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. With an opening set from Kitty Macfarlane. Kitty 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 – 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. Elephant 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’s Tønder and a sold-out headline show at Celtic Connections 2017. The band’s critically acclaimed debut album, The Elusive Highland Beauty, amassed wide radio play across BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6, whilst their follow-up – All We Have Is Now – has just been released and is touted as one of the most anticipated albums of 2017. “Outstanding levels of innovation and inventiveness.” Folkwords “Immense! Tremendous stage presence and wonderful musicality” Celtic Music Radio “Almost definitely the gig of the festival [Celtic Connections]” TicketmasterDate: 16/11/17
Start Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, An Talla Mhòr
Audience Numbers: 99
Type: Music Traditional