Pigtown Fling will be playing on Reaper, a Fifie sailing herring drifter dating from 1902, on Thursday 14th May, 2009 in Oban, Argyll, Scotland. The boat is undertaking a tour of the West Highlands to allow schools and the public to visit it an learn about it’s history and the history of th eherring fleet in Scotland. More…

Pigtown Fling will be playing in Combourg, Brittany, France on Saturday 8th August 2009.
More details to follow.

Pigtown Fling will be playing in La Fresnais, Brittany, France on Sunday 2nd August 2009.
We will be playing some of our usual repertoire, but a large part of the gig will involve teaching Scottish ceilidh dances and hopefully playing for a few Breton dances too. We will be taking our dear friend Christophe Lefebvre with us on second fiddle and translating duties.

Pigtown Fling will be playing in La Fontenelle, Brittany, France on Saturday 1st August 2009. We have been invited to play at the Friends of Jean Langlais Festival for a second year running.
We will be playing some of our usual repertoire, but a large part of the gig will involve teaching Scottish ceilidh dances and hopefully playing for a few Breton dances too. We will be taking our dear friend Christophe Lefebvre with us on second fiddle and translating duties.

Time passes quickly, and before you can say Nikoli Ni Ves it was time to leave. One more job to go though. The local tourist board is keen to expand the links between Slovenia and Scotland and wanted to do a photo and video shoot at the castle. It was bitterly cold, the fiddle couldn’t cope with the temperature so Sara had to mime the whole thing. More…

Today we started with one of the more bizarre of our gigs. In the heavy snow we made our way to the local shopping mall, Qlandia, where we wandered about in our Scottish Kurent costumes playing pipes and drums and generally harassing the local shoppers and shop keepers. This seems to go down really well and it’s not the first time we have played here, but can you imagine the same thing in Braehead?? More…

After our long drive to Slovenia, despite pretty extreme tiredness, we made straight for the carnival tent. This is the main venue for the carnival and must hold a couple of thousand people. Serbian Turbo folk superstar Mile Kitic was the main act. More…

Haven’t had any time to write yet so just a quick update. Drove about 900 miles yesterday through France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Austria. We made it earlier than expected, had a great time in the tent then met some kurents who took us to there base where we played tunes, danced and drank slivovic.
I’ll try to write more when I get a chance.

We’ve had an excellent journey so far. We only experienced one short traffic jam at the dartford crossing. We have made such good time that we have booked ourselves onto a ferry 3 and a half hours early so should arrive in France around midnight local time. More…

First stage of the trip over. We have just entered England.
Now there are many things about England I like, most notably its cheese, its beer and its traditional music and dance (when you can find it). Driving through it, however, is something I don’t like. More…