Aberdeen International Youth Festival offers variety of options for students and young people interested in learning more about traditional music and improving your skills.


Ceol Mor Trad Music Big Band

25 July - 2 August 2009


Ceol Mor is the Aberdeen International Youth Festival's young traditional big band, made up of some of the most most promising young traditional musicians from not only Scotland, but also from Canada and the USA.

Ceol Mor perform original and innovative arrangements of traditional Scottish songs and music as well as original work exploring the margins between traditional music, jazz and contemporary classical music.

The band have recently performed arrangements specially commissioned from some of Scotlands leading traditional musicians; Harris Playfair, Aidan O'Rourke, David Milligan and Corrina Hewat, have all composed and scored unique arrangements for Ceol Mor, which have been hugely succesful with the band and audiences alike.

The band will have an 11 day residency at the 2009 AIYF, including a week of rehearsals and gigs in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire.

http://www.myspace.com/ceolmortradband

Reviews

The Herald
Monday 6th August 2007
Aberdeen International Youth Festival:
World Music Night, Music Hall

"The ultimate source of the special atmosphere surrounding Aberdeen Youth Festival is its capacity for bringing together young musicians from every corner of the world in a spirit of co-operation. World Music Night was the very embodiment of this ideal. Ceol Mor, the Festival's Trad Music Big Band, featured performers from as far apart as Easter Ross and San Francisco, the Isle of Lewis and British Columbia. Their music is a fusion of many influences, Celtic, rock, jazz, classical, Latin and more. Aidan O'Rourke's Coriolis brought together Celtic fiddles and minimalism, while Corrina Hewat's The Wife O' Kelso underscored a Scots ballad with Latin rhythms. Harris Playfair's Movement 4 was the most convincing merging of rock, jazz and Celtic music. It sparked wild applause before an encore brought all the players together"