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Caird Hall | Fri | 8 pm | £17.50 / £15
(£3 student standby on the door subject to availability)
Described as “Scotland’s Supergroup’’, Session A9 were originally formed by Charlie McKerron of Capercaillie fame as an album project and include Adam Sutherland, Gordon Gunn and Kevin Henderson on fiddles, Tim Edey on melodeon/guitar, Brian McAlpine on keyboads and Iain Copeland on percussion.
Following the success of their first album “What Road”, Session A9 have just released their second album “Bottlenecks and Armbreakers” which is sure to be a hit with fans, old and new. “brilliantly sophisticated arrangements of tunes old and new,
brimming with brio and simply oozing class”
THE SUNDAY HERALD
“Their precise, highly expressive fiddle virtuosity was irresistible”
THE SCOTSMAN
“an epic musical experience, escalating into peaks of inspiration and glory”
THE HEBRIDEAN
www.sessiona9.com
The Young Trad Tour will take to the stage alongside Session A9, showcasing some of Scotland’s most talented young musicians. The tour includes six finalists from BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year, including overall winner in 2007, Catriona Watt.
The other musicians on the TMSA Young Trad Tour are Livingston based piper Steven Blake, singer of Scots song Amy Lord from Dunblane, piper James Duncan MacKenzie from the Isle of Lewis, accordionist and pianist Robert Menzies from Dumfries and Ailie Robertson from Edinburgh playing clarsach.
A wonderful opportunity to catch the freshest talent in Scottish Music.
www.handsupfortrad.co.uk/youngtrad
