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Elephant Sessions All We Have Is Now Tour Pt II
16 November, 2017 @ 7:30 pm
Award-winning Scottish music phenomenon, the Elephant Sessions, kick off their UK tour this week with a sell-out show in their home town before arriving on Skye on Thursday for a concert at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig.Winners of the MG Alba Scots Trad Awards Up and Coming Act of the Year 2014, and nominated as Live Act of the Year in 2016, the fiery folk band from Inverness have taken the UK and Europe by storm, becoming renowned for their breath-taking live shows.They were was recently endorsed by Fiona Hyslop, Scottish minister for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, at the opening of SEALL’s new culture hub at the Gaelic College in the south of Skye where she said: “The Elephant Sessions are one of those Scottish bands who are on course for a great career.” And her words have proved true as the band has been shortlisted for two awards at this year’s MG Alba Trad Music Awards: Live Act of the Year and Best Album. They will also be one of the headline acts in the 2018 Celtic Connections on 2 February. Their Inverness shows this week have sold out as has their appearances at the London Folk and Roots Festival and the Voodoo Rooms date in Edinburgh.The Elephant Sessions fuse rich folk and trad influences with funk, rock and electronica with “outstanding levels of innovation and inventiveness”.