CARRY on STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the Best Folk Club in the World! Dateline: Wednesday 19 August 2020 Volume 1.06

CARRY ON STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the best folk club in the world! Dateline: Wednesday 19 August 2020 Volume 1.06

than this experience for her was that no one MENTAL HEALTH AND spoke about what the famous Canadian CARRY ON STREAMIN THE ARTS songwriter had suffered from for many years: You may recognise in our banner a depression and anxiety. “Even my father never ‘reworking’ of the of the Carrying With kind permission from Folker Mag a zine showed what really moved him inside,” recalls Stream festival which EFC’s late chair, (Germany) and the article’s author, Erik Catherine MacLellan. “On the way to a Paddy Bort, created shortly after the Prochnow, we reprint this recently published psychiatrist, he just told me I had to be strong.” death of Hamish Henderson. article in full. Music as an outlet After Paddy died in February 2017, It is precisely this false strength and the social EFC created the Paddy Bort Fund stigma associated with mental illnesses that (PBF) to give financial assistance to prevent them from being recognized and folk performers who, through no fault treated at an early stage. Catherine MacLellan of their own, fall on hard times.

also suffered from mental health problems for a No-one contemplated anything like the long time. It was years before she could face coronavirus. Now we need to her own depression and deal with her father's replenish PBF and have set a target of suicide. Music, like for example on her current (at least) £10 000. album Coyote, was her only valve for a long time. It was only when she realized in There are two strands to Carry On conversations with friends that other people Streamin - this publication and our were also experiencing similar problems that YouTube channel where you will find, she lost the fear of going public with the topic. every fortnight, videos donated by “As a single mother, I wanted to finally break some of the best folk acts around. the cycle within the family and not impose any Please donate to PBF as best you can, burden on my daughter for the future,” says the using the PayPal links we provide. forty-year-old. For her, periods of depression are like slowly entering a cave that is dark, silent and full of heaviness. "There are thought patterns in which we lose ourselves and which can lead to suicide." In order to raise public awareness of mental Catherine MacLellan: (pic credit Millefiore illnesses, the singer / songwriter opened up to Clarkes) her celebrity father's music for the first time in more than twenty years. Gene MacLellan's Catherine MacLellan: Bringing Light Into songs like "Snowbird" or "Put Your Hand In The Darkness The Hand" have been covered by countless Current studies show that musicians are greats like Elvis Presley, Joan Baez or Bing particularly susceptible to mental illnesses such Crosby or helped the singer Anne Murray to as depression or anxiety. The Canadian singer / achieve an international breakthrough. songwriter Catherine MacLellan saw first- hand how her famous father Gene MacLellan (continued over … ) suffered from it. In order to overcome the social stigma of the disease, she developed a special Click here PayPal to donate concert program. The singer wants to show that to the Paddy Bort Fund. those affected with depressive moods are not left alone if they find the courage to talk about And click here to go to it. EFC’s YouTube channel. IT IS A SHADOW that will always accompany you. Catherine MacLellan was See the panel (right) for the fourteen years old when she found her father performers on the video Gene in the basement. He had committed accompanying this edition of suicide at the age of 56. But what was worse COS.

