Tolbooth July - Sep 09

JUL-SEP 2009

Le Vent Du Nord, Fri 17 Jul, 8pm

THE WILDERS DUB SYNDICATE THE DARK HOLLER II PHIL & ALY VETIVER

TOLBOOTH Stirling’s venue for live music and the arts

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HEAR ABOUT IT FIRST ONLINE

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The Tolbooth is owned and operated by Stirling Council The redevelopment of the Tolbooth was funded by

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What a fantastic season of musical treats and diversions we have in store for these long, lazy summer days.

We amble contentedly down the Americana highway with the return of our all day celebration, The Dark Holler II. Old friends The Wilders and new stars, Vetiver also make an appearance, and we welcome music from Scotland, Ireland, England, Jamaica and Quebec!

And what summer would be complete without our summer fun days for young people and our ceilidhs and free music sessions.

Celebrate summer at Tolbooth, I hope to see you there...

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TRADITIONAL/FOLK james graham trio summer ceilidhs le vent du nord the summer sessions phil & aly gerry & donal o’connor jenna reid band

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AMERICANA the wilders the dark holler II vetiver

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POP reloaded the electronic bar

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OFF THE PAGE BOOK FESTIVAL

Alasdair Campbell Artistic Director

an evening with nancy bishop an evening with ian rankin an evening with rodge glass peter manuel:serial killer janet paisley open mic poetry with magi gibson radio ballads - peter cox

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DUB dub syndicate

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STIRLING ARTS UPDATE news summer fun days

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VISUAL ARTS the changing room

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AT THE BACK how to book getting here at a glance

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Fri 3 Jul

HIP PARADE + JOHNNY & THE GIROS Doors open 7pm, first band 8pm £6 “I love Hip Parade, they keep getting better and better…a great band, brilliant.” – Alex James (Blur) Hip Parade shot to fame in 2008 on the Channel 4 show Orange UnsignedAct. As a result the band are now receiving a raft of media attention from the likes of NME, Heat Magazine, The Guardian and XFM. February and March 2009 saw the band tour the UK, including sell out shows in Glasgow at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut and the 500 capacity Classic Grand. www.myspace.com/hipparade

Thu 13 Aug

THE FROOBS + SUPPORT Doors open 7pm, first band 8pm £4 The Froobs last played Reloaded 2 in October 2008 and have recently added a drummer to their line-up. The band now consists of Katy, Sean and Josh from Wallace High School. They play a blend of quirky indie tunes that are influenced by the likes of classic artists such as The Beatles to the more contemporary Rogue Wave.

Fri 25 Sep

Sat 15 Aug

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RELOADED HEADLINER TBC Doors open 7pm, first band 8pm £6

FEATURING BANDS FROM THE TOURING CONSORTIUM Doors open 7pm, first band 8pm £4

Sat 5 Sep

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JAMES GRAHAM TRIO FRI 10 JUL, 8PM £12/£10

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raditional Gaelic music and song is brought to life by three, exceptionally gifted, musicians.

James Graham is a singer who holds a deep respect for the strength of Gaelic song melodies and has been acclaimed as one of the most important young voices in Gaelic singing today.

James Ross has earned himself a glowing reputation as a pianist and composer.

His piano playing is expressive and mesmerising at times whilst possessing a distinctive subtle influence.

Cellist Neil Johnstone is classically trained but has never strayed too far from his

roots in traditional music, he is son of the acclaimed piper Duncan Johnstone, and has played and recorded alongside many of the leading figures in the traditional music world.

His sophisticated accompaniment of Gaelic song brings a true richness to the song arrangements.

“James Graham has the type of voice that is just so perfectly suited to Gaelic language and song…his voice has the sheer haunting ability to send shivers down your spine.” Charlie Rowney-Celtic Connections

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THE WILDERS SAT 11 JUL, 8PM £14/£12 he Kansas City Hillbilly Hurricanes are back at Tolbooth with their blistering old-time honky tonk fiddle, banjo, guitar, dobro, slap bass, hoedown!

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Americana, country, rockabilly and old-time/ good-time music into the 21st century with the same passion and drive as when they were first heard.

Those who made it to last year’s Dark Holler would certainly agree with the five star reviews, awards and excitement The Wilders seem to generate everywhere they go.

This is a band that clearly loves what they do and you will too.

They come to Tolbooth this year after wowing a capacity crowd at Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket during Celtic Connections and being hailed as one of the highlights of the festival.

Ike Sheldon - lead vocals, guitar Betse Ellis - fiddle, vocals Phil Wade - dobro, mandolin, banjo, vocals Nate Gawron - string bass, vocals

www.wilderscountry.com

Their infectious, wild, energetic playing and on stage presence bring the roots of

BOOK IF YOU LIKE: STANLEY BROTHERS, BILL MUNROE, THE PACKWAY HANDLE BAND

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CEILIDHS JULY 15, 22 & 29 - 8PM AUG 5, 12 &19 - 8PM £8 EACH OR 4 FOR £24 Our summer ceilidhs are always popular and attract everyone from children to grandparents and from the hardened ceilidh expert to overseas visitors.

