Blas Festival
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| August 2005 Preview: Blas Festival |
Exciting New Festival for the Highlands
BLAS is a brand new music festival for the Highlands in which pride of place is given to tradition, youth and Gaelic. |
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BLAS is an initiative to establish a new festival to celebrate Highland music and to promote interest in and the use of Gaelic. It takes it name from the Gaelic word meaning flavour, relish and experience, and is funded by the Highland Council and the Millennium Commission, through its Urban Cultural Programme. The Council has contracted Fèisean nan Gàidheal to develop and organise the festival.
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Blas will feature some of the best acts from this country and from other complimentary traditions, and will be staging performances in many of the remoter villages of the area. A pilot launch as a single day multi-location event last year is followed by a much fuller programme this time around. The festival will run from 2-10 September 2005 at venues in Skye & Lochalsh, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross-shire and Lochaber.
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Artists taking part include Cliar, The Barra MacNeils from Cape Breton, Dòchas, Dàimh, Session A9, Seamus Begley and many more. The Arts Journal will bring you an interview with Brian Ó hEadhra, the Artistic Coordinator of the festival, at the beginning of September.
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This page also carries a link to the Blas website, a link to Arthur Cormack’s submission to our Highland 2007 survey, which contains much that is relevant to the aims and aspirations of Blas, and links to the news releases posted in our news section.
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Related articles BLAS: DÀIMH, RACHEL WALKER, MELANIE SIMPSON, FÈIS ROIS CÈILIDH TRAILERS (Pavilion, Strathpeffer, 3 September 2005)
FIONA MACKENZIE welcomes the arrival of the first full-scale Blas Festival.BLAS: SESSION A9, KATIE MACKENZIE, GRAHAM MACKENZIE (Seaboard Memorial Hall, Balintore, 5 September 2005)
GEORGE MACKAY is impressed by both the venue and the music as Blas visits Balintore.BLAS: CLIAR, MARY SMITH (Spean Bridge Community Centre, 6 September 2005)
GEORGE MACKAY hears contrasting approaches to the Gaelic song tradition in Spean Bridge.BLAS: JULIE FOWLIS / NORTH HIGHLAND FIDDLERS (Lyth Arts Centre, 7 September 2005)
JOHN SAWKINS found both local and visiting musicians in fine form when the Blas Festival came to Caithness.BLAS: AN TOBAR (Village Hall, Rogart, 8 September 2005)
FIONA MACKENZIE finds a very traditional approach to Gaelic song and music in Rogart.BLAS: THE BARRA MACNEILS, CALUM AILIG MACMILLAN, KILTEARN FÈIS ROIS FIDDLERS (Village Hall, Ardross, 8 September 2005)
GEORGE MACKAY sees the Cape Breton invaders go down a treat in Ardross.BLAS: LAUREN MACCOLL, JENNA CUMMING, JAMES GRAHAM BAND, GRAHAM MACKENZIE, FÈIS ROIS CÈILIDH TRAILERS (Resolis Hall, 10 September 2005)
FIONA MACKENZIE is reassured that the future of Blas looks bright.
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| December 2008 Editorial |
H2007 Evaluated
Posted by Commissioning Editor, Kenny Mathieson, on
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:01:00 GMT |
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