In the beautiful Waipu Old School Hall PlaidSong are currently in New Zealand, seeing friends and family and playing a little music as we go. We were hosted by Grant and Lorna in Waipu where Grant is part of the Waipu Acoustic and Folk Music Club. These folks meet regularly to play together, and we joined them for an evening to do a few songs together. It was amazing to perform once again in Waipu's fantastic historic venue of the Old School Hall, a beautiful building, built

We wrote a song about the Scots who settled in Waipu, an amazing story - How Far Must I Roam see our music page PlaidSong are heading off to NZ once again and looking forward to meeting up with friends and family we met along the way last time we were out there. We had an amazing two month visit back in Dec 2023 into Jan 2024 and we are getting ready to travel once more! One of the places we are revisiting is Waipu - we wrote about this place in an earlier blog but it has gr

CareSound Radio is the operational name for Hospital Radio in Perth. Based in a building on the PRI site, they have been broadcasting for...

We simply had to share this amazing image of us playing in the most fabulous venue last week! This is Murthly Chapel and we were...

PlaidSong in New Zealand Waipu, or rather the history of Waipu, was one of the big reasons we wanted to visit New Zealand. It was the...

PlaidSong has been a little quiet online these past couple of months as we have been on a pretty major two-month trip to New Zealand. It...

PlaidSong were delighted to be contacted by Lorna and Dave from Craigie about playing there, we said yes right away! They are a...

We have visited Balfron on several occasions now but we have to say what a wonderfully warm welcome we get and these lovely folk are...

This was a brilliant evening and we met some lovely car enthusiasts! On their Scottish Tour, the Rotary Fellowship enjoyed the most...

25 years of volunteering! who would have guessed that all the Perth & Kinross in Bloom volunteer groups - Take a Pride in Perth - have...

It's been a busy summer so far, a lot of planning going into future events and some travel plans, which are very exciting! We have also...

While walking down Wilson Street in Craigie many folks might pass a fairly ordinary-looking house and not think twice about who has lived...

We had a wonderful afternoon at Innerpeffray Library opening their spring exhibition and performing for a lovely audience. For those who...

We recently had a break in the gorgeous County Mayo, travelling via family and friends in the west of Scotland and then on to a rather...

PlaidSong were delighted when our great friend Andy Middlemiss invited us to do a concert for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee way back in...

After a brilliant start to the year with our visit to the Caledonian Club and the Burns Club of London we had a few local gigs to follow...

PlaidSong invites you to join us for a trip around the parishes of Perthshire and find out some fascinating stories in local and not so...

After so much time without any events at all we were so delighted to know that our planned Burns Suppers were going ahead this year! we...

In 2019 PlaidSong performed at the Black Watch Museum, and we put together a set of songs with a suitably military theme called, Enlist...

We had a wonderful evening in Crieff last night as we were invited along to Crieff Choral Group's first event after the long lock down!...