Saturday Festival Night
Saturday 2nd August 2008 7:00 PM
Price: £16
Venue: Tented Village
Compere: Pete MacCallum
Salsa Celtica are a big band with a huge reputation and live, they are a storm. Playing a fusion of the Cuban charanga sound with
elements of folk and jazz on fiddle, flute, pipes, banjo and rhythm section, they are THE outstanding Scottish salsa band. Having
played at most of the country’s biggest festivals including T in the Park, Celtic Connections and the Cambridge Folk Festival, we
are delighted to have them headline the Festival Night at Speyfest 2008.
The supporting line-up features the best of our young talent and the music of the isles...albeit one of the islands is Vatersay and the other is Australia. Speyfest ever-presents, The Fochabers Fiddlers will open the evening with their up-beat take on the fiddle music of Scotland.
Fiddler Lori Watson and her band Rule of Three - Fiona Young, Innes Watson and renowned percussionist Donald Hay - take a fresh approach
to the music of the Borders. The band was a Danny Award winner at Celtic Connections 2005 and is in the vanguard
of the resurgence of interest in Scottish traditional music.
There is a second chance to catch The Vatersay Boys and experience the
rough, raw, no nonsense style of dance music that has won them a huge following on the Western Isles and beyond. They are quite simply
one of the best live acts on the Scottish music circuit. Completing the bill for the Festival Night is Melbourne based, The Ploughboys.
For over ten years now this band has enthralled festival crowds in places as far apart as Sweden and Singapore, Hobart and Helsinki and
come to Speyfest as part of their latest two month European tour. Their sound is described as Australian flavoured celtic roots
folk-rock.......something for everyone!!
Please note that children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.