Islands pupils at Celtic Connections 2020
A one-off performance at Celtic Connections in Glasgow will fit in with the Year of Coasts and Waters and have original songs on this theme.
The Dìleab: Air a’ Chuan project brings together school pupils from across the Western Isles to celebrate traditional music with professional musicians.
Performances will include 70 island pupils, Willie Campbell and Band, Ceitlin Lilidh and Pàdruig Morrison with the Sgoil Lionacleit Pipe Band, the Sir E Scott Choir from Harris, singers and musicians from Castlebay Community
School in Barra and the Nicolson Institute in Lewis, as well as other island musicians including Iain ‘Costello’ MacIver and Neil Johnstone. Linda Macleod from North Uist will host the evening.
The concert follows the success of the previous Dìleab events of 2018, the recording and subsequent launch of the EP of five songs which Willie Campbell was commissioned to write and the hugely successful concert in November 2019 in Ionad Spòrs Leòdhais where 60 young musicians from Lewis and Harris performed alongside Face the
West, The Tumbling and Skipinnish.
Rhona Johnstone, musical director and project coordinator, said: ‘This promises to be an absolutely fantastic evening. Our programme has been designed to fit in with Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters 2020 and will include two new commissions from Willie Campbell.’
The concert is in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall at 7.30pm tomorrow (Friday January 17). Tickets can be purchased at celticconnections.com or from the venue on 0141 353 8000.
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