Blas Festival – substantial reductions for ‘early birds’

Catch worms if you want but what’s a more appealing option if you are an early bird is access to really attractive ticket prices for this year’s Blas Festival.

Though Blas blasts off on August 31st, there has already been considerable interest in tickets for the fifty or so different events taking place throughout the Highlands and Islands over the nine-day festival. For those who book up tickets between now and the end of June, great reductions are available on the full-price tickets. For example, a £4 reduction can be secured on tickets for a Blas concert in Inverness’ St Andrew’s Cathedral at which Karen Matheson and the Scottish Ensemble will perform.

Another Blas concert, staged in Fort William and featuring Shooglenifty together with the celebrated Northumbrian piper, Kathryn Tickell will cost early birds £10 rather than the normal full price of £13. These reductions are typical of those offered across the whole range of Blas events this year.

“It suits the Festival to begin to fill seats at this stage”, explains Blas’s Director, Donna Cunningham. “We are generously ‘rewarding’ those who book their seats early rather than be inundated with requests for tickets at the last moment. And this year, with Blas being an integral part of Highland 2007, the year in which Scotland celebrates Highland culture, we anticipate an even keener demand for Festival tickets.”

Blas will run from 31st August to the 8th September and the finalised programme, which was published recently, features an exciting range of more than 50 shows. These will take place in places ranging from Nairn in the east to Dunvegan in the west, and from Durness in the north to Strontian in the south. “Each one of the events we have organised will feature top quality traditional and Gaelic music,“ according to Donna, “and there are very few parts of the Highlands which are outwith striking distance of the diverse venues staging the events. So we would urge folk to check out the delights featured in the Blas programme and book up now to take advantage of the our ‘earlybird’ offer.”

So the choice is yours – catch worms if you must or benefit now from significant reductions on tickets for the Blas Festival.