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Elsa Jean McTaggart: When the World Stood Still


Date: Friday 6th May
Time: 7.30pm
Place: The Oak Room, The Rockfield Centre
Age: All ages
Cost: £12 Adult
£8 Concession

Booking is essential for this event

Live music


Elsa Jean and Gary McTaggart present a tuneful account of survival during Covid-19 through a Celtic fusion of Hebridean Melody celebrating life, sorrow, uncertainty, joy and laughter.

Boilersuits, Beanies and a Barrow! That’s what was waiting for this musical duo when lockdown hit!

From a Sunny Party-land in Gran Canaria to the cold, wet, windy Western Isles of Scotland. Enjoy a musical story of survival with Scottish couple Elsa Jean and Gary McTaggart who found themselves with no option but to dive headlong into renovating their near derelict cottage on the Isle of Lewis and find their way through online livestreaming, music and island life!

A truly mesmerising twinning of music and storytelling reflecting on the formation of a global community who came together to support each other through uncertain times. With an album composed, a book written and a DVD filmed, this tale is interwoven with original compositions on fiddle, banjo, mandolin, penny whistles, bouzouki and Accordion.

Person standing in doorway of old house. Wheelbarrow and instruments outside.