonald presenting an advanced highland piping workshop at 4pm The festival opens on 27 November with a concert by Lau with Elysian Quartet with special and Folk Award winner Anais Mitchell will be hosting a lyric writing workshop at 4pm which is guest Ella the Bird (Siobhan Wilson) doors not to be missed.

6.30pm followed by concerts featuring Joan As Police Woman plus special guest Adam Holmes on 28 November doors 7pm and Capercaillie and There will be a tradition music session in the Dick Gaughan on 29 November doors 7pm.

Royal Dick Bar at 5pm, Lau-Lab (In partnership with Distil) at 9pm with Daniel Padden (The One Ensemble, Volcano The Bear) and to celebrate Summerhall will also be hosting a variety of the end of Lau-Land there will be a late night

session starting at 10pm featuring Anais Mitchell, Kris Drever & Eamon Coyne, Mystery Juice and Martin Green.

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Eden Festival reaches the UK Festival Award final Eden Festival is happy to announce they have made it to finals of the UK Festival Awards.

Over 70,000 votes were cast from the general public and now they have to wait until 1 December to see if they can walk to glory winning either of the following categories; Best Family Festival and Best Grassroots Festival.

Eden Festival has promised if they are successful on the night they will repay the community for their continued support by donating £250 to every music department in each of the 16 high schools in Dumfries and Galloway.

The finals will be held in The Roundhouse in London on the 1 December and is regarded as the premiere 'Oscars' event for the music festival industry, attracting over 1,000 of the industries finest to enjoy a whole day of seminars, conferences and the much coveted awards ceremony.

Previous speakers include Michael Eavis of Glastonbury and John Giddings of the Isle of Wight Festival.

Eden Festival, coming up for its seventh year, is held on the Annadale Estate near Moffat on the 11-14 June 2015. A limited amount of early bird tickets have gone on sale for the 2015 festival at a discounted rate and are available at www.edenfestival.co.uk.

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Director Meredith Langley Vine ‘We are honoured to be nominated and want to extend a big thank you to all who voted, fingers crossed we will go all the way.

Eden Festival is a community based event. The directors Meredith Langley Lane (27), Rebecca Day (31) and Lisa Cooper (27) are from Laurieston and the founder and production manager Adam Curtis (30) is from Haugh Urr. Furthermore, each year over 300 local people from Dumfries and Galloway are involved with the planning and execution of the festival.

Director Meredith Langley Vine ‘We would rather teach people from the area that are interested in getting involved than hiring in events companies. This is the fabric of Eden Festival. The honor of making the finals is a nod to everyone in the community that’s ever been involved.”

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Proclaimers To Headline Bella’s New First Night Beauly, Inverness-shire : 6-8 August : www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk BUY BELLA TICKETS @ http://www.skiddle.com/festivals/belladrum/?sktag=12774 in the UK top ten, peaking at number 2, it was the 5th highest grossing UK independent movie of 2013 and has been nominated for five awards at the Scottish BAFTA’s on 16th November.

Tickets including child (12 & under), campervan/ caravan and electrical hook-up e-tickets can be purchased by going to Skiddle (link above).

Early bird tickets to the twelfth staging of Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival sold out in under seven hours.

The Proclaimers ended their last 2 year World tour in October 2013 in spectacular fashion (following Rod Stewart's opening run) as they Further acts for the festival will be announced became the first Scottish based band to pay the around March or April 2015 which is about the new Hydro Arena in Glasgow. time the line-up usually begins to materialise.

The Proclaimers have been announced as the headliners for Thursday 6 August 2015 at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival the first time the festival has featured a main stage headliner on its enhanced opening night.

Scotland’s iconic Reid brothers, Charlie and Craig, will be making a return to the festival exactly ten years after they last headlined it.

Since then Craig and Charlie Reid have focused exclusively on writing a new album and with that creative process now finally completed, they start recording with their band and producer Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild, Wilco Johnson & Roger Daltrey, The Who) later this month. Their 10th studio album will then be released by Cooking Vinyl in Spring 2015.

Next summer will see The Proclaimers embark upon another tour around the World and a second appearance at Belladrum is their first confirmed performance for 2015 . Craig and Charlie commented "We are absolutely delighted to heading back to Belladrum after 10 years since we first played there in 2005. It has been fantastic to see the festival grow from strength to strength and we look forward immensely to returning and playing the Garden Stage next August."

