Glasgow Accordion and Fiddle Club bows out
Ceòl ’s Craic stage Gaelictronica event for third year running
CEÒL’S Craic’s third annual Gaelictronica event on March 24 at 7.45pm in the CCA, Sauchiehall Street, will combine Gaelic vocal and instrumental music with cutting-edge electronica to create a unique fusion of traditional, ambient and dance sounds. This year’s event will feature interactive video installation and contemporary dance.
Award-winning electronic composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ela Orleans, returns to Ceòl’s Craic to present a specially-commissioned piece entitled Displaced and Adjusted. The audio-visual performance will combine Ela’s haunting and ethereal soundscapes with archive film. Her aim is ‘to recreate the spirit of the past and attempt to reincarnate and adapt it to a new story based on memory, nostalgia and impression’. For this performance she will reunite with Gaelic vocalist Ainsley Hamill and, for the first time, work with renowned percussionist Alex Neilson of Trembling Bells.
Another act on the evening features superb duo, WHYTE, whose album I reviewed in this column last year. Following a successful run of shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017, WHYTE (Alasdair Whyte and Ross Whyte) have teamed up again with visual artist Dan Shay to produce visuals for a new selection of songs from their eagerly awaited second album. Joining them for ‘Gaelictronica’ is Zoe Katsilerou, a physical performer, vocalist and musician, originally from Greece, and now based in Glasgow.
Hamish Macleod and Josie Duncan are members of electronica outfit Inyal. This event will see a duo from electronica outfit, Inyal, experiment with more ambient, loop-based material combining electronics and guitar with Gaelic vocals and clarsach. Hamish MacLeod and Josie Duncan will be collaborating with Scottish-Icelandic drummer Signy Jakobsdottir. LAST week’s box and fiddle club with guest artist Roger Dobson was the final night for the Glasgow club for the time being as, unfortunately, it will not be resuming next year. The club was bold in its approach and unwavering in its determination to have all the guest bands playing with their full five- or six-piece line ups. This made for some fantastic nights in the Scotstounhill Bowling Club with wonderful music that you don’t get the chance to hear too often nowadays.
It is a great shame that the club is calling it a day for now; but, having enjoyed a number of good nights over the last year at the club, I am very grateful to the committee for having put so much work into the project.
What’s On
Thursday March 22: Comunn an taobh-an-iar closing ceilidh at 7.30pm in the Ellangowan Social Club.
Friday March 23: Am Balach Beag a dh’ Èisteadh aig Dorsan by the Gaelic Books Council at 6pm in the Mitchell Library. Friday March 23: Pupils’ Concert in the Glasgow Gaelic School at 7pm. Friday March 23: Helensburgh and District Highland Association dance in the Commodore Hotel. Friday March 23: The Glasgow Uist and Barra Association Dance in the Crawford Hall, Beith Street at 9pm.
Pub Scene
Islay Inn
Friday March 23: Deep River
Saturday March 24: Auld Skool Sunday March 25: Jonathan Gillespie Park Bar
Friday March 23: Dùn Mòr
Saturday March 24: North 56
Sunday March 25: Scott Harvey