Sat 26th Feb Storylands Sessions Ceilidh: Tickets On Sale Now!

15th February 2022.Hamish Napier.0 Likes.0 Comments

Traditional Highland family ceilidh with music, dancing, storytelling, games, raffle and grub. Oh, and lots of laughs.

: Merryn Glover – storyteller and co-host for the night

: Hamish Napier – Dance caller, pianist and MC for the night

About this event

Saturday 26th February 2022

7:30pm – 10:30pm. Doors open at 7pm.

Newtonmore Village Hall, Main Street, Newtonmore, PH20 1DA

Tickets are available on Eventbrite by searching Storylands Sessions Ceilidh Concert.

Adults: £10 | Teenagers: £5 | Kids go free

It’s BYOB (bring your own bottle).

Soup and roll provided. Vegan & gluten-free rolls will be available and the delicious soup, freshly made by the team at Newtonmore Grill, will tick every box: vegan, gluten-free, healthy, happy and hot!

Covid safety measures will be in place.

Come and kick your heels up at the Storylands Sessions Ceilidh Concert in the Newtonmore Village Hall!

Celebrating the rich culture and connections of our Highland community, this multi-generational event brings together the best of traditional music, dance and storytelling with an upbeat, contemporary twist.

With music from Hamish Napier, Charlie McKerron and Monadh Ruadh, classic dances from the Gay Gordons to the Virginia Reel and tales from local storytellers, this is set to be a very special night.

: Charlie Mckerron with Monadh Ruadh – Fèis Spè ceilidh band

: Ceilidh dancing at last!

Sarah Hobbs of Strathspey Storywalks – one of our storytellers for the night

Charlie McKerron – fiddle player for the ceilidh

More About the Storylands Sessions Project

The Storylands Sessions is a project of Badenoch Heritage fostering music, singing, storytelling and poetry in the strath. Hamish and Merryn have hosted table tunes and open mic nights along with a popular series of music and storytelling workshops featuring special guests as well as local talent.

Hamish Napier is an award-winning folk musician, composer and tutor who gathered and recorded all the stories for the new Badenoch The Storylands app. His album, The Woods, which won Album of the Year at the Scot Trad Awards in 2020, is going on tour in March. His final Table Tunes event will be at the Duke of Gordon Hotel on Tuesday 22nd with ace fiddle player, Adam Sutherland. Author and storyteller, Merryn Glover, was writer in residence for the Cairngorms National Park in 2019 and her strath-set novel, Of Stone and Sky, won Book of the Year at the Bookmark Festival in 2021 and is long-listed for the Highland Book Prize. The Storylands Sessions were funded initially by the Cairngorms Green Recovery Fund and the Badenoch Great Place Project, but are seeking further funding to run future Seasons.

https://www.storywalks.scot/

https://www.hamishnapier.com/

https://www.merrynglover.com/

https://www.facebook.com/mckerroncharlie

https://www.feisspe.org/our-ceilidh-bands

https://badenochstorylands.com/storylands-sessions/