What's On guide Tolbooth, July-Sept 2014

JUL - SEP 2014

01786 27 4000

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Here we go... into what we hope will be a lovely long summer.

There's a real buzz around at the moment and in between the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup, we hope you can fit in some of our gigs or workshops.

We have our summer ceilidhs along with performances from NYJOS and great trad gigs from Jamie Smith's Mabon, with support from the Fèis Fhoirt Ceilidh Band as well as the powerful force that is Blazin' Fiddles, with their new line-up.

Into September, there is so much happening, with our library colleagues' events Wha's Like Us and Off the Page, not to mention Bloody Scotland and the Stirling Fringe.

To complement all this we have gigs ranging from rising indie stars Honeyblood to crazy veterans John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett.

Also in September don't miss the moving and revealing story of Paul Robeson as well as a special evening in The Albert Halls from the sublime Julie Fowlis, with support from piper Fred Morrison.

And good news, as we introduce our new Music Development Officer, Kenny Bates, who has already lined up some great gigs, including a new evening with a focus on songwriting as well as some great summer activities and watch the space for the return of an autumn fest at the end of November to take the place of ReLoaded Fest.

As always check or website or facebook for the most up to date announcements and ticket sales. Our next season of classses and workshops will be announced online soon.

See you at the Tolbooth soon.

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Summer Ceilidhs Wed 2 Jul / Wed 23 Jul / Wed 13 Aug, 8pm £8 in adv / £10 door It wouldn’t be summer without the Tolbooth’s Summer Ceilidhs. Always popular these nights are a great celebration of the very best traditional music and a fantastic opportunity to have a wee dance with your friends too!

Friendly, informal and fun a great night out.

Summer Ceilidhs

Jamie Smith’s Mabon Jamie Smith’s Mabon + Feis Fhoirt Ceilidh Trail Band Fri 11 Jul, 8pm £13/£11

The energetic sound of jigs and reels; or a graceful mazurka, an ecstatic muinera; a haunting Welsh-language love song or a driving, sing-along, fantasy epic - all are given the same refreshing, creative treatment as the band dances along the borders between Celtic heritage and contemporary sound.

“Exhilarating, just exhilarating.” Froots

Robert Gillies + support Fri 18 Jul, doors 7pm first band 8pm £3 Age 14+ Starting out his music career in Stirling Robert Gillies followed his love of American pop to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Now spending time in California, his songwriting prowess has seen him co-write hit singles, appear in an episode of ‘Ellen’ and release his well-recieved ‘Astronaut’ EP. Bringing his music back home for the first time, there’s even an opportunity for the songwriters amongst you to attend his songwriting masterclass in the afternoon.

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NYJOS: The Magic of Brecker

The Magic of Brecker Sat 19 Jul, 8pm £10/£6/£3 under 16 NYJOS, directed by Malcolm Edmonstone and Andrew Bain, and featuring

soloist Gordon McNeil on saxophone, will recreate the magic of Brecker.

From moving ballads to upbeat fusion, his groundbreaking repertoire will offer an insight into one of the true greats of the jazz world.

Same River Twice

Same River Twice Fri 8 Aug, 8pm The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and Drake Music Scotland

bring together young musicians from different genres (jazz, classical and digital) to perform the premiere of Same River Twice, composed by Malcolm Edmonstone (CoArtistic Director of jazz at NYOS).

The theme of the music is Commonwealth rivers: the composer as the source, and the music exploring the confluence, falls, dams and deltas.

Read more about this project at our website.

Think Thoughts Fri 22 Aug, 8pm £5 / Age 14+ Brand new live music event centred around celebrated, emerging new talents in songwriting.

Each show welcomes a selection of artists to play a special one-off intimate set, interjected with discussion of the creative process, influences and stories behind their songwriting.

Starting us off we have Siobhan Wilson. Now based in Glasgow, Siobhan’s time spent studying composition and following her nose through Edinburgh, Paris, London and the US breezes in and out of her charming and subtly jazz-influenced music.

No stranger to Scotland’s larger concert venues,

Think Thoughts she has shared stages with big names like Willie Mason, Friendly Fires and with an eagerly anticipated full length on it’s way, produced by Tony Doogan (Belle & Sebastian, Mogwai, David Byrne, Teenage Fanclub).