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(… continued from front page) Sweden and Canada. In 2017, with around very vulnerable,” she continues. For them, 2,200 participants, the UK University of therefore, sufficient sleep, a healthy diet, Three years ago, Catherine MacLellan recorded Westminster's largest survey to date on the meditation, talking about emotions with an entire album of her father's songs, If It's subject showed that almost 70 percent of familiar people and longer breaks on their farm Alright With You. She put together a tour musicians suffer from mental health problems. on Prince Edward Island are the most important program that tells his life and addresses his More than half also found it difficult to find factors in order to be mentally stable. mental illness. And Catherine released the help. The list of prominent artists who have critically acclaimed documentary The Song “The sky turns gray because I haven't seen a suffered or died from mental illness is long. It And The Sorrow about Gene MacLellan's friend all day,” Gene MacLellan sang in his includes such illustrious names as James music and his fight against depression. She song “Faces” about his depressed mood. In Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Kurt Cobain, Adele, plans to present parts of the program in doing so, he also expressed great ambivalence. Sinead O'Connor and Amy Winehouse.Mental Germany in autumn 2020. Because on the one hand, many artists draw health problems are often associated with inspiration from their psychological crises. On Financial insecurity increases the risk of alcohol and drug addiction. the other hand, they can break under the illness There are many reasons for the increased risk moods. "Serious self-esteem crises can occur if According to official statistics, around 5.3 of mental illness in musicians. “The hardest the masses are not well received and are not million people in Germany alone suffer from part is certainly the financial uncertainty,” successful," confirms René Hurlemann, depression and around 12 million from anxiety comments Catherine MacLellan. “In addition to Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at disorders. The number of unreported cases is the pressure from the music industry, the the University of Oldenburg. significantly higher. Musicians are affected unregulated daily work, the difficulty of family even more than the average citizen. This is relationships, abuse and the temptation to (continued on next page … ) borne out by recent studies from Great Britain, consume alcohol and drugs make the artists

(… continued from previous page) great combination which has informed the PLOCKTON = EXCELLENCE unique atmosphere of the NCETM. In a time when everything has to change faster and faster, it is therefore extremely difficult for One of four Scottish Centres of Excellence musicians to seek professional help. "Taking it (the others being based at Broughton High easy is seen as a weakness," adds School, Edinburgh, Douglas Academy in Hurlemann.Mental illnesses such as depression Bearsden and Dyce Academy in can now be treated very well and suicides, Aberdeenshire), the NCETM joined forces which are seldom spontaneous, can be avoided with the three other centres for a Showcase at an early stage. Concert on 9th March this year. Staged at The Queen's Hall in Edinburgh, it featured Offers of help for German musicians an array of ensembles and soloists from each But even when artists are open to professional Centre, culminating in a specially arranged help, it is not easy to find support in this Players from Plockton at Edinburgh FC in version of 'A Man's a Man for A' That' country. The waiting time for an appointment 2018; pic Allan McMillan performed by the combined might of with a therapist can be months. The German orchestra, choir, soloists and pipers. The Depression Aid Foundation therefore launched Wendy Weatherby writes … enthusiasm and skill shown by all concerned the Friedemann-Weigle Program in 2015. The WAY BACK IN 1999 when I saw the advert was a testament to the dedication and talent comprehensive counseling program is aimed at for post of Director of the soon - to - be of these young musicians. musicians who are mentally ill. The German established National Centre of Excellence in Society for Musician Psychology (DGfMP) Traditional Music, I thought 'I'd quite like to My first encounter with the NCETM was as offers further help. However, offers of help are do that', knowing nothing of what might be a guest tutor at one of their special Music only useful if the musicians are willing to involved, or even where Plockton was.. With Weekends. This was the Burns weekend, so relentlessly face their mental problems. vague romantic notions of a picturesque wee myself, singer Mick West and guitarist Frank "Opening up to someone that you are asking village where enthusiastic students played McLaughlin were there to teach the songs for help is the key door to getting out of mental tunes all day, and myself wafting around as a and music of Burns. Saturday involved us health problems," says Catherine MacLellan. very supportive 'earth mother' - all presenting a selection of songs, after which “With my music I want to show that nobody cheesecloth and wise words - I promptly the students divided into groups. They chose has to be alone with the disease.” She herself turned the page and forgot all about it - a the song they fancied, spent the afternoon knows from her own