Combining Scottish music and dance our ceilidhs are a gentle introduction to ceilidh culture. With each night led by a ‘caller’ who will talk you through all the right moves, there is no need to worry about how to Strip the Willow.

The Tolbooth ceilidh band features some of Scotland’s finest traditional musicians and is a wonderful opportunity to meet with friends and strangers and enjoy a great night out.

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LE VENT DU NORD

LATE OPENING AT THE CHANGING ROOM

FRI 17 JUL, 8PM £12/£10

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our singers and multiinstrumentalists, Le Vent du Nord (The North Wind) are at the vanguard of the Canadian music of Quebec.

In 2005 they were named North American Trad Artist of the Year, and have twice won Best Canadian Folk Album.

With fiddle, guitar, accordion, bass/hurdygurdy and vocal, they sing both original songs and those taken from the traditional repertoire in their native French.

Le Vent du Nord’s music is both fresh and bound to tradition, but perhaps their greatest strength is an unmistakable stage presence: energetic, dynamic and generous,

in touch with their audience and sure to delight them.

“Le Vent du Nord are one of the hippest exponents of Quebecois music. The quartet coaxed the crowd on to their feet.” The Scotsman Simon Beaudry - guitar and vocals Nicolas Boulerice - acoustic/electric hurdy-gurdy, piano, accordion-piano and vocals Réjean Brunet - acoustic bass, diatonic accordion, piano and vocals Olivier Demers - violin, guitar, foot tapping and vocals.

www.leventdunord.com

BOOK IF YOU LIKE: GENTICORUM, LA BOTTINE SOURIANTE

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summer sessions FRIDAY EVENINGS IN THE TOLBOOTH CAFÉ BAR 24 & 31 JULY + EVERY FRI IN AUG 7 - 10PM, FREE The Tolbooth champions traditional music of every hue but never forgets that some of the most talented musicians in Scotland have learnt their craft from playing and listening at traditional sessions that happen throughout pubs and clubs across Scotland.

The traditional session is an essential part of the basic fabric of the music and is for everyone to enjoy. Young and old, indifferent and brilliant, all have a role to play in the musical discussion that the session can inspire.

This summer Tolbooth invites you along to its summer sessions to get a taste of the very backbone of traditional music. Some of Stirling’s fantastic local musicians will host these sessions, so if you are passing through, on your summer holidays or just looking to idle away the light nights of summer, pop up to Tolbooth’s café bar and enjoy the informal beauty of our summer sessions.

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RACHEL UNTHANK & THE WINTERSET

LATE OPENING AT THE CHANGING ROOM

SAT 8 AUG, 8PM £12/£10

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orging links between folk worlds old, new and other, Rachel and her set have blown a bracing north-easterly gale through traditional English song, casting it in an endlessly inventive and playful new mould.

Transcendent and grounded music folds around unsentimental old and new stories of booze, brawls and sorrow.

These discreetly provocative arrangements draw on elements of blues, jazz, music hall, burlesque cabaret, classical and leftfield contemporary music, making their take on folk music peerless, fearless and wholeheartedly brave.

Rachel Unthank & The Winterset were nominated for Best Group, Best Live Act, Best Album and The Horizon Award at 2008 BBC Folk Awards, winning the Horizon Award.

Rachel Unthank - voice, feet and cello Becky Unthank - voice and feet Niopha Keegan - violin, accordion and voice Stef Conner - piano and voice

“Just beautiful, beautiful music. One day all music will sound like this” Phil Jupitus, BBC 6 Music

www.rachelunthank.com BOOK IF YOU LIKE: KATE RUSBY, ROBERT WYATT, ELIZA CARTHY

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DUB SYNDICATE TUE 11 AUG, 8PM £12/£10

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fter this year’s hugely successful commission with, dub producer & DJ, Adrian Sherwood for the Blend festival we bring you another massive dub night for Stirling.

with a spellbinding array of reggae stars; Gregory Issacs, Yellowman, Bunny Wailer, Lee Scratch Perry et al, will bombard the balmy Tolbooth stage with the Syndicate’s hypnotic sonic dub sound.

The wonderful Dub Syndicate come to Tolbooth as part of a select few concerts when they are in the UK to perform as part of the BIG CHILL festival’s Summer of Dub event curated by Adrian.

DJ SPECIAL IN THE BAR FREE WITH DUB SYNDICATE TICKET Adrian Sherwood will hit the heavy groove button for a Tolbooth after show summer meltdown.

