ST ANDREW'S DAY 29th and 30th November 2003

Read the 2003 report.

St Andrew's Day, celebrated annually on 30th November, is a day when Scots the world over can rejoice in Scots culture and heritage. Hands Up for Trad with great help from Visit Scotland our principle sponsor, have co-ordinated this nationwide series of events around St Andrew's Day to enable people to experience the riches of our Traditional music and song.

Frank McAveety, Minister for Culture, Tourism and the Arts has endorsed the event. Read what he says.

Look out for our St Andrew's Day posters and flyers around Scotland. If you would like extra A3 posters you can download one here (pdf file). To take part in next years event (30th November 2004) please contact us.

Event Areas: Shetland, Orkney, Aberdeen & Grampian, Angus & Dundee, Perthshire, Fife, Edinburgh & Lothians, Scottish Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, Ayrshire & Arran, Glasgow & Clyde Valley, Argyll, The Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling & Trossachs, Highlands.

SHETLAND

St Andrew's Day 'On-Carry'
Sunday November 30th 4pm till late @ The Lounge Bar, Lerwick
Free Entry
Tons of fiddles, accordions and all things Shetland (including a Saintly dram or two no doubt). A'body welcome and bring your dancing boots!!!
http://www.shetland-music.com/

ORKNEY

Concert: Hadhirgaan, Douglas Montgomery and Stewart Shearer, Shoramere
Sunday November 30th, 8pm @ The Fire Lounge (Fusion), Kirkwall.
Tickets priced £5 (£3 concessions), available from Douglas Montgomery: 07736 552056
Followed by session in the Bothy Bar, Kirkwall.

ABERDEEN AND GRAMPIAN

Ceilidh Dance with the Foundry Bar Band
Saturday November 29th, 7.30pm @ Garlogie Public Hall, Garlogie
Tickets priced £5, available from Joyce Murison 01569 731236
Bring your own bar

Open Ceilidh
Sunday November 30th, from 2pm @ Garlogie Public Hall, Garlogie
Tickets £2 Contact: Joyce Murison 01569 731236

Concert: Jim Reid and local support
Sunday November 30th, 7.30pm @ The Royal Hotel, Keith
Tickets priced £5 or £7.50 per couple,
available from Sandy McCombie 01542 882638 (photo H Boyle)
http://www.keithfestival.btinternet.co.uk/

ANGUS AND DUNDEE

Concert: A Musical Evening with guests including The Sangsters
Saturday November 29th 7.30pm, @ Cortachy Castle, Kirriemuir. Tickets priced £7.50
including refreshments. Contact Pat Newman 01575 540261

PERTHSHIRE

Session: with Jim Malcolm and Celine Donoghue
Sunday November 30th from 1.30pm - 5pm in the Taybank Hotel, Dunkeld.
Free Entry.
For further details contact Doris Rougvie: 01738 583698

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FIFE

St Andrews Week Celebrations in the town of St Andrews

Street Entertainment
Saturday November 29th, 11am - 4pm, Church Street, St Andrews
Free Entry
Food and Drinks Fair, young accordion players, Neil Paterson and Karen Hannah, and Splash the Clown.

Concert: Aaron Jones and Claire Mann, with Mark Laurenson, Ewan Robertson and Eddie Walker
Saturday November 29th, 8pm, @ Ardgowan Hotel, St Andrews
Tickets priced £6/£4, available from St Andrews Tourist Information Centre 01334 472021. Some tickets available at the door. Contact Ardgowan Hotel: 01334 472970

Family Ceilidh: with the Lomond Ceilidh Band and the Orwell Ceilidh Band
Sunday 30th November, 2pm, @ The Golf Hotel, St Andrews
Tickets priced £6/£4, available from St Andrews Tourist Information Centre 01334 472021. Some tickets available at the door.

Angus Strathspey and Reel Society
Sunday 30th November 11am, @ Hope Park Church, St Andrews
Free Entry
Worship with Angus Strathspey and Reel Society.

