Mairi
MacInnes
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2004 dates coming soon...

November 2003
24th - Saint Andrew's At The Square, Glasgow. Mairi is performing at this special concert, recorded by BBC Radio Scotland as part of their 25th anniversary of broadcasting. Mairi is accompanied by Kevin MacKenzie on guitar. Hosting the programme is Iain Anderson. Also featuring in the concert are Karine Polwart, Jim Malcolm and Alasdair MacCuish and his band. To be broadcast on Radio Scotland on St Andrew's Night (30th November) at 7.30pm.

January 2004
25th - St David's Hall, Cardiff, Wales - Mairi is performing with the North Wales Llangwm male voice choir and the BBC Welsh Philharmonic Orchestra.
Celtic Connections - Glasgow - Mairi will be performing in several events, including Wendy Weatherby's musical setting of Sunset Song.

earlier 2003 appearances

Mairi has finished recording another 18 programmes of Na Daoine Beaga (The Little People), a childrens' programme for BBC Scotland to be broadcast in Autumn 2003.

Mairi's interview on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle by BBC's Songs of Praise, where she talked about her experiences at the Edinburgh Tattoo, was repeated on the highlights programme shown in July.

Mairi has been interviewing Scottish Gaels - including Flora MacNeill - about their life and faith on Sunday Morning's Eadar Sinn Fhein programme shown on ITV between 1100 and 1130am. More interviews will be recorded for the Tern TV production over the next few months.

January
Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow.
15th - Scottish Women concert, main auditorium, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Due to the success of the Scottish Women tour of Scotland in March 2002, Celtic Connections have invited Scottish Women to open their 10th anniversary festival in 2003. Mairi appears along with ten other well known Scots and Gaelic singers, with Brian McNeill as musical director of a five-piece band.
18th - Mairi MacInnes and Cor Llangwm, Glasgow Cathedral, 'Ysbryd y Gael' Concert (Spirit of the Gael) with Tony McManus and William Jackson.
20th - An Evening of Gaelic Song, The Piping Centre with Ishbel MacAskill, Flora MacNeil, Maggie MacInnes, Margaret Bennett,and Maeve MacKinnon.

28th January - 12th February
SFFT03 Scottish Folk Festival Tour of Germany (venues tbc).

Mairi has been teaching Gaelic Song one day a week since September 2001 at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on the BA Traditional Scottish Music Course.

Mairi is to be part of a new childrens' series Na Daoine Beaga (The Little People) for BBC Scotland, starting to record in September, to be broadcast in the New Year.

Mairi has recently recorded a couple of tracks on The Complete Songs of Robert Burns collection vols 11 & 12 for Linn Records. The CDs are due to be released in February 2003.

August
Lorient Interceltic Festival, Brittany, France. Also Performing with Mairi on both nights will be Tony McManus, Maggie MacInnes and Brian McAlpine.
4th - Mairi MacInnes and Friends at the Palais de Congres.
5th - Chants at St Louis Church.

September
5th - Talisker Distillery, Skye - performance with Tony McManus.
6th - Talisker Distillery, Skye - Gaelic song workshop.

October
9th to 16th - Celtic Colours Festival, Cape Breton, Novia Scotia, Canada. Mairi will be Singer in Residence for the week, performing at concerts and leading workshops throughout the festival.

earlier 2002 appearances

January
Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow.
23rd - Mairi will be performing at a Waulking Song concert at 8pm in the Piping Centre along with Flora MacNeil, Maggie MacInnes, Maeve MacKinnon, Ishbel MacAskill and Margaret Bennett.

February / March
Since November 2001 Mairi has been a filming the six-part series An Teaghlach (The Family) which she is presenting for Eolas Television. It will be broadcast in April 2002.

February
3rd - 5.20pm - BBC Songs of Praise, Search and Rescue television broadcast from Lossiemouth, near Elgin.
9th and 10th - Gaelic Song workshops at Park Street Education Base, Falkirk.

March
19th to 28th - Mairi is one of five Gaelic singers participating in the Scottish Women tour which commences at Eden Court, Inverness and finishes at the Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. There are also five Scots singers involved and a five-piece band with Brian McNeill as Musical Director. These are collaborations between artists who performed previously at the Celtic Connections concerts Gaelic Women (2000) and Scots Women (2001). Funded by the Scottish Arts Council.

June
15-16th - Concert with the Llangwm Male Welsh Choir at Bethel Hen Chapel, Llarhuddlad, Holyhead, Angelsey, North Wales.

some 2001 appearances

August - KIRKCUDBRIGHT TATTOO WITH LLANGWM WELSH MALE CHOIR AND WILLIAM JACKSON. Mairi has recorded with the choir on the Welsh television programme Nosan Lawen. This will be broadcast Sep/Oct 2001 on Channel 4 (Welsh).

September - BRISTOL COLSTON HALL - TRIBUTE CHARITY CONCERT TO RUSS CONWAY. With personalities from stage and screen.

October - Greentrax Recordings showcase concert, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, with many other Greentrax artistes.

At the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

previous appearances

Mairi MacInnes has wowed audiences throughout Scotland and beyond, appearing at many festivals including Celtic Colours in Cape Breton Island and Celtic Connections in Glasgow.

One of Mairi's most memorable concerts was in Murcia in Spain at Easter 1997. Mairi was totally overwhelmed by the reception she received that night. The hospitality and the warmth of the audience was quite superb. Mairi hopes it is not too long before she performs in Spain again.

Some may remember Mairi as the lead singer in the musical Shehallion, the music and dance of the Scottish nation, promoted and produced by Polygram Records and International Artistes, in which she received rave reviews.

Others will recognise her as the Gaelic singer who recorded Ysbryd y Gael with the Llangwm male voice choir. This song has taken Wales by storm and is regularly played on the radio.