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Girvan Folk Festival, 2014 Souvenir Programme Girvan’s 40th Girvan Traditional Folk Festival 2nd to 4th May 2014 www.girvanfolkfestival.co.uk Welcome • to the 40th Girvan Festival Sadly we have to note the recent passing of two mighty characters of the folk scene. Firstly, last year, the untimely loss of John McCreadie a musician singer and songsmith of note. For a time John was on our organising committee. We are also the poorer since the recent passing of John Eaglesham. John was a founding member of the Clutha, the first folk group ever encountered by many of us and a man who We are delighted to be able to welcome you for many was the main reason we got into to a weekend of celebrations to mark the traditional music. 40th Girvan Traditional Folk Festival. We have already been marking this great achievement We would ask you again to maintain the with an exhibition of photographs from early quiet order at the campsite which we aim festivals, firstly, in the Glasgow Concert Hall to achieve as in previous years through a “...The Girvan Festival story parallels a and currently in the McKechnie Institute here successful liaison between Castle Security on in Girvan. site and Police Scotland. We intend to remove time which will be seen as a golden age for any persons causing disorder from the site traditional music...” Here is not the place to relate the history of and remind you that in accordance with the festival, rather we will enthuse about South Ayrshire bylaws the consumption of the great line-up of guests, starting with alcohol in open public spaces is prohibited. Altan the legendary Irish group who have Altan • Arthur Johnstone and The Stars Band made two other appearances at Girvan over A final word of thanks to all who help us put on the festival and it only remains for us to Fiona Hunter Band • Ellen & Kevin Mitchell • Chris Miles the years. A formidable array of traditional singers have also been assembled and wish you an unforgettable 40th birthday Heather Heywood • Robyn Stapleton Trio • Billy Henderson as usual we have aimed for a very broad celebration with the best traditional music May Mayberry • Mike Hancock, children’s entertainer appeal with children’s events, competitions, and song. Colin McAllister and Frances Logan, storytellers workshops, concerts, storytelling and more The Tattiehowkers Ceilidh Band informal sessions throughout the town. Enjoy yourselves. It is only fitting at this stage that we The Girvan Festival Committee acknowledge with gratitude the invaluable support of our funders, South Ayrshire Maggie Macrae, Robert Jardine, Ian Council, Carrick Futures and the Weir Trust Fitzimmons, Gordon Potter, Colin McAllister, Concerts • Ceilidhs • Sessions • Workshops • Competitions and also the support of the Robb family who David Girvan, David Walker, Kathy Hobkirk, have donated to the festival in memory of Sheila McMath, Liz Clark, Alec Oattes, John Bobby. McDowall. Alec Clarke, Graham Charlton. Page Page General Information Tickets: Tickets are available from the tickets, programmes, raffle prizewinners festival office at the Westcliffe Hotel or announcements, general information may still be purchased on line at www. and guests CDs, there is a special range of girvanfolkfestival.co.uk Prices remain souvenir 40th celebration merchandise in unchanged from last year. Weekend tickets the form of sweat shirts, hoodies and T-shirts THE GIRVAN FESTIVAL ... are very good value and a huge saving at £ available. and £0 concessionary for under 18’s, senior citizens and unwaged. Proof of entitlement Campsite: The campsite on the McCreath is required. Children aged 14 and under will Park is adjacent to the golf course car park AN INcomplete HISToRy be admitted to events fee if accompanied by and the access route is marked clearly on the weekend ticket holders. map in this programme. Admission is £14 per adult per weekend and £7 for accompanied The festival started at an interesting time Ticket Prices: under 16s. A coloured wristband will be and was a period which many would issued to all paying campers, anyone not describe as a golden age musically. This Opening Concert / Bobby Robb displaying a wristband will be required to was not necessarily because of they were Tribute Concert - £10 / £8 pay or leave the site. The security staff will young themselves, although that might Academy Concert / Farewell Concert not admit to the campsite anyone who does have played a part in it. It was a time when - £15 / £12 not appear to be attending the festival and Scottish folk music was emerging. Irish music was more dominant than it is now but the Workshops / Competitions - £4 will require anyone causing public disorder to leave the site. Please respect the rules of groups and gatherings that were to lead to Late Ceilidh - £5 the campsite and other campers. No camping the emergence of seminal bands such as Saturday all Day Ticket - £25 / £20 adjacent to residential