tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74186299396950264012024-03-14T09:44:10.201-07:00Session A9: NewsSession A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-5419502381630998072012-12-08T14:56:00.001-08:002012-12-08T14:56:19.117-08:00Session A9 voted 'Best Live Act' at the Scot Trad Music Awards!Hello there!<br />
Hope you are all well! <br />
We are over the moon to find out that we were voted 'Best Live Act' at the 2012 Scots Trad Music Awards! :)<br />
Its very humbling to win the award especially considering the brilliant acts there were nominated in the same category.<br />
We would like to say a huge thank you to all of you who voted for us.<br />
It means a lot!<br />
Thanks for the support!<br />
All the best,<br />
Session A9 <br />
<br />Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-73309919576459334492012-08-21T06:38:00.002-07:002012-08-21T06:38:46.624-07:00Summer news!Hello there!<br /><br />Hope your all enjoying whats left of the summer!<br />Hard to believe its nearly over........<br /><br />Thought we would drop you a line to tell you whats coming up the next month or so!<br /><br />This coming weekend we head down to England to play the Shrewsbury and Towersey folk festivals so we are looking forward to that very much!<br />Maybe see some of you there! :)<br /><br />In September we go on tour in the UK as well as a concerts in Norway and Belgium.<br /><br />The September tour schedule is as follows:<br /><br />September 7th 2012 - Riksscenen, Oslo, Norway<br /><br />September 8th 2012 – Bromyard Folk Festival <br /><br />September 9th 2012 – Scottish Weekend, Belgium <br /><br />September 11th 2012 – An Tobar @ Aros Hall, Isle of Mull<br /><br />September 12th 2012 – Tolbooth, Stirling<br /><br />September 13th 2012 – Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal <br /><br />September 14th 2012 – Eastgate Theatre, Peebles<br /><br />September 15th 2012 – Ramsbottom Festival, The Met, Bury<br /><br />September 21st 2012 – Gala Theatre, Durham<br /><br />September 22nd 2012 - Queens Hall, Edinburgh<br /><br />You can get more info at the gigs section on the website.<br /><br />The Ramsbottom Festival has a special offer on tickets at the moment! The price will rise at the start of September so best to get in there now!! :)<br /><br />We have a new album coming out imminently so we are very excited about that!<br />We are delighted with the final results and hopefully you all will be too! :)<br />Watch this space for its release!<br />It will be available from the website in due course as well as various online and high street outlets!<br /><br />Well think that's all for now..<br />Thank you for your support and hope to see you at one of the upcoming gigs this coming weekend or in September!<br /><br />Until next time,<br /><br />Session A9Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-10624086749589396712012-01-19T07:57:00.000-08:002012-01-19T08:01:09.184-08:00<p>Hello everyone!</p> <p>Happy new year to you all!</p> <p>Just wanted to let you know about a special deal being offered by Celtic Connections at the moment!</p> <p>The deal is £5 tickets for under 26s and is for 26 selected events which includes the Session A9 concert on the 26th January! Grab them while you can as they are selling fast!</p> <p>We have 2 radio broadcasts being recorded during Celtic Connections for the Global Gathering show and also Irelands RTE radio show so keep an ear out for those!</p> <p>We go into the studio in February to begin work on the new album so we are all very excited about that. The album will be released later in the year. Watch this space!</p> <p>We have 2 UK dates in March including a special concert at the Paisley Abbey on the 23rd and the Hawick Festival on the 24th. Check the gig section of the website<a href="http://sessiona9gigs.blogspot.com/"> here</a> for details.</p> <p>Hopefully see you at one of the upcoming gigs!</p> <p>Cheers for now,</p> <p>Session A9</p>Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-91370257982577948252011-02-19T11:14:00.000-08:002011-02-19T11:28:40.273-08:00New dates announced!Hello there!<div>Hope your all well!</div><div>Just a short news post to say we have some dates to tell you about.</div><div>We have a big tour in May playing up and down the country so we are looking forward to that very much! :)</div><div>Following the May tour we are playing the Stonehaven Folk Festival in July as well as some other things in the pipeline so check back for details on the "gig" section of the website.</div><div>All the best,</div><div>Session A9</div>Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-27323216426668995992010-10-27T10:28:00.000-07:002010-10-27T10:44:23.189-07:00New album available for sale!<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Hello there!</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Just a wee update to say the brand new "live" album entitled "One for the Road", recorded at Eden Court in Inverness during our February tour, is now available from the website!</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">The album features some brand new material as well as some old favourites!</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">We have recently been on tour in the UK which went very well indeed! It was good to get back to some of the venues we have not been at for a while as well as getting to some new ones! Thanks to all for having us and for looking after us so well. Hopefully see you again soon!</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">In addition to the UK tour we also had a fantastic trip to the Galdames Folk Festival in the Basque country!</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">A big thanks to Actos and to the Galdames Festival for having us and for the great food and wine!</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">We have a few plans for 2011 so check the website soon for details!</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Thats all for now!</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">All the best,</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Session A9</p>Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-32253103279149300722010-03-02T02:15:00.000-08:002010-03-02T02:20:26.222-08:00A busy start to 2010!<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">Hello Everyone!</p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">Welcome to the latest Session A9 news update!</p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">We have had a busy start to the year. It kicked off at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow when we were involved in a fantastic project called "A Scottish Songbook". Session A9 were part of the house band in the project which featured fantastic singers from a range of genres covering a great variety of songs from new to old. Great fun was had by all!</p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">Following that we made a return to the festival to play our own concert at the Fruitmarket. The concert was a sell out and it gave us the chance to play some new material we have been working on. We really enjoyed the gig and it was great to have ex Session A9 member, the brilliant Kris Drever who opened the show come up for a couple of numbers.</p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">We then set off on a 2 week tour of the UK. It was great to have such a fantastic turn out for the gigs, especially since many of the gigs were in new places for us! Thanks to all the venues and organisers for putting on the concerts and thanks also to everyone who came out to support them. Hopefully we will see you again sometime soon!