Ten Wee Drams is a new set of works for solo bass and contrabass clarinet commissioned by Sarah Watts, who hosts annual clarinet & bass clarinet courses here on Raasay. The Ten Wee Drams commission celebrates ten years of courses on the island, and where better to premiere the ‘Drams’ than here at our distillery....Read More
Willie Campbell, one of Lewis’s most prolific and energetic singer songwriters, will be playing live at Raasay Distillery on Friday 29th March 2019. Willie’s fine vocal style cuts across pop, bluegrass, gospel and Gaelic traditions combining infectious melodies with witty and original lyrics. The performance will be set in our Gathering Room with stunning views...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
The Isle of Raasay Distillery is kicking off Scottish Tourism Month with a Tourism & Hospitality open day at the distillery on Monday 4th March 2019. We are opening our doors to update our tourism and hospitality colleagues from the local area on our plans for 2019 over tea, cakes and tastings with our Hebridean Whisky...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
Raasay Distillery are honoured to be hosting Tobar An Dualchais, a project which has been set up to preserve, digitise, and archive valuable Gaelic and Scots recordings. Much of this material consists of recordings of folklore, songs and music, local history and other data gathered from the 1930s onwards. On February 2nd, we’ll be hosting...Read More
Join us in our secret whisky tasting room in Edinburgh’s West End as we host our partners Craft Whisky Club and Tony Miranda, Brand Ambassador of Chicago’s Koval Distillery. Ticket will include a selection of Koval’s whiskies during a guided whisky tasting. Tony Miranda, Koval’s UK Brand Ambassador, will talk us through the history of Koval, and...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
Visit us at Raasay Distillery to sample the first ever Isle of Raasay Single Malt new make spirit at an exclusive warehouse tour with Alasdair Day as part of our Burns and Whisky Weekend in January 2019. Guests will enjoy a guided tour through the distillery before heading up to the warehouse for an exclusive...Read More
The Isle of Raasay Distillery is hosting a Burns and Whisky Weekend Friday 25th January, checking out Sunday 27th January 2019, a stone’s throw away from where the bard, Sorley Maclean, was born. The offering includes a two-night stay for two including all meals, checking in Friday 25th January, checking out Sunday 27th January 2019. Guests...Read More
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