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Edinburgh Tradfest, Dufftown Stories and In The Wake of Metagama

Featuring previews of Edinburgh Tradfest, Dufftown Stories with Hamish Napier & David Francis and "In The Wake Of the Metagama: An Atlantic Odyssey In Story And Song".

Edinburgh Tradfest soon to get underway with 11 days of traditional live music, storytelling, dance, workshops, talks, ceilidhs, and special events taking place at various venues across the city. Douglas Robertson and Jane-Ann Purdy join Anna live to preview some of the highlights of the festival.

Featuring various local performers and presented by two leading Scottish folk musicians Hamish Napier and David Francis, Dufftown Stories Concert & Ceilidh is inspired by the discovery of a beautiful old printed programme from a local talent variety concert in Mortlach Hall run by the local community way back in 1959. Travelling Folk's Helen Needham catches up with Hamish to find out how they're capturing the spirit of this concert 64 years later with local Duffown performers from the present day.

A cast of well-known musicians and writers are touring a concert through the Hebrides to mark the centenary of the three ships - the Metagama, Marloch and Canada - that took nearly 1500 emigrants from Barra, Vatersay, Uists, Benbecula, Harris and Lewis to Canada in 1923 / 1924. 'In The Wake Of the Metagama: An Atlantic Odyssey In Story And Song” will commemorate the stories and experiences of those young emigrants, exploring their lives across the Atlantic and the impact of that mass emigration on the families and communities left behind. Highland pianist and songwriter, Liza Mulholland, has a particularly personal connection to the project since her own grandparents left on the Metagama and she joins Anna live to talk about the upcoming tour.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Thu 20 Apr 2023 20:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • ͳΎ²Ή°ω

    The Stinger

    • Awakening.

  • Jenny Sturgeon & Alice Allen

    Cut and Run

    • Living Mountain EP.

  • Valtos

    Faili (Ft. Eilidh Cormack & Ruairidh Gray)

  • Iain MacDonald & Iain MacFarlane

    Gaol ise Gaol

    • The First Harvest.

  • Ciaran Ryan Band

    Banjaxed

    • Banjaxed.

  • Blazin’ Fiddles

    Annie’s Waltz

    • The Key.

  • Bob Dylan

    Wedding Song

    • Planet Waves.

  • Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi

    Ten Thousand Voices

    • There Is No Other.

  • Gordon Gunn

    The Osmosis Reel Set

    • Wick to Wickham.

  • Rick Taylor

    Picture In My Heart

    • The Poet and The Maiden.

  • Kim Carnie

    Nighean Sin Thall

    • And So We Gather.

  • Calum Alex MacMillan

    Eilean Fraoich

    • TΓ ladh Nan Cuantan (The Enticement Of The Oceans).
    • Skipinnish Records.

  • Graham Mackenzie

    Bridge Street Reels

    • The Dawning.

  • Emily Smith

    The Open Door

    • Echoes.

  • Darrell Scott

    Shattered Cross

    • The Invisible Man.

  • The Madeleine Stewart Trio

    Beatrice

    • The Madeleine Stewart Trio.

  • Milk Carton Kids

    Running On Sweet Smile

    • I Only See The Moon.

  • The Furrow Collective

    Many’s The Night’s Rest

    • Wild Hog.

Broadcast

  • Thu 20 Apr 2023 20:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio Scotland