experience that despite all lucky escape for all! rehearsing it, then performed it at the Burns’ the hopelessness there is always a light. In her Supper that night. The top table was piped in new song "Breath Of A Wind", for example, Plockton IS a picturesque wee village by students, the recitations and speeches she sings about her depression: "It comes and situated on the banks of Loch Carron on the were done by students, the supper itself was goes, I've learned that it doesn't stay." west coast of Ross - shire; students DO play served to the guests by students, and they tunes (nearly!) all day ,but the reality of the still had the energy for a session afterwards, (Ed: By way of a coda to this article, situation is that very little wafting or fuelled by haggis, neeps, tatties and Irn Bru. here's a telling quote from another article cheesecloth is involved. The NCETM is a I was impressed. I was knackered. I was about this very subject in Go London: "A highly organised, government and local hooked! So when I later got a call from 2015 report by Victoria University in authority funded residential Music School, Dougie asking if I could audition a cellist, I Australia found that performing arts open to children of secondary school age jumped at the chance. workers experience symptoms of anxiety from anywhere in Scotland, academically ten times higher than the general affiliated with Plockton High School and All the students at the NCETM audition for a population, and depression symptoms five directed by the highly talented Dougie place, playing a short set on their main times higher, saying that these statistics Pincock. instrument and often including a second can be directly attributed to financial instrument if they have one. They are insecurity and poor working conditions.”. Dougie's experience as a piper, flautist, interviewed by Dougie, the Head Teacher of The article from which that quote was saxophonist, producer, teacher and former Plockton High School, a representative of taken was very much in line with the member of bands including Kentigern and Highland Council's education department, a article from Folker. If you feel you need to Battlefield Band stands him in great stead to member of the school’s Senior Management get help in the UK contact Music Minds guide and advise students on the varied Team and their prospective 1st study tutor. If Matter or ArtsMinds). aspects of musical life. His performing, successful they can expect a one-to-one touring and teaching experience means that he's well respected; his sense of humour and (continued on page 5 … ) fairness means that he's well liked too. It's a

(… continued from page 3) instrumental / singing lesson a week, Group Work for an hour a day after school and supervised practise for an hour in the evening. It sounds full on, and it IS, but in a very positive and supportive atmosphere. The cellist was good enough to get in, so I was now going to be an official tutor! I had only one student initially, so I was able to do a round trip from Edinburgh by train - a beautiful journey of six and a half hours each way, leaving around 6am. Worth it, though after teaching my cellist in the afternoon (I did usually have a wee kip on the train!) I could help supervise the Group Work sessions from 4 - 5 pm. The groups are formed at the beginning of the year and help to forge strong musical ties, and the sharing of styles and experience. The best sets are then featured on the annual CD, produced in the small in - house studio, where seniors also learn recording techniques and PA skills. Anyway, the imagination and energy of the groups would fire me up nicely for the teatime train home, after a quick snack from the excellent hostel cooks. The hostel itself, as well as being the base for the Music School teaching rooms, is the residence for Enlarge for all pupils who live too far afield to travel to greater clarity and from school during the week. It's definitely not a rarified atmosphere for musicians only - it's a normal school for everyone, with the added bonus of more THE PARISH OF SLATEFORD music for some! LOCAL HISTORY LONGSTONE is part of the ancient parish Edinburgh: Parish of Slateford- My involvement with the NCETM continues of Hailes which King Duncan II, son of Longstone. - I'm currently the Scots Song and Cello tutor. Malcolm Canmore gifted to the monks of Recent conditions mean that all Music School Ed: This article is largely based on the Dunfermline Abbey in 1095. Our parish tuition will be done online for the foreseeable history of the parish to be found in lies in Easter Hailes. The first parish kirk, future, which has set a new challenge for the Longstone Community Council’s website by dedicated to St. Cuthbert, was somewhere older generation of computer fearties like me Stuart Harris, former Depute City near Hailes House, but later a new kirk was - the students seem to be managing well Architect. built in the crook of the Water of Leith at though! Colinton. It was called Hailes Kirk until John Barrow writes … when we flitted to the 17th century, when the name It's a real privilege to be part of such an Redhall Bank Road in 2007 I didn’t realise ‘Collington’ (which exactly tallies with the exciting environment which has had a fine that we were entering such a rich local pronunciation of the name to this line-up of musicians both tutoring and historical landscape as is evident in this day) began to be attached to it. learning there over the last twenty years. article. We’d lived more or less just round Long may the NCETM continue to nurture the corner for some years previously and Archibald Douglas, forefather of the and encourage our young traditional that was how I choose “Stoneyport” as the famous Black Douglas of Bruce’s time, musicians, a grand bunch who continue to do name of my new agency in about 1987. was laird at the end of the 12thcentury. us all proud. (continued on next page … )

