Thursday 27th April (bonus event)
Northern Streams Festival of Nordic and Scottish Music & Song Concert at the Scottish Storytelling Centre
Featuring Danish Folk Awards Winners - Duo Fromseier & Hockings (Ditte & Sigurd) – Fiddle/Guitar/Song and The Låtmores – Paul Sinclair, Fiddle (Scotland) & Janeta Österberg, Accordion (Finland).
Tickets are £14 (£12) but NASC ticket holders can use the code TMSA10 to claim for ticket for only £10! If buying through the online channel you have to to select a full price ticket and then enter the code at checkout available here or supply the code to the box office if booking on the phone or in person.
1300-1400 Welcome & Registration
1400-1430 Keynote speaker - Margaret Bennett
1430-1530 Panel & Q&A - Participation in Folk Singing Today
Esbjörn Wettermark, David Francis, Emma Björling
Workshop - Danish Folksong - Ditte Fromseier
With thanks for the support from the Northern Streams Festival
1530-1600 Break/Networking
1600-1700 Workshop - Swedish Harmony Singing - folk’appella with Kongero
Discussion - The Folk “Industry” A Perspective - Tom Besford &
Brian Ó hEadhra
2000-2200 North Atlantic Folk Song Club (SSC Court)
0945-1000 Welcome
1000-1050 Panel - Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion in Folk Song
Catriona Hawksworth (BIT Collective) / Grace Stewart-Skinner / Lotta Andersson
1100-1200 Workshop - Acadia/Quebecois Song Tradition - Seán Dagher
Discussion - Folksong in Education - Christina Stewart & Anna Wikenius
1215-1315 Workshop - Irish and Scottish Gaelic song - Brian Ó hEadhra & Fionnag NicChoinnich
Workshop - English Folk Song Tradition Today - Alice Jones & Bryony Griffith
1315-1400 Lunch
1400-1515 Concert (SSC Theatre)
Brian Ó hEadhra & Fionnag NicChoinnich | Kongero & Seán Dagher | Scott Gardiner
1530-1700 Networking / Song Circle (Theme: Songs of the Sea)
2000-Late Pomegranet Festival Cèilidh Dance (SSC Court)
NB Dances will be called and demonstrated
North Atlantic Folk Song Club (The Canon’s Gait)
1100-1230 NASC General Meeting and Future planning. All welcome.
1230-1400 Folky Edinburgh Walking Tour with Donald Smith
1400-1700 Open NASC & Northern Streams Festival Session (SSC Court)