We're getting ready to set off on a 6 week tour and are hoping to see a few friends along the way and of course to make some new ones! We'll be in Stirling, Powys in Wales, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Devon, East Sussex, London and Germany (from Schleswig-Holstein to Bavaria). There's more information on the Gigs page.

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Many thanks to everyone who came to see us at Celtic Connections, and for all the lovely comments afterwards. Thanks also to Jennifer and Hazel Wrigley for being so talented and lovely, and to everyone who came round for blethers (or whisky and oatcakes!) at the trade fair.

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Thank you to the wonderful, delightful people we met in Australia, those who looked after us and those who came to our gigs.

And the great news is that we already have a festival booking for 2013 so we'll be back - hope to see you then!

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Tattie Jam will be playing at Celtic Connections in 2012 as part of Showcase Scotland, in a double bill with the wonderful Wrigley Sisters. The venue is St Andrews in The Square, 7.30pm on 27th January. Tickets are £13.

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Thank you to everyone who booked us, looked after us, did our sound and specially to those who came to our gigs in the Netherlands and Germany. We had a lovely time and are now planning our next trip. We'll be over at least two times in 2012 but probably more - hope to see some of you again!

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We're just back from a thoroughly enjoyable two weeks in Ontario, Canada. Thanks so much to everyone who helped made our trip so memorable - Claudia (and her cookies!), Gary, Emily and Alexandra, Bob and Janice, Iain, Alastair, Maya, Ben and Fin, Peter, Rosemary, John at the Moonshine Cafe, Chloe at Arts in the Square, Brad and the rest of the Mill Race team, Phil and Barbara, Campbell and Anne, and everyone who bought our CDs, blethered with us and listened to us play. We're already looking forward to planning another trip to Canada sometime next year.

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Tattie Jam are pleased to confirm we'll be playing at Glastonbury this year. We're looking forward to it and keeping our fingers crossed for dry weather!

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We're just back now from an eventful tour of England, France, Germany, Denmark and Scotland. Happily, wine seems to have been a recurrent theme - there seemed to be vineyards almost everywhere we played or passed through - Champagne, Alsace, the Weinstrasse and Franconia in Germany, plus some more unlikely places! (e.g. Herefordshire...). Thanks to everyone involved for making the tour such a memorable one. For those who are interested, we've posted some photos (some of, at best, indirect musical relevance!) from the tour on our facebook page: www.facebook.com/tattiejam

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We'll be touring Australia in the Autumn. We'll post details of the confirmed gigs soon.

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We're having a bit of a break while Ruaridh does some recording for a solo album, but TJ have a couple Scottish gigs coming up in January and February. We're also making final arrangements for a longish tour in the Spring: 2 weeks in England then another three in France, Germany and Denmark and some more in England on the way home.

It also looks like we could be touring in Australia in the Autumn. Which has the unfortunate side effect that it might give Ruaridh too much opportunity for (re)visiting Australian vineyards...

Full details on the Gigs page

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Aargh, the A96 has been closed this morning due to drifting snow, meaning we can't get from Aviemore to Aberdeen for our lunchtime spot at The Lemon Tree today. Sorry about that! We'll reschedule in the new year.

While this isn't likely to be any use to anyone in Aberdeen, on the plus side we'll be filling in for the band who were meant to be playing Aprés-ski at The Old Bridge Inn tonight instead, as (ironically) they can't make it over from Aberdeen for the same reason.

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Aargh, the A96 has been closed this morning due to drifting snow, meaning we can't get from Aviemore to Aberdeen for our lunchtime spot at The Lemon Tree today. Sorry about that! We'll reschedule in the new year.

While this isn't likely to be any use to anyone in Aberdeen, on the plus side we'll be filling in for the band who were meant to be playing Aprés-ski at The Old Bridge Inn tonight instead, as (ironically) they can't make it over from Aberdeen for the same reason.

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We're back now to a very snowy and cold Helensburgh for a rest before the Scottish leg of our tour - roads permitting. Apparently the A9's not too bad, so it looks like everything's going ahead as planned. Many thanks to all those who came out to see us in spite of the weather, and made us feel so welcome south of the border!

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Tonight's gig at the Nursery Inn, Hartlepool is definitely on. They weren't sure for a while because of the bad conditions but it is now going ahead.

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Unfortunately, The Cutty Wren Folk Club and the White Hart Folk Club in North Yorkshire have had to cancel Tattie Jam's gigs on 2nd and 4th December respectively because of heaps of snow and bad road conditions. We hope to re-schedule these for 2011.  For the moment there aren't major problems in Southport though, so we'll be playing at the Bothy Folk Club as planned.

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We're in Bath, a week and a bit into our tour, and having a great time, except that Ruaridh's come down with a bad cold! He's doing well with the singing at the moment but fingers crossed for the next few days... There are photos of our trip on our facebook page - just search for "Tattie Jam" and you'll find us.

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For anybody in the Dorset area - we'll be interviewed for the programme 'Forest Folk" on Forest FM this Monday, 15th November

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"Thanks for your brilliant music... The net happiness of the audience was huge."
"The best gig, musically, they'd heard in some time." Alan Murray, chairman

Many thanks to the lovely audience at Penuick - we really enjoyed playing for you!

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Tattie Jam have a very busy UK tour coming up. From 13 November to 17 December we'll be touring the UK - from Rochester in Kent to Inverness in the north of Scotland. See our gigs page for details. We hope to see you sometime on the tour!

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Tattie Jam have confirmed our first dates for an exciting tour of northern Europe at the end of March-April 2011. We've dates already confirmed in France, Germany and Denmark: more tbc.

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We've filled in most of the gaps in our November / December English tour, and added some Scottish dates before and after that. The end of the year's looking pretty busy now (not to mention hectic!). See the gigs page to see if we're playing near you.

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1st September 2010 Tattie Jam now have a page on Facebook with full gig listings. Why not have a look and see if you 'like' us?

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24th March 2010 Ruaridh and Seylan recently formed an exciting new band - The Sugarboat Reivers -with Cheyenne Brown on harp, and are currently looking for a fourth member who will complement our style and approach. While its sound is very different, we hope the band will complement Tattie Jam.

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27th February 2010 Review by Ian Campbell
"Thoughtfully compiled, musically exciting and above all entertaining. Bet they're good live."

See Reviews/Press for full review

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25th November 2009 The November issue of The Scots Magazine has a giveaway competition of 10 copies of JAM - still time to get a freebie before the closing date of 31st November.

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8th November 2009 Tattie Jam's debut album 'Jam' receives a 4-star review in Scottish national newspaper Scotland on Sunday

FOLK / TATTIE JAM Jam * * * *

"Richly textured with crunchy harmony and unusual flavours, this is not M&S jam, it's home-made in Scotland by the unique pairing of cello, frets, and and the voices of Seylan Baxter and Ruaridh Pringle. A sense of humour underpins much of Pringle's writing - blackly in his new ballad The Doctor's Dochter, and whimsically in Different - but the pair can bring new colour to old gems such as The Birken Tree. Toe-tapping jigs are reeled out on banjo, mandolin, guitar and bass fiddle, and though cheekily Scottish, it doesn't care what the neighbours think." Norman Chalmers

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19th November 2009 Tattie Jam's CD 'Jam' will be the featured album on BBC Radio Scotland's renowned traditional, folk and roots music programme Travelling Folk, hosted by folk legend Archie Fisher. The programme will feature a live interview with Ruaridh and Seylan, who'll have the chance to talk about their music and forthcoming gigs.

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