Folk on Foot Podcast with Duncan Chisholm

Season 3 of the Folk on Foot Podcast is well under way!

This award winning podcast brings together the passions of media executive and broadcaster Matthew Bannister. His love of folk music, walking and telling stories in sound are the basis of the podcast – which includes many of the UK’s top folk artists as they walk, talk, play and sing in spectacular locations ranging from mountain tops to remote white sand beaches. Folk on Foot have captured the sounds of the natural world in their podcast: curlews circling overhead, waves crashing on the shore, rivers burbling under bridges, campfires crackling and above all feet tramping through all kinds of terrain. The music takes on a new power when you hear it performed in the places that inspired it.

Folk on Foot invited Duncan to join them on a pilgrimage to Sandwood Bay. The full episode is available now. To listen, please visit the Folk on Foot website, available by clicking here.

Enjoy the music….

Duncan Chisholm Live: September 2019 Tour

Much excitement at the Copperfish Records office as we announce tour dates in Scotland, England and Wales during September 2019.  

Having brought 2018 to a close presented with two Scots Trad Music Awards; Album of the Year for Sandwood and Composer of the Year for Duncan, we are thrilled to be able to answer the many queries of ‘when’ and ‘where’ there will be forthcoming live performances from Duncan and the band.

Thank you to the following venues for supporting this tour:

Thursday 5 September:  The Met, Bury
Friday 6 September:  Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea
Saturday 7 September:  Ashburton Arts Centre, Devon
Sunday 8 September:  Chapel Arts, Bath
Monday 9 September:  Cambridge Junction, Cambridge
Tuesday 10 September:  Leicester Grammar School, Leicester
Wednesday 11 September:  The Sage, Gateshead
Thursday 12 September:  Reeth Memorial Hall, Reeth
Friday 13 September:  ‘Folk in the Barn’, Canterbury
Saturday 14 September:  The Fleece Inn, Evesham
Sunday 15 September:  Coronation Hall, Ulverston
Wednesday 18 September:  Glassel Hall, Aberdeenshire
Thursday 19 September:  Glassel Hall, Aberdeenshire
Friday 20 September:  Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh.   **The Gathering
Saturday 21 September:  Cecil Sharp House, London

Box office details are available on our Live page.

Enjoy the music….

 

Duncan Chisholm to perform at the National Celtic Festival, Australia

We are very excited to announce that Duncan has been invited to perform his music at the National Celtic Festival (NCF) – Portarlington, Australia!!!

This visit to Victoria will be the first time Duncan has performed in the Australian territory and he is thrilled to be performing live to new international audiences. As well as attending the festival as a performing artist, Duncan will also be there in the capacity of Artistic Director for a Feis Rois / NCF partnership project working with young creative people to produce a new short film. Based on the model of Duncan’s award winning Kin production, this project provides a rare opportunity to further connect young people with their local cultural heritage by exploring archive material, inspiring a new film and sound track.

Live performances news…

Details coming soon of three week Duncan Chisholm tour in September 2019 – as well as summer festival news!

Sincere thanks to everyone who has taken the time to attend live performances or listened to music from Duncan’s album Sandwood over recent months.  Thanks also for the support offered through nominations and voting at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2018.

Duncan is honoured to have been awarded the prestigious Album of the Year 2018 for Sandwood as well as Composer of Year 2018 at the STMA ceremony in Perth.  It is warming to hear how many people are enjoying the album and Duncan is thrilled to see his work – and that of the wider team of musicians and production involved – appreciated amongst his peers and industry professionals.

Thanks also to Hands up for Trad and Simon Thoumire for programming a stellar line up of live music at the ceremony which you can catch on the BBC iPlayer by clicking here.

Enjoy the music….

Vote for Duncan Chisholm and Sandwood at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards!

You can vote now for your preferences amongst a selection of world-class musical talent shortlisted for the Scots Trad Music Awards 2018.

Duncan is honoured to have been nominated within two categories at this year’s awards.

Duncan Chisholm within the Composer of the Year category – and his latest release Sandwood has been shortlisted within the Album of the Year category.

Please vote – by clicking here – before 23 November 2018. 

Thank you for your support!

Highland Tour Dates: Festival of Small Halls

Duncan has been invited to perform as part of the the first Festival of Small Halls which will take place around Skye and Lochalsh over eight days, towards the end of November 2018.  This is a multi-art form winter festival, bringing big music to small halls.

People, place and performance are the themes of this festival which focuses on community spirit and promotes the relevance of Scotland’s traditional culture to present and future generations.  This festival will bring some of Scotland’s greatest traditional musicians, as well as writers and visual artists to small halls in remote rural areas.

Duncan will be joined on stage by Donald Shaw, Jarlath Henderson and Innes Watson during this tour.  Full box office details are available on our Live page.

Enjoy the music….

Sandwood: MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2018!

Hands up for Trad have opened nominations for the 2018 MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.  Celebrating excellence in traditional music, these awards honour artists, instrumentalists, composers and singer-songwriters.

This awards ceremony includes a wealth of categories that encompass all aspects of traditional music.  Be sure to take a moment to nominate your favourite acts or organisations by visiting the Scots Trad Music Awards link – click here.

The nominations include the ‘Trad Album of the Year 2018‘.  Sandwood has been included in the longlist (comprising 25 wonderful albums) for this category and it’s now up to you – the public, along with a music industry panel, to vote for a shortlist of 10 albums.  Voting is open until Sunday 14 October and the winners will be unveiled at Perth Concert Hall on 1 December 2018.

Vote now for Duncan Chisholm and Sandwood!

Thank you for your support.

Eden Court Theatre Performance:  An Treas Suaile (The Third Wave)

On 27 January 2019, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness will host ‘An Treas Suaile’ (The Third Wave) which Duncan was commissioned to write with fellow musician Julie Fowlis.

Late on New Year’s Eve 1918, HMY Iolaire set sail from Kyle of Lochalsh carrying nearly 300 seamen home to the Isle of Lewis after the war.  The ship was lost at the entrance to Stornoway Harbour and 201 servicemen perished in one of the worst maritime disasters in modern British history.

Written to commemorate 100 years since the disaster, this is a deeply reflective audio-visual piece which has taken 12 months of research and writing.  It will feature newly composed music, traditional material and archive  recordings with onstage visuals and projected images.  The title and central concept refers to John Finlay MacLeod, who leapt overboard from the stricken Iolaire with a rope, and whose bravery saved many lives.

Full box office details are available on our Live page, here.

Wolfstone to perform at the Blas Festival 2018

The Blas Festival, which takes place between 7 – 15 September 2018, celebrates the culture, traditional music and Gaelic in the Highlands of Scotland.

Duncan will perform with folk-rock band Wolfstone as they make a rare appearance on Highland soil when they perform in Lochinver on Friday 14 September.  For full box office details, please visit the Blas Festival website here.

Enjoy the music….