The legendary roots drummer Style Scott, who is second only to Sly Dunbar as drummer of choice in the Jamaican scene, and his Roots Radics band have performed

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BOOK IF YOU LIKE: KING TUBBY, AUGUSTUS PABLO, ADRIAN SHERWOOD

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ack ler is b ark Hol lebrating D e h T d ce on an ull day ce. ne year with a f nd performan h t o o b l a ic s u at To m n roots America

Martha Scanlan

The Hot Seats

To lead our way down this year’s Dark Holler highway the Tolbooth welcomes the sublime Minnesota songstress Martha Scanlan. Catching the eye of Grammy winning producers T-Bone Burnett and Bob Neuwirth led to a number on the Cold Mountain film soundtrack and a tour with Alison Krauss and Ralph Stanley.

At last year’s Dark Holler a band calling themselves Special Ed and the Short Bus took Tolbooth by storm, keeping the building buzzing with the sound of fiddles, mandolins and song.

Martha’s beautiful rough hewn vocals align her with the likes of Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Jolie Holland and a whole host of roots voices emerging from the dusty Americana trail.

“Cool assurance and earthy authority” No Depression magazine

We had to have them back.

They may have a new name but they’ve lost none of their signature sound; a combination of the virtuoso soloing and tightness of bluegrass, the band-driven rhythm of old time, the jerky bounce of ragtime, and the swagger of good old rock and roll. www.specialedshortbus.com

www.myspace.com/marthascanlan

The Shed Inspectors

Pokey LaFarge

With influences ranging from The Earl Brothers to Ralph Stanley and Flatt & Scruggs, The Shed Inspectors set out to show the world that you don’t have to come from the other side of the Atlantic to drive a real-deal hillbilly hoedown.

Pokey LaFarge is a treasure, a gutsy troubadour whose songs, with their earthy plunk and thunk guitar accompaniments recall the 1920s/30s blues masters.

Consider Pokey as a crossroads where Blind Blake, Bessie Smith, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Townes Van Zandt intersect.

“His music sounds as if it was dragged through a time machine built in a ragtime scrapyard. He’s a new-deal primitive.” Mojo magazine

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WHAT’S ON AMERICAN MUSIC WORKSHOPS WITH THE HOT SEATS AND POKEY LAFARGE 11am – 12pm / Fiddle / Mandolin 1 – 2pm / Banjo / Ragtime guitar £5/£3

CAFÉ BAR SESSIONS THE SHED INSPECTORS 12pm & 7pm / FREE

A FAMILY MATINEE OF BLUEGRASS WITH THE HOT SEATS 3pm / £5/£3 A special afternoon hootenany with the wonderful, frenetic Hot Seats.

Gather the clan and join the Hot Seats as they ramble down the Americana way.

FILM SCREENING 4pm /£3 Townes Van Zandt - Be Here To Love Me (2004) dir Margaret Brown Margaret Brown’s documentary of the haunting life and music of Townes Van Zandt, the ultimate songwriter’s songwriter.

From Dylan to Sonic Youth, his impact is still being felt yet he avoided commercial success during his lifetime.

Starring Willie Nelson & Steve Earle.

Running Time: 99mins

THE DARK HOLLER II HOEDOWN WITH MARTHA SCANLON, THE HOT SEATS & POKEY LAFARGE 8pm, £14/£12 The hoedown brings the Dark Holler to a toe tapping, foot stomping, yee-ha-ing climax.

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PHIL CUNNINGHAM & ALY BAIN TOLBOOTH @ THE ALBERT HALLS TUE 25 AUG, 7.30PM £16/£14/£12

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hey say you can’t have enough of a good thing and that could have be written about Phil and Aly who return to Stirling and The Albert Halls as part of Tolbooth’s August programme.

Aly Bain is Scotland’s supreme traditional style fiddler. His playing is unique - driving, impassioned and pure - with vibrant, unmistakable tone that has earned him a following of ardent fans throughout the world.

Phil Cunningham is a superb, innovative instrumentalist, with not simply the fastest fingers in the West but some of the

most sensitive ones too. The man who, in Scotland at least, made the accordion respectable again.

Together they are unsurpassed for their stage presence, humour and sheer sublime musical ability.

A thoroughly enjoyable evening is guaranteed.

“They are simply the best traditional musicians you are likely to hear.”

The Herald

www.philandaly.com

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GERRY & DONAL O’CONNOR WED 2 SEP, 8PM £10/£8 £14/£12 WORKSHOP AND PERFORMANCE FIDDLE WORKSHOP FOR PLAYERS FROM 6PM

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erry O’Connor is one of Ireland’s most outstanding fiddle players, drawing on the wealth of musical experience passed down from his mother and at least four generations of fiddlers.

