Ceilidh Culture Festival 2005
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Ceilidh Culture is Edinburgh's annual showcase of traditional arts, displaying the best of home-grown talent along performing alongside international stars from all sectors of the traditional arts.
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Edinburgh's many traditional arts organisations have come together to celebrate the city's colourful and dynamic traditional arts scene, producing a high-quality programme which includes 120 individual performances, concerts, workshops and classes in traditional song, music, dance and storytelling in 24 venues across the city.
Ceilidh Culture 2005 will run from 19 March until 17 April and as part of Edinburgh's celebration of 100 Years of Norway's Independence, co-ordinated by Edinburgh City Council and the Royal Norwegian Consulate General, it will feature some special Norwegian events.
One of the main aims of Ceilidh Culture is to increase access to the traditional arts for all sectors of the community, both from Edinburgh and beyond. Smaller organisations are also given access to a high quality publicity campaign that they could not normally afford.
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Highlights of this year's programme include:
Bachue - celebrating their tenth year as Bachue, Corrina Hewat and David Milligan perform once again in a duo setting.
Cantrip - a quartet of Scottish traditional musicians.
Ivan Drever - touring his latest album, Waterfront, Drever breaks new ground and reaches beyond the folk listener.
Fraser Fifield Trio - Electric jazz guitar grooves from Graeme Stephen meet new rhythms and ambient celtic pipes and saxes from ex-Salsa Celtica star Fraser Fifield.
Salsa Celtica - for four nights only. Salsa Celtica return to their roots at Henry's, delivering their trademark mix of salsa and celtic beats.
Emily Smith - winner of the 2002 BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year award.
Catriona McKay and the Chris Stout Band - Chris Stout is a phenomenon on the fiddle - the accompaniment of Catriona McKay on harp and piano, Fraser Fifield on saxophone, Malcolm Stitt on guitar and Ewan Vernal on bass, makes for an impressive line-up.
As part of Ceilidh Culture 2005, Shore Poets will be holding an event on Sunday 27 March - an Aural Anthology presenting six poets who have previously read at Shore Poets - Colin Donati, Pat Fox, Alan Gay, Elspeth Murray, Tim Turnbull and Dawn Wood. There will also be music from fiddler Roy Powell (of ceilidh band Royzone). Tickets are available from the Usher Hall box office but can also be bought on the door.
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