The skirl of the pipes celebrate Burns Night

A fantastic night of music, dance and song, the sixth the Ulster Orchestra has hosted with support from the Ulster-Scots Agency, awaits you on at 7.45pm on Saturday 21st January 2017 in Belfasts Waterfront Hall

This fantastic night of music, dance and song, the sixth the Ulster Orchestra has hosted with support from the Ulster-Scots Agency, will take place at 7.45pm on Saturday, January 21, 2017 in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall.

Tickets are priced from £15 to £30 and are available from the Ulster Hall (028 9033 4455) or online at www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk

The Ulster Orchestra, conducted by John Logan, will lead performers, the Ulster-Scots Agency’s Juvenile Pipe Band, Methody Junior Choir, the Markethill Dancers and some special guests in a programme of music that mixes traditional favourites with more up to date work. Presenter Zoe Salmon will be your host for the evening in what promises to be an unmissable treat.

Having celebrated a decade as one of Scottish music’s most distinctively sublime voices, Emily Smith begins a fresh chapter in her illustrious, award-winning career.

Her fifth solo album Echoes sees her return to her first love of traditional song and her gift for finding a personal connection in these passed-down, anonymously authored words is still at the heart of her craft.

This is a bold new phase in Emily’s music and with it comes what she describes as ‘a new Scottish sound’.

Emily was named BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year back in 2002 and the accolades have continued to flow as she won the USA Songwriting Competition in 2005, Scots Singer of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2008 and she received two nominations in the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Emily first joined the Ulster Orchestra for Burns Night with her musician husband Jamie McClennan in 2015.

The work of The Bard will feature throughout the programme and amongst other special guests, Christopher Tait, Scotland’s finest Robbie Burns reenactor, to bring the verse of the Bard to life will be welcomed back.

So why not join Emily Smith, Jamie McClennan, Christopher Tait, Zoe Salmon and the Ulster Orchestra on January 21, 2017. The skirl of the pipes, the whirl of jigs and reels and romance of Robbie Burns’ traditional songs will be the ultimate Burns Night celebration.