Save the date folks. It’s Saturday 20th of September for this year’s Bootstock in the Borders, at the Traquair Village Hall, south of Innerleithen.

A fuller programme this year, starting in the afternoon, the festival will welcome a range of talented musicians from across the UK. We can promise an eclectic range of musical styles, and some spell binding performances.

The Bootstock in the Borders line up

We are delighted to announce that Nepal’s leading traditional musician, Raman Maharjan, will once again be joining us for both Bootstock festivals this year. Raman is a brilliant musician who has performed all over the world. He also runs the Music House project in Kathmandu, whom Bootstock have been supporting since 2016.

www.youtube.com/c/RamanFlute

Drawing on influences as diverse as ceol mor, organic chemistry and crofting legislation Nelson’s Mandola have challenged orthodox notions of time signature, plagiarism and fame, perfecting a densely creative oeuvre bursting with pixellated stochasticity guaranteed to put you off dancing for life.

Here are the band’s latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwXzIChMUpg

 

We very much welcome the return of Urisk and Christine and Phil, two fabulous bands from previous Bootstocks.

More artists to be announced in the coming weeks.

If you would like to come and support the event this year, or would like further information, please leave a comment below and we will get back to you.

Thehe Village

Last year’s Bootstock in the Borders festival have enriched the lives of children from Thehe village, in remote north west Nepal. Our project supported two schools in Thehe. One primary school (Class 1 to 5), and one secondary school (Class 6 to 10). We provided school bags and stationery (exercise books, pencils, pens, etc) to all the students from three priority classes, and also supplied sports equipment to the secondary school.