Summary
TWO YEARS AGO, AT THE first Piping Live! festival in Glasgow, Northumbrian piping star Kathryn Tickell played an open-air concert in George Square, just in time to catch the brunt of what the headlines later summed up as "Monsoon Scotland". "The rain was virtually horizontal," she recalls, "but there were still a few die- hard piping fans out there, huddled under umbrellas."
Monday night's Opening Night Concert for the third Piping Live! event is in the Strathclyde Suite of Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, so Tickell should be proof against whatever the elements choose to throw at her this time. She and her band share the bill with All- Ireland champion uilleann piper Jarlath Henderson in partnership with Scots piper Ross Ainslie, the Breton band Forzh Penaos and the formidable Highland pipes 'n' fiddle duo of Iain MacDonald and Iain MacFarlane - a programme guaranteed to attract many more than just "diehard piping fans".See the full content of this document
Extract
Tradition and All That Jazz
The broad approach of Piping Live!, established as a countdown to the World Pipe Band Championships held on Glasgow Green on 12 August, reflects to an extent Tickell's own career path, which has meandered intriguingly between a firm grounding in the mu...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
