NEXT GIGS: Thursday, 23rd July

(1 day, 2 venues! Catch us where you can!)
CRAIL FESTIVAL: 1pm, Catholic Church, Crail
STAR FOLK CLUB: 8pm, St Andrews in the Square, Merchant City, Glasgow

NEWS

Cheyenne is off to Cape Breton for two weeks of Scottish harp teaching at the Gaelic College at St Ann's. Then she returns to London to do a spot on Anthony Gormley's One and Other plinth project in Trafalger Square (July 18th, 9am)!

Seylan is busy recording an exciting new CD with her Tattie Jam collaboration. Look out for the "Jam" CD coming out soon!

Scottish Harp and Cello Festival 2009

Thanks to everyone for making the 2009 Scottish Harp and Cello Festival a huge success! New photos in 'Gallery'. Thanks also to the Hillhead Area Committee of the Glasgow City Council for funding! See 'Festival' menu for more info.

Festival tutors 2009

We're delighted to welcome to the 2009 festival
Wendy Weatherby on cello and
Diego Laverde on Colombo-Venezuelan Harp

They will be our guest tutors in addition to Cheyenne and Seylan and will also perform at the Saturday night concert. Get your tickets early cause it should be a great one! We're also delighted to welcome harper Rachel Hair who will be launching her new album on Sunday.

Scottish Harp and Cello Festival 2009

Details of this year's festival will be available very soon. The dates are 27th Feb to 1st March.

We'll have an extra concert this year and more integration between cellists and harpers. And some great guest tutors. Email us to receive details as soon as they're available.

Penicuik Folk Club is the home of great singers!

At our gig on Tuesday 11th Nov we were hugely impressed - they caught on right away and were in great voice.

New date added in November

8th Nov - College of Piping. See "gigs" for more info

New video clips

From the 2008 Scottish Harp and Cello Festival opening concert.

Fringe review from Three Weeks

Cheyenne Brown And Seylan Baxter ***

Cheyenne Brown and Seylan Baxter's concert offered a refreshingly genuine taste of Scottish tradition to counterbalance all those tartan tourist shops. A harpist and cello, they played traditional tunes - Celtic jigs, Scottish drinking songs, the work of the obligatory Robert Burns - but with their own lively and innovative arrangements. The combination of harp and cello proved a rich, beautiful one, especially when topped off with Baxter's soft singing voice. Brown on harp shifted between playing lightly and nimbly to coaxing a deep, rich sound from its strings. While Baxter claimed they avoid "songs about fairies, because of the harp, and the long hair thing", their magical piece 'Gossamer Wings' was entrancing and these two musicians successfully cast a spell on their audience.

Rosslyn Chapel gig (24th Aug) sold out.

Back from Spain and Germany

We had a great time and met lots of lovely people. Tattie Jam and The Paul MacKenna Band were also playing in Spain as well as a couple of great Spanish bands. In Germany with us were Eilidh Steel and Mark O'Neal and The Battlefield Band among others. It was great to return to both the Festival Internacional de la Sierra and the Interketlisches Folkfestival for a second year.

Next gig is Sunday 24th August in Rosslyn Chapel together with Rachel Hair and Paul Tracey. The Fringe box office is sold out but there are a couple of tickets left direct from the venue.

Edinburgh Festival gig

We're playing at St Bride's Accoustic Music centre this Tuesday, 5th August.

New photos in gallery

Celebrate the solstice!

Lots of gigs in mid June in Glasgow area - check out 'live' for details.

The guestbook is now up and running again. :-)

Cheyenne on Radio Scotland

Cheyenne was on the Fred MacAulay show this morning talking about teaching kids and the Harp Festival.

Technical problems

We've been having some problems with the guestbook. Sincere apologies to those who've tried to leave a message without success. We hoping the problem will be resolved really soon - please try again then!!

Next gigs

April 1st - Edinburgh International Harp Festival (Cheyenne is also teaching throughout the festival)
April 3rd - The Lot, Edinburgh - 'Cello Songs' with Ruaridh Pringle

Festival success

Read about the 2008 Scottish Harp and Cello Festival in our 'festival' page and see pics in 'gallery'. If you took any good pics why not email us them and we'll put them up too.

New videos

We've posted a clip of Seylan playing at the 30th anniversary concert of Spanish group, Acetre, in 2006 and one of the 2007 Interkeltisches Festival in Hofheim, Germany.

Living Tradition Review

There's a great reveiw of 2:forty in the Jan/Feb 2008 edition of the LT:

"The girls' wonderful treatment of all this music leaves each track with a feeling of 'the new' about it."
"I found myself becoming lost in the innovative soundscapes created by this incredibly talented duo. It's pretty easy to get lost in this music."
"I really look forward to there being more to come."

Scottish Harp and Cello Festival

Friday 22nd-Sunday 24th February 2008. The College of Piping, Otago Street, Glasgow.
Tutors include Wendy Weatherby and Wendy Stewart. See 'Festival' page for details. Poster in 'Gallery' under 'Festival'
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