Breathing new life and intensity into many long forgotten tunes from his home area in the North East of Ireland, Gerry’s unique personal style and splendidly fluid bowhand combined with technical virtuosity have brought him to concert stages throughout the world and have earned him international renown.

He is joined, on fiddle and piano, by his son Dónal O’Connor. Highly regarded as a great fiddle player in his own right, his playing was described recently in the Irish Times as ‘immaculate’, ‘electrifying’ and ‘born out of naked talent and consummate professionalism’.

“O’Connor’s touch, subtlety of tonal variation, richness of phrasing and melodic vigour are marvellous and he has the ability that comes with true greatness where he appears to be doing very little when the music’s really moving, in both the pace and emotional senses.

What’s more, he has passed his skills onto his son, Dónal.”

The Herald www.gerryoconnor.net

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AN EVENING WITH...

NANCY BISHOP THU 3 SEP, 7.30PM. £8/£6

he Emmy-award nominated Casting Director of Casino Royale, Van Helsing and The Bourne Identity amongst many others makes an eagerly awaited visit to Stirling as a precursor to this year’s Off the Page Book Festival.

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Her CV reads like an A-Z of Hollywood Blockbusters and most recently she has been casting for the George Lucas film Red Tails, the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Nancy Bishop will be talking about her work and her new book “Secrets of the Casting Couch”, published by Methuen Drama.

An event all film fans should not miss.

www.nancybishopcasting.com

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VETIVER WED 9 SEP, 8PM £10/£8 etiver’s Andy Cabic grew up in northern Virginia and spent a few years in Greensboro, North Carolina, playing guitar, writing music and recording as a member of The Raymond Brake, which is where he first met future Vetiver members Trippe and Dunn. After moving to San Francisco, Cabic helped form the rock band Tussle, and at the same time began recruiting other local musicians, friends and confederates, including Colm O’Ciosoig (My Bloody Valentine), Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), Devendra Banhart, and Joanna Newsom, among others, to record the 2004 debut Vetiver for the Dicristina Stair Builders label.

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Vetiver has since gone on to release two more full-length albums, 2006’s To Find Me Gone (Dicristina Stair Builders) and in 2008 Thing of the Past (Gnomonsong Recordings), a collection of cover songs tapping Cabic’s deep catalog of inspirations and further illustrating Vetiver’s unique aesthetic. Throughout the band’s existence, Cabic has toured the world extensively both in his own right as leader of Vetiver as well as serving as guitarist and singer with his longtime friend Devendra Banhart’s various touring ensembles. And, in January 2009, in a personal and professional highlight, he will be producing Vashti Bunyan’s forthcoming new album.

Photo © Alissa Anderson

www.myspace.com/vetiverse

BOOK IF YOU LIKE: FLEET FOXES, NEIL YOUNG, TOWNES VAN ZANDT

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IN TRIBUTE TO OLIVER POSTGATE SAT 12 SEP, 11AM £3 Last year the amazing creator, inventor and storyteller Oliver Postgate passed away. In tribute to him and as part of Stirling’s book festival we have brought back the wonderful Tolbooth Cartoon Club for a one off special.

Bring all the family to delight in the amazing creations of one of Britain’s best loved storytellers and animators with episodes of some of Oliver’s classic works.

Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine will all be here to delight the young and old alike. www.oliverpostgate.co.uk

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AN EVENING WITH...

IAN RANKIN MON 14 SEP, 7.30PM £8/£6

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an Rankin is Britain’s best-selling crime writer. His award winning novels starring Inspector Rebus have given the darker side of Edinburgh a worldwide airing. It is a great privilege for Off the Page to have him as the opening speaker in this year’s festival.

AN EVENING WITH...

RODGE GLASS TUE 15 SEP, 7.30PM £8/£6

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odge Glass studied at both Strathclyde and Glasgow Universities, counting James Kelman, Janice Galloway and Alasdair Gray amongst his tutors.

He completed his first novel, No Fireworks, in 2005 before returning to study for a PhD at Glasgow University. His close friendship with his tutor Alasdair Gray led to Glass becoming his secretary and assistant.

This relationship latterly led to the role of biographer and Alasdair Gray: a Secretary’s Biography, was published in 2008 along with a second novel, Hope For Newborns.

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PETER MANUEL: SERIAL KILLER

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WED 16 SEP, 7.30PM £8/£6 he authors of Peter Manuel:Serial Killer, former solicitor Hector MacLeod and Malcolm McLeod, a Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland will join forensic crime expert Professor Jim Fraser to discuss their book, the chilling story of the man branded as the ‘Beast of Birkenshaw’ and who many regard as Scotland’s first modern day serial killer.

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OPEN MIC POETRY WITH... MAGI GIBSON THU 17 SEP, 7.30PM £8/£6

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agi Gibson, Stirling’s Makar will host this open mic poetry event.

