Fiddler of Strathspey Concert & Ceilidh - Hamish Napier & Patsy Reid

Come and join us for this extra special music event as part of the Fiddler of Strathspey Festival - home-grown folk music, local heritage and good company, in the beautiful surroundings of Boat of Garten Community Hall in Strathspey.

This concert features local musician Hamish Napier (flute, whistles, vocals & stories) with one the finest fiddle players in Scotland, Patsy Reid, from Perth.

PROGRAMME

6.30pm - Doors

7pm - First Half - CONCERT with Hamish Napier & Patsy Reid

8pm - Interval/raffle

8.30pm - Second half - CEILIDH DANCE with Hamish Napier & Patsy Reid

9.30pm - Finish

★★★★★ “Napier has the composer’s gift of painting a picture with sound, more evocative that an artist. Superb.” FATEA Magazine

VENUE INFO

• The hall will be running a bar, and will provide teas, coffees and juice.
• There are are toilet facillities at the venue.
• Parking available.

TICKETS

No need to print the tickets you reserve them online here on Eventbrite. Simply give us your name on the door when you arrive, and we'll check it against our list.

REFUNDS

If for whatever reason you cannot make the show on the night after reserving tickets please find your reservation email and click 'refund'.

CD SHOP

Hamish and Patsy will have all of their albums for sale - they have a card reader for card payment, but do bring cash for the raffle.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Hamish Napier - wooden flutes, whistles, harmonium, songs & stories

Patsy Reid - fiddle and viola

Jordan Neil - guitar and Scottish smallpipes

★★★★★ “The Woods is a beautifully constructed, evocative and distinctive album…a splendid and rare treat.” SONGLiNES Magazine

HAMISH NAPIER is a Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist and composer from Grantown-on-Spey. He is inspired by the heritage and nature of his native landscape of Strathspey. His album The Woods explores the flora and fauna of Scotland's native forests. It won Album of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards and is the third album in his Strathspey Pentalogy - a ambitions project to produce 5-albums in celebration of his homeland, following on from the first two in the series, The River (for the river Spey) and The Railway (for the old Speyside railway line). In this concert Hamish will also share a few of the new pieces from forthcoming album no.4, The Hill. Humorous, engaging and heart-warming, Hamish’s performances often incorporate poems and stories about nature, folklore and communities.

“An excellent flute player.” The Guardian

★★★★★ “Scintillating…brilliantly vivid” The Scotsman

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PATSY REID. After leaving the brilliant and loud Breabach, Patsy has become one of the most admired fiddle players in the UK.

She performed alongside Dougie Maclean and Kylie Minogue at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony, with Zakir Hussain at the London 2012 Olympic Festival followed by an extensive tour of North America, and in 2019 she worked with Mark Knopfler on his musical adaption of Local Hero. In the studio, Patsy is a one woman string quartet, contributing violin, viola and cello to albums by Flook, Seonaid Aitken, Donald Shaw, Brian Finnegan, Georgia Cécile, Duncan Chisholm, Kathryn Tickell, Hamish Napier, Duncan Lyall, Tim Edey, Ross Ainslie & Ali Hutton and many, many more.

Patsy combines skills and techniques from both traditional and classical backgrounds. As a child she first learnt to play tunes by ear at the Alasdair Fraser fiddle camp on Skye. As a teen she made the trip to Alasdair’s sister camp in California, where she learned her trademark percussive chopping style via Laura Cortese. On top of that she has a Post-grad Diploma in Classical Violin Performance from the Royal Northern College of Music.

Patsy has 4 solo albums to her name as well as two recent releases with cellist, Alice Allen, under the banner of Strathspey Queens, where they delve into historical manuscripts, breathing new life into the music of the likes of Scott Skinner and William Marshall. Another project, LYRE, is Patsy’s trio with Alice Allen and Marit Fält and they released a fabulous album, Gin and Strathspey in 2022.

As an educator, Patsy is lead tutor for Mull Music Makers, technique specialist for the traditional degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Musical Director of Mull Fiddle Week.

“She’s a fantastic musician, a lovely fiddle player and a joy to be with. No wonder everybody wants to work with her.” Kathryn Tickell, celebrated Northumbrian piper

"Patsy transcends simply being a folk musician. She has an understanding of what to play and when and how to play it that rivals the best of any genre.” Jim Moray, English singer