Session
Sunday 30th November 1.30pm, Ardgowan Hotel, St Andrews
Free Entry

St Andrews Folk Club Reunion Night
Sunday 30th November 8pm, @ The Golf Hotel, St Andrews
Archie Fisher, John Watt, Alasdair Russell, Ishbell MacAskill, Anne Lister, Sara Grey, Sheena Wellington, Mark Laurenson, Ewan Robertson and loads more exciting people. Tickets £6, £4 from St Andrews Tourist Information Centre on 01334 472021. Some tickets may be available at the door. Contact Karen Hannah 01334 870481

More information on this week long event at http://www.standrewsweek.co.uk

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EDINBURGH AND LOTHIANS

St Andrew's Day Parade
Starting at 11:30am at Market Street, Edinburgh

Folk at the Oak with Tony McLoughlin (Singer/Songwriter)
Sunday 30th November, 8.30pm @ The Royal Oak, 1 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh. Tickets priced £3 available in advance from The Royal Oak, contact: 0131 557 2976. Tickets also available at the door.

SCOTTISH BORDERS

Ceilidh Dance and Concert with Kelso High School Celtic Group and the Small Hall Band.
Sunday November 30th, 7.30pm, @ The Queen's Head, Bridge Street, Kelso
Tickets priced £3, available from Linda Kinsman-Blake Ceramics, Smailholm (01573) 460666

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DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY

Wee Clanjamfrie with Jock Tamson's Bairns, Lionel McClelland, Gregor Lowrey, Mike Whellans

Mike Whellans
Remarkable one-man blues band. Scotsman Mike Whellans is a consummate
bluesman: a brilliant songwriter, a sharp singer, and a mean hand at the guitar. Think of him as Jimmy Reed or Willie Dixon transplanted from Lake Michigan to the shores of Loch Lomond. Has to be seen to be believed!

Jock Tamson's Bairns
Jock Tamson's Bairns is one of our country's most respected bands, having carried the torch for true Scottish music since their inception at the end of the 1970s. Their 'Lasses Fashion' album of the 80s is still regarded as one of the finest expressions of the great revival of traditional music that helped shape and create the contemporary Scottish identity. The Bairns' energy, humour and taste is unflagging, as they continue their tradition of inventive acoustic music on authentic instruments - eschewing synthesizers, sequencers, didgeridoos or African drums - producing refined accompaniment to Scots songs and ballads, or exciting arrangements of intricate, fast dance tunes on fiddles, whistles, squeeze boxes, jews harp, moothie, guitar and bodhran - all played with obvious accomplishment, and heart. `Not a group that compromises - they play Scottish music the way it is.. the arrangements are very crafted, but there is also a lot of variety, a lot of fun and spark....a great band.` Archie Fisher/Sue Wilson, BBC Radio Scotland, Feb 2001.

Sunday November 30th, 7pm @ Lockerbie Town Hall
Tickets priced £15 available online from www.dgaa.net or contact: Susie Kelly 01387 253383.
A partnership event organised by DGAA/TMSA

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AYRSHIRE AND ARRAN

St. Andrew's Ceilidh Dance
Saturday 29th November, 7.30pm @ The Oswald Hall, Auchincruive, by Ayr
Tickets £12 including food. Advance ticket sales only. Contact: Dave & Lorna Dewar Tel/Fax: 01292-313205 dave@cultural-connections.co.uk
Enjoy a ceilidh dance, and a hot supper, with the MacDonald Brothers Ceilidh Band in this beautifully restored Robert Adams designed mansion house.

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GLASGOW AND CLYDE VALLEY

Multi Cultural Storytelling Workshops (North American, Asian, Scots and Irish)
Saturday November 29th, 11.30am-5pm @ Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
Tickets are priced: £10, £6 TMSA members. First child in each family goes free
Available from Liz Clark 0141 429 0359

St Andrew's Ceilidh with Biggar Little Band
Saturday 29th November, 8pm in Lamington Hall, Lamington, Near Biggar.
Tickets priced £5/£2.50 available from Clare McLaughlin 01899 850658 or clare@scottishtraditionalmusic.com
Come along and have a St Andrew's Day 'hoolie' in the beautiful village of Lamington in rural South Lanarkshire.

