Swinging on Birches - Autumn Trad Festival 2025


18
Oct

Saturday 18th October 2025
Doors: 7:00pm
The Vault Arts Centre, Newton Stewart, Scotland

Tickets: £10.00 / £7.50 (Concession)

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Swinging on Birches - Autumn Trad Festival 2025

An exciting, innovative new trio consisting of Juliette Lemoine (cello), Madeleine Stewart (fiddle), and Heather Cartwright (guitar/vocals). The band weave songs, tunes and harmonies across cello, fiddle and guitar, creating lush, intricate pieces.

Their music is drawn from their shared love of Scottish traditional music, though each musician brings her own interpretation through different musical backgrounds.

Juliette plays trad/jazz fusion in her own band and studied classical music, Heather sings her own songs as well as traditional ones and plays fingerstyle guitar/folk music, and Madeleine plays in a trad/classical string quartet and has been playing traditional fiddle music since childhood.

Each of the trio has been making her mark in the UK music scene individually, and they are now joining forces to form Swinging on Birches.
 

Getting Here


The Vault Arts Centre
40 Victoria Street
Newton Stewart
Wigtownshire
Scotland
DG8 6BT

Fabulous new arts centre facility in the heart of Newton Stewart offering workshops, masterclasses, 1-to-1 tuition, live music & dance, arts & crafts exhibitions and sales, music sales, ticket sales and the offices for Trad Music Trust and Newton Stewart & Minnigaff Traditional Music & Dance Festival.

Trad Music Trust

Newton Stewart & Minnigaff Traditional Music & Dance Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary over 11th-13th July 2025. It's an incredible achievement. The charity has created a viable, sustainable, event that continues to grow and develop, proudly celebrating the very best in traditional Scottish, Irish and World music. Make sure you book early for what is shaping up to be the biggest event yet!

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