Clanadonia are all set to perform at this year’s Culture Fest at the 02 ABC Glasgow on Sat 6th September. tickets are on sale for the event at ticketweb.co.uk
Watch the promo video for Clanadonia below…
This summer sees the guys doing a fair bit of work on the festival circuit:
Saturday 8th June
Bully Club, Irish Folk Festival, Poyenburg, Germany.
Thursday 13th – Saturday 15th June
Harley Festival, Rome
Friday 12th July
Concert in Belchatow, Poland
Friday 2nd – Saturday 3rd August
Loreley Tattoo, Germany
Thursday 12th September – Sunday 15th September
European Buskers Festival, Landshut, Germany
We know they’re not technically Irish, but the guys are delighted to have been invited to play at the Irish folk festival in Poyenberg, Germany on the 7th, 8th and 9th of June this year. The festival has been going for years and hopes to draw a capacity crowd of 7500 bodies over the three days and tickets are apparently selling well. Enjoy.
In the middle weekend in June, the guys play at the Harley Davidson festival in Rome. HD are celebrating 110 years of “freedom” so it’s only fitting the Braveheart boys help them out with that. The organisers expect many thousands of HOGs todescend on the city coming from all corners of the globe and the head honchos of this family run company will be there too.
Clanadonia are proud to be headlining the Keltisch midzomer festival in Bad Nieuweschans in Holland this week. This is the 6th year this festival has been staged but it’s the first time the guys have played it. They’re due to welcome the crowds on the Friday, play a few sets around the ground on the Saturday, including play at a hand-fasting event and then closing the show on the Sunday night.
Later in the month they are playing at the Scottish Car show an in August the Edinburgh festival begins and the guys will be playing a few street events, during the month, keep an eye on this site for more news of that.
Well, what a year in the world of Clanadonia. The guys have played big gigs such as the Celtica Festival in Italy and opened the proceedings on the main stage at Scotland’s own T in the park; smaller events have included playing in a Gorbals park in Glasgow and the usual host of weddings, corporate events and the usual kilt fuelled mayhem that are their street performances. Other highlights of the year have included playing live with the great Alan McKim and even being asked to perform in his video for “Sumerian” and attempting to out-volume a rally of Harley-Davidsons at the thunder in the glen rally in Aviemore.
The band have become pretty popular on Youtube and especially Flickr as tourists all over the globe have stopped to film and shoot and my favourite description of them has to be the individual who described the guys as “scary Scots drummers“. Superb, and not inaccurate.
One other development this year is that the guys are now exclusively represented by Freak Music and the guys there are currently lining up a host of other festival gigs for next summer, both home and abroad. If you want to be kept up to date with details of this, subscribe to the mailing list via the tab poking out of the right of the main page or get in touch with Freak.
Clanadonia would like wish all visitors to this page and anyone who has stopped by to watch them play, a mental Drumming Christmas and a Piping hot New Year. And don’t forget, the guys are playing at George Square in Glasgow at the New Year celebrations.
Slàinte and keep it tribal.
The festival season may be over but over at our agent’s, Freak Music, they’re hard at work chasing up European festivals for us for 2012. There’s a vast number of festivals out there, some in the very specialised 10-15,000 attendees bracket up to the 50-70,000 crazy weekends. Watch this space.
All roads will lead to Fintona this weekend when the Country Living Festival opens at 9.30am on Saturday & Sunday. A vast array of entertainment and trade stands will be present making this an ideal day out for all the family, all on your doorstep. Located in beautiful countryside in Tyrone the prestigious Ecclesville Park will be transformed into a sea of all things country comprising both a wide range of entertainment and exhibitors.
Freak’s very own Clanadonia opened the proceedings at T in the Park this year. A 12:15 start on the main stage saw them lining up with the likes of Coldplay, Beyonce and the Manic Street Preachers!
Clanadonia are one of Freak Music’s most loved bands and they’re certainly no strangers to playing at such large events. Their dynamic sound and stage presence effortlessly won over the crowds. For those of you still unfamiliar with the band they are a traditional tribal drums and pipes band with an authentic highland look and sound. Take a look at their Freak Music profile to find out more about their unique and interesting past.