“I can’t think of a more appropriate act to launch our first year of offering an extra main stage headliner at Bella,” said festival promoter Joe Gibbs. “The Proclaimers gave the event the support it needed from a major Scottish act in its difficult second year. Who better, now, to launch our new third night on the main stage?”

Bella sold out in record time in 2014, and has sold out each of the last six years, often months before the event so fans are urged to buy early to avoid disappointment. E-tickets are more customer-friendly and less easy to scam, but printed tickets are also on sale via the usual retail outlets.

In 2014 the legendary Tom Jones headlined the Friday of the festival while the Saturday night featured the popular rock band Razorlight at the top of the bill. Frightened Rabbit returned to the event as very special guests. Also featured were: Billy Bragg; Band of Skulls; The Temperance Movement; I Am Kloot; Catfish & The Bottlemen; and Grandmaster Flash Belladrum 2015 takes place in the beautiful Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent festival has built a reputation for its eclectic lineups, its offbeat non-musical entertainments and its all-ages approach. The festival won a VisitScotland Thistle Award in 2009 and is a past winner of the Grassroots Festival Award at the UK Festival Awards, the festival industry’s ‘Oscars’.

Since 2005, the year of their last appearance at www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk Bella, The Proclaimers have gone from strength In order to see The Proclaimers, patrons of the www.facebook.com/belladrum to strength, culminating in the hit stage musical festival will need to buy a three day ticket to the Sunshine On Leith, which was turned into a https://twitter.com/BelladrumFest movie, released in 2013. The film spent a month event as the usual weekend ticket does not give access to the main stage on the Thursday night.

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Knockengorroch Festival goes to town for Burns in January

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Knockengorroch Festival will be back in Dumfries town on 30 January bringing a feast of great music in true roots spirit: Glasgow's own international reggae sound system legends and World Ceilidh festival residents Mungo's Hi Fi with MC, skamendous, skankin' ska from The Amphetameanies, sizzling Balkan brass, energy and flamboyance from the fantastic Baghdaddies, and folktronica - live instrumentation fused with digital beats from the inimitable Frogpocket.

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A Big Lineup Selected For Dancing All Night- With Some True Fav Knock Bands Greenery, decor and colourful installations will transform The Venue in Dumfries into a resplendent Knockengorroch winter world. Get a taste of Knockengorroch Festival in one sweet night to celebrate Scotland's national bard's birthday.

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Loopallu 2015 tickets on sale this Friday!

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Ullapool : 25-26 September : www.loopallu.co.uk TICKETS! @ www.skiddle.com/festivals/loopallu-festival/?sktag=12774

Tickets for the 11th edition of Loopallu will go on sale online this Friday 28 November at 9am. As a thank you to previous attendees, there will be a presale available for those signed up on the mailing list at www.loopallu.co.uk from Thursday 27th at 9am for 24 hours at last years price.

Over the past ten years, despite its remote location, size and time of year, Loopallu has had the extreme pleasure of bringing the likes of Paolo Nutini, Mumford & Sons, Franz Ferdinand, Jake Bugg, The Undertones, Alabama 3, The Buzzcocks, Newton Faulkner and Twin Atlantic to the Highlands. Loopallu 2015 will be no different, with a household names rubbing shoulders with the stars of the future. Indeed excitement was so great for the 2014 edition, tickets sold out before a single name was announced.

Loopallu takes place in the tiny remote North West coast fishing village of Ullapool on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September 2015 and doubles the population of the village for the weekend. As well as the usual eclectic line up of acts appearing at the festival big top and the fringe events after hours in the villages pubs, the festival will be welcoming the return of the Literally Literary tent in association with Ullapool Book Festival. All this, as well as the usual warm Ullapool welcome.

