Event Details
The Singing Land
Old Fruitmarket
Please Note: This is a past event.
Maybe it’s something in the water up there, but fully one-third of the songs collected by seminal US musicologist Francis James Child (1825-96), for his monumental compendium of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, had their origins in North-East Scotland – hence his designation of this remarkably fecund musical seedbed as “the singing land”. Tonight’s celebration of this rich past and present heritage is also a 20th anniversary party for one of the region’s top contemporary folk acts, Old Blind Dogs, who’ve continued to mine its wealth of both songs and tunes throughout their long, consistently successful evolution, delivering them in the band’s signature stripped-down, powerfully rhythmic, vibrantly harmonized style. The evening will feature giant of the north-east’s proud bothy ballad tradition Jock Duncan, as well as television star and one of Britain’s foremost traditional singers Isla St Clair. The redoubtable Aberdeenshire fiddler Paul Anderson and the enchanting young Huntly-born singer Shona Donaldson complete the bill.
Tickets: £16
Past Event
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Featuring:
Jock Duncan
Shona Donaldson
Captain Stuart Samson MBE