Star of Live At The Apollo, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Have I Got News for You and Q.I, Shappi Khorsandi comes to Skye with her new 2017 show.
The Skye Swing Jazz Festival kicks off with an Oscar-winning film, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. The film will be accompanied by an innovative musical score, played live by Graeme Stephen, one of Scotland’s most exciting and prodigious musical talents. The event will take the form of a fancy dress Hallowe’en-themed evening to get the festival going with a swing.
FOTS Records and SEALL present three days of spectacular music, fun and dancing, featuring some of the best jazz musicians in the country. This year’s events include a Hallowe’en-themed evening with a film and live music; a tribute to an iconic American funk band; and a vivacious night of duets featuring six talented artists for an exciting closing session. See over for details.
A nostalgic musical homage to one of the best-selling jazz groups of all time will take centre stage at this year’s Skye Swing Jazz Festival.
Six fantastic musicians and one unforgettable evening of music making. Musicians are Al Price, mouthie, and Huey Dowling, guitar; Rick Taylor, trombone, and Bradley Johnston, guitar; and Fraser Fifield, pipes, whistle and sax, and Sodhi Tabla, percussion.
Drawing on influences from folk, country, blues, americana, jazz and everything between, the award-winning Red Dirt Skinners’ sound is instantly recognisable, blending sumptuous harmonies with unique instrumentation.
Adam Holmes is one of the brightest rising stars on the UK roots music scene. His concert will be supported by folk-noir balladeer Rachel Sermanni.
Fiery neo-trad highland five-piece Elephant Sessions are a musical powerhouse, welding weapons-grade grooves and guitar attack with quicksilver fiddle/mandolin melodies. The group fuses rich folk and trad influences with funk, rock and electronica in an instantly captivating, progressive blend.
Young singer songwriter and poet Lee Robert Bouzida launches his CD ‘The Making of Bad Dream’in late 2017 and visits Skye (and his Sleat aunt!) in November. To make a night of it Lee is joined by the Edinburgh-based indie band Mt Doubt.
Acclaimed Serbian-American pianist Ivan Ilić comes to Skye for a preview of his upcoming CD ‘Reicha Rediscovered’ His recital will mark the British premieres of Reicha’s forgotten works, written in the early 1800s.
Directed by Anne Lampard, individuals and groups from Inner Sound present a concert of their favourite arias, excerpts from light opera and other pieces.
Highlight Arctic presents an Arctic evening of contemporary poetry, film and music from the Sami and Inuit cultures. The cabaret-style event, compered by award-winning Edinburgh-based poet Ryan Van Winkle, will include performances by Sámi poet/writer/musician Niillas Holmberg, Inuit poet and performance artist Jessie Kleemann, Sámi rapper and activist Ailu Valle, and a programme of short films.