(… continued from previous page) the tower houses - for example, Merchiston sappers managed to get right to the Tower Tower was bombarded more than once. The and blow up its entrance door. The laird In 1438 the laird was William Crichton, that war culminated in a siege of Edinburgh surrendered and Cromwell was so crafty politician who arranged the ‘Black Castle - the longest in its history. Starved impressed with his courage that he set him Dinner’ in the great hall of Edinburgh Castle, out, the Queen’s Men, commanded by free ten days later. at which the young Earl of Douglas and his Kirkaldy of Grange, eventually surrendered brother were brutally murdered. BATTLE OF DUNBAR – only to have the terms of surrender On Saturday 27 August Cromwell marched In the seventeenth century the Brand family brutally set aside after they marched out. westwards. Leslie attacked him at Gogar acquired not only Redhall Estate but parts Redhall and Slateford were involved in and Kirkliston. By this time the English of Easter Hailes across the river, and by these troubles. One day a group of farmers were running short of supplies, and they 1712 most of our parish was joined to smuggling supplies to the Queen’s Men were forced to fall back, first on Redhall. were intercepted at Slateford, and two of Fairmilehead, and then on Dunbar. Leslie Originally, the Lanark Road (now the them were hanged and the others were pursued them, but the Scots, spurred on by A70) ran up the hill from Slateford heading branded on the cheek. The very next day their exultant ministers, rashly exposed west along what is now Redhall Bank Road five women were caught, but their sex themselves to a counter-attack and were cut and then across to pick up its present line didn’t [sic] save them: the King’s Men to pieces on Saturday 3 September. just south of Kingsknowe [Dovecot] Park. drowned one of them in the Water of Leith At Millbank, the Bogsmill Road branched and whipped and branded the other four. LOCAL HISTORY – Please send us off, forded the river and climbed steeply up CROMWELL AND REDHALL TOWER pieces about your community’s history. to Redhall Tower. The Tower stood on the Oliver Cromwell and his English army We’re always looking for contributions – high promontory north of the present invaded Scotland in 1650. He came up the articles, news, pictures, opinions, reviews. Redhall House, and dated from the 13th coast to Musselburgh, but found his way Please click here to email them to us. century. In 1756 George Inglis bought the barred by the Scots army commanded by estate, pulled down the old Tower and built General Leslie. They were strongly the mansion house nearby, at a cost of £928 entrenched behind a great earth rampart MY LOCKDOWN 17s 9d. For another £40 he built the which they had formed between Calton and R AB N O AKES writes ... dovecote which you can see in Slateford Leith – in later years it became the roadway Dell. It incorporates a heraldic panel of Leith Walk. brought from the old Tower, bearing the arms of Adam Otterburn, who inherited Cromwell decided to outflank Leslie by Redhall in 1533. sweeping round the base of the Pentlands and cutting of his supply line to Stirling. He In 1572-3 there was an exceedingly bitter swung left to Fairmilehead; but when he civil war in Scotland, centred in the got to Colinton on Tuesday 16 August he Edinburgh area. Mary Queen of Scots had found that Leslie had taken up a very strong fled to England and was imprisoned there. position at Corstorphine, with an outpost in One party in Scotland - the ‘Queen’s Men’ - Redhall Tower. The route to the west was were for restoring her to the throne. The so boggy and difficult that Cromwell dare other party, headed by the Regent Morton, not leave his right flank exposed to counter- were for deposing Mary and making her attack, and he was forced to stop and deal baby son James, king. They were with Redhall, which was held by its laird nicknamed the ‘King’s Men’. and sixty men. Some of the English guns Political and religious tension made the were hauled to the knoll at the head of Rab Noakes: pic credit Carol Ann Peacock conflict very sharp indeed. The Queen’s Dovecot Grove (Ed: about 100 m from Men held Edinburgh castle and many of the where I now live), to fire across the river at Lockdown hasn’t been too bad all told. fortified tower houses in the Lothians. The the Tower. The bombardment started at My lockdown has been that odd, yet King’s Men held the town of Edinburgh, dawn on Wednesday 17 August and went prevalent, combination of inertia and Leith and many ither [sic] tower houses, on for six hours. activity. I cannae get my head round the such as Corstorphine, Merchiston, Slateford The Tower proved a difficult nut to crack. weird’n’wonky bit where part of us is frozen and Redhall. Most of the fighting was in Not until its garrison ran out of ammunition in March/April and the other is romping skirmishes between parties scouring the was Cromwell able to attack with infantry, through 2020 at a rate of knots. countryside for food. There were raids on and even then the laird held out until (continued on next page … )