‘2014 was a vintage year. Selling out quicker than ever without a single act being announced was extremely humbling for all involved in Loopallu and something we don’t take for granted. Indeed, the

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pressure to exceed the experience in 2015 is immense, but a challenge we’re whole heartedly embracing.’ Robert Hicks, Festival Founder & Director Tickets will be available online at 9am Friday 28 November from link above. Then in person from North West Outdoors (Ullapool) and the Ironworks (Inverness) from Friday 5 December "Gaining the reputation as the place to finish off the summer." - Grazia Magazine "They’re selling the family silver – even granny is at risk of being put up for auction as fans try and outbid each other for tickets for Loopallu." The Press and Journal "The only music event anywhere in the world to feature both Franz Ferdinand and the Ullapool Pipe Band." - The Guardian

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NOVEMBER Kinross-shire's Winter Festival Kinross-shire November-December Kinross-shire Winter Festival celebrates all local events happening during November and December. Kinross-shire Local Events Organisation (KLEO) has announced that Eddi Reader will perform at the Kinross-shire's Winter Festival on Saturday 22 November. For updates, tickets and more information please visit the festival website ..... www.kinrosswinterfestival.co.uk

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Big Burns Supper

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Dumfries 23-31 January

Inverness 2 May 2015

Big Burns Supper is Dumfries’ newest multidisciplinary festival of contemporary performing arts, providing an annual platform for the most innovative music, theatre, visual arts, dance, live art, film, cabaret and children’s events. The festival will take place from the 23rd until the 31st January 2014. Go to http://2014. bigburnssupper.com/ to find out more about the festival. World's Biggest Night Burns Celebration.

Super earlybird tickets have already sold out!

Next batch of tickets go on sale in October!

Brew at the Bog is BrewDog and Bogbain Farm’s gift to the world: a festival full of new music and new beer. BrewDog are the leaders of the craft beer revolution and they are about breaking rules, taking risks, upsetting trends, unsettling institutions but first and foremost, great tasting beers. As one newspaper put it, BrewDog is the new black. Bogbain Farm is based just outside Inverness and was crowned the “Best Unusual Venue” at the 2012 Scottish Event Awards. Brew at the Bog is just the latest in festivals Bogbain is hosting and the fabulous surroundings of this old farm will ensure Brew at the Bog 2015 will go down in history.

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Carrying Stream Festival Edinburgh 5-12 November

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The 13th annual autumn music festival by The Edinburgh Folk Club who meet every Wednesday at 8pm in the Pleasance Cabaret Bar - www. edinburghfolkclub.co.uk

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The Clarsach Society & Edinburgh International Harp Festival is an annual celebration and Denholm Folk Music Festival gathering of musical talents. Find out more Denholm about us at www.clarsachsociety.co.uk The 7-9 November Clarsach Society (Comunn na Clarsaich) encourages interest in the instrument, especially Folk fused with rock and country gives the 11th amongst young players, who enjoy its Denholm Folk Music Festival an added twist. This adaptability to solo work, accompaniment or folk fusion festival in the Scottish countryside is ensemble playing. The Society also presents the a relative newcomer, slowly building a reputation Edinburgh International Harp Festival - an in the local area. It's a small and cozy affair not annual celebration and gathering of musical far across the Scottish border which has always talents. Every Spring we bring harpists from managed to attract quality headline acts to across the globe together to rub shoulders with compliment the workshops and open mic you, the audience. sessions. Free sessions all weekend in the Auld Cross Keys, The Fox and Hounds and Denholm www.harpfestival.co.uk Meet. Sessions, licensed bar and meals available all weekend in the Festival Club, Lesser Hall.

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Orkney Folk Festival

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Edinburgh 21-23 November

Shetland 30 April -3 May

The Scots Fiddle Festival seeks to sustain and promote Scottish fiddle tradition and idioms, by providing a platform for performance, education, and participation. A weekend of concerts, recitals, workshops, talks and exhibitions is held on an annual basis highlighting regional Scottish fiddle styles and intercultural connections.

Originally started in 1996, Fiddle 2014 continues to be run by the Scots Fiddle Festival Ltd, whose aim is to promote and sustain traditional fiddle music so that it can hold its place in the culture of Scotland and the world. www.scotsfiddlefestival.com

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The Festival as the UK's most northerly folk festival is regarded a prestigious event for performers, locals and visitors alike. Organised by a voluntary committee (and run by an even bigger pool of volunteers) the Festival prides itself in reaching out to even the most far flung areas of Shetland. Concerts are organised throughout the isles, consisting of some of the best International, British and Shetland music that the world has to offer. In fact, visiting artistes are regularly dumbfounded by the quantity and quality of local musicians that our remote isles have to offer. www.shetlandfolkfestival.com

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Celtic Connections Glasgow 15 January - 1 February Celtic Connections 2015 comprises a wealth of concerts, ceilidhs, talks, workshops, free events

Isle of Bute Jazz Festival Isle of Bute 1-4 May 2015

Our 9-day festival has taken place since 1979.

