TMSA Keith Festival

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Welcome to website for the TMSA Keith Festival.

Thanks to everyone who made the 2011 Keith Festival such a success. We'll be updating the site with photographs and competition results from this year's event.

The links above will provide you with more information, but for more details about next year's festival and to book tickets, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Telephone Sandy McCombie on (01542) 882638 or Wilma Murdoch on (01542) 887362, or email the Keith Festival at keithfestival@gmail.com

The 2012 TMSA Keith Festival will be held from Friday 8th until Sunday 10th June 2012. The website will be updated in the coming weeks with more information on what's happening this year.

2011 - Sunday Photographs

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BBQ

Open-air concert

Chorus Quaich

Farewell Concert

Photographs © Pat McCombie, Fiona Harvey & Malcolm Harvey

2011 - Saturday Photographs

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Saturday Sessions:

Craighursts

Royal Hotel

Ploo Inn

Cafe Le Jems

Saturday Concerts:

Bowling Club

Royal Hotel

Photographs © Pat McCombie, Fiona Harvey & Malcolm Harvey

2011 - Friday Photographs

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Session in the Ploo

Dance in the Royal British Legion

The Mayfield Group (above) and the Neil Hardie Scottish Dance Band (below) entertain the Friday crowd at the Legion.

All Photographs © Pat McCombie

Keith Festival 2011 Photographs

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Friday Photographs

Saturday Photographs

Sunday Photographs

Keith TMSA Concerts Photographs

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North Sea Gas concert - 16 April 2010

Gaberlunzie Concert - 7 May 2010

Keith Festival 2010 Photographs

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Saturday Concert Royal Hotel - 12 June 2010

Saturday Concert Bowling Club - 12 June 2010

Saturday Session 1 - 12 June 2010

Saturday Session 2 - 12 June 2010

Photographs

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To see some photographs from various venues and events hosted by the TMSA Keith Festival Committee, please click on the buttons below.

Gaberlunzie Concert

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Images from Gaberlunzie concert hosted by the TMSA Keith Festival Committee on 7 May 2010:

Contact

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For general enquires about the Keith Festival, email us at keithfestival@gmail.com and we'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

North Sea Gas Concert

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Images from North Sea Gas concert hosted by the TMSA Keith Festival Committee on 16 April 2010:

New Media

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Become a fan of the TMSA Keith Festival on Facebook by following the link (registration with Facebook required):

You can also watch some videos from the 2010 TMSA Keith Festival on YouTube:

Obituaries

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The TMSA Keith Festival committee is sad to note the passing in the last year of two regular contributors to the traditional music scene, both at the Festival itself and across Scotland.

Jim Reid

Scottish traditional music lost a stalwart performer on the 6th July last year with the passing away of Jim Reid at the age of 75 after a long illness. Jim was one of the founder members of the Keith Festival in 1976 and he attended every festival since then with the sad exception of 2009.

In the early days Jim had been a member of the Foundry Bar Band from Arbroath and many festival goers of yesteryear will recall the great ceilidhs at Gartly's on Sunday mornings at festival time. Jim, however, forged out a career as a solo artist and his great album "I Saw The Wild Geese Flee" was released in 1984. The title track from that album, adapted by Jim from a poem by Violet Jacob, came a favourite with audiences everywhere and was very much Jim's hallmark.

Jim not only did great service to traditional songs and music, for it is to be noted that he was a gifted instrumentalist on guitar, moothie and pipes, but he also penned a good number of songs as well as putting musical settings to the poems of Helen Cruickshank and the aforesaid Violet Jacob. Jim recorded his last album "Yont the Tay" for Greentrax in 2005 and a great valedictory opus it turned out to be with Jim returning with "The Wild Geese".

This year's Sunday night concert will be held in memory of Jim and there will be many a toast to that memory made on the night.

Frank McNally

It was noted with sadness the passing away of Frank McNally on 26th February at the age of 76. Frank regularly attended the Keith Festival and took part in the singing competitions often winning or being placed in the traditional and bothy ballad sections. Frank had a great voice and put feeling and understanding into the songs he sang. He will be greatly missed.

Upcoming Events

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From time to time, the Traditional Music and Song Association of Keith organise concerts with well-kent faces from the traditional music circuit. Check back here to find out more details - events will be added as and when they are finalised.

Saturday Concert - Royal Hotel

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Paul Anderson

Saturday Concert - Bowling Club

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Margaret Bennett

Strathspey Fiddlers

Festival - Saturday Sessions 1

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Plough Inn

Festival - Saturday Sessions 2

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Mid Street

Royal Hotel

The Deli Shop

Craighursts