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Old Time & Bluegrass Concert with the Stairwell Sisters, Strachur
At 2.30pm on 24th May 2009, Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop is hosting an Old Time & Bluegrass Concert with the Stairwell Sisters (there’s a name to conjure with) at Srachur Memorial Hall.The...
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Traditional Music Concert with the Plockton School of Excellence, Lochgoilhead
At 3.00pm on 21st June 2009, Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop is hosting a traditional music concert with the Plockton School of Excellence at Lochgoilhead Village Hall.It has held concerts in the past...
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Traditional Music Summer School, Dundee University
From 12th – 17th July 2009 at Dundee University, there is a Traditional Music Summer School run in association with Living Tradition.Members and non–members will have the opportunity of developing...
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Video interview with Mark Morpurgo of Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop
Mark Morpurgo is a founding committee member of Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop, a thriving pioneer in a movement to develop the reach of traditional Scottish music at the modern end of the spectrum. Here...
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Cowal Schools Gaelic Music Tour from Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop and Fèis...
The month of February will see a tour of Cowal schools by Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop and Fèis Cheann Loch Goibhle.The schools will be Dunoon Grammar School and ten Argyll Primary Schools, including...
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Traditional Music Concert, Strathlachlan
At 7.00pm on 6th February 2009, Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop is hosting a traditional music concert at Strathlachlan Village Hall in Cowal.Acclaimed Gaelic singer Anne Martin and clarsach player Ingrid...
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Argyll piper Lorne MacDougall distinguishes himself at BBC Awards
As For Argyll has reported, Lorne MacDougall, from Carradale, was a major contender at the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2009 Awards at the City Halls, Glasgow last weekend....
View ArticleBest touchstone for modern Scotland: Bannockburn or Declaration of Arbroath?
The leaking of plans to have the next Homecoming Year as 2014 raises some interesting historical, modern political, and practical issues.Last week, SNP plans to subsidise school trips to the site of...
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Hear the diaspora: international concert at Strachur
Breton and Scots harpists and contemporary folk group Rallion will play in an international concert at Strachur, demonstrating how far music is the medium of the diaspora as well as of the wider celtic...
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Tourism IS everybody’s business
The Tourism Forum run on 24th September by the Cowalfest team was for the Cowal peninsula but was actually on the money for all of Argyll and the Isles. The facts, the information, the issues and the...
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Rallion rally the faithful at Strachur
A full house always creates a good atmosphere and there is no doubt that the audience at Strachur Memorial Hall were well inclined to enjoy themselves at last weekend’s concert. But however willing the...
View ArticleDemystifying art in Cowal
Arts, crafts and music recently came together with marked success at Cowal Open Studios Open Day rounded off with a fabulous evening concert at Strachur Memorial Hall.One of the impressive outcomes of...
View ArticleHelensburgh and Carradale pipers into finals of BBC Young Traditional...
Two pipers from Argyll have come through tough semi-finals at Coulter in South Lanarkshire, making it to the finals of the 2010 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award.They are Kyle Warren...
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A year’s gigging with LFW
FiddleFolk, based a the Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop, has put on a number of concerts this year in different locations inside and outside the National Park area of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs.Seven...
View Article2009 For Argyll Awards: Nominations update
(As at Midnight 24th December) Nominations have now closed.Below is the final list of all those nominated – and a very interesting document it is. It shows the spread of activity across Argyll, it...
View ArticleResults: For Argyll Awards 2009
Most of Argyll manifested itself in the finalists of this year’s For Argyll Awards. There were:the islands of Easdale, Islay, Jura, Lismore, Mull and Seilthe territories of Cowal, Helensburgh and...
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Accordion and action, clarsach and canoe: Lochgoilhead’s Feis Weekend
The annual Fèis for youngsters at Argyll’s Lochgoilhead Centre is some event – no muscle left unused. Fingers, wrists,arms and upper bodies get a workout on the accordion or the clarsach or the fiddle...
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Mike Vass brings stardust to the strings of Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop
Fiddle Folk and Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop have an enviable record of bringing top quality tutors and class traditional music acts to Cowal. Their new tutor combines wide experience as a performer...
View ArticleFiddle free at Strachur
Mike Vass, Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop’s new tutor and Young Traditional Musician of the Year Finalist, will be hosting a free adult Come and Try Traditional Fiddle session in Strachur Memorial on...
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White Nights at Lochgoilhead
On cue, just as we’ve hit the dark nights, fiddler Chris Stout and harpist Catriona McKay bring White Nights to Lochgoilhead on Sunday afternoon (7th November 2010).Chris and Catriona are both...
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