(… continued from previous page) They were s****n’ in the lang grass – an CLATTY CUMPERS orra sort of caper Along with everyone else, all my gigs Pam King writes: “My piece for this edition brings And every dirty dollop was crowned wi’ evaporated. The most significant casualty us closer to home. Readers will be aware of the bright pink lavvy paper was the sequence of shows where I was bothy ballad tradition from the Doric-spikkin North It min’t me on those corals that ye see gonna celebrate the 50th anniversary of my East. It is alive and well, and, like all living traditions, in southern oceans first LP with a few shows. One set was to be still commenting on the trials and tribulations of the I wisnae walkin’ through my park – I wiz the whole album in sequence with the other times. This ballad was written by BBC Radio going through their motions… being songs from 1969/’70 which weren’t on Scotland presenter Mark Stephen, and broadcast I headed doon tae tell them aff but ‘fore the record. I am contemplating rescheduling on his show “Out of Doors” on 1 August. We have I could even spik for next year and celebrate the 51st. his blessing to publish the words here as part of the They chased me aff my ain grun wi’ a money-raising effort for the Paddy Bort Fund. He has height o’ bliddy chick! I’m missing gigs, obviously, but it’s a lot They telt me that in Scotland they had also issued the challenge that if anyone can set it to worse for many others than it is for me. freedom for tae roam We’re now mortgage-free pensioners with music, he’ll sing it on air...” And here I’m paraphrasin’ fin they telt other bits of income and property. A lot of I’m nae a loon fa’ scumfishes - ah’ve me tae “ go home” people have just had the bottom drop out. seen ma share o’ clort The chiefmaist een amangst them, an I dinna mind the daily bind, I’m nae the I’ve been doing quite a bit with the orra looking chiel sit saft sort Tried tae tell me a’ the richts o’t as if I Musicians’ Union and STUC, taking part in My life hiz nae been connich’t – wi’ were daft or feel. various conversations with ScotGov and petty fours and champers He laughed at me and got mair beer frae others to highlight predicaments and No, the only sort - pits me aff my stott - oot a’ one their hampers hopefully raise awareness and encourage is a wheen o’ Clatty Cumpers While I jist stood there scunnered at the support. I ferm three hunner acres in a corner o’ wyes o clatty campers My MU Executive Committee activity gives the Howe That nicht I lay there ragin’ – I niver me a monthly trip to London which, of The lan’ is kind o’ bosied where the slept a wink river starts tae bow I could hear them ‘til the wee sma’ course, has now been cancelled in person for There’s trees and little birdies and wild the remainder of the year. Meetings take oors, teemin’ a’ that drink flooers by and by Bit by the time the sun wiz up I’d place on the Zoom platform which is It’s a bonny kind o’ corner fan the sun’s reckon’t every factor reasonably effective. I’ve been on that high in the sky And girded on my biler suit and went valuable forum for 16 years now and I’m We’d had fower months o’ lockdown fin an’ got my tractor missing my trips south. I hope they haven’t they showed up in the park It wiz a special kind o wake-up call for I gone for ever. Tents, twa then three, oot on the spree, wis in nae hurry I have been getting into some writing so, toonsers on a lark As I drove past slow in second gear wi’ a Loons and quines the’gither, an awfy hopefully, that’ll see the light of day in time. tanker load o’ slurry wheen o’ drinkers The flow rate wiz hied tae maximum, I’ve largely kept off the internet in terms of A hellish crew fin they got foo, a mochit I’d set it in the barn performance. It’s not real performance mob o’ minkers As I carefully sprayed their camp site without the audience transaction. Also, there I didnae like their music – yon Rap is wi’ eight tons o’ bright green sharn are plenty auld blokes sitting down with awfy violent I doot it wis the breakfast for which acoustic guitars warbling away … HaHa. I I must confess, if I had tae guess that they had been hopin’ was invited to deliver a song for The the c in rap is silent And it’s safe to to bet, they micht’ Scotsman Sessions - click here. They screamed and roar’t in the regret leavin’ car windaes open darkness, the din wiz hard tae thole One puir loon wiz sleepin’ on the grass – Here’s another link to something Val And fitever they were smokin’ … it he must have been richt foo McDermid wrote for the National Theatre of wisnae bogie roll But now he woke up cowking wi’ calfie Scotland / BBC online series Scenes for They’d brocht those tin-tray barbecues sharn inside his moo Survival. It’s called ‘First Things’, and is a and even lit a fire I’m nae sayin’ it wiz the richt thing tae single-hander with Elaine C Smith. Val They’d nae brocht ony firewid but dae but faith - it wiz a glorious sight invited me to provide the closing song. they’d been tae chainsaw hire As the three wee tents were batter’t A richt wee bonny corner seen wiz flat wi a tidal wave o’ s***e (Ed: There’ll be a video track of Rab with looking like a coup Bit that morn they learnt a lesson – a Brooks Williams in COS1.07) As what’ere they used and fenneshed teuchter won’t be scorned wi’ just landed at their doup. And the welcome that awaits them here – And that wisnae the worst o’t Clatty Campers you’ve been warned!

