_1798 Elephant Sessions and Kitty McFarlane "Fiery neo-trad highland five-piece Elephant Sessions are a musical powerhouse, welding weapons-grade grooves and guitar attack with quicksilver fiddle\/mandolin melodies.\n\nWith an opening set from Kitty Macfarlane.\n\nKitty Macfarlane is a singer songwriter from Somerset. Her lyrics combine honest snapshots of humanity with the bigger questions that have connected minds and voices for centuries. Kitty's songs are charged with a sense of place \u2013 more often than not her home of Somerset. From questions of global belonging and rights to land, to songs of the anecdotal everyday; music that reflects today's environmental issues and the clockwork passage of humans, creatures, even drifting continents, across our planet. \n\n\n\nElephant Sessions fuses rich folk and trad influences with funk, rock and electronica in an instantly captivating, progressive blend. Since being named Up and Coming Artist of the Year at the 2014 Trad Awards, in just a few short years the group have already become renowned for breathtaking live shows throughout the UK and Europe, taking the festival scene by storm with appearances at Glastonbury, Denmark\u2019s T\u00f8nder and a sold-out headline show at Celtic Connections 2017.\n\nThe band\u2019s critically acclaimed debut album, The Elusive Highland Beauty, amassed wide radio play across BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6, whilst their follow-up \u2013 All We Have Is Now \u2013 has just been released and is touted as one of the most anticipated albums of 2017.\n\n\u201cOutstanding levels of innovation and inventiveness.\u201d Folkwords\n\n\u201cImmense! Tremendous stage presence and wonderful musicality\u201d Celtic Music Radio \n\n\u201cAlmost definitely the gig of the festival [Celtic Connections]\u201d Ticketmaster" Music Traditional "Fiery neo-trad highland five-piece Elephant Sessions are a musical powerhouse, welding weapons-grade grooves and guitar attack with quicksilver fiddle\/mandolin melodies.\n\nWith an opening set from Kitty Macfarlane.\n\nKitty Macfarlane is a singer songwriter from Somerset. Her lyrics combine honest snapshots of humanity with the bigger questions that have connected minds and voices for centuries. Kitty's songs are charged with a sense of place \u2013 more often than not her home of Somerset. From questions of global belonging and rights to land, to songs of the anecdotal everyday; music that reflects today's environmental issues and the clockwork passage of humans, creatures, even drifting continents, across our planet. \n\n\n\nElephant Sessions fuses rich folk and trad influences with funk, rock and electronica in an instantly captivating, progressive blend. Since being named Up and Coming Artist of the Year at the 2014 Trad Awards, in just a few short years the group have already become renowned for breathtaking live shows throughout the UK and Europe, taking the festival scene by storm with appearances at Glastonbury, Denmark\u2019s T\u00f8nder and a sold-out headline show at Celtic Connections 2017.\n\nThe band\u2019s critically acclaimed debut album, The Elusive Highland Beauty, amassed wide radio play across BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6, whilst their follow-up \u2013 All We Have Is Now \u2013 has just been released and is touted as one of the most anticipated albums of 2017.\n\n\u201cOutstanding levels of innovation and inventiveness.\u201d Folkwords\n\n\u201cImmense! Tremendous stage presence and wonderful musicality\u201d Celtic Music Radio \n\n\u201cAlmost definitely the gig of the festival [Celtic Connections]\u201d Ticketmaster" 57.08641750493476 -5.880648823478737