The Alasdair Roberts song ‘Haruspex of Paradox’ features on this album.
Tour with Mairi Morrison begins this evening at Cumbernauld Theatre.
May Touring
May 1st, 2012
Back in January 2011, Alasdair Roberts got together with the Lewis-born Gaelic singer Mairi Morrison and a bunch of their musician friends to make a record called Urstan, which is out now on Drag City Records. The recording was facilitated by Ceol ‘s Craic, Glasgow’s popular Gaelic club night which happens regularly at the Centre for Contemporary Arts.
This month, May 2012, Mairi Morrison and Alasdair Roberts will be touring in support of Urstan throughout Scotland and England.
Tourdates can be seen on the Live page of this website.
APRIL-JUNE TOURDATES
April 10th, 2012
Alasdair Roberts will be appearing on stage before Ryan Adams at four concerts this month. They are in Dublin, Belfast, Gateshead and London. Please see the Live page of this site for more information.
On the evening of Saturday 21st April he will be singing at The Arches, Glasgow with RM Hubbert and Emma Pollock.
May/June Urstan tour dates (Mairi Morrison and Alasdair Roberts) have now been updated on the Live page also.
JURA: TIP OF THE TONGUE FESTIVAL
April 7th, 2012
Delighted to announce an appearance by Alasdair Roberts at Tip of the Tongue Festival, a festival of oral culture, on the isle of Jura tomorrow evening.
SPANISH TOUR UPDATE
March 28th, 2012
The Spanish tour continues with some alterations: some of the gigs will now take place as a quartet rather than a trio, with the addition of drummer Alex Neilson to the trio of Victor Herrero, Jose Luis Herrero and Alasdair Roberts.
March 28th Madrid Taberna Albanda (quartet)
March 29th Zaragoza O Cabaliño Do Demo (quartet)
March 30th Zaragoza Joaquin Roncal (Musica Subterranea) (quartet)
March 31st Barcelona Minifestival (quartet)
April 1st Azpeitia Sanagustin Kulturgunea (trio)
April 2nd Castellon Sons Cicle (trio)
SOLO DATES WITH RYAN ADAMS IN APRIL
March 15th, 2012
APRIL 19th: Dublin Olympia Theatre, Republic of Ireland
APRIL 20th: Belfast Waterfront Auditorium, Northern Ireland
APRIL 22nd: Gateshead Sage, England
APRIL 23rd: London Palladium, England
SPANISH TOUR MARCH/APRIL
March 5th, 2012
Spanish Tour 2012
March 24th Lleida Cafe del Teatre (Musiques Disperses) (solo)
March 26th Algeciras Universidad (quintet)
March 27th Huelva Universidad (quintet)
March 28th Madrid Taberna Albanda (trio)
March 30th Zaragoza Joaquin Roncal (Musica Subterranea) (trio)
March 31st Barcelona Minifestival (trio)
April 1st Azpeitia Sanagustin Kulturgunea (trio)
April 2nd Castellon Sons Cicle (trio)
‘Urstan’ Album Launch; Margins Festival
February 20th, 2012
We are delighted to announce the official launch of the CD/LP Urstan by Mairi Morrison and Alasdair Roberts. This will take place at the CCA in Glasgow at 8pm on 25th February 2012 and tickets can be found here. The evening before the launch, on 24th February, Alasdair will be doing solo Scots bàrdachd at The Arches, Glasgow as part of the excellent Margins Festival. Also on the bill are Withered Hand and Roddy Woomble & Sorren MacLean. Lots of great stuff is happening at Margins Festival, so be sure to check it out if you are in Glasgow.
Mairi Morrison comes from Bragar on the Isle of Lewis, one of the furthermost parts of the Scottish Gàidhealtachd – indeed, almost as far west as one can go in Scotland before reaching North America. Of all the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland, Lewis is culturally one of the richest of all; Mairi now lives in Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, but she carries the Lewis tradition in her heart and her voice.
Ceol ‘s Craic, a Glasgow-based club devoted to promoting Gaelic arts in the city, brought Mairi and Alasdair together to make Urstan, which takes its title from a Lewis-specific word for a celebration held at the birth of a new child. A dram of whisky, basically. The album features Stevie Jones (bass), Alastair Caplin (fiddle) and Alex Neilson (drums) and special guest appearances from such Glasgow music scene luminaries as Michael John McCarthy (Zoey Van Goey), David McGuinness (Concerto Caledonia), Ross MacRae and Richard Merchant (Second Hand Marching Band/Horns of Plenty), Peter Nicholson (The One Ensemble), Mike Hastings (Trembling Bells) and Gaelic song and piobiareachd authority Allan MacDonald.
The album will be released by Drag City Records in March 2012.
PERTINENT LINKS:
LONDON 12th FEBRUARY
February 9th, 2012
