Thursday January 25, 2007
On Thursday night we were able to see the Showcase Scotland act at the Royal Concert Hall. We choose this concert in particular because we were able to see a lot of acts in one night (and at one affordable price.) With all the wonderful concerts going on right now, we could easily spend all our money on concerts in just two weeks, so this seemed like a great deal. The only bad thing was that we got there to find out it was being broadcasted live on BBC Radio Scotland. So you had to sit through all the news broadcasts just for the concert to start and then listen to the radio announcer guy and applause on demand. It was midly irritating, but the music was well worth it.
Some of the wonderful musical groups we heard was: Session A9 - a great fiddle band; Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson - a spectacular piping duo and probably my most favorite of the night; the Fraser Fifield Band - a really great trio; Stramash - a really interesting traditional/jazz group led by Colin Steele; Jenna Reid- who was up on stage with a few other very talented musicians and was great; Lau - this was a wonderful trio with a head banging accordian player; Steve Byrne - who was very talented but he was neither Mike nor my favorite of the night; Iain Morrison - this guy started playing the guitar after winning lots of awards for pipes, he also writes his own music... about mating... I liked him on pipes better than guitar and vocals; Roddy Hart - from Glasgow with an amazing voice; Julie Fowlis - another amazing Gaelic singer.
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