Biggar Business Group Ceilidh with Cloud Howe Ceilidh Band
Saturday 29th November, 7.30pm in Biggar Municipal Hall.
Tickets are priced £10 which includes supper.
For further information e-mail: enquiries@biggar.org.uk

Children's Concert: Ye Can Shove Yer Other Grannie
Sunday November 29th, 3pm @ St Andrews in the Square, Calton, Glasgow.
Tickets are priced £5 (£3 conc) Box Office: 0141 559 5902
A joint performance of stories and songs of Glasgow from two Gallus Glaswegian Guys and some Calton Carollers Ewan McVicar and Mick West with Calton Schoolchildren.

Concert: "Na Tri Seudan", Hamish Moore and Dansa
Saturday November 29th, 7.30pm @ St Andrews in the Square, Calton, Glasgow.
Tickets £8 (£5 concessions) Contact tel: 0141 559 5902

St Andrew's Night Ceilidh - Trish Mathews and Ceilidh Band
Sunday November 30th, 8pm @ St Andrews in the Square, Calton, Glasgow.
Tickets £5 Contact tel: 0141 559 5902

Traditional Café Ceilidh
Sunday November 30th, 4pm @ East Kilbride Arts Centre, Old Coach Road, East Kilbride
Free Entry
Join us in the Arts Centre café for a fun afternoon of traditional songs and tunes.
For further information contact East Kilbride Arts Centre 01355 261000

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ARGYLL, THE ISLES, LOCH LOMOND, STIRLING AND TROSSACHS

Sound Tracks Presents Young Gifted and Traditional - The Talk
Sunday 30th November, 3pm @ The Tolbooth, Stirling.
Tickets £4/£2.50 available from Box Office: 01786 274000
Featuring Karine Polwart, The Emily Smith Band, Gillian Frame, Scott Gardiner and others. A healthy discussion will be encouraged on how young people see their place in traditional music.

Sound Tracks Presents Young Gifted and Traditional - The Gathering and Performance
Sunday 30th November, 7.30pm @ The Tolbooth, Stirling.
Tickets £8/£5.50 available from Box Office: 01786 274000
To celebrate this wealth of new talent Sound Tracks has brought together some of the best young players and singers for a gathering of music old and new. Featuring Emily Smith Band, Gillian Frame, Sarah Hoy and Rachel Newton, Scott Gardiner and Findlay Napier.

Joint ticket for both Sound Tracks events £10.

Ceilidh with Folk Rock Ceilidh Band 'Hell for Leather'
Sunday November 30th, 3pm @ The Pavilion, Rothesay, Isle of Bute
Tickets priced £3 available from Gillie Banks 01700 831614

Ceilidh featuring Fiddler Kenny Fraser, local artists, and invited guests
Sunday 30th November, 8pm @ An Tobar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull.
Tickets priced £4 are available from An Tobar 01688 302211

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HIGHLANDS

St Andrew's Afternoon Concert with The Clach, Graham & Robbie Mackenzie, Fiona & Katy Mackenzie and Susie Simpson
Sunday November 30th, 2pm - 5.30pm in the Redcliffe Hotel, Gordon Terrace, Inverness.
Tickets £6, £4 (TMSA members) £3 (Seniors/Under 16s). Tickets available from Alison Mackinnon 01463 239978
Price Includes finger buffet

Fèis Srath Fharragaig presents The BIG bonfire, fireworks display and music
Saturday November 29th, 6pm - 8pm in Farr Community Hall, 8 miles from Inverness Free Entry

Concert: featuring Dochas
Saturday November 29th, 8pm @ Farr Community Hall, 8 miles from Inverness
Tickets £7 (£5 conc) available from Alasdair Forbes 01808 521333 or Alasdair.Forbes@farming.co.uk. Alternatively, they can be bought at Riverside Gallery, Bank Street, Inverness or at Inverernie Stores in Farr.

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