Blazin’ Fiddles

Blazin’ Fiddles Sat 23 Aug, 8pm £15/£13 Celebrating the title of Folk Band of the Year at the Scot Trad Music Awards 2013 and with a new line up: fiddlers, Bruce MacGregor, Rua Macmillan, Kristan Harvey and Jenna Reid, joined by Anna Massie on guitar/ fiddle and Angus Lyon on keyboard deliver a musically intoxicating evening for all.

“Absolutely mind-blowing.”

Mike Harding

Call Mr Robeson

Call Mr Robeson Fri 5 Sep, 7.30pm £12/£10 American actor, singer and radical civil rights campaigner, Paul Robeson, is remembered in this play written and performed by Tayo Aluko.

Following the journey through his remarkable life and highlighting how his radical activism eventually led to him being disowned by the civil rights movement.

Featuring his famous songs.

Honeyblood + Algernon Doll + Polarnecks Thu 11 Sep, doors 7pm sizeable buzz generating around the release of their first band 8pm debut album. Masters of £7 in adv/£8 door the effortless and roughKicking off their UK-wide tour, Honeyblood float into town on a crest of a pretty

around-the-edges scuzz pop anthem.

Support from noisy grunge-pop rockers Algernon Doll and lo-fi fuzz-heroes Polarnecks.

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Battle of the Bands

Wha’s Like Us?

Sat 30 Aug 7.30pm £5 / Age 12+

Sat 13 Sep, 9am - 5.30pm / £15

Serious talent on show once more as Stirling’s schools’ Battle of the Bands reaches the final performance.

Who will impress the panel of judges and be crowned this year’s champ?

A day full of exciting and practical ways of researching your family tree. With talks and interactive sessions with knowledgeable and experienced specialists.

The day will culminate with internationally acclaimed crime writer Christopher Brookmyre being presented with his family’s history – specially commissioned for Wha’s Like Us.

The Off The Page Ceilidh Sat 13 Sep, 7.30 - 10pm £7/£6

With the festival in its 9th year and this being 2014 and a commemoration of many things, the Off The Page team thought what better way to celebrate than to have another Ceilidh with a twist? The night will be a celebration of Scottish music and dance interspersed with literary anecdotes in Gaelic and English. Music from Gleusda and others, and words from Marcas MacTuairneir.

Sue Lawrence and Stephen Jardine Tue 16 Sep, 7.30 - 9pm £7/£6

Celebrity Chef Sue Lawrence and founder of Taste Communications, Stephen Jardine will be bringing us an exciting event to tempt our taste buds!

Sue Lawrence became well-known after winning MasterChef in 1991 and has since been noted for her contribution to and promotion of Scottish Sponsored by Adult Learning Team. cooking, Scottish recipes and regional produce.

Unstated - Scottish Writers on the Future of Scotland

Stephen Jardine is most recognised for his work as a Scottish broadcaster and journalist. He also writes a weekly food and drink column for The Scotsman and in 2011 he began Scotland’s first dedicated food and drink communications consultancy, Taste Communications.

Mon 15 Sep, 7 - 9pm £7/£6

Dr Scott Hames will chair a debate with leading Scottish authors Denise Mina, Janice Galloway and Ken MacLeod on what Scottish writers feel Scotland's future holds.

Dr Hames teaches literature at the University of Stirling, where he chairs the Centre for Scottish Studies and convenes a Masters programme in Modern Scottish Writing.

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Off the Page is now in its 9th year and is organised by Stirling Council’s Library Service.

Events, for both adults and children, are taking place throughout the festival. www.stirling.gov.uk/offthepage

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Songwriting with Robert Gillies Fri 18th July / 3pm – 9pm / Age 14+ A former Stirling native, Robert Gillies is a singer-songwriter who’s tasted success out in the US, co-writing a hit single, appearing on the Ellen Show, and releasing the awardwinning EP ‘Astronaut’. This is your chance to take part in a songwriting masterclass with Robert, including the opportunity to play in support of his show live at the Tolbooth later that evening.

