Author Archive: tinajordanrees

I had a fantastic time on the 2016 Highland Blast tour. Highland Blast is a family run tour by the Feuerstein’s. This year’s tour ran from 9th-21st November with 10 concert dates across Germany. The bands were Rura and Barrule, and I was the…
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I am very excited to be nominated in the UP & COMING ARTIST category with TOP FLOOR TAIVERS at the 2016 Scots Trad Music Awards. The results are announced live all over the world on Saturday 3rd December. Voting is now…
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Last weekend I was in Shetland with Gráinne Brady for the Accordion & Fiddle Festival. I made it to the festival four years ago. I was doing a run of Live Music Now concerts in Orkney and Shetland with Kristan…
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I had a fantastic week tutoring at Fèis Spè in Aviemore last week. This was my third year in a row as the keyboard tutor so it was great to be back. It’s always such a lovely bunch of tutors…
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I’ve had a great week in Castlesound Studios recording Fraser Shaw’s tunes with The Islay Sessioners. These recordings will feature on an album which will accompany a book of Fraser’s compositions. This project is being run by The Fraser Shaw Trust which…
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On Friday I travelled to Islay to play at a wedding with Gráinne Brady and Jenn Butterworth. When we arrived at the car we realised that we’d all worn yellow. Band uniform sorted! We got the 6pm boat over and…
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  I was delighted to be asked to return to the Tinto Tasters as a tutor in July. I first taught at the tasters in the summer of 2014 and it was brilliant. I was asked to tutor again last…
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