LET HEBCELT MUSIC BANISH THE WINTER BLUES
News release
Hebridean Celtic Festival
Year of Homecoming 2014
- HebCelt 2014 revisited in BBC Alba programmes
- Series of shows to feature successful festival concerts
- Island event prepares to mark landmark 20thyear
Music fans can replace the winter blues with the sounds of the summer over the New Year period by revisiting the Hebridean Celtic Festival in a series of television specials.
The award-winning festival, which will mark its 20th anniversary next year, enjoyed another hugely successful year in 2014 with a 14,000-strong audience attending the biggest ever programme of live concerts.
On Hogmanay, BBC Alba is screening a HebCelt highlights programme, featuring Duncan Chisholm, Gordie Mackeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Larkin Poe, and Sean Taylor & Danny Thompson.
Programmes on 1 and 3 January will recapture the performance of Willie Campbell and the Open Day Rotation, while 2014 festival headliners Big Country will feature in shows to be screened on 14 and 17 January.
These shows will repeated later in the year, while further programmes will also feature another 2014 headliner, the Levellers, as well as Cara Dillon, Blue Rose Code, Rura, and We Banjo 3.
HebCelt director Caroline Maclennan said: “BBC Alba is a fantastic supporter of HebCelt and this series of programmes will allow us to look back on another successful summer as we prepare for our milestone 20th anniversary.”
HebCelt will kick off 2015 by being part of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations. A special ceilidh being held as part of a series of free live gigs in the city’s Old Town on 1 January will include performances by Iain Morrison and Lori Watson, Rura and the new band Malin.
Last month HebCelt was voted Best Event or Festival in the Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards. Earlier this year it was also selected as one of the top 10 UK summer festivals for the fourth year in succession by influential publication Songlines.
In 2013 HebCelt was hailed as one of the greenest festivals in the world after being the only Scottish event to receive an Outstanding award from environmental campaign group A Greener Festival. In addition, it was shortlisted in the Greener Festival category in the UK Festival Awards and in the Best Independent Festival category in the AIM Independent Music Awards.
In 2011 it was ranked Best Large Festival at the industry-sponsored Scottish Event Awards and it won Best Event of the Year award at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards in 2004 and 2009.
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John Ross
Lucid PR
01463 724593; 07730 099617
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