</p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">Next we set off for the Shetland Folk Festival at the end of April which looks like it will be a cracker! its the 30th anniversary of the festival so check it out if you havent been there before. Its a great weekend! <a href="http://www.shetlandfolkfestival.com/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; color: rgb(28, 79, 173); text-decoration: none; ">www.shetlandfolkfestival.com</a></p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">We have a good few things planned throughout the year with various festivals at both home and abroad and also we have another extensive tour of the UK in October. Please check the Gig section from time to time to see what we are up too! :)</p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">Until next time!</p><p style="margin-top: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; ">Session A9</p></span>Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-15684235696839075242009-12-24T06:39:00.000-08:002009-12-24T06:41:20.719-08:00Happy Xmas and all the best for 2010!Hi everyone!<div>Just want to wish you all a very happy Christmas and all the very best for 2010!</div><div>Hope to see you at an A9 gig soon!</div><div>Please check the gig section of the website for details of our upcoming concerts.</div><div>Until next time!</div><div>Session A9</div><div><br /></div>Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-31780509579172004922009-11-16T01:47:00.000-08:002009-11-16T02:39:55.295-08:00Session A9 nominated for award!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Hi everyone!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Hope your all well!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Session A9 have been nominated for an award at the 2009 Scottish Trad Music awards. The nomination is in the "Live Act of the Year" category and if you fancy voting you can do so at:</span></span></div><div><a href="http://handsupfortrad.co.uk/tradmusicawards/index.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">www.handsupfortrad.co.uk</span></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Voting closes on the 20th of November.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">We had a great night on Friday the 13th at the Scots Fiddle Festival which is held in the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">We were part of the "Heat the Hoose" concert also featuring </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Beólach & Dannsa who were brilliant! A great night was had by all! </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">A big thanks to all the organisers for the great job in organising such a fantastic weekend.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The Fiddle Festival was also a chance to air some new material we have been working on recently at a rehearsal weekend we had in October. We were lucky to get the use of the fantastic facilities at the beautiful Inschriach House Estate near Aviemore which was a very inspiring place to rehearse indeed!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">We are all looking forward to the next one! :-)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">It will be a very busy start to 2010 for Session A9. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">It all kicks off on the 16th of January at Celtic Connections where Session A9 will be the house band for a very special concert called "A Scottish Song Book". The concert will feature some of Scotlands finest singers from a variety of genres singing </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">folk standards to pop classics, leftfield cult anthems to Gaelic ballads". </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;">On the 29th of January Session A9 will play the Old Fruitmarket in a concert alongside the brilliant Kris Drever, a great friend and ex Session A9 member so we are really looking forward to that one!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;">For more info on Celtic Connections and the above gigs check <a href="http://www.celticconnections.com">www.celticconnections.com</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;">The 30th sees the start of a 2 week tour where we will play throughout Scotland and England. For more info please check the "Gigs" section of the website.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;">There are many other things in the pipeline for throughout the year so more info about them later!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;">Until next time :-)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;">All the best,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 22px;">Session A9</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div>Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7418629939695026401.post-38515830318426985492009-04-07T07:36:00.001-07:002009-04-18T11:55:29.988-07:00Session A9 new website and "Session A9 and Beyond" tour!<div align="center"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70rwgCTYCWZPUf_nA0uitDRWjh8ETr3HgAgzthu07fJXjfGP_CvDVi_ykaE7_TgU6mKLWJVlCmXNeU5_XtzrufiR3rZuu0oarwfXYT9zghllH8oAQHaMRjUL_c9g3IM2no9wvy3TLDK8P/s1600-h/sac_tune_up_wonb.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321965006069121826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 82px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70rwgCTYCWZPUf_nA0uitDRWjh8ETr3HgAgzthu07fJXjfGP_CvDVi_ykaE7_TgU6mKLWJVlCmXNeU5_XtzrufiR3rZuu0oarwfXYT9zghllH8oAQHaMRjUL_c9g3IM2no9wvy3TLDK8P/s200/sac_tune_up_wonb.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Hello everyone!<br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Hope your all well and having a great 2009 so far.</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">We brought in 2009 on stage at the Perth Concert Hall playing at the Hogmany celebrations Pyrotechnics and all!! Everyone was in great fettle and it was a great way to bring in 2009!</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">We have a brand new website we would like to tell you about!</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">The site has just gone live this week and we are delighted with the final design!</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">The site was developed by the very talented Kristen Kirby and you can find more information on her company at <a href="http://www.websitesbykristen.com/">http://www.websitesbykristen.com/</a></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Session A9 and Beyond!</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Session A9 are getting ready for a big tour in Scotland in June. The "Session A9 and Beyond" tour was kindly assisted by Tune-Up Scotland and will enable us to reach some of the more remote venues around Scotland as well as the established. We are delighted to have special guest, Daire Mulhern, a fantastic button box player from Ireland joining us on the tour. Please check out our Gigs page to see the details!</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">We would like to express our thanks to Tune-Up Scotland for supporting the tour.<br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Hopefully see some of you at an A9 gig somewhere soon!</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Until next time....</div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left">Session A9<br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"></div></div>Session A9http://www.blogger.com/profile/01836559623446017181noreply@blogger.com