Sometimes music can get so cluttered with tags and labels and methods of performance that it is difficult to know what was actually attractive about it in the first place. The challenge is to like what you are hearing, the sheer joy of getting into something on first experiencing it. Live music can capture this immediacy perfectly.
The 11th Le Weekend festival is jam packed with all kinds of musical nuance. Some you will not have heard some you may have and certainly some that have not been around for a long time.
The voice is the most intimate instrument of expression and at this year’s festival we have at least two of the most beautiful around in Victoria Bergsman from Taken by Trees and the iconic haunting sound of Annette Peacock who has not performed in the UK for over 20 years.
Le Weekend ventures outside of the heavy Tolbooth walls this year into the even more imposing space of the Church of the Holy Rude. David Fennessy’s new piece for organ and percussion will explore this beast of a machine filling the church’s gothic halls.
This year the hub of the festival will be the caf? bar, where the National Jazz Trio of Scotland will keep the intimacy direct with their delicate melodic twisted grooves. Bill Wells, from the trio, will also launch his very own Real Book, DJs will play some discreet tunes and Monorail will have well chosen product for sale.
Join us for three days of no limits music experience.
Le Weekend welcomes a new partner for this year’s festival, Plan B magazine.
Alasdair Campbell
Festival Director
le weekend festival, Tolbooth, Stirling, 23, 24, 25 May 2008
