The packed audiences in the Strathclyde suite at Celtic Connections 2024 were treated to the sparkling bagpipes and music of Finlay MacDonald, José Manuel Tejedor and Ali Levack over the weekend of January 27 and 28. The Saturday evening concert began with the captivating sound from the Asturian gaita of […]
The second weekend of piping-related concerts at Celtic Connections are below and include concerts with Celtic Odyssée and Gnoss, Alana MacInnes Trio, Dàimh, A celebration of music from Lochaber, Finlay MacDonald Band, Jose Manuel Tejedor, Ali Levack, Skerryvore, Leonard Barry and Come and Try the Bagpipe sessions at The National […]
•Ali Levack playing at Piping Live! 2021. Photo: JohnSlavin@designfolk.com/Bagpipe.news Highlighting concerts at Celtic Connections 2024 featuring bagpipes or piping-related music. The Celtic Connection website says about the concert: “Ali Levack has carved an indelible mark on the Scottish folk music landscape. Winner of the esteemed BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician […]
The National Piping Centre is constantly adding top quality new content to YouTube. Most recently there have been interviews with Katie Robertson (The Wheeled Piper), former member of The National Piping Center Board of Directors, Alan Forbes, and energetic pipes and whistles exponent Ali Levack. The most recent offering in […]
The Reeling festival was held last weekend, June 10 and 11, in Rouken Glen Park on the fringes on Glasgow, and the photos show a spectacular start in its inaugural year. The Highland pipes were well represented throughout the festival, and another positive aspect is how many Scottish traditional music […]
Project Smok are a trio who push the boundaries of traditional music, and are led by the pipes and whistles of the 2020 BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year, Ali Levack. The other two members are Ewan Baird on bodhran and Pablo Lafuente on guitars. Since their formation in […]
An award-winning young piper has turned whisky maker after being enlisted to play to casks of whisky prior to bottling to enhance its flavour. Reader, this may sound like an April Fool story but it isn’t. It’s definitely June 23 today! Dingwall piper and whistle player, Ali Levack, the 2020 […]
Entries are invited for the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician Award 2021. The competition is for singers or instrumentalists aged between 16 and 27 with a passion for traditional music. Winners receive a recording session with BBC Radio Scotland, a performance at the Scots Trad Music Awards, an invite […]
Tobar an Dualchais, the archival project that digitises, catalogues and disseminates Gaelic and Scots sound recordings online, is seeking information on the surviving family of Pipe Major James Robertson, Gordon Highlanders (b. 1886-d. 1961). Recordings of Robertson, the composer of Farewell to the Creeks, have been discovered – both spoken […]
