Capercaillie
Karen Matheson - solo dates
- 3 May - The Tolbooth, Stirling, doors 7.45pm, starts 8pm
- 8 May - Eastgate Arts Centre, Peebles
- 18 May 2008 - Crear with Donald Shaw (piano), James Grant (guitar), Ewen Vernal (doublebass), Lise Aferiat (violin), Brian Schiele (viola) and Su-a Lee (cello) and nine players from the RSAMD performing traditional Scottish songs arranged by Donald Shaw. 3pm
- 23 May - Festival Club, Wellington Square, Ayr, on stage 11-12pm
- 20 June - West End Festival, Glasgow
- 15 August - Innerleithen Music Festival
Michael McGoldrick
- 26 June - West End Festival, Glasgow
- 25 July - Trowbridge
- 1 August - Cambridge Folk Festival0
- 3 August - Stokesbay Festival, Wickham
In other news...
The brand new studio album from Capercaillie is now available in Europe.
Credited with being at the forefront of the renaissance in folk/roots music over the last 20 years, Capercaillie, Scotland’s finest celtic band, return with a brand new studio album “Roses and Tears”. The album features many songs sourced from the Gaelic song archive at the School of Scottish Studies, new songs and reels penned by Donald Shaw and a beautiful rendition of John Martyn’s anti-war song “Don’t You Go”.
Capercaillie are: Karen Matheson - vocals; Donald Shaw - accordian & piano; Manus Lunny - bouzouki; Charlie McKerron - fiddle with Michael McGoldrick - pipes & flutes; Ewen Vernal - bass; Che Beresford - drums & David Robertson - percussion.
"Roses and Tears" is already picking up some strong reviews:
"a sublime marriage of traditional songs with modern twists" - Scottish Sunday Express
"...[roses and tears] skillfully combines newly discovered traditional songs ... with new material ... and a great cover of John Martyn's anti-war song Don't You Go" The Sunday Post
"polished collection of songs and ... sparkling instrumental sets" The Scotsman
The Capercaillie song "Oh Mo Dhuthaich" has been used in a web promotion for Bono’s (of U2) recent book, “ON THE MOVE”. It is book of his speech given at a National Prayer breakfast in the US, and will help raise funds for ONE.org. It's not up on the site yet, but should be soon.
Don't forget you can purchase all CDs released on Vertical Records at our website - verticalrecords.co.uk, just £10 + p&p each. This includes the brand new releases from The Old Blind Dogs, Breabach, Rory Campbell and Roisin Elsafty as well as albums from Capercaillie, Karen Matheson, Michael McGoldrick, Roddy Hart and James Grant amongst others.
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