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Vote for Campbell’s Ceilidh for Community Project of the Year!

Exciting news! Campbell’s Ceilidh  been nominated for Community Project of the Year (sponsored by Greentrax Recordings) at Na Trad Awards! I don’t know who nominated us but it’s very lovely and thank you very much.  The award is for the traditional music project that best serves your community. This is could be online or something physical. It’s also a chance to see what’s going on in Scotland around folk music. It’s a great community and I’m proud to be part

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Campbell’s Ceilidh, puppy love and more (October news)

Hello folks, Last reminder that the ‘Interplay’ Untensive workshop starts this evening and runs through to Sunday (9-11 October). Sign up through my shop. Also don’t miss out on Campbell’s Ceilidh on Sunday evenings. This is a live event direct from my living room to yours. As the nights draw in and these strange times fall upon us, this is a check in – an authentic and powerful weekly gathering of story, song and music with artists and friends from around the world.

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New single and more (September news)

Hello folks, Welcome back to the monthly. I’m back from hols and hopefully heading back to something approaching normality… with my first live gig since lockdown last weekend. It was a ‘secret’ outdoor gig in central Edinburgh organised by Douglas Robertson’s Sound House. Karine Polwart and Sean Shibe were also there and the music just poured out of them. So great to hear and be part of! More info below about Campbell’s Ceilidh, a new online string teaching school, an October Untensive workshop and

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Heart song course is rescheduled for May 2021 – SOLD OUT

Now SOLD OUT. A gathering of voices on the magical island of Lismore, Argyll with Mairi Campbell and Suekali. Dates: Tuesday 11th May to Friday 14th May 2021. Cost: £250 – this includes course fees, lunches and dinners. Participants will need to book and pay for their own accommodation separately. See Mairi’s retreat FAQs for accommodation options. Maximum of 12 participants. Suekali brings her unique ability to cross the East/West musical bridge and shares her deep knowledge of the ancient

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Finding new ways to connect & 20% off the shop

Hello folks, We’re in the mother of all change and it’ll probably be OK in the end, but bloody bonkers to be going through it. What I do know is I love our weekly Campbell’s Ceilidh. Folk are getting to know one another as time goes on and the form of turns followed by breakout rooms seems to be working well enough and will morph if required. Please come along if you haven’t checked us out. I hope that we can

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Campbell’s Ceilidh continues… this Sunday eve

Hello folks, Here is the info about Campbell’s Ceilidh this Sunday 19th April. I hope you want to come back and join us again and I look forward to meeting new faces. It was wonderful to see so many friends, fans and family last Sunday at our inaugural Campbell’s Ceilidh! There were poems spoken by my father Archie, Maureen from the choir gave us a song. Betsy and Al sang a duet from their livin groom in the US and Zooby’s poem

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Easter Sunday… you’re invited to Campbell’s Ceilidh online…

Hi folks, happy Easter weekend! Campbell’s Ceilidh is happening online this Easter Sunday, 12th April at 7pm (British Summer Time). I’ll be hosting an online, old style ceilidh. Bring a poem, a tune or song and we’ll share some live sounds from your living room to mine. Set yourself up with a speaker, go get a cuppa, and come and hang out with me this Easter Sunday at 7pm (British Summer Time). Numbers are limited. First come, first served. The

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Unfolding song workshop

Friday 4 September 2020–Monday 7 September 2020 at Kilcreggan House Facilitated by Mairi Campbell and Helen Chadwick. Through improvisation and play, ideas will come, tunes form and rhythms unfold. We’ll tend to these elements and explore how we can collaboratively let them grow into song. We call this unfolding song because what we make emerges out of the collective experience of the group, guided by our facilitators, crafted and sung by all of us. Helen and Mairi bring both technical

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*Festival of Song workshop

*Thursday June 18–Monday June 22 at Kilcreggan House *Cancelled/ postponed due to Covid-19* Facilitated by Kate Howard, Mairi Campbell, Helen Chadwick and Ali Mills Last year’s Festival of Song was was such a warm, open-hearted occasion. Optional yoga in the mornings, different sessions of singing, improvisation and performance throughout the day, ceildh dancing, story-telling and more songs at night. And the food and the craic! Mairi, Helen, Kate and Ali will run the show again. You can camp, stay in

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