This is your chance to come along and perform your work and listen to others. There will also be an opportunity to discuss each other’s work too.

JANET PAISLEY FRI 18 SEP, 7.30PM £8/£6 anet Paisley is the author of five poetry collections, two of short fiction, a novella and numerous plays, radio, TV and film scripts. Accolades include a prestigious Creative Scotland Award (Not for Glory, stories), the Peggy Ramsay Memorial Award (Refuge, a play) and a BAFTA nomination (Long Haul, a short film). Her first novel was White Rose Rebel.

Janet will be talking about her second novel Warrior Daughter that is described as a powerful and lusty historical novel of Iron Age Scotland’s warrior queens.

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RADIO BALLADS PETER COX SAT 19 SEP, 7.30PM £12/£10

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eter Cox’s book, Set Into Song – Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger and the Radio Ballads, tells the story of the remarkable collaboration that produced the groundbreaking Radio Ballads series.

Peter interviewed artists that form a rollcall of the early folk revival, such as Ian and Lorna Campbell, Bob Davenport, Ray Fisher, John Faulkner, Stan Kelly, Louis Killen, Gordon McCulloch, Jimmie McGregor, Colin Ross, Elizabeth Stewart and Dave Swarbrick – as well as Peggy Seeger herself.

politics of the folk revival. www.petercox.info 7.30: Peter Cox - The Story of the Radio Ballads 8.40: Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre Songs from the Radio Ballads 9.00: Interval 9.15: Alastair Hulett - Ewan MacColl and the Politics of the Folk revival 10.30: End

The Radio Ballads were ground-breaking as they actually broadcast the voices of working people, something unheard of until then, to tell their own stories.

Those stories were beautifully woven together by Ewan MacColl with songs he had written specifically for the programmes after listening intensely to the language and rhythms of the voices, and by the young Peggy Seeger, who designed the musical setting and directed the performers.

This special event will tell the story of their making, illustrated with extracts from the programmes and songs performed by Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre, followed by an open discussion on the

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T MODEL FORD WED 23 SEP, 8PM £12/£10

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Model’s blues credentials are impeccable, if anything he’s over qualified. Born James Lewis Carter Ford in Forrest, a small community in Scott County, Mississippi, T-Model thinks he’s eighty-eight but isn’t really sure. He was ploughing a field behind a mule on his family’s farm by age eleven, and in his early teens he secured a job at a local sawmill.

Between that and working in a log camp T-Model was sentenced to ten years on a chain-gang for murder but was released after serving just two. He says, grinning, “I could really stomp some ass back then, stomp it good. I was a-sure-enoughdangerous man.”

With his downright bad and dangerous past behind him T-Model Ford, who only took up the guitar in his late fifties, is the only truly authentic Mississippi Blues man in action today.

Drawing on his life, he melds traditional Chicago blues and juke joint blues with the rawness of Delta blues and the rebellious attitude of 1970s-style punk. www.myspace.com/tmodelford

BOOK IF YOU LIKE: LIGHTNING HOPKINS, R L BURNSIDE, HOWLING WOLF

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JENNA REID BAND SAT 26 SEP, 8PM £12/£10 welcome back to award winning Shetland Fiddler Jenna Reid, returning to Tolbooth with her four-piece band.

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A protégé of the greatest names in Shetland fiddling, Dr Tom Anderson MBE and Willie Hunter, Jenna has appeared all over the world with Filska, Deaf Shepherd and Dochas.

She will be performing with her band Bethany Reid on fiddle and piano, Kevin Mackenzie on guitar and James Thomson on pipes and flute as they showcase fiddle music & song from Shetland, Scotland and beyond.

Nominated for Best Instrumentalist at the 2007 Scots Trad Music Awards, Jenna and her band are some of the finest young traditional players in Scotland today.

An evening not to be missed.

“Shetland fiddler Jenna Reid plays the fiddle with an undeniable passion and vigour...the sexiest voice in Scottish Music” The Living Tradition www.myspace.com/jennareidfilskadochas

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NEWS CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

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MUSIC CRAFT MAKER NETWORKING AWARDS: DAY SAT 24 OCTOBER FORTH VALLEY

editing and how to get your photos published.

The workshops will be from 7pm till 9pm, cost £30 and that price includes entry to If you are involved in youth IN PARTNERSHIP WITH Reloaded Fest on the 3rd music in the Stirling area, SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL October where the group maybe as a teacher, a music NEW DATE FOR will be the official festival group, choir or performer, then APPLICATIONS – 22 photographers. Last yearʼs make sure you come to the JUNE 09 Applications are photographers published their Tolbooth on 24 October. The welcome from individual artists work in the Stirling Observer, day will include workshops and and makers based or resident in Falkirk Herald and The Brig. talks. the Forth Valley area towards Previous experience isnʼt costs involved in creating new necessary, all you need is a work, developing current work, basic digital camera. for research or exhibition Anyone interested should opportunities. Awards up to a contact Stephen Hume. maximum value of £1,000 are FRI 11 SEPTEMBER available.

