Fèis is the Gaelic word for festival or feast and Rois is Gaelic for Ross-shire. Over the past 25 years the word "Fèis" has become synonymous with the Fèisean movement, a group of Gaelic arts tuition festivals, mainly for young people, which now take place throughout Scotland.

Fèis Rois has been providing tuition and performance of traditional Scottish music, song and dance in Ross and Cromarty since 1986.

Fèis Rois successfully run 3 residential tuition festivals - Fèis Rois Oigridh for Pr.5-7 age group, Fèis Rois nan Deugairean for secondary school pupils and Fèis Rois Inbhich for adults.

Created by Fèis Rois in 2000, the Cèilidh Trail is a very popular four-week summer training event designed to help teenage musicians develop their performance skills and to create a vibrant traditional music entertainment programme in the Highlands.

Since 2001 Fèis Rois has co-ordinated the Scottish Arts Council Traditional Musicians in Schools scheme. Teams of traditional musicians, singers and dancers have delivered workshops to primary schools from Thurso to the Scottish Borders and from the Western Isles to Aberdeen.  

Since 2004, Fèis Rois has been responsible for delivering traditional arts classes on behalf of Highland Council and Fèisean nan Gaidheal as part of the Scottish Arts Council’s Youth Music Initiative. 

From September 2009 Fèis Rois is changing to a new model of weekly classes in the following disciplines: Gaelic song, whistle, fiddle, accordion, guitar, clàrsach, and “beginning to play together”. This new model will take the form of three mini-fèisean every week, one in Easter Ross, one in Wester Ross, and one in the Black Isle. The Dingwall clàrsach class will continue at Dingwall Community Centre.

 

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