Wighton Heritage Centre | 10 am | £3
Singer and fiddler Shona Donaldson is one of Scotland’s leading young tradition bearers, having appeared in the Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year final in 2003 and 2004 and the Radio2 Young Folk Awards 2006. We’re delighted to welcome her to Dundee to lead a workshop on bothy ballads.
www.myspace.com/shonadonaldson
Come & Try Traditional Music!
Caird Hall Complex | 10 am - 12 noon | Free
A chance to try out playing traditional music, for free! Tutors will be there to teach you the basics in Fiddle, Tin Whistle, Guitar and Mouthie - so get involved. Suitable for all ages.
Cappuccino Concert
Rob MacKillop
Marryat Hall | 11 am | £5 / £3
(cafe opens 10.30 am)
This years Cappuccino concert brings back one of Scotland’s finest lute and guitar players: Rob MacKillop. Rob will perform an eclectic programme, including his arrangements for classical guitar of lute music from Scotland, England and Spain, as well as Romantic guitar classics. He will also perform music by James Oswald on an original ‘guittar’ from 1760. Oswald was born in Crail, rose to prominence as Chamber Composer to George III, and was the favourite composer of Robert Burns.
Ticket price includes a free cup of tea or coffee.
Advanced Pipe & Drum Workshop with the Red Hot Chilli Pipers
Caird Hall Complex | 11 am | £3
The boys from the Red Hot Chilli Pipers are some of the best instrumentalists in their field, and will be leading a workshop for both pipers & members of the drum corps.
Sheena Wellington Lunchtime Concert
St Paul’s Cathedral | 1 pm | £3 / £2
(No advance tickets available, please buy on the door)
Sheena Wellington (not only one of Scotland’s most renowned singers, but also Fest’n’Furious creative director and global ambassador for traditional Scottish song) will be singing a varied programme of ballads and songs relevant to the city in the beautiful St Pauls Cathedral. With accompaniment from Ewan Sutherland on guitar.
A very special concert - don’t miss it.
www.sheena-welllington.co.uk
Come & Try
Traditional Music!
Caird Hall Complex | 2 pm - 4 pm | Free
A chance to try out playing traditional music, for free! Tutors will be there to teach you the basics in Fiddle, Tin Whistle, Guitar and Mouthie - so come along and get involved. Suitable for all ages.
Choired for Sound Community Choirs
Caird Hall | 2 pm | £5 / £3 (Families or Groups of 4 come for £10!)
“If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing!” - Zimbabwe proverb
A celebration of song from all over the world, Choired for Sound showcases some of Scotland’s finest community choirs. Groups booked to appear include Dundee’s own Gaelic Choir and Loadsawimminsingin’, Edinburgh’s Wild Myrtles and many many more.
Ailie Robertson Harp Workshop
Wighton Heritage Centre | 2 pm | £3
Composer, arranger, teacher, improviser and harp virtuoso Ailie Robertson will be exploring the Irish dance repertoire as well as Irish slow airs for the Celtic harp. This intermediate workshop will include simple ornamentation techniques and explain how these are used differently when playing Irish music.
Iain Fraser Fiddle Workshop
Caird Hall Complex | 2 pm | £3
Iain Fraser is one of Scotland’s leading fiddle players, with a repertoire ranging from 18 Century tunes to new compositions. In this intermediate level workshop he’ll be looking at personalising tunes, developing more expressive, rhythmic and tonal techniques, programming tunes to work well together and improvising.
Rob MacKillop
Guitar Workshop
Caird Hall Complex | 2.30 pm | £3
Rob MacKillop invites guitarists of all styles to an exploration of techniques, interpretation and improvisation. Non-guitarists welcome too.
Rob is currently Musician In Residence at Queen Margaret University, where he runs every conceivable style of ensembles from medieval to jazz and experimental. A great opportunity to work with one of Scotland’s most consistently interesting guitarists.
The Peatbog Faeries
Fat Sams Live | 8pm | £12.50 / £10 (£3 student standby on the door subject to availability.
Age 14+ Please note this is an unseated concert.)
After their explosive performance at Fest’n’Furious 2006, which sold out and left many fans disappointed, we’re proud to announce the return of the Peatbog Faeries. Promoting their 5th album, What Men Deserve To Lose, the Skye mavericks promise to be on fine form. Their superb blend of what is loosely termed traditional music with funk, reggae and electronica would leave your jaw on the floor, if you could possibly stop dancing. Buy your tickets early...
‘the most pumping, uplifting
and exciting Scottish fusion
you’re ever likely to come
across. Unreservedly
recommended’
Rootin’ Aboot
DJ Marcus Augustus
Art Bar | 9 pm | Free
Playing everything from folktronica to techno and back again.