All young people interested in For further details contact: music are invited to come to the Lesley MacArthur, External Tolbooth to voice their opinion Funding Officer, Falkirk on the current scene. There Council. Tel. 01324 506260 will also be the opportunity email: lesley.macarthur@falkirk. The FREE jazz and traditional of careers advice on further gov.uk music workshops held at the education in music, including Tolbooth on Monday and current music students passing Tuesday nights for anyone on information about courses aged 10 -18 (who attends a they are currently studying.

Stirling Council School) will Events are free thanks to start up again in September.

Our music photography funding from Scottish Arts The workshops are led workshops with legendary Council YMI funding. by professional jazz and For more information on either photographer Brian Sweeney traditional musicians and are back, thanks to funding day, or to register interest are focused on learning and from YMI. For 4 weeks from 15 contact Carolyn Paterson. playing together rather than on Sep, Brian will be looking at individual tuition. Please contact band photo shoots, live shots, Clare Hoare.

UNDER 18s MUSIC NETWORKING DAY

FREE JAZZ & TRADITIONAL MUSIC WORKSHOPS

MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

CONTACTS:

Arts Development Officer Carolyn Paterson 01786 27 4023 patersonc3@stirling.gov.uk Music Development Officer Stephen Hume 01786 27 4002 humes@stirling.gov.uk Visual Arts Development Officer Emma Hamilton 01786 27 4010 hamiltone@stirling.gov.uk Cultural Coordinator Clare Hoare 01786 27 4014 hoarec@stirling.gov.uk July-Sept_09.indd 26

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SUMMER SUMM

FUN DAYS

WITH ALL AL MATERIAL COSTS INCLUDED, YOUʼLL NEED TO BE QUICK TO BOOK AS NUMBERS LIMITED. SO DONʼT PUT IT OFF, BOOK NOW! ARE LIMI We MUS MUST have a completed consent form for children in advance of the classes, which you can download from www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth or call the box office to post one out, otherwise your child cannot be left at the session.

Bring a packed LUNCH if you are going to be at Tolbooth all day. £5 EACH OR £10 FOR A FULL DAY, UNLESS MARKED FREE

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY/FILM MAKING

DATE: WED 8 JUL AGE: 8 – 12YRS: 11AM – 4PM BRING LUNCH! Using the history of the Top of the Town take ghostly images of yourself and use to create your very own spooky film.

Tutor: Lisa Fleming

AFRICAN DRUMMING

DATE: THU 9 JUL AGE: 6 - 9 YRS: 11AM – 1PM AGE: 10 - 14 YRS: 2 – 4PM Come and join in with the sounds and rhythms of Africa in this highenergy fun workshop. Loose comfortable clothing and trainers.

Tutor: Dougie ʻEl Pulpoʼ Hudson

MAGIK MARKERS

DATE: SAT 11 JUL AGE: 10+YRS: 11AM – 4PM FREE Inspired by the innovative animation techniques of Stirling born, Oscar-winning Norman McLaren, artists Katy Dove and Amy Marletta will lead this fun workshop. Combining drawing, painting, collage, cameras and computers to produce short animations to run on Tolboothʼs plasma screens throughout July.

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ART/PRINTING

DATE: WED 15 JUL AGE: 6 – 10 YRS: 11AM – 1PM AGE: 11 – 14 YRS: 2 – 4 PM Explore your creativity through drawing and various printing techniques. Wear old clothes. Tutor: Amy Marletta

STREET DANCE

DATE: WED 22 JUL AGE: 6 – 10 YRS: 11AM –12PM AGE: 11 – 14 YRS: 12 – 1PM A fresh approach to street dance with a little bit of break dancing = lots of fun. Loose clothing and trainers.

Tutor: Jo Richards from Edinburghʼs Dance Base.

DRAMA THE HAUNTED HOUSE

DATE: WED 22 JUL AGE: 9 – 13 YRS: 2 – 4PM Why wonʼt the caretaker let you in? Why are there mysterious lights at midnight? Using drama games, mime, improvisation and roleplay, you begin to untangle the secrets of the old house.

Tutor: Anne-Marie Hopkins

SINGING GAMES

DATE: THU 23 JUL AGE: 6 – 10 YRS: 11AM – 1PM Enjoy singing, games and making sounds with your voice.

