JURA Music Festival welcomes a few of Scotland’s best folk musicians this weekend, swelling the island’s population of 200 people and 6,000 deer.
Now in its 23rd year, the festival for lovers of the traditional music scene promises great craic between September 23 and 25, from the locals’ Friday night ceilidh to the Sunday night concert in the Jura Distillery cooperage, with a big marquee, workshops and spontaneous sessions in between.
The line-up for the Saturday night concert and ceilidh features Daimh, the Gaelic supergroup and unchallenged champions of straight-in-the-eye Highland music. They have ‘set audiences alight Moscow to San Francisco’, the festival website says, ‘and they can now add Jura to their global list.’ Daimh, pronounced Dive, were also voted Scottish Folk Band of the Year at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards last year, and the Best Folk Band in Europe at Folkherbst in Germany.