Category: Scottish music

Lunchtime Recital with Donald WG Lindsay and Roo Geddes: Wed 19th August, 1315-1345

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Admission free, donations welcome

To mark the Lindsay System exhibition in Dundee Central Library, piper, singer, songwriter and instrument designer Donald WG Lindsay is joined by acclaimed fiddler Roo Geddes for an intimate duo performance centred on Scottish smallpipes, fiddle, voice and piano.

At the heart of the programme is the Lindsay System: Lindsay’s extended-range, keyless Scottish smallpipe design, now widely played and heard across contemporary folk, experimental and film music. In this close-listening duo setting, Lindsay and Geddes bring together Scots song, slow airs and tune sets, drawing on traditional melody, new writing, and the shared musical world of their album project Honeymoon Bridge.

https://donaldwglindsay.bandcamp.com/album/honeymoon-bridge

https://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/events/event/35234

 

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Cappuccino Concert with the Paddy Buchanan Band: Saturday 21st March 1100-1200

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The Paddy Buchanan Band are a five-piece ensemble from Aberdeenshire who specialise in the reworking of traditional folk songs, primarily ballads from the North-East of Scotland – Paddy is an accomplished Bothy Ballad singer, winning numerous TMSA competitions and the prestigious Champion of Champions competition in Elgin 2024. Fresh from a highly acclaimed BBC Radio Scotland’s Travelling Folk session as well as main stage performance at the Aberdeen Tall Ships 2025 the band are pleased to offer some musical tidings from the Garioch, the New World, and beyond.

 

 

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Cappuccino Concert, Saturday 21st February: 1100-1200: Catriona Scott, singer & Ian Hardie, guitar.

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Admission £5, children  free. Tea/coffee available for donation

Catriona Scott, in addition to being a fine singer and former member of The Young Fife Roadshow, has a BA Honours in Scottish Literature with Music from the University of Stirling,. She also has an -ology in the Scottish Highland Dancing Tradition from The School of Scottish Studies! She has a wide knowledge of musical archives and has also contributed her own accessions to the School of Scottish Studies and the Glasgow College of Piping. Notable achievements include winning the Leng Medal, a Danny Award (Celtic Connections), the Grierson Prize for writing Scots poetry (University of Edinburgh) and the Sloan Prize for Scots prose (University of Edinburgh). In 2024, she also won the inaugural Glenfarg Folk Club Folkie Awards for best song.

Ian Hardie who hails originally from Mastrick, Aberdeen, has long had a keen interest in traditional music and song. He has played in various ceilidh bands in Northeast Scotland, including Clachan Yell, notably at the FLAC music festival in France, and Galik Bred of Stonehaven Aqua Ceilidh fame! For many years, he was also a guitar tutor with Scottish Culture and Traditions (SCaT). Ian is currently involved in several music projects in and around the Kinross area. He co-founded and leads Kinfolkies, a thriving weekly community folk club. Most recently, he and his trio, Amici, has been working on “Sound & Vision”; a collaboration with Scottish visual artists Pauline McGee and Julie Close, to create an hour-long collage of live music and animation. Ian plays Ibanez and Takamine guitars and a Moon mandolin.

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Saturday 24th Jan 2pm- 4pm: A Celebration of Burns!

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A special Burns season fundraiser for the Friends of Wighton programme – please note timing!  Featuring Barbara Dymock, Wilma Kennedy, Sheena Wellington, Wighton Singers, Piers Bowser as Tam O Shanter, Erin Farley, Morag Anne Elder’s  Mixed Instruments, Mary Veal’s Harpers, and a singalong with Karen McAulay on piano!

Admission by donation, raffle, auction, refreshments available!  Not to be missed!

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Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame: MG Alba Scots Trad Awards

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We are absolutely delighted, thrilled and chuffed to the soles of our slippers to announce that, on Saturday 6th December,  Rosa Michaelson, Friends of Wighton’s Membership Secretary, will be inducted, along with her colleagues in the ground-breaking band Sprangeen, into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame at the MG Alba Scots Trad Awards. Rosa, a classically trained violinist who plays sonata or strathspey with equal skill, is an acknowledged authority on Scottish fiddle tunes. Congratulations, Rosa, we are proud of you!

We send congratulations, too, to our recent Cappuccino Concert guest, Elspeth Cowie, who will also be inducted at the ceremony at Aberdeen’s Music Hall on Saturday.  The Trad Awards are shown on BBC Alba on Saturday 6th from 9pm

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Celebrating European Folk Day with Roo & Neil: 1300- 1345, 23rd September 2025

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Entry by donation.

Roo & Neil hit the road in September 2025 with Play it Again — a new album celebrating the tunes that have shaped their decade playing together.

After the success of Homelands, which wove together folk, classical and jazz influences, Play it Again brings the focus back to traditional and contemporary melodies — some well-known, others unearthed from archives and old collections. With no fixed arrangements, the album captures the spontaneity of live playing, letting the tunes breathe and shift with the moment.

Alongside favourites from the tradition, Play it Again features original tunes the duo have honed over years of performing together. Their long-standing musical friendship brings a natural ease and warmth to the music — rooted in tradition, alive in the present.

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Cappuccino Concert with Pete Shepheard & Arthur Watson: Saturday 28th June, 1100-1200

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Admission £5 (under 16s free), tea/ coffee available for donation to outreach work.
Two absolute legends of the traditional music scene! This will be a journey of song and story not to be missed!

Pete and Arthur bring together a wealth of song repertoire gleaned directly from the many traditional singers they have known, and unaccompanied song is at the heart of their enthusiasm. Both were members of the folk band Shepheard, Spiers and Watson for more than a decade and Arthur was also a member of the well respected Aberdeen based group The Gaugers and both have been involved in running the annual Fife Traditional Singing Festival.

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Wednesday 4th June, 1.15–1.45pm Lunchtime Recital with Cameron Clark and Saoirse Mcintee: fiddle, piano

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Admission free, donations welcome

Dundee Musicians Award winner,  and a participant in the prestigious Traditional Music Forum (TRACS) mentorship programme, Cameron plays piano, fiddle and several other instruments and now has a busy teaching and performing schedule. A local traditional musician, Cameron not only plays fiddle, piano, but a multiplicity of other instruments. He won a Dundee Musicians Award and recently released an EP “The Meadowside Sessions”

Saoirse has played several different string instruments since the age of 8 years old, and has a special passion for Scottish fiddle. She studied Music at the University of Aberdeen, learning the North East style of fiddle playing, which has reflected a lot on how she plays .

 

 

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Cappuccino Concert – Skyrie, band. Sat 22nd March, 11am – noon

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Sat 15th March, 11am – noon: Cappuccino Concert – Skyrie,  band

Skyrie is an electrifying contemporary Celtic music trio renowned for their dynamic performances and innovative sound. Their music blends traditional Scottish and Irish tunes, poignant original songs, tunes and soundscapes with modern influences from rock to funk!   And we love them!

Admission £5, coffee/tea available for donation

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