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The Reel Fling and MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards weekend programme.
Friday 27 November
4.30pm New Light Projection by artist Malcolm Innes on the Midsteeple, High Street, Dumfries. Malcolm designed the light works at DG One
Music sessions in venues across Dumfries
7pm at the Cairndale Hotel, English Street, Dumfries: Radio Scotland’s Take the Floor with Robbie Shepherd. Tickets free, call 0370 901 1227
Hands Up For Trad at Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries
7.30pm The Tree of Liberty,
Tim Neat, UK 1987, 1h13m
The Scots folksinger Jean Redpath sings the songs of Robert Burns, researched and arranged by American composer Serge Hovey. The poet and folklorist Hamish Henderson also features.
Serge Hovey’s wife Esther: ‘One is spell-bound by the unexpected, almost mystical scenes of cobwebs and owls, the inside of Serge’s piano, the top of the swaying palm tree, the miners, the bakery girls, ocean and sky, green and yellow fields.’
Screening with ‘Rathad nan Ceard’ (The Traveller Road) (dir Tim Neat, 1994, 27m, Gaelic with subtitles) in which folklorist Hamish Henderson and comedian Norman MacLean explore the role the Highland Travellers have played in the preservation of traditional Gaelic culture.
Followed by a Q&A with director Timothy Neat.
www.rbcft.co.uk Tickets 01387 264808
8pm at So Below, Castle Street, Dumfries: The Yah Yahs, who play an exciting mix of blues, rock and soul as well as original material
Saturday 28 November
11am – 2pm at DG One, Hood’s Loaning, Dumfries
VAN Scotland present Making A Splash! A seminar for voluntary arts individuals and organisations, which looks at new ways to increase participation, plus information on a small grants scheme. For more information and to book your free place, visit www.peoplemakingwaves.org.uk/makeasplash
Midsteeple Stage 12.30pm - 5pm
hosted by well-known West Sound DJ Tommy Jardine
11am-5pm Free Family Art Activity at The Midsteeple, High Street, Dumfries. Gracefield Kids’ Club is taking along the Dumfries Dragon and will be doing arty activity in the town centre to prepare for the final party. Drop-in and join us for some Final Fling Fun!
12.30pm to 4pm Free Circus Workshops in the High Street
Distil at Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries
2.30pm Short film screening featuring 10 musicians learning the processes of writing music for film. www.rbcft.co.uk Tickets 01387 264808
Since earlier this year, 10 musicians have been working with the award winning composer Jim Sutherland, learning the processes of writing music for film. We're celebrating the end of the course during the Scots Trad Music Awards weekend with a screening of the short films for which they have written and recorded music. The soundtracks are by:
Sandy Stanage
Aidan O'Rourke
Martin Green
James Ross
Sarah Jane Summers
Conrad Ivitsky Molleson
Gavin Marwick
Christine Hanson
Lori Watson
The films have been provided by Scottish Screen Archive, and the project has been supported by Scottish Arts Council and the PRS Foundation.
Traditional Music on the Midsteeple Stage featuring:
1pm Lori Watson and Rule of Three, a sizzling triptych, led by one of the finest fiddlers in the country
2pm The Daniel Thorpe Trio. Daniel Thorpe, from Inverurie, was winner of this year’s Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections
3pm The Ruairidh Macmillan Band. Ruairidh Macmillan is currently BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2009
4pm Alasdair White and Friends. Hailing from the Isle of Lewis, this exceptional 23 year old is The Battlefield Band’s virtuoso fiddle player, and one of the top trad musicians playing today.
4.30pm New Light projection by artist Malcolm Innes on the Midsteeple, High Street, Dumfries.
5pm Bright Night International Street Theatre and Fireshow in town centre.
7pm at DG One, Hood’s Loaning, Dumfries: MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards Gala Concert - SOLD OUT
Hands Up For Trad at Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries
7.30pm Morris: A Life With Bells www.rbcft.co.uk Tickets 01387 264808
Comedy that follows the fortunes of one of the leading Morris teams in the country. www.morrismovie.com
8pm at So Below, Castle Street, Dumfries: French Wives – a young band with heart, talent and a trombone. Oh, and none of them are French.
