Elephant Sessions 10th Anniversary with special guests Flook
Tickets
Buy now- Date
- 23rd Sep 2022
- Time
- 7.30pm
- Where
- The Barrowland Ballroom
- Price
- £20.16 (includes booking fee) includes booking fee
- Age restrictions
- Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Seating Type
- Standing
This show has been rescheduled to Friday 23rd September due to the ongoing impacts of the Omicron variant. Please note: all original tickets will remain valid for Friday 23rd September 2022. Box Office will be in touch in due course if you have purchased tickets
Not many ten-year-olds get to headline the Barrowlands, but Highland folk-fusioneers Elephant Sessions have more than earned their place on Scotland’s most fabled stage, where they launch their big birthday year. Their increasingly innovative, audacious mix of trad-based tunes with funk, rock and electronica, allied with no-holds-barred live performances, has sent audiences into rave-style raptures at festivals across the world, from Glastonbury to Byron Bay Bluesfest, Lorient to Colours of Ostrava. After another major leap forward with 2019’s wholly self-penned third album, What Makes You, their hotly anticipated follow-up - due in spring 2022 – will be aired in its entirety here, together with back-catalogue favourites.
Elephant Sessions themselves requested Flook as tonight’s opening act, citing the superb Anglo-Irish four-piece among their key early inspirations. While Flook’s deceptively pared-down, all-acoustic instrumentation – flutes, guitar and bodhran, plus occasional accordion – might seem a striking contrast, their music’s dazzling, kaleidoscopic intricacy, together with phenomenal lift and drive – cast a comparably potent spell.