Any new marriage on the Isle of Raasay today is a special day of celebration for the community. But back in the day it seems the bride and groom didn’t get much of the day – or even the night – to themselves. Needless to say, whisky helped keep the love flowing! Thanks to the...Read More
On the 28th September 2019 Raasay Tunes welcomes two of Scotland’s most popular Highland multi-instrumentalists, Mairearad Green on accordion, bagpipes and vocals and Anna Massie on guitar, banjo, fiddle and vocals. Together for over ten years as a duo the girls are famous for their combination of highly energetic performance and warm and funny stage...Read More
Isle of Raasay Distillery brings you a quality blend of two of Scotland’s finest Gaelic singers. Inverness-based Brian Ó hEadhra and Fiona Mackenzie combine their voices and harmonies to produce a beautiful melodic set of songs in both Scottish and Irish Gaelic. The evening will be set in the distillery’s Gathering Room which hosts stunning...Read More
Its always nice to win an award. But it’s even nicer to win three! Our Tuscan red wine-finished Highland single malt Raasay While We Wait – 2018 Release has achieved its highest podium yet winning a gold medal at the 2019 World Whiskies Awards. It’s great that this fourth bottling of our lightly-peated malt with...Read More
Raasay came to Glasgow when we set up home in Kelvinhaugh for the National Whisky Whisky Festival. We set up stall within sight of the fantastic new Clydeside Distillery as part of the Celtic Connections music and culture festival to showcase our whiskies and our island. Over 1,200 visitors passed our way and two...Read More
Raasay Tunes continues into 2019 with Da Birlinn. Da Birlinn are a trio of Scotland’s finest traditional musicians, blending the rhythmic strings of Seumas Maclennan with the pipes of Peter Morrison and the driving Shetland style of Ross Couper’s fiddle. Da Birlinn are Peter Morrison (Border Pipes and Whistle) and Ross Couper (Fiddle), who are best known...Read More
Our first Raasay Tunes performer of 2019 is often described as ‘the busiest man on Skye’. Arthur Cormack OBE is one of our most celebrated Gaelic singers, renowned for his beautifully relaxed singing style and encyclopaedic knowledge and repertoire of songs from his own part of the world. A Mod Gold medallist and inductee into...Read More
Now we’ve ticked over into 2019 we’re already off and running with our programme of events, appearances and offers to promote the countdown to the very first Isle of Raasay single malt in 2020. If you’ve been to any of our Raasay Tunes events at the distillery you’ll know how much we love our music...Read More
Our First Year It’s a sobering fact of life that a year isn’t deemed a long time in the world of whisky-making – that is unless it’s your first year! Since opening our doors to locals for our first distillery tour on 9th January, 2018 has been a year of many firsts for us all...Read More
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