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Rootin'Aboot Festival at the Lemon Tree Café, Aberdeen.
Dates: April 2007 (tba)Tel: 01224 642230
The Lemon Tree Café plays host to an extraordinary Traditional music festival named Rootin’ Aboot, showcased at Aberdeen’s premiere arts venue every April. The Rootin’ Aboot Festival presents a diverse line-up of concerts, jam sessions, workshops, free events and a Festival Club. This event features the very best in traditional, roots and world music and each year gets bigger and better.
The highlights of 2005 included two sensational performances from Scottish favourites Deaf Shepherd and the young Dublin group, Grada who made their Aberdeen debut performance. Deaf Shepherd’s performance is an eclectic mix of moods and emotions from its fiery jigs and reels, majestic Highland Pipe Music to beautiful slow moving ballads. Grada on their hand combined various Celtic Genres including Galician, Breton, Scottish and Irish styles in their eclectic repertoire backed with soothing vocals.
The Rootin’ Aboot Festival is proud of its educational purposes and hosts a series of musical workshops each year. Grada’s bazouki and guitar virtuoso, Gerry Paul gave the public an insight into his intrinsic techniques in a guitar accompaniment workshop. Other workshops include Finger style guitar workshop, Rhythm guitar workshop, Acoustic guitar workshop and and a Song Interpretation Workshop focusing on East European and Balkan Folk styles.
The Festival is also a showcase of contemporary styles and in recent times, Rootin’ Aboot has welcomed one of the world’s greatest live bands, The Shack*Shakers. Acclaimed as one of the finest live experiences in America, the band have risen to fame in combining rural and agri-dustrial beats of the US puritan approach to work, featuring intense gutbucket blues, the hidden underbelly of country and even an odd bit of polka and oompah thrown in. Their performance is eclectic in the purest form and went down a storm at this leading Aberdeen Music Festival.
Other contemporary live acts jostling for the healing act at the Lemon Tree’s Rootin’ Aboot include popular London-Irish band, Neck who have lead the punk-folk secen for the past five years. This sextet introduces the Irish traditional ingredient of fiddle, tin-whistle, banjo and the spectacular uilleann pipes juxtaposed with rip-roaring electric guitar playing, bass and drums, synonymous with a full-on punk set.
Also in store at the Rootin’ Aboot Festival is an exotic representation of European Folk Music featuring the captivating performance of Spanish guitar virtuso, Eduardo Niebla opening his performance with his incredible technique and intensity. The British /Balkan ensemble Szapora rose the temperature to a much higher degree with their sensational repertoire of heartrending ballads, and uproarious drinking ballads as well as a host of rapid tempo dance tunes.
Whatever your taste in traditional music may be, Aberdeen’s much celebrated Rootin’ Aboot Festival certainly rocks the boat in terms of its diverse and ecelectic mix of sensational sounds, ranging from Spanish Folk to Americana. A must see event if you happen to be visiting Scotland in early April.
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