properties, remain on Bobby Robb Battlefield Band, Ossian and the Boys of the Sunday all Day Ticket - £20 / £18 the main field. Do not light fires. Lough were coming together. Some of Girvan’s strengths. It is The festival didn’t come out of nowhere, Weekend Ticket Conditions: Given Please note: the consumption of alcohol a family festival. • Its constitution there was experience to build on. Its roots the size of venues not all Weekend ticket is not permitted in the Academy Theatre or and defined focus. • Although it has were in a common group of friends and a holders might be able to gain entry to the the Carrick Buildings and remind you that a core committee, it is ‘owned’ by same event so priority will only be given in accordance with South Ayrshire bylaws shared experience of folk clubs. At that time a larger group of people. • It seeks in Ayrshire you could go to a folk club every to Weekend ticket holders until 10 minutes the consumption of alcohol in open public out performers rather than following before the start of each concert. spaces is prohibited. night of the week. Most of the audiences current trends. • It books ‘special stayed relatively static, but singers and people’ – not necessarily stars, but musicians moved around broadening their Competitions and Workshops PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS people with an X factor. • Its links experiences. There were also other festivals Competition entry forms are available at the with Ireland and England. • It isn’t which served as role models including Festival Shop and at the door of the event. Front Cover Photograph • David Scobie a ‘manufactured’ festival, it grew Kinross, Newcastleton and The Inverness Folk Pre- enrolment for workshops is also advised Girvan Harbour, (Guests page) • Pete largely from established folk clubs Festival. to help the tutors with their preparation. Heywood and is organised by enthusiasts. • It The majority of the historic photographs • remains small and acoustic. • It is One particularly key moment in the The Festival Shop: The Festival Alistair Chafer respected and trusted - an honest conception of the festival was an informal The Wellpark Suite • Gordon Hotchkiss shop is at the Westcliffe Hotel. As well as festival. weekend in Sandhead. That happened as a consequence of Pete and Heather Heywood Page 4 Page having a May holiday in Portpatrick, near Girvan establishes its identity Girvan wasn’t necessarily unique, but it Stranraer, where they had fallen in with was perhaps unusual in that its style of some local musicians. During the course of The festival consciously called itself the organisation was relaxed yet efficient. that week, one of the musicians married the Girvan Traditional Folk Festival. It wasn’t You can’t write the history of the early daughter of the owner of the Tigh Na Mara a pretentious claim, the organisers knew years of the festival from the minutes of pub in Sandhead and during the evening the score, but it did help define where the meetings, because there weren’t any. People celebrations, plans were hatched to return festival’s roots lay and a definition that contributed where they could and there was for an informal weekend. That weekend became a self fulfilling prophecy. Some a general consensus behind the direction could best be described as a ‘festival fringe’ festivals get a particular reputation, in the festival was heading. The festival was without a festival. The sun shone that Girvan’s case it was known as a ‘singers blessed with a number of competent and weekend and enthusiasm ran high. Pete and festival’. That didn’t mean that it wasn’t committed people and there was as little Heather subsequently started a folk club in strong instrumentally, because it developed demarcation as possible between guests, Kilmarnock – assisted by others, but that a fearsome reputation for its musical organisers and participants. The line ups is part of a different story. The Kilmarnock sessions, rather it reflected the centrality of of the first two or three festivals cemented Traditional Folk Club (KTFC) started in song in the Scottish folk revival. Girvan’s identity and laid foundations for May 1974 and planning for the first Girvan a period when Girvan achieved a status far Traditional Folk Festival started around the Looking back at how these various festival above its relatively modest size. same time, leading up to the birth of the personalities developed, it is fairly clear that festival on the May Bank Holiday weekend, self definition, allied to a particular artistic The first changes 197. booking policy, attracted audiences with Festival poster from year 5. (Note the Weekend reasonably common expectations. The first major change in the festival came Ticket price and apologies 35 years on for Bobby Robb, Ben Robb and Harry Aitken, spelling Gordeanna’s name wrong!) The festival had a written constitution about six years in.
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