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| Title: | Trad Nua Celtic Series: The Tannahill Weavers - Low Ticket Alert! | | Date: | 3/3/2026 (Tuesday) | | Address: | 945 King Ave, Columbus, OH, United States, Ohio 43212 | | Location: | Columbus, OH | | Hours: | Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at 7:00PM EST | | Cost/Cover: | See Details | | Contact Info: | See Details |
| Details: | In the late 18th and early 19th century Scotland was in a turmoil of change. Highlanders were being driven from their lands and into the burgeoning Lowland factory systems. This brought two quite distinct cultures together, the mystic Celtic culture of the North and the old Anglo\/Scots culture of the Lowlands. They were married by the double barrelled shotgun of necessity and the Industrial Revolution. But this forced union brought forth a cultural heritage which, thanks to people like Robert Burns and Robert Tannahill, outlasted the worst of the Industrial Revolution. It married the mystic beauty of the Celtic music to the coarse, brawling, but vitally human music, poetry and ballads of the Lowlands. It is precisely this strangely moving yet lustily stirring quality that the Tannahill Weavers have captured in their arrangements of the traditional music and songs of Scotland. All of their material is traditional, but as good musicians should, they have transformed it and brought it into the modern world, vitally alive and kicking.
HT, Stringbark and Greenhide, Newcastle, Australia
Born of a 1968 session in Paisley, Scotland and named for the towns historic weaving industry and local poet laureate Robert Tannahill, the Tannahill Weavers have made an international name for their special brand of Scottish music, blending the beauty of traditional melodies with the power of modern rhythms. The Tannahills began to attract attention when founding members Roy Gullane and Phil Smillie added the full sized highland bagpipes to the on-stage presentations, the first professional Scottish folk group to successfully do so. The combination of the powerful pipe solos, Roys driving guitar backing and lead vocals, and Phils ethereal flute playing breathed new life into Scotlands vast repertoire of traditional melodies and songs.
Three years and a dozen countries later, the Tannahills were the toast of Europe, having won the Scotstar Award for Folk Record of the Y |
| Audience: | All Welcome | | Category: | Show | | Submitted by: | contributed |
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