Flutes and whistles in the Boda Bar during FluteFling Edinburgh 2018

Summer in Scotland is an exceptionally busy time, particularly so in the traditional and folk music calendar. Every weekend from May onwards there is a festival of some sort and the longer days and better weather rightly draw everyone to Shetland, Ullapool, Orkney, Moniaive, Girvan and everywhere in between. And that’s just for the music.

So it’s no surprise that numbers regularly tail off in May and June and for that reason the end of term session on Saturday 16th June is cancelled. My apologies if you had intended to come, but it makes the most sense. Once workshops resume after the summer I will look to put on something to replace it, but clearly now is not the right time.

I hope everyone has a great summer, with as much enjoyable music as they could wish for. I’m meeting Sharon Creasey, Kenny Hadden and Munro Gauld over the weekend to share ideas and explore dates for future gatherings over the next year, which promises to be an exciting one for fluters and whistlers in Scotland.

Regular FluteFling workshops in Edinburgh will resume in the Autumn, so look out for news of these and the other weekends over the coming weeks.