About the Performance
Ballads, psalms and songs from the days of Columba to the present, rub shoulders with medieval and renaissance dance tunes and an 18th century bagpipe in this first concert.
Tracing the beginnings of some of Scotland's great musical traditions are the triplepipe, seen carved on many a Pictish stone in Scotland but now surviving only in Sardinia, and music for the original wire-strung clàrsach, heard along with the gut-strung instrument familiar today from the Victorian revival.