Clues Across: 4. Edinburgh theatre which focuses on CROSSWORD (1.06) compiled by The Bairn fresh writing and acting ideas, primarily from Scotland, very busy during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (8) 7. Geordie folk singer and songwriter Johnny ______(6) 8. City in which Puccini’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ is set (8) 11. Originally a gypsy word, commonly used in Scotland to mean ‘great’ (5) 13. Irish band from County Sligo with first album titled Harmony Hill (7) 15. Biblical High Priest of Shiloh (3) 16. See 18 Down (3) 17. Common name for major shipbuilding firm once based in Scotstoun, Glasgow (7) 19. Term to describe traditional compositions without lyrics (5) 21. Album from John Denver (8) 25. The Cameo and Dominion are examples of this (6) 26. East Lothian bay that the The McCalmans sung about (8) Clues Down: 1. Bits of unimportant information (6) 2. A Southern American descriptive twang of an inanimate object (5) 3. ‘My Grandfather’s _____’ brass band favourite written in 1876 (5) 5. Buddy Holly hit (8) 6. College situated in Berkshire, 22. Huge country, home to tigers, with 22 world who, under normal circumstances, would England. Could be famous and recorded languages, and 1.3 billion be coming together to celebrate the All-Ireland infamous at the same time? (4) people! (5) Fleadh – ‘The Homecoming’ – in Mullingar in 9. Forename of recipient of BBC Radio 23. What all these are: Pacific, Atlantic, August. This took place August 6 to 9 2020. Scotland Young Traditional Musician Indian (5) COPPERPLATE 2020; surname Levack (3) 24. Major Queen hit, “Radio __ __” (2,2) 10. Van Gogh painting of tall blue flowers (6) In the previous COS (1.05) we ran some information about the Copperplate 11. Surname of current Chair of Solutions to the crossword in COS1.05 can be organisation. And here we are again. Edinburgh Folk Club (6) found on page 11 12. ‘____ of Fire’ very famous song Copperplate boss, Alan O’Leary, wrote to say: written by June Cash (4) “Many thanks for including details of 14. An agent of rapid change (8) WEE BITS n PIECES Copperplate in the new issue of Carry on 15. Scottish river starting at St Fillans and Go here to see a world-wide gathering of Streamin. It is a great help, introducing me to a joining River Tay near Abernethy (4) traditional Irish music from Dublin to Japan, sector of the folk world rarely heard. Congrats 18. Scottish Celtic rock band from Skye, from Alabama to Brisbane. TG4 in and thanks to all involved. I think your readers first formed in 1970’s - and see 16 partnership with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, would be interested in our internet radio work across (3,3). brings Fleadh2020, a 4-night celebration of (see below). 20. To convert data into a different Fleadh Ceoil around the world. Fleadh2020 is format, mostly associated with a gathering (socially distanced and virtual) of computing (6) Irish traditional musicians from around the (continued on next page … )

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(… continued from previous page) course has been put on hold during the here to find out exactly what’s SUSSEX PIE AND EVENTS SHEET current crisis but will, no doubt at all, happening and buy tickets. Also check (Sussex Folk Association) Sussex restart when deemed safe to do so. the “A J Bell Fringe Pick n Mix” here. Meanwhile have a look at The idea behind the Fringe Pick n Mix is SUSSEX FOLK GUIDE (NB: Online) EDINBURGH CEILIDH CLUB. to allow interaction between artists and FOLK SOUTH EAST Surrey audiences to continue in August and to THE SCOTTISH Storytelling Centre in keep the