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EVENT PROGRAMME

A full programme for the weekend is now available, with details of concerts, workshops, times & prices. Click on the image above to open a PDF version which can be saved to your own computer

Special Guests

This event will showcase some of the best & most respected musicians in Scotland, including
Tich Frier, Mike Whellans, Allan MacDonald, George Duff, Chloe Matharu & Michael Marra
. It will be a great opportunity for Battlefield Band to perform with, and introduce you to some of their favourite musicians so it should be a fantastic weekend. We'll update this page with videos & information on all the artists appearing very soon...


Chloe Matharu
A nineteen year old folk singer from Edinburgh with cultural roots in Scotland, Wales and India, Chloe was lucky enough to have grown up surrounded by the wealth of traditional music in her home country and also her mother’s county of Pembrokeshire. As a child, she was always fascinated by the endless number of folk stories she was told and her interest in performing traditional music started with singing unaccompanied folk ballads - hooked by the combination of story and music. From a young age Chloe has found pleasure in singing: performing in choirs, playing in bands during the Edinburgh Fringe and while at school won a place to perform at the Radio 2 Cambridge Folk Festival with its Youth Band.

Chloe has recently recorded her debut album, Next Market Day which will be released later this year.

Hear a track below or find out more about Chloe at www.chloematharu.com

"There's a plaintiveness and restraint to Chloe Matharu's singing that owes more to classic traditional singers like Anne Briggs than it does to the poppier inflections of many of her young folk contemporaries. And there's a refreshingly unaffected, intimate and pastoral quality to many of the arrangements on her debut album too."
Karine Polwart

"...a voice as pure as the young Sandy Denny or Scottish enigma Shelagh McDonald or Joni Mitchell on her impossibly innocent first album...more than enough to put folk-music aficionados on high alert."
John Sakamoto