Workshops: Sunday
Vocals and songwriting workshop with Pippa Blundell
Join Royal Conservatoire mezzo-soprano graduate Pippa Blundell on a 2 hour long journey through vocal performance and songwriting.
10am - midday
Venue TBC
About Pippa
Pippa Blundell is a Glasgow grown songstress. Her lyrics are prominent and raw whilst her gentle accompanying guitar and layered vocal harmony wraps you in a blanket and hugs you. Her sound is influenced by her classical vocal roots, by the storytelling of folk artists and by contemporary urban tales and ambient sounds, culminating in a modern, hushed and intense experience that soothes yet soars.
Pippa graduated from the Royal conservatoire of Scotland in 2022 with a degree in Mezzo-Soprano voice, initially aspiring to be an Opera singer her passions naturally led her to song-writing and composition. She found her true belonging in the pubs, clubs and venues of Glasgow’s thriving contemporary music scene. Her debut EP, "Sisters," was launched in September 2023 as a set of four stripped back and reflective tracks. Pippa writes, "Sisters is about my constant journey of understanding what womanhood means to me. It’s an interrogation of the women in my life, and the intricacies of being a young woman in her early 20s. It's about how my mother raised me, how she upset me, how she loved me. It's about friendship, understanding love, and being a woman in love. It’s an ode to the messy, and the beautiful. It's about sisters.”
Pippa was one of the 5 nominated artists for the Sound of Young Scotland in the 2023 Scottish Album of the Year awards and listed as an exciting upcoming act in 2024 by The List magazine. Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway named her as a Top 25 Artist to watch in 2024. Pippa toured as the solo support act for the Glaswegian jazz collective Corto Alto on their 2023 UK tour ‘Bad With Names’ before her sold out debut headline show at Glasgow’s Rum Shack in November where she collaborated with a new band of some of Glasgow’s best jazz musicians. Pippa has performed with Universal Music Group signed artist Terra Kin, is a vocalist in the Glasgow African Balafon Orchestra (GABO).
‘Stunning’ Roddy hart (BBC Scotland)
‘Beautiful’ Vic Galloway (BBC Scotland)
Fiddle workshop with Ross Couper
*You must bring your own instrument and purchase a ticket to participate in this workshop
Join renowned Scottish fiddle player Ross Couper (Peatbog faeries) on a 2 hour workshop on all things Scottish fiddle.
About Ross
Ross Couper is best known as a member of the Peatbog Faeries and as one half of a duo with guitar and flute extraordinaire Tom Oakes. Ross started learning the fiddle aged just eight, and went on to Lerwick's Anderson High School where he was taught by his mother, Margaret Robertson, a renowned fiddle teacher who was recently awarded an MBE for her services to Traditional Music. Ross continues to be one of the finest exponents of Shetland's traditional fiddle playing, and although always respectful to the tradition, he is also recognised as a musician who pushes the limits of expectations with the instrument.
Guitar workshop with
Gillie O’ Flaherty
*You must bring your own instrument and purchase a ticket to participate in this workshop
Learn folk/trad guitar with RCS graduate and guitarist in the Tom Campbell Trio, Gillie O’ Flaherty.
About Gillie
Multi-instrumentalist Gillie O’Flaherty comes from Ullapool in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. His involvement in Scottish traditional music started early with Feis Rois, with whom he works closely to this day.
Gillie thrives on small ensemble playing. He honed his skills at the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music in Plockton, played at the Cambridge Folk Festival with the Feis Rois Ceilidh Trail and performed solo at the prestigious Ullapool Guitar Festival in 2018 where he met Rodger Bucknell of Fylde Guitars, who has supported him over the years.
Gillie is currently studying Traditional Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.
Watch Gillie perform ‘Malkie’s with the Tom Campbell Trio here