Welcome to Blas 2010 in Scotland – Celebrating The Highlands – Cinn-là na Fèise: 3 gu 12 Sultain | Festival Dates: 3 to 12 September
The Blas Festival is an annual ten day pan-Highland programme of events which celebrate the culture of traditional music and Gaelic in the Highlands. Staged in some of Scotland’s most spectacular and iconic landscapes, the Blas Festival showcases the very best of Highlands music and culture whilst creating and widening opportunities for young musicians and communities to play with and learn from leading Gaelic artists whose music and performances underpin Highlands culture.
10 Days with 80 + events including school and community eventsfrom shows on board the Jacobite Queen as you cruise, dance and dine your way along Loch Ness, to The Culloden Battlefield Centre, Eilean Donan Castle, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, to village halls and other special venues right across the Highlands and the big “Hangar2″ dance at Inverness airport with Shooglenifty, Skerryvore and Niteworks.
Shooglenifty, Skerryvore, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham, Anna Massie, Iain Morrison and his band, the legendary Donnie Munro and his band, The Inverness Fiddlers, Angus MacColl, Duncan Chisholm, Meantime, Nightworks, Deoch an Doras, Inverness, Nairn and Melvich Gaelic choirs, Donald Grant, Iain MacFarlane and Ingrid Henderson, Breabach, Gerry O’Connor, Dochas, Ronan Martin, Paul MacCallum, James Graham, The Kiltearn Fiddlers, The Occasionals, Arthur Cormack, Fiona J Mackenzie, Dr Margaret Bennett, Rachel Walker and many more still to be announced.
July 29, 2010
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