This year's Celtic Connections programme features three ceilidhs at the former St Luke's and St Andrew's Parish Church in Bain Street.
The first, tomorrow, is being run by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) in conjunction with the Gary Sutherland Ceilidh Band.
Helen Russell, RSCDS Chairman-Elect said: “The RSCDS (Dance Scottish) is about encouraging as many people as possible to experience the fun and exuberance of ceilidh as well as other forms of traditional Scottish dance. It is important to maintain this precious cultural legacy and to engage a new generation in the joy of the dance to ensure that it continues to thrive."
The RSCDS has a membership of just under 14,000, with160 branches and 322 affiliated groups, clubs and societies.
rscds.org
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s contemporary music ensemble, RSNO Alchemy, performs new works written by participants of the Orchestra’s latest forum for compositional development, the RSNO Composers’ Hub, tommorow.
RSNO Alchemy’s Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind at The RSNO Centre will give the premieres of five new works: Jay Capperauld’s The Enchantment of Vulnerability in Superficial Charm, Peter Longworth’s Winter Gusts, Lillie Harris’ Red, Blasted Echoes by Cameron Graham, and snowflake; pinprick by Desmond Clark.
The five have also each contributed a one-page score, to be used for a semi-improvised piece entitled Blow, Blow Thy Winter Wind, the title taking reference from Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy As You Like It. The evening concludes with RSNO Alchemy Director Peter Wiegold’s interpretation of Henry Purcell’s aria Cold Genius, from the 1691 opera King Arthur.
The RSNO Composers' Hub is supported by PRS for Music Foundation.
rsno.org.uk
The Bealach: Gateway to the Hebrides project commissions new artworks for Lewis and Harris, celebrating the art and culture of the Outer Hebrides.
Bealach is funded through Creative Scotland’s Creative Place Awards 2015. Led by An Lanntair, it has now commissioned work by Philippa Thomas and Hector MacInnes, as well as Lewis based artist Jon Macleod.
Thomas and MacInnes work will tell the story of Slighe Sioman and the Hebridean Cable Transit Company. Macleod's project is entitled Deiseal the Gaelic word meaning “sun wise” or direction of the sun and will record the path of the sun across the landscape from the Winter Solstice to the Summer Solstice.
Both projects are due to be exhibited in An Lanntair’s Galleries in the autumn of 2016.
lanntair.com
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