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CARRY on STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the Best Folk Club in the World! Dateline: Wednesday 13 January 2021 Volume 1.15 CARRY ON STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the best folk club in the world! Dateline: Wednesday 13 January 2021 Volume 1.15 EDINBURGH FOLK Except, as we mentioned in the previous singaround as well. COS(1.14) just before Christmas, this time Finally, to access the event on January CLUB et al: BURNS Burns Night for us is very, very different! 23rd at 8pm click on this link to email a This year’s version of the event is a joint request for the Zoom link. NIGHT 2021 effort with Edinburgh’s “The World’s Room” monthly traditional song club plus Edinburgh FC as well as with the Howth Go to PayPal to donate to Singers’ Circle across the water near Dublin. Ambitious? Not ‘arf! the Paddy Bort Fund. As with so much else these days, Zoom is once again our friend but it’s not And click here to go to straightfoward having various different EFC’s YouTube channel. inputs to bring together at the right time. There’s quite a number of performers from See the panel (right) for the ‘us’ and from Ireland and Edinburgh FC’s performers on the video regular video and streaming wizard, Sandy accompanying this edition of McGhie of Channel7A, will be the knob COS. twiddler marshalling the live performances and pre-recorded inserts at the right time so you won’t notice the join! WE’RE MOVING RAPIDLY towards the Edinburgh FC’s annual Burns Night Howth Singers Circle have been which is always one of the convivial organising a very successful annual Burns highlights of the Edinburgh Folk Club Night since 2000. They have always had a calendar and yet one more example of Scottish input to their events and several what we are all missing at the moment. of those folk will be involved this year too. CONTENTS Among the singers Howth main man Page 1 Lead story Francy Devine has brought together are Page 2, 3, 5 Celtic Connections Festival well known names like Niamh Parsons. The Scottish end will be held up by singer Page 4 EFC Burns Night with Ireland Shona Donaldson and her husband, Page 7-9, 11 Well, You See, It Was Like fiddler Paul Anderson, and our own Gilly This: Rod Sinclair memoire Hewitt, Scott Gardiner, Carol and Alan Page 11 Robert Chalmers (obit), An Audience Prior. As mentioned above the night will With Louise Goffin be a mix of live and pre-recorded items, Page 12 Crossword (compiled by The one of which will feature an excerpt from Bairn) November 2020’s Hamish Henderson Page 12-13 Soundhouse Choir lecture, with Kirsteen McCue singing Page 13 Reeling Wrigleys, Iona Fyfe, ‘Corn Rigs’. Jacey Bedford Agency No Burns Night would be complete Page 14 Cammy Goodall and New Cumnock without the pipes. These will feature on Burns Club, Music Waves this occasion with Scotland’s Gary West Page 14-15 Music Waves, Gigs Online teaming up virtually with Ireland’s Noel Page 16-17 cyber Print, English and Welsh Kelly to pipe in the haggis which will be Folk Magazines, Reminders addressed by Balerno Folk Club organiser, Page 17 Reminders, Festivals, and Edinburgh FC and The World’s Room Crossword solutions regular, Morag Dunbar (recently inducted into the Scots Trad Hall Of Fame). On the Sunday afternoon following the Burns Night, there’s to be an informal http://ec1973.com/home :: https://www.facebook.com/Edinburgh-Folk-Club-155304611154742/ :: @edfolkclub Please note that Edinburgh Folk Club cannot accept responsibility for the content of third party websites displayed in this newsletter and offers all content in good faith. CARRY ON STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the best folk club in the world! Dateline: Wednesday 13 January 2021 Volume 1.15 CARRY ON STREAMIN CELTIC CONNECTIONS performances remotely. Our banner is a ‘reworking’ of the of the Traditionally, the festival welcomes over Carrying Stream festival which EFC’s late chair, FESTIVAL 2021 100,000 attendees to Glasgow, a UNESCO Paddy Bort, created shortly after the death of City of Music, and on announcing the Hamish Henderson in 2002. The Celtic Connections online festival begins on Friday 15 January 2021. digital-first festival organisers hoped it After Paddy died in February 2017, EFC created Across 19 days, the festival will present will appeal to this wide international the Paddy Bort Fund (PBF) to give financial over 30 online performances until audience. This new-style 19-day event assistance to professional folk performers who, Tuesday 2 February 2021. Tickets from undoubtedly has caught the attention of through no fault of their own, fall on hard times. the festival website music fans across the world already with No-one contemplated anything like the festival passes purchased in 35 countries. coronavirus. Now we need to replenish PBF World class concerts will be available to All shows will