Tional - virtual Scottish music fest: 18-20 Sept

Subject: Tional - virtual Scottish music fest
From: Felipa
Date: 18 Sep 20 - 03:57 PM

Philippa Robinson
        
Sep 8, 2020, 11:07 PM (10 days ago)
        from "Hands Up for Trad":

TIONAL is Hands Up for Trad’s first Gaelic Music Festival weekend and
will feature a whole host of stars from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th
September 2020, broadcasting online with funding support from Bòrd na
Gàidhlig’s COVID-19 Support Fund. (See the lineup below)

TIONAL translates as a Gathering, act of gathering or collecting.
Presented by Joy Dunlop the weekend will encourage speakers and
learners to use and celebrate Gaelic language and culture.

The festival will entertain new and old audiences via live broadcasts
on Facebook and YouTube from 8pm on Friday 18th September through to
6pm on Sunday 20th September. TIONAL is a fun and highly accessible
experience, thanks to the innovative flexibility of online digital
entertainment. See below for workshops, cèilidhs and concerts from a
host of Gaeldom’s finest, including Norrie McIver, Kathleen MacInnes,
Whyte, Ingrid Henderson and Iain MacFarlane, and more. Click on the
links to find out more about the musicians.

*LINE-UP*

Friday night

8pm – Norrie McIver in concert

9pm – Hands Up For Trad Cèilidh House, featuring Kathleen MacInnes,
Ian Smith and Iain ‘Costello’ MacIver

Saturday

12pm – Covid Choral Workshop, with Joy Dunlop

1pm – Clàrsach workshop with Calum Macleod

2pm – Lunchtime concert with Marit & Rona

3pm – Scottish Pipes workshop with Alana MacInnes

4pm – Scottish Step dance workshop with Sophie Stevenson

5pm – Hands Up For Trad Cèilidh House, featuring James Graham,
Christine Primrose, Pàdruig Moireasdan

7pm – Evening concert, featuring Mary Anne Kennedy, Brìghde Chaimbeul,
Brian O hEadhra & Fionnghal NicChoinnich, Ciorstaidh Beaton and
Seonaidh MacIntyre & John Alec Mackay

9pm – Fairich audio-visual showcase with Whyte

Sunday

1pm – Lunchtime concert with Iain MacFarlane & Ingrid Henderson

2pm – Fiddle playing for dancing workshop with Shona Masson

3pm – An audience with Arthur Cormack

4pm – Gaelic song for Learners workshop with Maeve Mackinnon

5pm – Final Hands Up For Trad Cèilidh House, featuring Misha
MacPherson, Robbie Greig and Raymond Bremner

online channel https://www.pscp.tv/handsupfortrad/1MYxNVpvaDXxw

Subject: RE: Tional - virtual Scottish music fest
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 12:43 PM

"time tae pit the bloody lights oot!" I take it you are still using they auld fashioned paraffin lamps. I canny wait till a' you, younger than me "auld folks" get that new fangled electricity and get oan tae the internet an write new folk songs.

Did ye know they stoaped makin penny caramels tae rot the weans teeth as well. An ye cannae get slates the way ye used tae an ye have tae use them new fangled tiles oan yer roof.
I try to remember that one laddies fish is another laddies poison.

Remember the happy times and appreciate them , the young folk are going through their happy times and makin music and entertaining their peer audiences as folk did in years gone by.

BTW Laurel and Hardy were great when I saw them at the Glasgow Empire

Subject: RE: Tional - virtual Scottish music fest
From: Felipa
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 06:57 PM

you can also watch and listen to the videos after the live broadcasts
https://www.pscp.tv/handsupfortrad and on youtube

Subject: RE: Tional - virtual Scottish music fest: 18-20 Sept
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Sep 20 - 08:55 PM

Thanks! A bit like the Highland Annual, I guess.

Subject: RE: Tional - virtual Scottish music fest: 18-20 Sept
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 20 - 03:13 PM

Funny how the great Scottish singers always sang without accompaniment.

Some youngsters start off like this but it seems inevitable that the solo voice of Caitlinn McHoolichan becomes the C McH BAND with accordion, fiddle, clarsach, Irish drum & all the rest- WHY?

The old songs don't need it- surely it couldn't be the chance of commercial glamour?

.... or that the eventual the prospect of the HOLY GRAIL- ie a second rate pop career is too good to miss?