Shooglenifty

Kick off your Easter weekend in style with this Special Shooglenifty Benefit gig in Glenuig Hall on Thursday 28th March. This night will help raise funds for Glenuig shop which is struggling due to the massive price hikes in electricity, and is currently in need of additional funds to undertake essential repairs

Shooglenifty was formed in 1990 by musicians from the Scottish Highlands, Orkney and Edinburgh. Its bright spark was the idea of fusing traditional and traditional-sounding melodies with the beats and basslines of a mixed bag of more contemporary influences. As happy playing a small highland village hall as they are on an outdoor festival stage playing to tens of thousands, the Shoogles, as they’re known to their devoted fans, have promoted Scottish music all over the world for over three decades – from Sarawak to Stornoway, Lorient to London, Adelaide to Aberdeen, Bangalore to Bristol.
Led by a Lochaber fiddle tradition sound carried first by founding member, the late Angus R Grant, and now by Eilidh Shaw, both early students of Angus’s legendary father Aonghas Grannd, Shooglenifty reached the ripe old age of 30 in 2020. Plans for celebrations were dashed by lockdown, but their new album Acid Croft Vol 9 had already been recorded at Ardgour’s Watercolour Music studios, and their indomitable spirit and quirky imagination let them find ingenious ways of promoting the release online.