be available for a week again and have set a new target to raise a view online with some of the biggest names after they are first streamed to alleviate further £10 000. on the Scottish music scene and beyond any restrictions for different time zones. appearing on screens across the world. There are two strands to Carry On Streamin - Celtic Connections is delivered by the this publication and our YouTube channel where Celtic Connections has created unique charity Glasgow Life and is funded by you will find, every fortnight, videos donated by digital content from specially Glasgow City Council, Creative Scotland some of the best folk acts around. commissioned projects and performances and The Scottish Government Festivals PLEASE DONATE TO PBF AS BEST YOU CAN, filmed in venues across Glasgow. EXPO Fund. USING THE PAYPAL LINKS WE PROVIDE. International artists have also contributed to the eclectic line-up by recording /… continued on page 3 http://ec1973.com/home :: https://www.facebook.com/Edinburgh-Folk-Club-155304611154742/ :: @edfolkclub Please note that Edinburgh Folk Club cannot accept responsibility for the content of third party websites displayed in this newsletter and offers all content in good faith. CARRY ON STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the best folk club in the world! Dateline: Wednesday 13 January 2021 Volume 1.15 /… continued from page 2 McCreadie whose second album, Cairn, is Santiago de Compostela and the folk four- Programme Information out on 29 January. piece Gnoss and Gaelic singer Deirdre Opening in unparalleled style, the first A special show entitled Come Away In Graham perform sets from Glasgow’s online concert from the festival will stages. include sets from some of the very best will air on Monday 18 January. Inspired musicians on both the Scottish and by Karine Polwart’s song of the same The first concert of Saturday 23 January international music scenes. With over 12 name that celebrates Scottish hospitality will welcome Nordic folk outfit Dreamers’ performances packed into the 90-minute and is partly inspired by The Wren’s Nest Circus who have recorded from at home show, the footage has been recorded by Robert Burns, this song circle show Denmark. Vocalist and exponent of the across many of Glasgow’s venues as well will include performances from some of Gaelic tradition Kathleen MacInnes and as remotely across the world, bringing a the best vocalists on the Scottish music folk five-piece Ímar will join the Nordic true feeling of optimism and connections scene - Karine Polwart, Eddi Reader, Rab trio on tonight’s bill. as it welcomes back so many musicians Noakes, Siobhan Miller & Finlay Napier. A special performance which has been who have graced the festival stages across Scottish folk group Breabach will perform captured for the festival in Rajasthan will the years. as part of the show being aired on Tuesday also be part of this middle weekend show. Each night’s online concert will show an 19 January. Part of Aidan O’Rourke’s 365 The Womanly Voices of Jodhpur RIFF ambitious line-up of various performers. show will also be aired where he will once was recorded at 4am with eight local again be joined by Kit Downes. Singer female Rajasthan musicians playing as the Saturday 16 January 2021 will offer two and harpist Rachel Newton (winner of the moon went down and the sun came up. concerts, with the first in the shape of BBC Radio 2 Folk Musician of the Year in The line-up includes mother Sundar Rao BEMIS presents C with music from 2017) will also perform songs from her and her daughter Ganga Rao on vocals, Jamaican musician Brina, whose sound is new album To the Awe. One of the true alongside Mohini Devi also on vocals and steeped in the rhythm of her native culture masters of the ngoni, an ancient traditional her daughter Susheela - the very first and inspired by World Roots Reggae lute found throughout West Africa, Rajasthani woman folk artist to play the music. The Ando Glasho Collective, a Bassekou Kouyate will perform with his khartal instrument on an international group that showcases the cultural heritage quartet of fellow instrumentalists Ngoni platform (with her first performance at of the Roma people living here in Ba, recorded remotely in his home village Jodhpur RIFF - Rajasthan International Scotland, will also perform as part of this of Garana in Mali. Brummie folk musician Folk Festival in 2019 and now as part of early evening show. Katherine Priddy will also perform as part Celtic Connections 2021.) Later that evening Celtic Connections will of tonight’s entertainment. The later Saturday night show, starts at welcome to its stage the heady line-up of Wednesday 20 January will showcase 9pm, with Scottish indie group Admiral acid croft pioneers Shooglenifty, fiddle Blue Rose Code, the musical embodiment Fallow performing a one-hour concert.
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