Events
🎻 Upcoming Events with Colin MacLeod
Join Colin for a vibrant mix of live performances, Scottish fiddle workshops, and cultural celebrations across Texas and Virginia this spring.
Online Events
🍂 Every 2nd Wednesday of the month | 3:00–4:30 PM EST
Celtic Music Jam Session
Location: Join online from wherever you are in the world
Join in with this online Celtic music jam session, meet new people, play inspiring tunes and find out about the journeys of the tunes. It's just a great way to relax wherever you are in your day.
In Person Events
January
February
March
April
🎻 April 18, 2026
Healing Through Music & Movement Workshop Sponsored by Marathonjam.org
Location: Stonefield Cellars Winery in Stokesdale, NC
Time: 9.00am-5.30pm
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This event creates a supportive and trauma-informed experiential workshop for musicians, veterans, first responders, caregivers, seniors, and healthcare professionals, offering gentle yet powerful music, movement, and creative arts practices to foster healing and resilience.
🎻 April 22, 2026
Bee Wild Documentary-Film Screening & Discussion (Charlottesville)
Location: Violet Crown Charlottesville
Time: 7pm-8pm plus Q&A session
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Bee Wild throws some light on the role that bees play in the world today, some of the difficulties which bees face in modern society and ways in which the world can support bees.
May
May 2, 2026
Beltane Festival Celebrations
Location: Thistlerock Mead Co, Keswick, VA
Time: 2.00 pm -10 pm
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👉 Beltane Information
Come along to the Beltane celebrations. There is lots of music and other activities, including haggis hurling.
May 4, 2026
The official re-release of the original Highlander movie.
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👉 Highlander Movie re-release
The Highlander movie was first released on May 4th 1986. The re-release is 40 years after the original release.
🎻 May 9, 2026
Paint Out with Scottish Fiddler Colin Macleod
Location: T.B.A.
Time: 10 am -12 noon
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👉 Metro Richmond Artists Association
PAINT OUT with Scottish fiddler Colin MacLeod, who brings over 40 years of Celtic music experience to the canvas.
🎻 May 16, 2026
Scottish fiddle music by Colin MacLeod to celebrate the Outlander costume exhibit at the Jamestown Yorktown-museum nr Williamsburg.
Location: Jamestown-Yorktown museum
Time: 9am-5pm
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👉 Outlander Costume Exhibit
On Saturday, May 16th, Colin MacLeod is to play a couple of Scottish fiddle performances at the Outlander Costume Exhibit. Feel free to come up to Colin for a chat.
🎻 May 17, 2026
Join Colin MacLeod for some Scottish fiddle & storytelling at Thistlerock Mead Co
Location: Thistlerock Mead Co
Time: 3pm-6pm
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Come along, tap your feet, join in singing a few songs.
🎻 May 30, 2026
Join Colin MacLeod for a Play by Ear Scottish fiddle immersion workshop at Varnam Strings, Wilmington
Location: Varnam Strings
Time: 3.30pm-5.00pm
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Please share with anyone you know who might be interested in this workshop.
June
🎻 June 7, 2026
Celtic Sound Experience
Location: Soul Shine Studios, Richmond, VA
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👉 Celtic Sound Experience-Soul Shine Studios-Richmond-VA
Join Colin for celtic sound experience which takes you on a musical journey through the Scottish landscape.
🎻 June 14, 2026
Join Colin MacLeod for his signature Speed up to Slow Down workshop at Thistlerock Mead Co in Keswick near Charlottesville VA
Location: Thistlerock Mead Co
Time: 2.00pm-4.30pm
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Please share with anyone you know who might be interested in this workshop.
🎻 June 18, 2026
Colin MacLeod is playing for a school event at Jordan Lake School of the Arts near Durham NC.
Location: Thistlerock Mead Co
Time: 11.00am-1.00pm
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Please share with Colin any playing opportunities that you might know of in that area e.g. house concerts, fiddle workshop opportunities, playing at retirement communities.
July
🎻 Saturday, July 4th 2026
Independence Day Celebrations
Location: Thistlerock Mead Co
Time: 2.00pm-6.00pm
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Join Colin and friends for a very special celebration & Scottish ceilidh this special Independence Day at Thistlerock Mead Co in Keswick, nr Charlottesville VA.
🎻 Thursday, July 9th 2026
Austin Fiddle Workshop
Location: Blackerby Violin Shop, Austin, TX
Time: 6.00pm-9.00pm
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👉 Austin Fiddle Workshop
Join Colin for a sound & flow experience fiddle workshop where we visit cymatics, learn a fiddle tune by ear and play for members of the Austin Scottish Country Dance Society.
August
September
October
November
🎻 Thursday, November 10th 2026
Austin Fiddle Workshop
Location: Blackerby Violin Shop, Austin, TX
Time: 6.00pm-9.00pm
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👉 Austin Fiddle Workshop
Join Colin for an ear-based fiddle immersion, followed by a jam session!
December
🎻 Friday, November 11th 2026-Sunday November 13th 2026
Salado Highland Games
Location: Salado, TX
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👉 Salado Highland Games
Celebrate a wonderful weekend of things Scottish at the Salado Highland Games in the beautiful setting of Salado, a town 45 minutes north of Austin TX.