Traditional music concert to honour 'Bothy Ballad King'

Traditional music concert to honour 'Bothy Ballad King'

A memorial concert to celebrate the life of Bothy Ballad King Tam Reid will bring together outstanding traditional singers and musicians from all over the UK when it is held later this month.

The Tam Reid Memorial Concert, organised jointly by the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute, at the University of Aberdeen, and the Aberdeen branch of the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland (TMSA), will be held on Saturday, October 30, at Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, from 7.30pm until 11.00pm.

Tam Reid (1929 - 2003), was a legendary singer, having been crowned in 1977, the Bothy Ballad King, before a crowd of 10,000 people at the Haughs in Turriff, a title that remained his until his death in January 2003.

Dr Ian Russell, Director of The Elphinstone Institute, said: "This is a wonderful opportunity to salute Tam's memory and to hear some of the finest traditional singers and musicians from the UK, who will all be gathered to pay tribute to the great man."

Guest performers who have been invited to take part in the concert include some of the country's best loved traditional singers and musicians, such as Robbie Shepherd, Joe Aitken, the Foundry Band, Robert Lovie, and Sheena Blackhall.

Tickets for the concert are priced at £10 (£8 concession), and are available from The Elphinstone Institute, 24 High Street, Aberdeen, AB24 3EB, telephone: (01224) 272996. Funds raised will support the British Heart Foundation, and the Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution.

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