News archive from September 2005
| Celebrated Irish Musicians at Blas Dynamic Irish duo, Seamus Begley & Jim Murray have expressed their delight at having been invited to play during the Blas Festival. | |
| Launching the Blas Festival Later this week, the curtain rises on Blas, the Highland’s new traditional music festival which promises to be a hugely enjoyable and exciting addition to the cultural life of the area. In this, it’s inaugural year, the Blas Festival stages 36 different performances at around thirty venues throughout the Highlands. | |
| Deal to encourage youngsters to attend Blas events As part of the Blas Festival’s stated objective of encouraging interest in traditional music among young people, the Festival organisers this week announced details of concessionary deals on ticket prices being offered to school pupils. For most events in the Blas programme each pupil will only pay £5 for their ticket which is about a half of the normal adult price. Furthermore free entry is being given to any an adult who is accompanying a group of six or more pupils to events. A parent, responsible adult or teacher, accompanying the pupils can use such free tickets. | |
| Alison Kinnaird at Dornoch Cathedral Alison Kinnaird’s performance during a service at Dornoch Cathedral as part of the Blas Festival has a special significance because she also designed and engraved a stunning ‘praise’ window, recently installed in the Cathedral. | |
| Gearing Up for the Blas Festival It’s a brand new music festival for the Highlands in which pride of place is given to tradition, youth and Gaelic. It will feature some of the best acts from this country and from other complimentary traditions and by staging performances in many of the remoter villages of the area it will reach places others don’t. | |
