Cracking start to club’s new season
Inveraray and District Accordion and Fiddle Club’s new season got under way at the Inveraray Inn to a packed house.
Club chairman Niall Iain MacLean welcomed everyone along for a great evening of entertainment.
Supporting players on October 9 were Fyne Folk, with Sally Hall, Alex John MacLeod and Jake MacKay on fiddles and Agnes Liddell on keyboard, playing a nice selection of pipe marches.
Young Calum MacDonald on accordion played a lively set of jigs and well-known singalong Gaelic waltzes.
Jake on ‘moothie’ and Agnes on keyboard played toe-tapping pipe marches.
A quartet of fiddlers and a guitarist from Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop, who were competing at the Royal National Mod in Glasgow later that week, came along as a rehearsal and delighted the audience with their chosen piece. This was followed by a solo from one of the fiddlers, Alison Diamond, accompanied by John Kelly on guitar.
Guest artists were accordion virtuoso Gordon Pattullo, with Malcolm Ross on drums. They did a couple of spots with 20 sets in all, including many of Gordon’s favourite tunes – Cuckoo Waltz, Jacqueline Waltz, Bluebell Polka, Furrow’s End – as well as cracking west coast pipe marches and waltzes – all sympathetically accompanied by Malcolm.
Before the final tune, the chairman thanked all the musicians for making it such a great start to the new season.
Next week, on Wednesday November 13, Kilberry man Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band make a welcome return to the club.