{"id":73,"date":"2021-09-22T15:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2024-09-02T16:50:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T16:50:59","slug":"performers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/performers\/","title":{"rendered":"Performers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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One of the world\u2019s most prolific fiddle groups, Blazin\u2019 Fiddles formed for a one-off tour of the Scottish Highlands in 1999 and are still raising roofs far and wide well over two decades later.Encompassing a rare and virtuosic selection of the fiddle\u2019s diverse Highland and island voices, with ensemble and solo-led sets both backed by powerhouse guitar and piano, the Blazers pack all the power, passion and sensitivity of Scotland\u2019s traditional music, into a single show.<\/span>The four-fiddle frontline of Inverness\u2019 Bruce MacGregor, Shetlander Jenna Reid, Nairn\u2019s Rua Macmillan, and Orkney\u2019s Kristan Harvey ignites atop second-to-none accompaniment from Anna Massie and Angus Lyon. Whatever the hall \u2013 whether of the Highland village or Royal Albert variety \u2013 they\u2019ll turn it into the liveliest and warmest of hootenannies, setting the hearts of their audience alight.Multiple winners of Scotland\u2019s Folk Band of the Year \u2013 most recently in 2023 \u2013 the six-piece have long been one of country\u2019s foremost and most recognisable folk groups, touring far beyond their deep northern roots.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jack Houston<\/strong> is a fiddler from Burt, in Inishowen. He has spent many years studying and working in Glasgow.\u00a0 Jack’s playing and composition styles are influenced by local fiddlers in Inishowen and East Donegal such as Roisin McGrory, Tommy Peoples, Dinny McLaughlin, S\u00e9amus Grant, Liz Doherty, Ciaran Tourish, and Cl\u00f3dagh Warnock, as well as by fiddlers from West Donegal and Scotland.\u00a0
Jack’s debut album, \u00d3m\u00f3s, released in 2023, is a soundtrack of traditional and self-composed tunes which pay tribute to the people and places that were important to him growing up.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We are delighted to share this magical film From a Forest to a Fiddle_Forais Go Fidil, which was first shown to a sold out audience at the National Concert Hall in Dublin late last year. It captures master craftsman Jim Mc Killop making a fiddle in his rural workshop in the Cooley Mountains.Jim, who studied in Cremona and whose violins are played in orchestras and sessions throughout Europe, has stopped making instruments but was persuaded by Zo\u00eb Conway \u2013 who buys all her fiddles from him \u2013 to make just one more so his process could be captured. Film maker Patrick Conway masterfully documented each stage over six months to truly encapsulate Jim’s work.<\/span>This meditative timelapse art-film features a soundtrack of Zo\u00eb\u2019s own score, performed by Zo\u00eb on fiddle and John Mc Intyre on guitar, \u2018one of the best folk duos on the planet\u2019 (BBC), with the amazing RT\u00c9 Concert Orchestra under conductor Stephen Bell. The soundtrack has since been made available on vinyl and CD. The score features 11 original pieces and songs inspired by the ancient ogham Irish alphabet, where each letter represents a native Irish tree, as well as a new Irish translation of a poem by renowned Dubliners fiddler John Sheahan.<\/span>This is a celebration of tradition, of craft and of nature as over the course of 40 minutes we follow the months of painstaking work and witness the alchemy that sees a rough piece of sycamore in the hands of a master become a fiddle.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Valerie Harkin School of Irish dancing<\/strong> is an Irish dancing school based in Illies Community Centre and The Sliabh Sneacht Centre, Drumfries. Irish Dancing classes for fun, fitness, Grading Examinations, Competitions. Suitable for Boys and Girls of all ages
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Clonmany Genealogy &Hertigage Group is an Inishowenbased voluntary group with an interest in family and local heritage. \u00a0\u00a0The group has gathered numerous photos, documents, artifacts, records etc. for their archive and share this information with the community through their informative exhibitions.\u00a0 They are also a very helpful resource in assisting anyone from near or far who are trying to trace their family tree\/roots in the Inishowen area.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Background material on this years performers BLAZIN\u2019 FIDDLES One of the world\u2019s most prolific fiddle groups, Blazin\u2019 Fiddles formed for a one-off tour of the Scottish Highlands in 1999 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":217,"href":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamusgrantweekend.com\/festival2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}