12 midnight MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards festival club with The Treacherous Orchestra, and Paddy Callaghan Trad Music DJ. Open til 3am Tickets £5 Call 01387 243 550
Sunday 29 November – St Andrew’s Eve
11am-5pm Free Family Art Activity at The Midsteeple, High Street, Dumfries. Gracefield Kids’ Club is taking along the Dumfries Dragon and will be doing arty activity in the town centre to prepare for the final party. Drop-in and join us for some Final Fling Fun!
12.30pm to 3.30pm Free Circus Workshops in the High Street
Registration for The Reel Thing opens at 12.30pm
To break the record all dancers MUST be formally registered. Registration will be at 135 High Street (formerly Greggs/Baker’s Oven/Oliver’s). Signatures are required if our world record is to be recognised. Then you’ll be given your tartan sash to wear in the Reel, and as a memento of taking part in the Dumfries Fling – The Reel Thing!
Hands Up For Trad at Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries
2.30pm Play Me Something + Hugh Macdiarmid: A Portrait
Play Me Something
Timothy Neat, 1989, 1h12m
John Berger, Hamish Henderson, Margaret Bennett, Tilda Swinton, Liz Lochhead
Set on the Hebridean island of Barra and Venice, the film blends documentary realism with a love story told through folk tales, poetry and song. Taken from a Berger short story, it uses a collage of 35mm and 16mm film along with beautiful photographs by Swiss photographer Jean Mohr to present a story that covers a daunting range of themes in a sensuous rough-hewn style. ‘The film is about imagination and perception, things seen from different angles – without being deliberately obtuse or confusing. It isn’t a pleasure dome to sit through and enjoy for 72 minutes – it’s more like a sparkplug that sets you up with ideas’ (The Guardian).
Screening with Margaret Tait's offbeat, poetic and affectionate short film about the poet, ‘Hugh Macdiarmid: A Portrait’ (1964, 8m).
Director Timothy Neat and singer Margaret Bennett will introduce the film.
www.rbcft.co.uk Tickets 01387 264808
Midsteeple Stage 1pm - 5pm
hosted by well-known West Sound DJ Tommy Jardine
11.30am Maurice Sutherst Band – the Geordie Leonard Cohen
12.30pm Man at the Window – crowd-warming, high energy reggae
2pm Moishe's Bagel – the energy and passion of eastern European folk music with an inspirational Scottish twist
3pm The Reel Thing! World Record Attempt to dance the world's largest Scottish Reel
4pm RED HOT CHILLI PIPERS - Scotland’s favourite bag-rock outfit
5pm Dumfries Christmas Lights Switch On
5.30pm - 7pm Fun St Andrew's Eve Customs! Meet at the Fountain, High Street, Dumfries
7.30pm at DG One, Hood’s Loaning, Dumfries: Scottish Trad Music Awards Hall of Fame ‘The Legends’ concert
Hamish Imlach tribute featuring Archie Fisher
The Corries tribute featuring The McCalmans
Gordon Duncan tribute featuring Ross Ainslie and Aly Hutton Band
Martyn Bennett tribute featuring John Somerville, Adam Sutherland and Barry Reid
Calum Kennedy tribute Darren MacLean Band
Jim Johnstone tribute featuring Ian Hutson Scottish Dance Band
John D Burgess tribute featuring Brian Donaldson
Flora McNeil and Maggie MacInnes
Neil Gow tribute featuring Pete Clark and Jim Leighton
Event starts at 7.30pm. Tickets £10.00, Concession £8.00 Call 01387 243 550 or click to buy online.
8pm at The Queensberry Hotel, English Street, Dumfries: Scottish folk band Whiterose
Monday 30 November – St Andrew’s Day
Midsteeple Stage 1pm - 4pm
hosted by West Sound’s Bruce McKenzie
Young Talent From Dumfries and Galloway
1pm Chasing Summer
1.45pm Without Reason
2.30pm Robert Shields
3.30pm The Multicultural Choir
Supported by Dumfries and Galloway Youth Music Forum
Many thanks to Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association, Dumfries Council, Robert Burns Film Theatre, DG One who have worked to make this all possible.
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