Tutor: Fiona Hunter

DRAMA THE MAGIC CASTLE

DATE: THU 23 JUL AGE: 6 – 9 YRS: 2 – 4PM Use your imagination to find out the hidden secret of the magic castle. Using drama games, mime, improvisation and roleplay to tell the story. Tutor: Anne-Marie Hopkins

MASK MAKING

DATE: WED 29 JUL AGE: 8 – 12 YRS: 11AM – 4PM BRING LUNCH! A lively and exciting workshop - be creative and colourful in drawing, designing and constructing your very own mask inspired by traditional, ethnic and contemporary mask making. Tutor Beth Legg

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FELTMAKING

DATE: THU 30 JULY AGE: 7 – 11 YRS: 11AM – 1PM Come and learn the basic techniques of feltmaking and create your own 2D or 3D design. Tutor: Louise Martin

LETʼS FLY A KITE

DATE: THU 30 JULY AGE: 7 – 11 YRS: 2 – 4PM Create your own unique kite and maybe take it out for a test flight!

Tutor: Sue Carter

SHADOW PUPPETS

DATE: WED 5 AUG AGE 7 – 12 YRS: 11AM – 4PM BRING LUNCH! Shadow puppetry is one of the oldest and most magical forms of puppetry. Come and help make the puppets and develop a story based on Native American legends.

With a performance at 3.40pm.

Tutors: Clydebuilt Puppets

STUDIO RECORDING

DATE: WED 12 & THU 13 AUG AGE 14+YRS: 11AM – 4PM FREE BRING LUNCH! Funded by Youth Music Initiative – a 2-day course – a great practical introduction to digital recording. Tutor: Mark Lough

We have regular year-round classes for both adults and children. For information look at our website www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth, or phone the box office to add your name to our mailing list (details are included in the Tolbooth brochures).

Please note we reserve the right to cancel classes if there are insufficient numbers.

Box Office 01786 27 4000

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Art is not a mirror, it’s a hammer!

11 July - 5 September Launching a long-term project with artists Katy Dove, Simon Yuill and Luke Fowler. The Changing Room is working with the University of Stirling to investigate their Grierson and McLaren archive and develop new work in web, music and film. The exhibition explores the working relationship between Stirling born Norman McLaren and John Grierson, as a starting point for the contemporary artists’ new works.

John Grierson, the ‘father of documentary’ and Norman McLaren, an Oscar-winning experimental filmmaker, animator and artist were brought up in Stirling and both attended Stirling High School. Grierson’s contribution to the development of film is well documented but he also had an important role in shaping McLaren’s career.

From 1935, when McLaren was a student at the Glasgow School of Art, he won first prize at the

Scottish Amateur Film Festival from a jury led by Grierson. The following year Grierson invited him to London to work in the creative hothouse that was the GPO film unit. Several years later Grierson brought McLaren to Canada and set him up with his own studio and full artistic freedom at the National Film Board, which Grierson had established in 1941.

For information on talks and screenings programme please contact the gallery.

WORKSHOP Magik Markers 11 July 11am - 4pm bring a packed lunch / Free / Age 10+ See page 27

August Artist Networking Day Contact Emma Hamilton on 01786 27 4010 for more information.

GALLERY OPEN

Late openings on these dates:

TUESDAY-SATURDAY, 10AM-6PM

17 July, 8 & 22 August, 15 September

ADMISSION FREE

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Artist Talk Thursday Old Negatives / The 12 February 1-2pm Scot’s Hippo Join us for a lunchtime talk with Alasdair Gray leading Scottish artist Graham 12 September - 24 October Fagen that will introduce his previous work advance of his Throughout hisincareer, Alasdair new exhibition opening at The Gray’s work in art and literature Changing Admission Free. have beenRoom. interwoven paths, All Welcome.in form and content. overlapping Born in Glasgow in 1934, he has worked as a teacher, painter, coincides a new live illustrator,with playwright, scene music commission with novelist Adrian painter, essayist, poet, Sherwood in collaboration with and muralist (the latest being Graham Fagen, based on the the monumental decoration of poetry of Robert Burnsamong for The Glasgow’s Oran Mor), other Blend 14 March. roles. festival A prolificonwriter, with 18 published books to his name, and a winner of the Whitbread Join our free mailing list forand Guardian book prizes. news updates, event listings and invitations to exhibition opening. changingroom@stirling.gov.uk This exhibition focuses on 2 series of work: illustrations for his own poems in Old Negatives first published in 1989; and The Scot’s Hippo print series Gray’s adaptation of the TS Eliot poem The Hippopotamus from 2007.

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TALK by Rodge Glass

SCREENING Alasdair Gray 0 - 70 12 September, Tolbooth Auditorium / 4pm / Free A rare chance to see this 25 minute long documentary made for BBC Scotland celebrating Alasdair Gray’s seventieth birthday. In this elegant and imaginative film Gray reflects on his life to date and comes face to face with his harshest critic himself. Directed by Kevin Cameron and produced by John Archer.

