The Battlefield Band in Concert

Waipu Museum presents - The most famous Celtic Band in the world

"Not seen them yet? Shame on you"
Kaye McAlpine, Edinburgh Evening News

Inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the strength of today's Scottish Cultural scene, which indeed they have done much to create and fuel, Battlefield Band perform a music of rare passion and joy under the banner "Forward with Scotland's Past".

Refusing to be limited musically by suffocating antiquarianism, or the 'music business', they have mixed the old songs with new self-penned material, playing them in a unique fusion of ancient and modern instruments - bagpipe, fiddle, synthesiser, guitar, cittern, flute, badhran and accordian.

Named after the Glasgow suburb of Battlefield, where the group was formed by four student friends, Battlefield Band have been on the world's roads for just on 30 years now, distilling their own unique form of Scottish spirit and bottling it in concert and onto disc - Germany, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Syria, Jordan, India, Sri Lanka, Egypt, USA, Canada, Uzbekistan and the UK.

They have broken down barriers and pioneered many new directions which others have followed. Angry, joyful, raucous, contemplative, their music is most importantly - accessible to all.

Event listed by Rosemary Neave

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