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CARRY ON STREAMIN from EDINBURGH FOLK CLUB Probably the best folk club in the world! Dateline: Wednesday 24 June 2020 Volume 1.02 Of course the hope is that such counsels of IN THE FUTURE ... doom will be short lived until a vaccine CARRY ON STREAMIN THE LATEST COVID19 EDICT on against coronavirus is found. But will they Some folk will recognise in our banner Thursday last week from Scotland’s First then fade away along with the danger from the ‘reworking’ of the of the Carrying Minister, Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t offer any the virus? By then will the newly healthy and Stream festival which EFC’s late chair, hope for an early resumption of events and protected audiences simply have lost the Paddy Bort, created shortly after the gatherings or pubs. With similar statements habit of going to the weekly folk club or death of Hamish Henderson. from around the UK. Not even close. theatres and cinemas and found something After Paddy died in February 2017, else to supply some sort of ‘cultural hit’, In general in fact, the arts, however defined, EFC created the Paddy Bort Fund something which we all need? A propos of are looking into a big financial black hole (PBF) to give financial assistance to which click here for a great version of threatening the very existence of this folk performers who, through no fault enormously valuable sector of the UK Crosby, Stills and Nash’s Helplessly Hoping of their own, fall on financial hard economy over a lengthy period. Years of (Ed: Encore! More! More!). times. underinvestment from both local and national The Arts Council (England) reported in No-one contemplated anything like the governments are coming home to roost. April 2019 that the arts and culture current crisis and now, having given The hard working staff in museums, industry had grown £390million in a year assistance to a number of folk already orchestras, theatres, and performing arts and contributed £10.8billion to the UK we need to replenish PBF and have companies have worked miracles economy. The sector contributed set a target of (at least) £10 000. sometimes to maximise revenues and £2.8billion to the Treasury via taxation, There are two strands to Carry On topping out gaps created by cuts (as with and generated a further £23billion a year Streamin. There is this publication the 2012 Olympics which affected arts and 363,700 jobs. you’re looking at now. Plus, there is provision in southern England). These are eye-watering figures. In April our new YouTube channel where you Now, however, with the rules about social 2019 as a (sort of) comparison the Scottish will find, every fortnight, videos distancing pretty much invariant as far as whisky industry, enjoyed world-wide, was donated by some of the best folk acts even modest gatherings (like folk clubs) worth £5.5billion a year to Scotland’s around. are concerned, it looks like all events are economy while (2018) the creative industries in Scotland contributed £4.6 We’re asking you, dear reader, to going to suffer as we move into the donate to PBF as best you can, using billion to the economy (from summer and then autumn and perhaps the PayPal links we provide. even through the winter. https://culturecounts.scot/useful-facts). Are any UK festivals taking place Are governments seeing the seriousness of anywhere in their normal way? Zoom et al this crisis and will they provide adequate doesn’t cut it either does it? There’s no support? If not, will we be seeing the substitute for being in a crowd and being devastation of the UK’s cultural provision communally uplifted by some great music for the next several years perhaps even up or wonderful acting! The internet is fine to and beyond a decade. for chatting or for streaming some music The arts is a resilient critter though. It but realistically replicating gatherings depends on the expression of our creative can’t be achieved through that medium. instincts and can really shine in adversity. How many events can live and survive But, are the current adverse conditions just with 50%-plus drops in live attendances? too great to allow the usual fightback? The arithmetic is brutally simple. The arts (continued on page 4) in general has always offered amazing Click her e to go to Edinburgh FC’s new value for money. But when only half or YouTube channel and see the cornucopia fewer of the potential audience can be admitted safely (and that is still a question of music waiting there for you. The being argued over – what is safe?), the performers awaiting you are pictured on ticket prices have to increase. Then, the the right. big question, who is going to pay double (or more), say £20, to go to an event Click here PayPal to donate, which used to cost £10 or even less? to the Paddy Bort Fund http://efc1973.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 24 June 2020 Volume 1.02 folk clubs and sessions; some still are. REVIEWS Here, Findlay, Gillian and Mike have Jim Welsh from Radio Summerhall opened the ledger, selected 10 of the songs writes ... they most like to sing, and presented an Radio Summerhall is off air just now due album that is both a document of those to the current pandemic, although you can times and a vibrant testament to the power still listen to our back catalogue (click and beauty of songs that have transcended here) and read our news and reviews the centuries. online (click here). But you can also read on here to see what I would be playing on It helps, of course, that the performers Music Routes if we were back to are three of the finest in Scottish normal… contemporary and traditional music today. Their take on the likes of Barbara The Ledger: Findlay Napier, Allan, Twa Recruitin’ Sergeants and Gillian Frame & Mike Vass Mormond Braes is a joy to listen to. This (Cheerygroove Records). Out is an album of Scottish folk music as I used to listen to as a boy, as I enjoy now, basis. Findlay Napier’s grandfather, like listening to it now, and how I would like many others, collected these, and in his Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, The Scotsman to listen to it in future. case pasted them into an old ledger. newspaper published words and music to traditional Scottish songs on a weekly Many of these songs became standards at (continued over … ) http://efc1973.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 24 June 2020 Volume 1.02 Martha: Dougie Burns (Own Label). recorded in a circus tent on Malin Green, Among those who rate her highly you can Out now. Donegal during Earagail Arts Festival last name Cathy Fink and Liam Purcell, who year. co-produced this album and contribute their own talents on a number of tracks. Well, I’ve enjoyed the music of the And Eliza has further backing from Marcy Boswell Sisters since I was a small boy, Marxer, Sam Gleaves, and Alice Gerrard and I’ve loved the Henry Girls since I first among others. heard them, and even more since I’ve However, Meyer remains very much front heard them play live. So I’m delighted that and centre throughout, demonstrating her this tribute to three sisters by another three vocal and banjo skills on a wealth of well- chosen material. From the traditional Darlin’ Corey and The Cuckoo, Hazel Dickins’ Workin’ Girl Blues and Hills of Home to songs by Si Kahn, the Louvin Brothers and more, the range is wide but the quality is constant. A talent to look out for. Dougie Burns, music journalist, front man for The Cadillacs and also half of Bluebelly for around 15 years is – somewhat obviously – a man who should need no introduction to anyone with any familiarity with the Scottish music scene. Taking an enforced break from running his regular gigs in Inverness, he has a new sisters (plus a seven-piece backing band) solo album to offer. Albeit, as solo albums is all I could want it to be. usually are, made with the support of - as The Henry Girls have captured the ethos we say in these parts - hunners”* of of the music, not preserving, but talented amigos including Martin revitalising the songs, and the decision to Stephenson, Ally Macleod and Davy capture them live is, I think, the right one. Cowan, who also produced the album. The balance of skill and effervescence is a The songs vary from the personal, title champagne cocktail from start to finish as track Martha is a song for his mother, to they more than do justice to St Louis the get-off-your-backsides-and-dance of Blues, There’ll Be Some Changes Made, Take My Hand (Let’s Rock & Roll) and he 42nd Street and the rest. We’re always looking for demonstrates an equal ability to handle The Music Goes Round and Round, and it contributions from you – both of these.

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