Mairi Campbell: Living Stone

Amazing show - almost an out of body experience! I would thoroughly recommend.

With her beautiful voice, relaxed story telling, sense of history and place Mairi draws you in ..... don't miss her show

Mairi Campbell is a beautifully natural performer confidently taking us on a deeply emotional journey with calmness, wonder and love. Inspired by her feeling for the deep past the show magically brings us right to the present with her lightly humourous look at the personalities in her Ceilidh Band. The thoughts and feelings brought up resonate into a future rooted in the past and present that is not without hope.

Mairi's show, Living Stone, is absolutely brilliantly put together with music, story, visual projection, drama, song and audience participation. It digs deep into history, identity and emotions with a lovely touch of humour coming through.

As always, Mairi Campbell delivers a unique blend of her multiple creative channels to tell a story both ancient and modern, linked to the land and ancestors. Through her own deep personal connection with the isle of Lismore off the West Coast of Scotland she tells a beautiful story of the old millstone found on her great grandmother's croft. The millstone turns out to be the keystone for an exploration of deep streams of connection across time and space, but also threatens to suck her into darkness and chain her to the past. She delves into her own intuitive magical experience of this living stone to take us on a journey that starts out in the realm of our ancestors' deep connection with the land and gradually brings us into a rediscovery and celebration of small community building, so desperately needed for our current era. Campbell seemlessly blends story, drama, music, song, dance, movement and her stunning visual art to take us on this journey from underneath the millstone, through it's centre into the possibilities of the future. Strongly recommended.

This show is utterly uniquely brilliant - it's a multi-sensory feast of music, visuals and action that touches the deepest part of all of us. Mairi is an astonishing and multi talented performer and storyteller. She seems to belong to long ages past, and then with a twinkle in her eye, she breaks into another mood entirely and is right here with us today - a clever weaving of past and present into a beautiful complex tapestry of art and sound.

What a totally engaging and immersive show, which combines storytelling, song, music and projections of beautiful artwork in the most creative and original way. There really is a spellbinding quality to it that is hard to describe, I can only recommend you go along and absorb the ancient magic of the living stone for yourselves to appreciate this unique experience.

This was really enjoyable - such a seamless style, shifting between songs and stories and pulling the audience in to the performance with ease.

My fourth show of the day is a visit to Mairi Campbell's meditation on a 400m yr old stone from the island of Lismore. This is the third in a trilogy developed with Kath Burlinson and features some wonderful visual explorations of the stone which she began painting during lockdown in a 100 day 100 painting challenge. Alongside the show which plays Odd days at the Storytelling Centre there is an exhibition of the original artwork. Mairi is a wonderful multi talented musician who explores with us the many ways she is creating a living future for the music that springs from the deepest well of her being.

A spellbinding journey, masterfuly composed and executed. So many layers from humour to shamanic depths. Mairi's command of song and the violin/viola match and amplify her storytelling prowess.
Must see!!!

Mairi Campbell is in top form in her atmospheric new show : beautifully staged, a deep, moving journey delivered with a light touch and effortless audience participation.Stunning sound and visuals- and a complementary exhibition of Mairi’s extraordinary Stone drawings.

This show is quite simply outstanding. I was absolutely spellbound and riveted from the get go.
It is so brilliantly devised (with the aid of the awesomely talented Kath Burlinson who directs)
that you don't notice, until you reflect back, just what a skilled production it is.
Mairi has dug deep and connects us to a depth of being so needed right now we all drink it up eagerly.
Do yourself a favour folks, don't delay.
This will be a sell out no question.