Feedback from last year’s festival showed that while some participants wanted more time to explore Coll, others asked for additional workshops. In response, this year we’re offering a number of optional extra workshops alongside those included in the festival pass. Click on the individual workshop links to read about each workshop. All workshops are in venues in Arinagour, and are within easy walking distance of one another.

Optional workshops cost £10 each, except for those marked as family-friendly, which are free, and yoga/pilates which are £5 each. We’ll contact festival participants by email early in March to ask which of the extra workshops you’d like to attend. We’ll ask you to pay for your optional workshops at registration, just before the festival starts.

Online registration for these workshops has now closed.

Saturday 4th April

11.30am
Breathwork – reset and recharge (Deborah Alexander)
Start singing! (Corrina Hewat)
Fiddle clinic (Roo Geddes)
Family-friendly: rhythm games (Neil Sutcliffe) FREE – donations welcome
Wildsmiths walk (Greg Smith)

3pm
Accompanying tunes and songs (Neil Sutcliffe)
Fiddle workshop  (Roo Geddes)
Singing techniques (Corrina Hewat)
Family-friendly: ceilidh dance steps CANCELLED

Sunday 5th April

8.45am
Yoga (Georgia Kennedy) – 1 hour

10am
Scots song (Corrina Hewat)
Harmonising and improvising (Roo Geddes)
Learning and playing by ear (Neil Sutcliffe)

Monday 6th April

8.45am
Pilates (Rachel Silk) – 1 hour

2pm
Stuck on strumming? (Greg Smith)
Accordion/piano clinic (Neil Sutcliffe)
Gaelic song (Ann MacLean-Fleming)

Wednesday 8th April

8.45am
Pilates (Rachel Silk) – 1 hour