momentum going. Artists can TAPLAS Wales + The Borders & Beyond Edinburgh's High Street may be closed direct viewers to additional content such FOLKWALES ONLINE MAGAZINE just now but it is keeping busy with all as their social media profiles or kinds of streams and on-line stuff. Click upcoming projects. More importantly, FOLK MONTHLY West Midlands: here to find out what's what. Worcs, Warks, Staffs, Shropshire, this is a fundraising opportunity for Herefordshire. The TMSA (Traditional Music and artists and creatives who have been Song Association) has a calendar list of severely impacted by the coronavirus FOLKFAX - Diary of events, news and upcoming events it's involved in on its website. outbreak. Many artists will include links gossip. (NB: Online only). to fundraising activities on their videos. WILTSHIRE FOLK ARTS Wiltshire. THE TRADITIONAL MUSIC FORUM Alternatively, you can support artists via (aka TMF) is a key participant in the their FringeMaker crowdfunding pages FOLKLIFE WEST Worcs, Glos and The Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on or donate to a collective artist and venue West (Quarterly Magazine and Folk Culture, the Music Education Partnership resilience fund. Directory). Group, Culture Counts and Heads of FOLK ROUNDABOUT Yorkshire, Instrumental Teaching Scotland (HITS) to North & East, Teesside, Cleveland, name but a few. Through the website, Northumberland. newsletter and social media channels, SOLUTIONS to the TMF continually showcases the diverse TYKES NEWS (incorporating Stirrings) activities of their wide membership and crossword in COS 1.05 ... Yorkshire, South And West. shares news, events, and information. And Across: Down: notably, EFC's man, Dave Francis is the 1 CREASE 1 CHERUBS REMINDERS … TMF Director and Lori Watson, is chair. 3 FALLEN 2 SKY SANDY BELL’S BAR RESCUE FUND 7 EVELYN 4 ARC At the time of writing £3,718 (unchanged FESTIVAL ROUND-UP 8 SCARAB 5 NOBODY'S from COS1.05) had been raised towards 10 STRAITS 6 ALPACA There are so many festivals around these 13 BARON 9 CRISPIN the target of £15,000. To contribute visit islands, not to mention abroad, that a better the Save Sandy Bell's Go Fund Me page. 14 HURDY 10 SNOOKER use of the limited space in the newsletter is to 15 OAK 11SHANNON The NATIONAL PIPING CENTRE in list websites offering lists of festival. 17 OAP 12 ARNOTTS Glasgow invites pipers and drummers to B ritish Arts Festivals Association 18 EON 15 OPA join their first ever online adult gathering European Forum of Worldwide Music 20 ALY 16 KEY from June 29 to July 2 2020. This will be Festivals - Member Festivals 23 URINE 19 RUNAWAY a great thing for your piping and Folk and Roots - UK Festivals 24 OPTIC 21 LARYNX drumming with great tutors on hand to 25 REFRAIN 22 MCMANUS help you! THE 26 WISHAW 27 ALE The FRIENDS OF THOMAS MUIR EDINBURGH 28 SIGN ON 29 ILK organisation website lists a lot of activity FESTIVAL 30 YANKEE showing what the Friends are up to on a FRINGE isn’t 31 SKILLS continuing basis behind the scenes. To find quite as normal at out more use their contact details here. the moment with a considerable P ENICUIK ARTS promotes and number of shows being presented online Click here PayPa l to donate encourages the study, practice and rather than in physical venues. The event knowledge of the Arts in Penicuik and is described as being ‘reimagined’: to the Paddy Bort Fund. surrounding district. Contact them by “From 100s of artist and venue streams email or phone: 01968 678804 to a weekly digital cabaret and festival And click here to go to EFC’s CEILIDH DANCING in Edinburgh of favourites from your front room.” Go YouTube channel.