Button Box and Moothies: Aberdeen Nov 14-16 2025

Subject: Button Box/Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie Mor
Date: 10 Jul 25 - 11:09 AM

The "Button Box and Moothies" Festival returns to Aberdeen over the weekend of 14 - 16 November 2025.

Festival Director Frances Wilkins :

"We are excited to announce the artists for Button Boxes & Moothies 2025! A weekend-long festival celebrating small free reed instruments (concertinas, melodeons, button accordions, moothies and Jew’s harps), offering two days of tuition plus concerts, ceilidh, sessions, talks and more!
Button Boxes & Moothies will take place in a beautiful part of Old Aberdeen on the ancient university campus. Artists include Sandra Kerr, Sam Mabbett, Will Pound, Eva Carroll, Rick Epping, Kisna Panesar, Michael Wright, Allan MacDonald, Alex Wade, Meabh Mulligan, Tom Roche, Ron Clark, Frances Wilkins.
More details to be announced later in the summer with tickets going on sale in early September 2025.
Visit www.buttonboxesandmoothies.com for more detailed information.
Please send a message if you have any questions about the weekend, would like to join our mailing list, or sign up to our Facebook page for updates".
Frances Wilkins, festival director

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 16 Jul 25 - 06:23 PM

Hoping to go to this: it’s been”a wee whilie “ since the last one. Attended all three previous events and really enjoyed them.

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Jul 25 - 04:58 PM

I wonder if this is the Aberdeen gathering that Ed Silberman of California went to a few years ago. He just loved it.
May he rest in peace.
-Joe-

I like Aberdeen and harmonicas, too.

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 17 Jul 25 - 07:23 PM

I think it may well have been, Joe. I met him when he visited Edinburgh, and we went to George Current’s moothies session in Sandy Bell’s, which he also enjoyed a lot.

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 03:33 AM

sounds great

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 05:58 AM

in years past whern i played Aberdden folk club, there was a postman who was a very good motthjie , he brought out a cassette arthur middleton?

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 07:27 AM

Hope to get to this one, last one was great fun. Only problem is that there is suddenly lots of things to go to, there's not been much to interest me so far this yearm and suddenly I have a ceilidh weekend in October, Kirrie Festival, Cullerlie, and then this in Aberdeen. Too much for a decrepit auld bugger like me to keep up with.

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie Mor
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 02:06 PM

Well remembered, Sandman, but sadly Arthur passed away a good few years ago now. He did indeed produce a cassette tape of his music.

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 18 Jul 25 - 02:21 PM

I was at the first and third ones but never found out about the middle one. It's been a gey while syne and I cannae thole tae miss this yin.

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Jul 25 - 04:27 PM

I'm afraid that Cornwall to Aberdeen and back is a bit too much for this ageing harmonica man :-(

I wrote over forty articles for Harmonica World magazine about playing traditional tunes, and when I stopped doing them (because I'd stopped playing in public due to my hearing loss) George Current replaced me and did a great job. I've managed to revive my "career" recently by joining a Cornish band here in Bude who sing shanties, Cornish songs and all sorts really, and in which my tremolo harmonicas loudly and proudly help the accompaniment. I've hardly ever played tremolos up to now and it's been a learning curve, but I'm having the time of my life!

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 27 Jul 25 - 07:42 AM

Yep, it's just 2 months since they ditched the direct Penzance to Aberdeen train route, which was a very LOOONNNGGG time on a train. Flying Newquay to Aberdeen quicker but prohibitively expensive!

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jul 25 - 08:30 PM

Well. I'm still in moderately good health, i.e., I'm not aware that I have anything one can die of :-) , but I haven't got the energy to travel long distances then get all energetic musically once I arrive, sadly. It's an age and hearing loss thang...

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 29 Jul 25 - 12:00 PM

Snap! Edinburgh to Aberdeen far enough for me, and I do have a good friend in Aberdeen who offers accommodation/puts up with me! Have stopped going all the way to Sidmouth in August for much the same reasons.

Subject: RE: Button Box and Moothies : Aberdeen Nov.
From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie Mor
Date: 08 Sep 25 - 03:41 PM

Tickets for all concerts and workshops are now on sale through the following link :

http://www.buttonboxesandmoothies.com/