Admiral Theatre Recommendation: If you like folk, traditional pop music and rock, you will love Skerryvore’s mix of great original music with bagpipes, fiddles, accordions, and whistles alongside guitar, vocals, and driving bass, drums and keys. This is the best of contemporary Scottish traditional music.

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Skerryvore
Scottish Celtic Rock Band
Friday, March 28, 2025
Doors 6:30 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $19 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $19
Balcony $31
Loge $37
Main Floor $46

This show is included in 2024-2025 full season tickets and half season package A. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open. All Ages. Bars for 21+.

What are Skerryvore? They’re like no one else. Epic of melody, intimate of feeling and plugged into the roots of Scotland but blasting out to the world.

Three time winners of Scotland’s ‘Live Act of the Year’ award, Skerryvore have evolved from their humble beginnings to become one of the country’s leading forces in a thriving live music scene. At the forefront of a movement that has reinvented and reignited a traditional Scottish scene for a modern, multicultural audience, the band have brought their high energy performances to audiences across the globe. From their early days in Scottish West Coast halls and bars, to festival crowds in the USA, Canada, Australia and throughout the UK and Europe, Skerryvore’s wide range of influences and talent produce a musically expansive, immersive yet intimate set that excites and captivates audiences.

With a mix of bagpipes, fiddles, accordions, and whistles, alongside guitar and vocals, underpinned by driving bass, drums and keys, Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish traditional music. Their now 7 studio albums demonstrate the wide range of influences the individual musicians bring to the mix – a unique fusion of folk, trad, pop and rock.

Three singles from the latest album ‘Tempus’, released in April 2023, all featured on the BBC Radio 2 new music playlist, and the album went to number 1 in both the Official Scottish Album and UK Folk Albums charts, and entered the top 40 in the Official UK Charts. Skerryvore took their Tempus Tour to audiences across the UK, Europe and USA, with their unique fusion appealing to a wider mix of age groups and tastes.

“Skerryvore have crafted a world beating fusion, which takes pride in their heritage and above all else is a pure joy to listen to.” – Folk Radio UK

“A spectacular mix of traditional Scottish folk music and the most diverse rock elements.” – Süddeutsche Zeitung, GERMANY

“The highest rated show we have ever had on our post-concert surveys… people LOVED the show.” – Anchorage Concert Association, ALASKA

“Such a fresh, real, new sound… I love it” – Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2 UK

“Skerryvore have evolved to become one of Scotland’s greatest musical exports.” – Wickham Festival, ENGLAND

“See them now before they rocket up into the same musical orbit as the mighty Mumford & Sons.” – Falkirk Herald, SCOTLAND

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Thank you to all of our 2024-2025 season, series and show sponsors! Sponsorships available. For details, contact Development Director Nita Hartley at 360.932.3051 or nita@admiraltheatre.org

Season Sponsors:
GEICO Local Office - Kevin & Janice Krieger
Cascade PBS
Kitsap Bank
West Hills Auto Plex

Show Sponsors:
Kim Bjornemo
Liz Gross
Tim & Sue Lavin
Aly Rotter

Skerryvore
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Doors 6 p.m. | Show 7:30 p.m.
Tickets start at $19 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $19
Balcony $31
Loge $37
Main Floor $46

This show is included in 2022-2023 full season tickets and half season package B. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

Since 2005, Skerryvore have brought their performances to audiences across the globe, from their early days in Scottish West Coast halls and bars, to Festival crowds in USA, Canada, Australia and throughout the UK and Europe. Picking up Scottish traditional music’s ‘Live Act of the Year’ twice on the way – in 2011 and again in 2016 – the band’s wide range of influences and talent produce a musically expansive, high energy set that excites and captivates audiences.

With a mix of fiddle, accordions, pipes and whistles, alongside guitar and vocals, underpinned by driving bass, drums and keys, Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish traditional music. Their 6 studio albums demonstrate the wide range of influences the individual musicians bring to the mix – a unique fusion of folk, trad, rock and Americana, with even some jazz in there!

Comfortable in the studio though the band are, it’s on the road in front of a live audience that they really come into their own. Their live album, recorded at Scottish venues in late 2019, and released in summer 2020, highlights this, as well as giving a hint that there’s still much more to come for Skerryvore’s growing worldwide fanbase. Skerryvore were delighted to return to touring in USA in September 2021, followed by European and English Tours in November 2021 and their Scottish Winter Tour in December 2021.

“A great bunch of guys and superb live – really infectious and hard not to get swept up in what they do” - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2, 29.01.20

“Interesting band – nice to hear something that’s a bit out of the ordinary in new music. Good to hear something that’s fresh and a little different” - Ken Bruce, BBC Radio 2, 15.01.21

“Such a great outfit, don’t want to use the word band – they’re bigger than that” - Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2, 11.02.21

This show is generously sponsored by:
Judy Anderson
Carol Sue Barker
Kim Beckett
Liz Gross

Gaelic Storm
We Missed You Tour
Thursday, October 13, 2022
Doors 5;30 p.m. | Show 7 p.m.
Tickets start at $22 (incl. fees)
Upper Balcony $22
Balcony $31
Loge $39
Main Floor $54

This show is not included in full or half season tickets. No dinner service at this show. Concessions and the bars will be open.

Raise ‘em up. Drink ‘em down. Gaelic Storm brings an energetic mix of Irish and Scottish traditional fare – including some drinking songs – but bring so much more to audiences everywhere. Country music fans adore their storytelling, Bluegrass fans love the instrumentals, Celtic fans love their devotion to tradition, and Rock fans simply relish the passion they have for their instruments and the energy they bring to stage each night.

Since their 1997 beginnings in Santa Monica, acclaimed multi-national Celtic juggernaut Gaelic Storm has risen from hometown pub performers to a world-famous touring and recording act that continues to grow stronger with each live performance.

This show is generously sponsored by Martha Black & Larry Walker, Charlotte & Ray Garrido, and Tim & Susan Lavin