Janet Lees & Rab Woods
Sunday 25th May 2025 4-6pm
Janet Lees and Rab Woods present a new duo set including original compositions, modern trad and some well-loved traditional songs and tunes, with influences reaching from home into the North Atlantic and Nordic regions.
Fiddle player Janet Lees is a founder member of Corran Raa and has performed at many of Scotland’s best loved festivals. She is known for her energetic and lyrical playing style with a big tone.
Equally at home on the accompaniment, lead or vocals, Rab Woods is a highly skilled multi-instrumentalist renowned locally for producing great music with the Hollow Mountain String Band, Kings Road and the Woods Family “Tonic”.
Rab is also a very talented composer and has been busy this winter writing new music to suit the dynamic of the Argyll based duo, featuring vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and cittern. Although not all will be played at once!
“Rab Woods…a leading light of the local music scene and a huge talent." Oban Times
Michael Cassidy
Friday 25th April 2025, 3.30-5.30pm
Back at The Pierhouse for a second year, Michael Cassidy is a singer songwriter from Paisley whose music is best described as contemporary folk/pop. He cites a great variety of influences ranging from Folk heavyweights such as Richard Thompson and John Martyn to more contemporary acts such as Rufus Wainwright and Laura Marling. He is the inaugural winner of the Gerry Rafferty songwriting award - with his song 'The men who stood beside me in the war'.
Fèis Latharna
Sunday 3rd August, 3.30-5.30pm
Fèis Latharna is a local organisation run by volunteers and supported by tutors to promote the traditional language, culture and music of the Gaeldom, but in particular the Lorn area. The band is put tgether to give young musicians experience of being a touring musician as they undertake a 4-week tour of Argyll and the Islands.