Opening night concert for the 2015 Newton Stewart & Minnigaff Traditional Music Festival in Dumfries & Galloway, South West Scotland.
Laura-Beth Salter & Jenn Butterworth
Uniting two powerful voices with guitar and mandolin, Jenn Butterworth and Laura-Beth Salter are both key players in Glasgow’s world-renowned grassroots folk scene, with their new duo partnership channelling that tumultuous creative energy into a mix of Celtic and Americana material.
Ryan Young & Craig Irving
Ryan is a two time BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award nominee, a Celtic Connections Danny Kyle Award winner and was a finalist in the 2015 BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year competition. Craig is a BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2015 nominee, a Celtic Connections Danny Kyle Award winner and was a member of the 2014 Scots Trad Music Awards House Band.
Jonathan Henderson
A skilled songwriter with an authentic and trademark sound, whose voice conveys great power with affecting sincerity and emotional depth. Jonathan truly lives through his music and his curiosity with sound began as a toddler. Astounding audiences at just five years old, Ali Bain awarded him a fiver at a fiddler competition in Shetland!
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