DARVEL MUSIC FESTIVAL DARVEL TOWN HALL 6TH TO 28TH MAY 2011 THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN... ...On behalf of the Darvel Music Company I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all of our regular festival patrons and a special Darvel welcome to those of you who may be attending the event for the first time as well as our many visitors from overseas and across the UK. I hope that you will enjoy the “Darvel Experience” and that you are impressed by the intimate setting of our venue and the fantastic range of artistes who will be performing at our 10th anniversary concerts throughout the month of May. I am sure you will agree that we have a superb line-up this year and with over twenty five international and national performers covering a wide range of musical genres including; blues, soul, country, bluegrass, rock, pop, traditional and funk, there is something to enthuse all kinds of music aficionados. Please support us in our efforts to sustain ‘live’ music in Darvel by purchasing limited edition festival merchandise, guitar raffle tickets and if so inclined please consider becoming either an individual/family or business patron of the music festival. Thank you Sheila McKenna – Festival Director THE DMF TEAM Director Programme Design Sheila McKenna Scott McDonald of Creative Colour Bureau Producer Photography Neil McKenna Nathan Balls Sound and Lights Festival Committee Simon & George Payling Lynne McCubbin, Hugh Morton, Anne of Smalltown Audio Fonteyne-Aspeslagh, Lisa Cunningham Rachel Clinton, Alan McFedries, Sofie Bar Services Aspeslagh, Alex McAllister and David Sandy and Lillian Mair of Patterson Andely Wines and Events, Darvel Festival Volunteers Stage Manager and MC Wendy Duncan, Marlyn Harvie, Gary Alison Calder Clark, Nicole Drummond, Mike Duffy, Jim ROLLING BACK Catering Wilson, Jeanette Clark, Neil Allan, Dave The Sandwich Box, Darvel McGrath, Niall Jamieson, Brian Glover and Di Hutchison Website Concept THE YEARS J319 PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCREDITATIONS ALASDAIR FRASER PHOTOGRAPHY, JIM STEVENSON, JAY MANSFIELD, ALISTAIR MULHEARN, DOUG Over 150 acts have appeared at the Darvel Music Festival since 2002. If you have any COULTER, AND NATHAN BALLS 2002 -2011 photographs or particular memories of these concerts and would like to share them JUSTIN CURRIE PICTURE COURTESY OF DAVID GRAY, PEE WEE ELLIS COURTESY OF HEINRICH with us then please contact [email protected] BUTTLER AND THE COAL PORTERS COURTESY OF MICHAEL CLEMENT, PICTURES OF COAST ANDREW KING, OLI BROWN COURTESY OF MARCO VAN ROOIJEN. darvelmusicfestival.org | 1 HEIDI TALBOT IAIN MORRISON Ireland has long been a fount of great female An exciting collaboration between Iain FRIDAY singers, but Heidi Talbot’s breakthrough solo Morrison (singer/songwriter) & Daibhidh release, 2008’s In Love + Light, swiftly Martin (storyteller/poet), both from the Isle assured her promotion to the premier of Lewis, culminates in the release of their league. Its artfully chosen mix of traditional debut album 'Haunted Bird'. Doors 7.30pm and contemporary material, reinvented Tickets £20.00 classics and little-known gems, and above all Released in March 2011 Haunted Bird’s 6 MAY Heidi’s achingly bittersweet, spun-gold sounds cape remains rich in roots, warm and voice, won glowing reviews across three glowing, with the songs sparsely crafted and DREVER / McCUSKER / WOOMBLE continents, a US Indie Acoustic Award and a open, cast around unforgettable, natural Best Female Vocalist nomination in the Irish melodies. Surreal fables, myths, micro-fiction Three of Scotland’s most successful young John McCusker needs no introduction – The Music Awards. With critics mooting and fragments of balanced and crafted words musicians united last year for a special trio successful artist / producer and arranger has comparisons as diverse as Björk, Enya, Linda that chart their brief moments of intense life. album of newly written, contemporary folk appeared on records by the likes of Kate Ronstadt, Norah Jones and Kirsty MacColl, Their songs reflect an on-going journey; a and live concert tour. Rusby, Eddi Reader and many more, having the album received widespread radio airplay shared upbringing on an island with released his own albums to both critical and and has been followed by two years’ solid everything but isolation: vast land and As the old adage goes, if you want something commercial success. John has been gigging, both as headline act and sought- seascapes; the bite of the elements; the done, ask someone busy. And if you want to nominated for ‘Musician of the Year in the BBC after special guest. abundance of light and darkness and the hear some of the freshest, savviest, sweetest Radio 2 Folk Awards 2009. array of off-beat characters they’ve met on and most original songwriting around, look no the way. They will be joined onstage by Pete further than three of the busiest musicians in Roddy Woomble the trio’s lead singer, shares Harvey (cello)... Scotland in cahoots as a trio: Kris Drever, John the writing with Drever and McCusker. “What an McCusker and Roddy Woomble. Already known too many hundreds of impressive record thousands as the vocalist in IDLEWILD. He has With their respectively distinguished sold more than half a million albums and his this is. Very highly pedigrees ranging freely across the folk and hugely acclaimed folk solo debut “ My Secret recommended”. 