Scottish Supergroup Session A9 are previous winners of Best Live Act at MG Albas Scottish Traditional Music Awards. Their latest album The Magic Roundabout was also amongst the shortlist for Album of the Year at the 2024 awards.
Venue: TDC, Sabhal Mr Ostaig
Showtime: 19:30
x2 sets of music.
After many musical get togethers and sessions up and down the A9, they started performing together as Session A9 over 20 years ago. The band members come from all over Scotland, from as far up as Wick and then Shetland. They have performed throughout the UK festival scene including Celtic Connections, Hebridean Celtic Festival, Shetland Folk Festival, Orkney Folk Festival, Cambridge Folk Festival, Glastonbury and many more, they have also played throughout Europe including Tonder Festival, Lrient Festival, Ortiguera and have also visited the USA.
Each member of Session A9 can also be seen performing with many of traditional musics most respected bands, including Capercaillie, The Treacherous Orchestra, The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc, as well as their own individual ensembles.
Fiddle players Kevin Henderson, Adam Sutherland, Charlie Mckerron and Gordon Gunn are joined as always by David Chimp Robertson on percussion, Marc Clement on guitar and vocals and Brian McAlpine on piano.
Fantastic tunes, great banter and a good fun time makes it a show not to be missed, Edinburgh Music Review 2024
Playing with zest, finesse, harmonic sensitivity and an element of cheek and mischief Rob Adams, The Times 2023
A class act Mary Ann Connolly, Edinburgh Gig Review 2022"
A richness of sound that can verge on the symphonic ... From reflective to mesmerising to downright barnstorming". The Herald"
Fiercely bright and energetic contemporary instrumental music with a full heart and a head for invention". Songlines
"Tighter than James Brown". The Proclaimers
"The best band to come out of Scotland in a hundred years". Dougie MacLean.