Friday 22nd August 
BLAZIN’ FIDDLES
A return of the world’s premier fiddle ensemble, promoting
their new album recorded right here in Glenuig Hall (see picture).
Don’t miss it!
"Enough craic to fuel an entire festival" - Highland
News
"The Led Zeppelin of the folk world" - The Scotsman
"The U2 of their genre" - Grampian TV
"Blazin Fiddles are doing for Scottish fiddle music what
Trainspotting did for their film industry" - Halifax
Herald
"Absolutely mindblowing" - Mike Harding BBC Radio
2
Start time 8:00pm, tickets £14 (conc.
£12, under 18s £6) available now online and locally
soon.
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Saturday 30th August
HANK WANGFORD AND REG MEUROSS
Country Music, Jokes and Tall
Tales. Many will be familiar with Hank Wangford and his band
‘The Lost Cowboys’. Hank’s genuinely brilliant
country music and unique brand of wit and humour combine to
create great live performance. Friend of Gram Parsons (ex-Byrds
and Flying Burrito Brothers) rock 'n roll doctor Hank’s
a genuine part of Country music history.
And who is Reg Meuross? He’s "One of Britain’s
finest Singer/Songwriters" (Time Out Magazine). His “writing
has such a confidence about it that some of his compositions
could already be Classics” (Carol Sarler SUNDAY TIMES)
Their performance is folky & intimate, consisting of original
songs taken from both Hank & Reg’s Many CD’s,
and a selection of duets taken from the rich vein of songs
produced in America from the 1930’s to 50’s by
acts such as The Louvin Brothers & The Blue Sky Boys.
Songs that deal with anything from Religion, Atomic Power,
class prejudice to the inevitable cheatin’ drinkin’
& divorce. As you’d expect from Hank the show contains
plenty of humour, with his “you don’t have to
make it up…!” look at life, and his firm belief
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This no-frills tour of the UK will see Hank and Reg will share
with us their love of the dark heart of Country. They will feature
toetappers and tearjerkers with such Divorce-Defying Country near-classics
as "He Forgot to tell you he was a Married Man", “Must
You Throw Dirt in My Face", "While You’re Cheatin'
on me I'm praying for you", "I've Forgotten what it is
that I was Drinking to Forget" and that old spell-along-a-Gospel
favourite "S-A-V-E-D". As well as songs both solo &
together, there will be touching and crazy stories from the crooked
highway of life.
Start time 8:00pm, tickets £7 (concessions
OAPs & under 18s £5) available now from thebooth.co.uk
and
all the usual local outlets.
Friday 12th September - BLAS Festival
FINLAY MACDONALD BAND and the Feisean Lochaber Ceilidh Trail
The Finlay MacDonald Band brings together the tightest
of Jazz and Funk grooves with blistering traditional and contemporary
tunes on pipes and fiddle. The band has been its current line up
for about three years and features Chris Stout (Fiddle), Kevin MacKenzie
(Guitar), John Spiers (Bass) and Fergus MacKenzie (Drums), forging
a reputation as one of the hottest live acts to come out of Scotland.
With support from the Feisean Lochaber Ceilidh Trail
Full tickets £11, Senior Citizens £9
and Children 7 School Pupils £5. Family tickets (2 adults
& 2 children) £28.
Earlybird adult tickets £9 until 31st July.
Tickets available online at www.thebooth.co.uk
and locally shortly.
Saturday 4th October
INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT
The longest-running "mobile guitar festival"
in North America. Each year, IGN founder Brian Gore of San Francisco
is joined by three of the world's foremost acoustic guitarists to
perform their latest original compositions and exchange musical
ideas in a public concert setting.
Times & tickets to be confirmed.
Saturday 8th November
SHOOGLENIFTY
Acid Croft comes home again.
Door open 9:00pm, all tickets £12.
Booking Information
Buy tickets online for some of these events at www.thebooth.co.uk
- a new online ticketing services for venues throughout the Highlands
& Islands.
When applying for tickets by post please make cheques payable to
Glenuig Community Association and include an SAE.
Please note that tickets cannot be reserved until payment has been
received.
For information or assistance with anything to do with Glenuig
Hall and Glenuig Community Association contact Eoghan Carmichael
on 01687 470267, by email GCA@glenuig.org.uk
or write to Glenuig Community Association, Glenuig Hall. Glenuig,
by Lochailort PH38 4NG..
Grateful thanks to those shopkeepers who kindly sell tickets for
our events:
Glenuig Inn, Acharacle Post Office, Acharacle Shop, Strontian Shop,
and The Granite House (Fort William High Street).
Please NOTE that the shops that are selling tickets will NOT take
telephone bookings nor accept credit cards - they are very kindly
selling tickets as a service to Glenuig Hall. Tickets can not be
reserved until payment has been received.
Credit card purchases can usually be made online at thebooth, the
Hi-Arts virtual box office for the Highlands & Islands.
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