5/5 The Scotsman rock spectrum - and overlapping via several Is My Silence” continues to find new fans two Billboard previous projects - each years after it’s release. brings a wealth of “A voice that’s ‘Highly both awestruck diverse experience Recommended’ to the table, in a and tender”. collaboration The New York The List impelled Times primarily by that most magical of musical catalysts: pure enthusiasm. Kris Drever is an award winning, highly acclaimed solo artist and member of the explosive anarchic and award winning-folk trio LAU. A stunning guitarist and singer, he shares vocal duties with Roddy in this trio. DREVER / McCUSKER / WOOMBLE HEIDI TALBOT IAIN MORRISON 2 | darvelmusicfestival.org darvelmusicfestival.org | 3 SATURDAY Doors 7.30pm 7 MAY Tickets £20.00 WOLFSTONE SKERRYVORE THE SIMPLE TOUCH In 1989, Duncan Chisholm, a first-class With several highly successful performances exponent of the traditional Scottish Highland at major Festivals in the UK, Continental fiddle, along with vocalist and acoustic Europe and Scandinavia last year; including guitarist, Stuart Eaglesham, formed the renowned Celtic Connections, the Burns ‘Wolfstone’. Later that year and with all the Festival, The Wickham Festival, the award SKERRYVORE THE SIMPLE TOUCH other ‘embryonic’ members of the initial line- winning Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival and Blazing bagpipes, fiddle and accordions, Take five guys who just want to entertain and up firmly in place, the band performed their the superb Tonder Festival (Denmark). electrically fused with funky rhythms and couple that with original material, fantastic launch-pad gig at the very first Highland soul-gripping songs, complimented by the melodies, tight harmonies and rock solid Traditional Music Festival in Dingwall. The Wolfstone are: soaring vocals of lead singer Alec Dalglish; musicianship and you have The Simple rest as they say is history, and for more than Skerryvore are an award winning Scottish Touch. 21 years, Wolfstone, with Duncan and Stuart Duncan Chisholm (fiddle) band creating a ‘Trad-Rock’ fusion for the and long term Piper Stevie Saint, as the Stuart Eaglesham 21st Century. The make up of the band which hails from mainstays of the band’s line-up, have taken (lead vocals and acoustic guitar) North Berwick is as follows: their living, breathing, adrenalin inducing Stevie Saint (pipes and whistles) Skerryvore formed in 2004 on the Isle of version of the evolving folk tradition across Davie Dunsmuir (electric guitar) Tiree in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides and from Rob Hiley: Vocals/Guitar the World. Alyn Cosker (drums and percussion) traditional roots, the band have developed James Ross: Vocals/Guitar Colin Cunningham (bass guitar) both in size and sound to create a unique Chris Rawson: Drums/Percussion fusion of their traditional music and songs. Stephen MacKinnon: Keyboards/Synthesiser The band have gripped audiences across the James Lowe : Bass Guitar world from Chicago to Beijing and have been the highlight of many top International The Simple Touch write, arrange and deliver festivals, home and abroad, including Celtic their own original material which has been Connections in Scotland, Celtic Crackers in influenced by the Scottish landscape, the Netherlands – even a blistering environment and its musicians. They performance at Scotland’s Premier rock supported The Donnie Munro Band in 2009 festival ‘T in the Park’. and also performed at the prestigious Tange So Festival in Denmark. “We may well have found a Runrig for the .21st Century” “This is the real thing, The Herald as wild and beautiful as the island they WOLFSTONE come from”. Donald Shaw, Artistic Director Celtic Connections Festival 4 | darvelmusicfestival.org darvelmusicfestival.org | 5 COAST MÀNRAN Their debut album “Coast” is packed full of Mànran are the hottest new band on the SUNDAY great songs, which has received fantastic Scottish music scene. Combining driving reviews. All of which are performed with accordion, fiddle, Highland pipes, Uillean heartfelt conviction and is a must have pipes and flute with powerful songs in album. With the band currently working on English and Gaelic, all underpinned by Doors 7.30pm their second album fans are looking forward rocking drums and bass. Though the band is Tickets £20.00 to its release. This promises to surpass all a fairly recent collaboration, each member 8 MAY expectation and is scheduled for release in has been dazzling crowds in Scotland and the spring of next year. throughout the world with various line-ups SESSION A9 for a number of years but now unite to create The second album will feature “The Beat of Mànran: the fresh, unstoppable sound of Session A9 are: You”, a song co-written by their manager, modern Gaelic Scotland.