Sutherland Sessions to host Gnoss gig at Helmsdale
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Glasgow-based folk band Gnoss is set to return to perform in East Sutherland a week on Saturday.
Music promotors Sutherland Sessions is hosting the band at the Bunillidh Sports Club in Helmsdale on Saturday, October 21, from 7.30pm.
The event is partially funded by the Edinburgh Sutherland Association.
Andrena Ballantyne of Sutherland Sessions said: “We are absolutely delighted to have the superb, triple Scots Trad Music Awards nominees Gnoss performing for us.
“They have played for hugely enthusiastic East Sutherland audiences on a couple of occasions, but it has been a while so we are over the moon that they are returning.”
The dynamic four-piece combines the talents of Aidan Moodie (guitar/vocals); Graham Rorie (fiddle/mandolin/electric tenor guitar); Connor Sinclair (flute/whistles/vocals); and Craig Baxter (bodhran/percussion).
The quartet are all former students of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the band was originally formed in 2015 as a duo of Graham and Aidan, who grew up playing traditional music together in Orkney.
Their signature sound is described as a “rich tapestry of acoustic layers....”
Following high praise for their 2018 EP, Brother Wind, Gnoss released their debut album Drawn from Deep Water in 2019, leading to numerous festival appearances throughout Europe and the UK.
Another album Light of the Moon, followed in lockdown, and the band has released a third album in 2023, Stretching Skyward.
Tickets priced £14/£10 are available on the door on the night or online via eventbrite.
