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PATSY REID’S NEWS

PATSY REID’S NEWS
November ’09

Hello there! Just a short update with some of my news. Feel free to unsubscribe- I wont be offended!


Scots Trad Awards Nomination 2009
I am delighted to have been nominated for Best Instrumentalist at the Scots Trad Music Awards 2009! The Awards will take place in Dumfries on the 28th November 2009. For more information and to vote, please visit:  http://www.handsupfortrad.co.uk/tradmusicawards


Breabach Tune Up Tour 2010
In 2010, Breabach will be joining forces with the mighty Le Vent du Nord for a short tour of Scotland.
Here are the dates:

28th January – Celtic Connections, Strathclyde Suite, GRCH
2nd February – The Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline
3rd February – The Queens Hall, Edinburgh
4th February – Aberdeen Music Hall
5th February – The Universal Hall, Findhorn
6th February – The Eastgate Arts Centre, Peebles

For more information about Breabach please visit http://www.breabach.com

Bridging the Gap News
I’m also very excited to announce I will be touring Bridging the Gap next year and will keep you posted with the finer details.
As usual the album is available to buy on my website http://www.patsyreid.com

‘Patsy has succeeded in creating an attractive fusion of Scottish traditional and classical music where other, more experienced names have been unable to deliver. It doesn’t just ‘bridge the gap’ – it lays down a sparkling tapestry between the two genres.’ Irish World Review

‘This is an astonishingly good CD….her three-movement fiddle concerto is a total triumph….essentially an excellent recording of contemporary Scottish fiddle.
Patsy Reid has done a perfect job of weaving all these strands into one cloth, giving us great width without compromising on quality.’ Alex Monaghan
Well that’s about all for now, thanks for taking the time to read this wee newsletter and please keep in touch and up to date with me via the website.
Hope to see you soon,

Patsy x



Session A9

Session A9 with Kris Drever

Friday 29th January 2010, 9.00pm

Old Fruitmarket

Although famed first and foremost as a fiddle band, the Scottish supergroup Session A9 are much more besides. Alongside their four-man frontline of Charlie McKerron, Adam Sutherland, Kevin Henderson and Gordon Gunn (drawn from such leading acts as Capercaillie, the Peatbog Faeries and Fiddlers’ Bid), their line-up also comprises piano, guitar, percussion and vocals, making music as exquisitely accomplished as it’s viscerally exciting.

Having added 2008’s Instrumentalist of the Year title at the Scots Trad Music Award to his collection of major accolades, the spellbinding singer, songwriter, guitarist and ex-Session A9 member Kris Drever tonight launches his hotly-anticipated second solo album, Mark the Hard Earth. As well as his own set, featuring sundry special guests on new original songs and freshly-worked material by Sandy Wright, Boo Hewerdine and Hamish Henderson, he’s sure to join his former bandmates for a number or two…

Le Vent du Nord with Breabach.

Le Vent du Nord with Breabach

Thursday 28th January 2010, 8.00pm

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Strathclyde Suite

Always a Celtic Connections favourite, Québécois quartet Le Vent du Nord recently released their fifth studio album La Part du Feu. Centred on the traditional sounds of fiddle, accordion, hurdy-gurdy, guitar and four-part vocals, the new songs and tunes redouble the band’s trademark joie de vivre with seasoned maturity and cohesion.

Breabach, here previewing material from their imminent second album, The Desperate Battle of the Birds are one of Scotland’s top young traditional acts, with a line-up of twin bagpipes, fiddle, flute, whistles, guitar and vocals. Tonight’s show launches the two bands’ joint Tune Up tour, and will feature specially devised collaborations as well as individual sets.

Another shindig at Hatton Castle, Newtyle (PH12 8UN).

Apologies if you have received this information already via another list, but Mike and Patsy have asked me to let you know of an upcoming house concert at Hatton Castle…anyone welcome!

Another shindig at Hatton Castle, Newtyle (PH12 8UN).
Saturday 21st November, 7.30 pm

Abby Newton, probably the finest cellist in Scottish Music, and a lovely person, from New York. Accompanied by Kim Robertson on Harp and Mairi Campbell on Fiddle. All top quality!

Usual rules… 7.30 start, bring family and friends, bring £10 a head (at least) for the musicians’ hat (not for me!). and BYOB. There will undoubtedly be a session later for anyone with an instrument and stamina.

Come! RSVP if possible, to let us know numbers

Mike and Patsy

Strathspè Away Homecoming 2009

Strathspè Away Homecoming 2009

KINGUSSIE 6-8 NOVEMBER 2009
Ceann a’ Ghuithsaich 6-8 An t-Samhain 2009

Hope you can make it along to our weekend festival, which looks to be our best yet. We welcome Beòlach, one of Cape Breton’s most exciting young bands, who will perform and teach over the weekend. We offer a warm return to Mats Melin, one of dannsa’s former members, who will be bringing Irish dancers and musicians to perform, from the University of Limerick. The ‘home-ground’ performers will excite you; The Bella MacNab Ceilidh Band, Alba Flamenca and, of course, ‘dannsa’. Our tutors are some of the best there are; Jim Barry teaching Irish Set Dance , Saliha Haouach teaching Flamenco, Angus Nicolson and John Sikorski from Skye as well as dannsa’s own regulars. The weekend is truly a festival of Highland culture, with dance at the heart….. whether you can only make it to a class or two, or the whole weekend we look forward to seeing you!