Breabach returned recently from a five week adventure down-under which saw them touring Australia and New Zealand and taking part in the Boomerang Project with Maori and Aboriginal musicians – Bagpipes meet taonga puoro and didgeridoo. The project premiered at WOMAD New Zealand festival in Taranaki. The Boomerang Project was then performed at Homeground Festival at the Sydney Opera House. Now back in the UK the performance can be seen again at Heb Celt Festival, in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, and finally returning to Glasgow for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in July. Here’s the promo video:
They have plenty of tour dates through this month and then on into the Summer Folk Festival season. Then later in September through to mid-October they head off on tour with the Maeve McKinnon Band as part of the 7th Scottish Colours Tour. But before those all important dates here’s our Song of the Day, this is Bha Mise Raoir an Airigh from their new album Ùrlar:
Megan first heard a version of this song sung by Kathleen MacInnes and, whilst in Lewis during our home community tour, met with Mairi Smith who gave us an alternative variation. This is our take on a song about a young girl sitting on the sheiling, thinking about her loved one who has left her. She is obviously a tough cookie as later in the song she physically fights off another man whom she recognises is not her lover.
Live Dates 2014
May
23rd Nailsea Folk Club, Tithe Barn, Nailsea
24th Folkworks Hexham Gathering
26th Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
28th Carrbridge Village Hall tel:01479 841 565
30th The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool
31st Ceòl on the Croft, Isle of Skye
July
4-5th Sark Folk Festival, Channel Islands
11th Moonbeams Festival, Hunmanby, East Yorkshire
12th Ely Folk Festival, Cambridgeshire
16th Heb Celt Fest, Breasclete Community Centre, Lewis
17th Heb Celt Fest, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (Boomerang Project)
22-24th Glasgow Commonwealth Games (Boomerang Project)
27th Warwick Folk Festival, Warwick
30th Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow
August
2nd Inverie Village Hall, Knoydart
4th Sidmouth Folk Week, Ham Marquee
9th Telemarkfestivalen, Bø, Telemark, Norway
23rd Mull of Kintyre Festival, Heritage Centre, Campbeltown
7th Scottish Colours Tour w/ Maeve McKinnon Band
September
25th SALZBURG (A) – OVAL die Bühne im Europark
26th SCHAFFHAUSEN (CH) – Kammgarn
27th ZUG (CH) – Chollerhalle
28th DORNBIRN (A) – Spielboden
29th SCHRUNS (A) – Kulturhaus
30th INNSBRUCK (A) – Treibhaus – tbc
October
1st KORNEUBURG (A) – Gwölb
2nd WIEN (A) – Sargfabrik
3rd GUTENBRUNN (A) – Juster
4th ROTTENMANN (A) – Volkshaus
5th ST.GEORGEN a. L. (A) – hutKULTUR
6th PRECENICCO (I) – tbc
7th ST.PÖLTEN (A) – Cinema Paradiso
8th BADEN (A) – Cinema Paradiso
9th GRAZ (A) – Brücke
10th BAD ISCHL (A) – Lehartheater
11th ST.FLORIAN (A) – Altes Kino