Festival appearances
A full (as far as memory and raking through our records allows) history of the events promoted by the GCA and the Glenuig Music Festival Committee, up to the opening of the new hall in April 1995, is given below. The Music Festival ran on the first weekend of August, and we promoted events in other venues prior to the opening of Glenuig Hall.
1983 Glenuig Music Festival - Jim Michie, Dave Garrett, Fearachar MacRath; Ossian; Cloven Hoof; Capercaillie
1984 Glenuig Music Festival - Chorda; Christine Primrose; Easy Club; Frankie & Mairead Kennedy; Gerry Cairns; Jin Michie & Dave Garrett; Ossian; Faraquhar MacRae; Mike Whellans; Spootiskerry; Sprangeen; Wild Geese.
May 1985 - Wild Geese concert in Inverailort Castle
1985 Glenuig Music Festival - Norman Stewart; Angus Grant Snr. & Duncan MacGillvary; Black Donald; Pennycroft; The Rakes of Ross
August 1985 - Andy M Stewart & Manus Lunny concert at Roshven Farm
October 1985 - Wild Geese concert at Glenfinnan House Hotel
October 1985 - Black Donald concert at Roshven Farm
November 1985 - Deaf Heights concert at Inverailort Castle
April 1986 - Dick Gaughan concert at Inverailort Castle
May 1986 – Spring Festival in Shielbridge Hall. Black Donald; Christine Primrose; Dan ar Bras; Faraquhar MacRae; Pennycroft; Phil & Johnny Cunningham; Sileas, Alan MacDonald, Mairi MacInnes
1986 Glenuig Music Festival - Black Donald; Faraquhar MacRae; Pennycroft; Wallochmhor Ceilidh Band
October 1986 - Any Irvine in concert in Glenfinnan House Hotel
November 1986 - John Renbourn & Duck Baker concert at Glenfinnan House Hotel
1987 Glenuig Music Festival - Zydeco Ceilidh Band; Bongo Derek
October 1987 - Barn Dance with Desperate Danz Band in Kinlochmoidart Steadings
December 1987 - New Year Dance with the Desperate Danz Band
April 1988 - Sileas in concert – what was the venue?
May 1988 - Barn Dance with Drambeg Ceilidh Band at Kinlochmoidart Steadings
June 1988 - Jali Musa Jawara concert at Caol Community Centre
June 1988 - Barn Dance with Clach na Cudden at Kinlochmoidart Steadings
July 1988 - Barn Dance with Pennycroft & Byre Straits at Kinlochmoidart Steadings
July 1988 - Hamish Imlach concert at Caol Community Centre
1988 Glenuig Music Festival - Alan Savage; Clach na Cudden; Fergie MacDonald; Jim Hunter & Michael Rowan; Isle of Eigg Ceilidh Band; Pennycroft
September 1988 - Rumillajta concert at Caol Community Centre
September 1988 - John Renbourn & Duck Baker concert at Glenfinnan House Hotel
November 1988 - Andy Irvine concert at Glenfinnan House Hotel
December 1988 (or April 1989?) - Davy Spillane Band concert at Caol Community Centre
Sometime in 1988 - Dance with Big George & the Business in Kinlochmoidart Steadings
Sometime in 1988 - Alasdair Fraser concert in Glenfinnan House Hotel
Sometime in 1988 - Ivan Drever & Dick Clark concert in Glenfinnan House Hotel
June 1989 - Incredible Fling Band concert in Shielbridge Hall
1989 Glenuig Music Festival - Clach na Cudden; Fearachar MacRath; Fergie MacDonald; Fiona Grant & Friends; Fiona MacLeod & Beinn Nebhis; Dolly Dimples; Jim Hay; Scotch Bloos; Marwick Brothers; Jim Hunter & the Thunderbirds; Margaret MacLellan
1990 Glenuig Music Festival - Allan & Ingrid Henderson; Ben Wyviss & the Last Resort; Donald MacAulay; Fearachar MacRath; Hamish Begg; Hebridean Thighs; Jim Hunter Band; Margaret Blackburn; Margaret MacLellan; The Niblocks
1991 Glenuig Music Festival - Andy Mitchell; Donald MacAulay; Fearachar MacRath; Fergie MacDonald; Fiddle Fling Ceilidh Band; Iain MacDonald, Iain MacFarlane & Michaela Rowan; Iain MacMaster; Joanne Niblock & Liah MacKail; Margaret Blackburn; Margaret MacLellan; The Niblocks & Friends; Train Journey North
Late 1991 or early 1992 - Kieran Goss in concert (Glenfinnan House Hotel??)
Sometime in 1991 or 1992 - Sileas in concert
Sometime in 1991 or 1992 - Makrivag in concert
1992 Glenuig Music Festival (recorded - buy a CD) - Ben Wyviss & the Last Resort; Davy Garrett’s Kerry Blues; Easy Club; Eat the Seats; Iain Strachan & Veronique Nelson; Iain MacDonald & Jim Sutherland; Fiona MacLeod & Beinn Nebhis; Iron Horse; Jim Hunter Band; John MacCusker; Steve O’Neill; Michael Marra; Paul MacDonald; The Glenooligans; Gail & Leza Niblock; Simon Thoumiere & Jim Sutherland; Dave McNally; Annette Milne; Duncan MacGillvary;
1993 Glenuig Music Festival - Fergie Domhnallach agus na Muideartaich; Gordon Duncan; Mouth Music; Somotherland; The Howling Shed; Shoestring Circus.