Big Saturday! at The Cumnock Tryst 2023

As part of The Cumnock Tryst 2023, we had our biggest community project ever - Big Saturday!

The culmination of over three years’ work, Big Saturday! included around 350 local people from ten local music groups - Strings N Things, Things Tae Dae, Doon Academy Dalmellington, Robert Burns Academy Cumnock, Logan Primary School, Netherthird Primary School, The Cumnock Tryst Festival Chorus, Cumnock Youth Musical Theatre, Cumnock Area Musical Production Society and Dalmellington Brass Academy.

A response to the environment, local landscape and social history, these groups worked with expert workshop leaders to write their own music, which was performed alongside the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

This event was a collaboration with the Coalfield Communities Landscape Partnership. Video by Stuart Armitt and Beth Chalmers.