a warm welcome to Scotland's friendliest family festival

Lomond Folk Festival 2011 - Fri July 29th to Sun July 31st.

 
3 Fun packed days of:

 Concerts . Music Sessions . Workshops
 Craft Fair . Coffee Shop,
Kids Ceilidh . Street Entertainment
Weekend Camping

                                      
             Here is a chance for you to see some of the acts that performed at this years festival:

  Alan Reid and Rob Van Sante

Alan has been an ever present member of Battlefield Band since a few months after it's inception in 1969.
The 'Batties' have been pre-eminent in Scottish traditional music for over 30 years, have toured all over the world and made almost 30 recordings.

Rob is a guitarist of exceptional skill and subtlety. He was born in the Netherlands and begun playing guitar at an early age.  As his interest in music developed, he became influenced by the best of Folk, Rock, R&B and Blues.   During the 1970's,
80's and 90's he toured extensively throughout Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
   
  Scheihallion

Schiehallion are a Scottish Ceilidh/Folk band who are based in Inverness.  Kenny Jamieson's distinctive vocals attract a large audience and there are many loyal followers of the band.

The band consists of Kenny on guitar, bodhran and vocals, Stuart on accordian and Dennis on bagpipes. For larger gigs, such as the St Andrew's Night celebrations and the Inverness Highland Games, the band calls in a drummer to augment their sound.

 
   

 

Yuptae

Yuptae were awarded the prestigious Danny Kyle Open Stage award at this year’s Celtic Connections. The members are aged from 17 to 22, and are based in the Southside of Glasgow.

Yuptae members are sisters Roisin (piano, 21), Patricia (flute, 20) and Siobhan McArdle (fiddle, 17), engaged couple Liam Campbell (guitar, 22) and Colette Hunter (banjo, 21) her brother Daniel (fiddle, 17), their cousin Matthew Turner (drums, 19) and neighbour Roisin Anne Hughes (accordion, 21). The band were formed in 2008, after years playing together with the St. Roch’s ceili band and Irish Minstrels, their local branch of Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann.

   
   
Lyra Celtica

Lyra Celtica, with existing members Mark Canning & Frank McGuire have now been joined by Jim Divers and Sean O’Rourke, 2 original and founding members of the JSD Band.

The music of the JSD Band fused traditional Irish, Scottish, American and English folk songs with modern rock rhythms and instruments — an important innovation in the development of the celtic music scene and very influential at the time.

Lyra Celtica have been performing traditional music and song for nearly 10 years.  Winners of the Anne O’Brien Tribute Stage Award in 2005, remaining members Mark Canning and Frank McGuire continue to add their unique blend of rythym to the band’s sound
   
Diamh

Diamh are Colm O' Rua (banjo, mandola) Gabe MacVarish (fiddle) Ross Martin (guitar) Angus MacKenzie (Highland pipes, Border pipes) and James Bremner (bodhran)
  Keeping the emphasis firmly on the Gaelic culture, Dàimh play a very high energy, fast flowing mixture of tunes and songs from the traditions of their countries represented. Each band member brings their own individual style to the music, creating a band with their own unique sound and at the same time highlighting the relationships between the different countries. Several members of the band are already well acclaimed within the Scottish music scene as session musicians and tutors much in demand all over Scotland.

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