Courtesy of:

Image: From the Soul’s Proper Loneliness, 2007 screenprint, 76 x 56 cm

Image: That Death Will Break the Salt-Fresh Cockle Hand, 2007 screenprint, 76 x 56 cm

15 September / 7.30pm / £8/£6 see page 20

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BOOK YOUR TICKETS In Person at the Tolbooth (see below for opening times)

By Telephone call the Box Office on 01786 27 4000 Online www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth

By Post Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, FK8 1DE

OTHER OUTLETS you can also book tickets for Tolbooth events by calling: The Albert Halls on 01786 47 3544 macrobert on 01786 46 6666 SECxtra 08700 13 26 52 *subject to possible booking fee

CONDITIONS You can pay by VISA, Mastercard, Switch or Eurocard.

Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded after purchase unless the event is cancelled. We can reserve tickets for a maximum of three days, after which time they will be released. No reservations will be taken within 3 days of an event.

Booking Fee These may vary but you will be advised at the time of purchase.

Access The Tolbooth is fully accessible and can accommodate a limited number of wheelchairs at each performance. Please ask when booking.

JOIN OUR FREE E-MAILING LIST Join our free mailing list and hear about special offers, new gigs and our new season before everyone else. You will also be helping us cut down on the number of paper brochures we need to print. Contact the Box Office on 01786 27 4000 or go to our website www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth and click on the email link.

If you have difficulty understanding English and would like translations, we can arrange this for you.

If you need information on tape, large print or Braille, contact 0845 277 7000.

For more information on this publication contact Community Services on 01786 442963

Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 6pm, Sunday & Monday: Closed Open until performance starts on performance evenings.

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Stirling is centrally located within Scotland and within easy reach of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.

Trains For information call First ScotRail on 08457 48 49 50 www.firstscotrail.com Buses For information call Citylink on 08705 50 50 50 www.citylink.co.uk Box Office 01786 27 4000

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Fri 3 Jul

Reloaded - Hip Parade

7pm

Pop

pg4

Fri 10 Jul

James Graham Trio

8pm

Gaelic Song

pg5

Sat 11 Jul

The Wilders

8pm

Bluegrass/Country

pg6

Wed 15 Jul

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Traditional

pg8

Fri 17 Jul

Le Vent Du Nord

8pm

Quebecois trad

pg7

Wed 22 Jul

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Traditional

pg8

Fri 24 Jul

The Summer Sessions

7pm

Traditional

pg9

Wed 29 Jul

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Traditional

pg8

Fri 31 Jul

The Summer Sessions

7pm

Traditional

pg9

Wed 5 Aug

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Traditional

pg8

Fri 7 Aug

The Summer Sessions

7pm

Traditional

pg9

Sat 8 Aug

Rachel Unthank & The Winterset

8pm

Trad/Pop

pg10

Tue 11 Aug

Dub Syndicate

8pm

Dub

pg11

Wed 12 Aug

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Traditional

pg8

Thu 13 Aug

Reloaded 2 - The Froobs

7pm

Pop

pg4

Fri 14 Aug

The Summer Sessions

7pm

Traditional

pg9

Sat 15 Aug

Reloaded

7pm

Pop

pg4

Wed 19 Aug

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Traditional

pg8

Fri 21 Aug

The Summer Sessions

7pm

Traditional

pg9

Sat 22 Aug

The Dark Holler II

vary

American roots

pg12

Tue 25 Aug

Phil Cunningham & Aly Bain

7.30pm

Traditional

pg15

Fri 28 Aug

The Summer Sessions

7pm

Traditional

pg9

Wed 2 Sep

Gerry & Donal O’Connor

8pm

Traditional

pg16

Thu 3 Sep

An Evening with Nancy Bishop

7.30pm

Literature

pg17

Sat 5 Sep

Reloaded

7pm

Pop

pg4

Wed 9 Sep

Vetiver

8pm

Pop/Americana

pg18

Fri 11 Sep

The Electronic Bar

7pm

Electronic

pg4

Sat 12 Sep

The Cartoon Club

11am

Family

pg19

Mon 14 Sep

An Evening with Ian Rankin

7.30pm

Literature

pg20

Tue 15 Sep

An Evening with Rodge Glass

7.30pm

Literature

pg20

Wed 16 Sep

Peter Manuel: Serial Killer

7.30pm

Literature

pg21

Thu 17 Sep

Open Mic Poetry with Magi Gibson

7.30pm

Literature

pg21

Fri 18 Sep

Janet Paisley

7.30pm

Literature

pg21

Sat 19 Sep

Radio Ballads - Peter Cox

7.30pm

Literature/Trad

pg22

Wed 23 Sep

T Model Ford

8pm

Blues

pg23

Fri 25 Sep

Reloaded 2

7pm

Pop/Rock

pg4

Sat 26 Sep

Jenna Reid Band

8pm

Traditional

pg24

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