About this Event
Come and join us for this extra special music event - home-grown folk music, local heritage and good company, in the cozy atmosphere of beautiful 'Abhainn Druie' Function Room in the back of The Barn Cafe in Rothiemurchus.
This concert features local musicians Hamish Napier (flute, whistles, harmonium, vocals & stories) and Jordan Neil (guitar & Scottish small pipes), an all-Strathspey musical duo, with a programme of folk music themed on River Spey, surrounding hills and local heritage.
Please note this is part of a special 4-concert mini tour of community halls along the River Spey. If you can't catch Hamish and Jordan play in your local hall you might not have very far to travel to see them play at one of the other halls:
Thursday 19th March - Dalwhinnie Village Hall
Friday 20th March - Nethy Bridge Community Centre
Saturday 21st March - The Strathdearn Commuity Hub, Tomatin
Sunday 22nd March - The Barn Cafe, Rothiemurchus
More details of The Spey Tour
PROGRAMME
2.30pm - Doors
3pm - First Half - Hamish Napier & Jordan Neil
3.45pm - Interval
4pm - Second half - Hamish Napier & Jordan Neil
5pm - Finish
★★★★★ “Napier has the composer’s gift of painting a picture with sound, more evocative that an artist. Superb.” FATEA Magazine
VENUE INFO
There are toilet facillities at the venue.
Parking available.
TICKETS
No need to print the tickets - just reserve them online here on Eventbrite. Simply give us your name on the door when you arrive, and we'll check it against our list.
REFUNDS
If for whatever reason you cannot make the show on the night after reserving tickets please find your reservation email and click 'refund'.
CD SHOP
Hamish will have all of his albums from his Strathspey Trilogy for sale at the event: The River, The Railway and The Woods. He does have a card reader for card payment.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Hamish Napier - wooden flutes, whistles, harmonium, songs & stories
Jordan Neil - guitar and Scottish smallpipes
★★★★★ “The Woods is a beautifully constructed, evocative and distinctive album…a splendid and rare treat.” SONGLINES Magazine
is a Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist and composer from Grantown-on-Spey. He is inspired by the heritage and nature of his native landscape of Strathspey. His album explores the flora and fauna of Scotland's native forests. It won Album of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards and is the third album in his Strathspey Pentalogy - an ambitions project to produce 5-albums in celebration of his homeland. This follows on from the first two in the series, (for the river Spey) and (for the old Speyside railway line). In this concert Hamish will also share a few of the new pieces from his forthcoming album, The Hill, the fourth in the series.
Humorous, engaging and heart-warming, Hamish’s performances often incorporate poems and stories about nature, folklore and communities.
“An excellent flute player.” The Guardian
JORDAN NEIL is an acclaimed bagpiper and guitarist from Aviemore, Scotland. Similarly to Hamish he attended Fèis Spè in his youth, and is very much in-demand as a musician in his native Badenoch & Strathspey, and the Inverness area. Jordan has worked alongside the Cairngorm Ceilidh Band and regularly plays in his folk duo . He attained a bachelor's degree in Applied Music at the University of the Highlands & Islands, studying under professional musicians Simon Bradley, Iain MacDonald (Glenuig), Matheu Watson and Anna-Wendy Stevenson. Jordan has a passion for the great outdoors and hillwalking and is a keen amateur landscape photographer.
★★★★★ “Scintillating…brilliantly vivid” The Scotsman
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Barn at Rothiemurchus, The Barn at Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 13.70
