A celebration of the flute in Scottish traditional music

Dougie Pincock (flute) and Dierdre Graham (clarsach) performing for Scottish Folk Day 2024.

Traditional flute players from Scotland and beyond have contributed to a video project to mark Scottish Folk Day — 23 September 2024.

As members of the Traditional Music Forum who are organising the event, FluteFling wanted to mark the success of The FluteFling Collection tune book, which will shortly be going into a second print run.

Claire Mann performs for Scottish Folk Day 2024.

For the event, the contributors were invited to make a video of one of their contributions to the book, highlighting some of the range of material and styles of playing the flute from a Scottish perspective. Featuring whistles, wooden flutes and Boehm system flute, the videos reflect the wide range of ideas and influences at FluteFling events.

The resulting videos were put together by FluteFling supporter Peter Saunders and can be found on his Scottish Flute Channel on YouTube.

FluteFling thanks the video contributors: Sharon Newton Creasey, John Gahagan, Kenny Hadden, Niall Kenny, Rebecca Knorr, Davy Maguire, Claire Mann, Orlaith McAuliffe, Tom Oakes, Dougie Pincock and Gordon Turnbull.

The FluteFling Collection

The FluteFling Collection was the first collection of music for traditional flute players in Scotland to be published for about 150 years. Published in 2022, the organisers invited previous tutors to contribute to the book, which contains over 100 tunes from some of the leading flute players and teachers in the traditional music scene.

There are still a handful of copies of the book available, from our online shop or in person from a FluteFling event, such as Aberdeen in November. Plans for a second volume are currently being explored.

Celebrating the traditional music scene

Organised by Scotland’s Traditional Music Forum (TMF), Scottish Folk Day is running in tandem with European Folk Day, held on the same date, which has been conceived and coordinated by the European Folk Network.

Scottish Folk Day will take place once more on Monday 23 September, celebrating the country’s lively traditional music scene, and offering a platform for musicians and artists at every level to showcase their talents. The event gives the public the opportunity to connect with the vibrant folk scene in Scotland and right across Europe.

The next FluteFling event takes place in Aberdeen 1-3 November.