_1779 'Journeys and Refuge' - Red Note "The Festival finishes with Red Note, Scotland's leading contemporary string music group. At the recent Scottish Awards for New Music, Red Note became the first-ever Help Musicians UK Award for New Music Performers of the Year, while leader Robert Irvine won the EVM Award for Recorded New Work. The programme includes music which deals with journeys and refugees: 'Machair to Myrrh' by Jackie Shave - a journey on a magic carpet from The Hebrides to Morocco; 'Safety' by Tom Irvine - refugee children making perilous sea crossings; 'Elegy for the Children of War' by Roland Roberts - a UNICEF commission; Lutoslawski String Quartet from Poland; 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' - Yeats's poem in yearning for home - by Jackie Shave and 'Ca the Yowes'- Robert Burns arr Robert Irvine. Red Note Quartet will be giving free short performances (20-30 mins) and workshops in various schools, community centres and care homes in the locality of the concerts along the way." Music Classical and Opera "The Festival finishes with Red Note, Scotland's leading contemporary string music group. At the recent Scottish Awards for New Music, Red Note became the first-ever Help Musicians UK Award for New Music Performers of the Year, while leader Robert Irvine won the EVM Award for Recorded New Work. The programme includes music which deals with journeys and refugees: 'Machair to Myrrh' by Jackie Shave - a journey on a magic carpet from The Hebrides to Morocco; 'Safety' by Tom Irvine - refugee children making perilous sea crossings; 'Elegy for the Children of War' by Roland Roberts - a UNICEF commission; Lutoslawski String Quartet from Poland; 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' - Yeats's poem in yearning for home - by Jackie Shave and 'Ca the Yowes'- Robert Burns arr Robert Irvine. Red Note Quartet will be giving free short performances (20-30 mins) and workshops in various schools, community centres and care homes in the locality of the concerts along the way." 57.08641750493476 -5.880648823478737