A Free Virtual Concert with Alasdair Fraser and Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

Delighted to join Alasdair Fraser for this free virtual concert on June 26 th for The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Association https://t.co/CGSZzVtbeX

— Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh (@CarraigFinn) June 12, 2021

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas - The High Reel Set - Live at McCabe's

Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas

New Alasdair and Natalie CD

They'll be performing at the Freight in April.

Interview with Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas

Post by Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas.

Scythian in Milwaukee

Post by Scythian.

So are Alasdair Fraser and Altan, apparently. website

The Groove is Not Trivial

A documentary about Alasdair Fraser - FB page

Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas at the National Folk Festival 2013, Canberra, Australia

Tonight in SF

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

Post by Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas.

Post by Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas.

Sacramento News & Review - Fiddler in the groove - Music Feature - Music - December 5, 2013

April Verch at Freight and Salvage

April 17 - Her only appearance in Northern California for this tour. Her new CD should have been released on April 2 - I hope she will bring copies to Berkeley.




The San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers, with Alasdair Fraser, will be performing their spring concerts the weekend of April 26. The concert at the Freight and Salvage is on April 27.

You Can Guess Which Side Alasdair Fraser Is On

The issue being Scottish independence...

"Referendum" (July 23, 2012)


Scotland's Referendum Paper Leaked

Music at What Cost?

Ensemble Galilei, including Hanneke Cassel, is performing in San Francisco this Friday at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco: Seeing America.

With Narration by Bill Pullman and Lily Knight
Photographs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A riveting theatrical presentation featuring actors Bill Pullman (Independence Day) and Lily Knight with Ensemble Galilei, First Person: Seeing America captures the rich complexity and majesty of the American experience, combining iconic photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art with the words of our country’s greatest scribes, from Langston Hughes to Studs Terkel. The actors narrate while images of our nation’s defining moments – from the Civil War to the Great Depression and beyond – are projected on stage. Groundbreaking chamber group Ensemble Galilei accompanies with transcendent music in a remarkable and powerfully moving experience.

But the program seems likely to be one consonant with the liberal nationalist history. Would I enjoy sitting through that (and paying for it), just to have a chance to meet HC in person? I am thinking no.



Also performing on Friday, at the Freight and Salvage - Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas.

Freight Fiddle Summit, August 23

Alasdair Fraser, of course! More info.
Brittany Haas will be there, too!

I don't think I'll be attending this year...

Rob Fraser's Welcome to San Francisco

Alasdair Fraser + Natalie Haas - The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh - Sat 19 November 2011

March is a good month for music

Nora Jane Struthers and Ton Koopman will be in the area on March 10.

Nora Jane Struthers: FB events
Ton Koopman: Cal Performances


Also in March: SFEMS this weekend
Rhonda Vincent at Freight & Salvage (March 7)
Lauren Rioux and Brittney Haas (March 24)

Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas will be performing in Monterey on March 4.

Items of Interest, 12 January 2012

Peter Hitchens, Reflections on the Rule of Law, on Scotland and on an astonishingly cruel portrayal of Lady Thatcher
Daniel Larison, Thoughts on Scottish Independence

Recessing the Constitution By W. James Antle, III

Bring Order to the Commonwealth by Ordering the Soul

Virginia’s New Ecclesiasticism

Afghanistan:
Obama's Mission Accomplished Moment?
And a military-first policy on a destabilizing planet
Don’t Count on Obama’s Defense Cuts by Ivan Eland
Marine Corps Manual Offers a Blunt, Revealing Portrait of Afghan War
New National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan: War Still a Stalemate

Iran:
RALPH NADER, Iran: the Neocons Are At It Again
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, The Next War on Washington’s Agenda
GARETH PORTER, Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of “Covert” Iranian Nuclear Site

What War With Iran Might Look Like by Philip Giraldi

Fabius Maximus, Status report on the war with Iran (we’re ignorantly drifting into yet another illegal war)
What happens if Iran gets nukes? Not what we’ve been told.
What happens when a nation gets nukes? Sixty years of history suggests an answer.
What does the IAEA know about Iran’s nuclear program? Enough to start a war?

Farming and Relocalization:
Greener Pastures with Lunatic Farmer Joel Salatin (EB)
If you want more local food, stop criminalizing family farmers (EB)
How resilient is the food system? by Adam Streed (EB)

The Happy Hoarder: Put a cork in it

Gene Logsdon, Hail, The Mighty Pocketknife (EB)

Economics:
The Faustian bargain that modern economists never mention (EB)
Dr. Gary Peters, Our Finite World
Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money by John Médaille
Peter Hitchens, Does Immigration cause Unemployment? And other matters
The return of "The Limits to Growth" by Ugo Bardi (EB)
Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory

Peak Oil and Energy:
Warm and fuzzy on geothermal? by Tom Murphy (EB)
What do triple digit oil prices mean for growth? by Jeff Rubin
The peak oil crisis: gasoline in 2012 by Tom Whipple (EB)
Richard Heinberg, Geopolitical Implications of Peak Everything
The End of Growth

The Crisis of Civilization

The Crisis of Civilization: Trailer from thecrisisofcivilization on Vimeo.

Catholic:
British Jesuit welcomes Scorsese's latest film project (via First Thoughts)
Dominican friars appointed to the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas

Music:
Shelby Lynne: A Murder Ballad Hits Close To Home by Lynne Margolis

Documentary with Bela Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart


California Pickers: Butch Waller

TV:
‘Justified’ Star Timothy Olyphant On Violence And Villain, Neal McDonough

More Alasdair Fraser

In April, at Freight and Salvage - the 26th and 27th: San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers w/ Alasdair Fraiser
26th Annual Spring Concert

Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, Farewell to Nigg