There is plenty of evidence of traditional music’s buoyant vitality in a sparkling set from the four-piece Keep It Up...

There is plenty of evidence of traditional music’s buoyant vitality in a sparkling set from the four-piece Keep It Up, who bring a marvellously expansive spontaneity - as well as tremendous technical flair - to their repertoire of traditional and traditional-style tunes. The vibrant, luminous pairing of Simon Thoumire’s mercurial concertina and Eilidh Shaw’s perpetually restless fiddle seemed to be goading each other on to ever greater heights of semi-improvised invention, while guitarist Kevin Mackenzie and Malcolm Stitt on bouzouki cleanly but forcefully underscored their playing’s muscular lift and swing

A well-chosen selection of tunes played with flair and arranged with the freshness of mountain spring water, Keep it Up are a band from Scotland’s premier division.

Keep it Up play with a verve, style and lightness of touch that few can achieve.’

Keep it Up have musical maturity and ability in bucketloads’

Keep it Up already rank among the most inventive and exciting interpreters of traditional Scottish music. Their sparkling form and transparent relish for the tunes communicating itself vividly throughout the performance.

Top class musicianship’

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