Graeme Armstrong at Killearn Village Hall 2026-02-27T19:30:00
For the past three years Graeme Armstrong, a singer and guitarist from the Scottish Borders, has been performing at world leading festivals including, Cambridge Folk Fesitval, Denmark’s Tønder, WOMAD UK, Chile and Las Palmas, the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Celtic Colours, Milwaukee Irish Festival and 3 successive outings at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections with the band Talisk. Since joining, in 2017, they have gone on to be crowned 2017 Folk band of the year, at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards, and only a year later, winners of the Belhaven Bursary Award at the same awards netting them a 25,000 pounds’ cash prize. In 2019 the band’s second album ‘Beyond’ was shortlisted in the Album of the Year category and was given multiple 5* reviews and picked up “top of the world album’ by Songlines, this stamping Graeme’s authority onto the UK’s trad scene as one of its leading artists. As skilled collaborator he has also appeared on various albums, including being a co founder of the award wining Rachel Hamer Band. Their debut album ‘Hard Ground’ was given a 4* review in “music republic magazine”. During the Covid Pandemic Graeme embarked on making his debut solo album which will be released in 2021.
“Exceptional” - Folking
“Formidable Sound”- The Hearld
“Brilliant fresh sound”- Folk Radio UK