The founding aim was to bring international performers of the highest quality to a region containing many scattered rural communities since then this region has produced some of its own talent of international standing and we’re proud to also be able to present these artistes from time to time. We offer a wide range of events: music – including classical, jazz and folk, dance, theatre, literary, children’s events, plus the visual arts and films. Events take place in a range of venues throughout the region, from large to small, formal to informal, urban to rural. www.dgartsfestival.org.uk

Orkney 21-24 May Here we are folks – Orkney Folk Festival number 33! Once again we have some big names coming north to join in the fun in May, and from the ceilidh bands to the almost indie strand, we have brought together a broad mix of artists that we hope appeals to everyone’s interpretation of the increasingly expansive folk genre. As ever, our local traditions and musicians – both established and emerging – will be centre stage alongside those visiting the festival. www.orkneyfolkfestival.com

Styrathyre Music Festival Styrathyre 24-25 May Styrathyre Music Festival can boast of being the largest Community based Music Festival in Scotland with over 250 individual Musicians taking part and despite challenging weather had over 1600 attending. Next years Festival is already confirmed for 29-31st May 2015.

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goNORTH 2014 and the 'goNORTH Festival Tour'

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These acts showcased at goNORTH 2014 Adopted As Holograph : Algernon Doll : Angus Munro : Atom Tree : Baby Strange : Beecake : Black Cub : Broken Records : Bronagh & The Boys : Charlotte Brimner : Copper Lungs : Cryptic Keys : Culann : Dante : Deathcats : Delta Mainline : Dorec-A-Belle : Dr Wook : Eleanor Nicolson : F**K Art Let’s Dance (Germany) : Fat-Suit : Felix Champion : Foreignfox : Forest Fires : Friends In America : Garden Of Elks : Griefjoy (France) : Halfrican : Hector Bizerk : Hold Fast (Norway) : Indian Red Lopez : Le Vasco (France) : Lionel : Machines In Heaven : Miaoux Miaoux : Michael Cassidy : Miss Irenie Rose : Model Aeroplanes : Neon Waltz : Our Future Glory : Pale Honey (Sweden) : Pinact : Poor Things : Prehistoric Friends : Roman Nose : R51 : Scary People : Schnarff Schnarff : Shaped : Silver Coast : Siobhan Wilson : Teen Canteen : The Broken Ravens : The Hazey Janes : The Moon Kids : The Yawns : The Youth And Young : United Fruit : Vasa : Vladimir : Wecamefromwolves

goNORTH @ Belladrum These acts appeared on the goNORTH Stage @ Belladrum Hector Bizerk : Model Aeroplanes : Our Future Glory : Neon Waltz : Tijuana Bibles : Broken Ravens : Ella the Bird (Siobhan Wilson) : Foreignfox : Poor Things : Hunter & The Bear : Garden of Elks : Campfires in Winter : Cryptic Keys : Jipsy Magic : Dagny : Ollie Forrest : Last of the Privateers : Eleanor Nicolson : Whispery Club : Silver Coast : Holy Esque : SHAPED : Searching For Donkeys : An Cùrsa Ciùil (UHI) : Na Balaich (UHI)

goNORTH Stage @ Wickerman These acts appeared on the goNORTH Stage @ Wickerman Broken Records : Ella The Bird (Siobhan Wilson) : Roman Nose : United Fruit : Teen Canteen : Prehistoric Friends : Wecamefromwolves : The Moon Kids : Scary People : Schnarff Schnarff : Pale Honey : Dante : Copper Lungs : Our Future Glory : Halfrican : Angus Munro : Vladimir : Adopted as Holograph : Felix Champion : Culann www.facebook.com/gonorthinverness https://twitter.com/goNORTHFEST www.gonorthfestival.co.uk

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