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Portrait Photography Tue 22nd July / 11am – 1pm / Age 8-12years / £5 A fun and hands-on introduction to editing photography using computer software. Start with portrait shots of you and your friends and use Photoshop to overlay different textures, styles and filters, before printing the results!

Tutor: Kenny Bean

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A Hidden World Tue 22nd July / 2pm – 4pm / Age 8-12 years / £5 Explore the natural world around the Tolbooth by taking macro close-up photographs before bringing them back inside to make detailed images on light boxes. A quick and clever edit on Photoshop and you’ll leave with printed evidence of tiny life up-close.

Tutor: Kenny Bean

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Telling Tales Mon 14th & Mon 21st July 11am – 4pm / Age 8-12 / £10 Come armed with your wildest imagination, as you start out writing your very own short story before bringing it to life with the use of photography. On the second session, the whole group will come together to develop one story into a fully-fledged film!

Dreamer to film-maker in just 2 days!

Tutor: Lisa Flemming

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Musician Skills 101 Mon 24th and Tue 25th July / 11am – 4pm / Age 12 + / Free In a band, act or perform solo? Looking to get gigs, record a demo, promote your act and build a following?

Over 2 days, Musician Skills 101 takes you through all you need to know about instrument set-up/maintenance, building your own home studio, approaching promoters/venues, securing gigs, staging your own, and using new technology and social media to your advantage.

You’ll leave with the vital ‘One-Sheet’, complete with photos, a logo, full bio and web links, ready to take the next step.

Tutors: Norrie McCulloch & Kenny Bates

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Printmaking Mon 4th August / 2pm – 4pm / Age 6 – 10 / £5 Come and enjoy the magic of revealing your own original work through printmaking with inks, rollers, paper and drawing.

Tutor: Amy Marletta

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Concertina Kings Mon 4th August / 11am – 1pm / Age 6-10 / £5 Children’s book illustrator Jill Calder hosts a special drawing activity creating concertinastyle books with a secret hidden message - when folded out they turn into full pictures of Robert The Bruce and Edward II! Tutor: Jill Calder

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Studio Recording Mon 4th – Tues 5th August / 11am – 4pm / Age 14+ / £10 This 2-day course taking place in the Tolbooth Recording Studio will introduce you to all the techniques and practices involved in recording a band or artist in a professional studio.

Tutor: Mark Lough

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Sound Stories Wed 6th August / 11am – 1pm / Age 5 – 8 / £5 Music plays an important role in films, theatre shows and TV programmes, helping the audience to follow a story and to understand how the characters are feeling. Come along and work with theatre composer David Trouton, make up and perform your own music to underscore a story.

Tutor: Dave Trouton

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Make Your Own Zine!

Fri 8th August / 11am – 4pm / Age 12+ / £10 Fanzines or ‘zines’ have been the underground and alternative voice of teenage enthusiasm and passion for music, art, film, poetry, writing and photography since the 1940s. The makers behind 2 current Scottish music and art zines will introduce you to the wild and limitless freedom of the artform and in the space of one day you’ll go home with your work in a collaborative zine and your head buzzing with ideas for your own!

Tutors: Bruce MacKintosh & Kenny Bates

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Trad Summer Session Fri 8th August / 10am – 4pm / Age 10-18 / £5 For musicians with 6 months experience of their instrument and beyond.

Your chance to play traditional music for the first time or to develop and improve your playing and knowledge of traditional music and have lots of fun in the process.

Tutors will include Tolbooth trad tutors Lori Watson (fiddle) and Innes Watson (guitar) with guest tutors on the day.

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Wee Birds Wed 6th August / 2pm – 4pm / Age 5 – 8 / £5 Come and make your own feathered friend with papier mache Tutor Linda McCann

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How to get published: Yes, but will it sell?

Wed 17 Sep, 7.30 - 9pm £12/£10 With Lyndsey Fraser, Sara Hunt & Zoe Strachan One of the basic pieces of advice to aspiring creative writers is ‘write what you know’, but what happens if what you know is only of interest to you and your cat?

Hear all about the latest book in Cathy’s delicious series The Chocolate Box Girls: Sweet Honey – the fifth irresistible book in a series about five very different sisters.

Discover which of the Tanberry sisters you are most like in a Chocolate Box Girls quiz and decide which one is your favourite!

Off The Stanza

Thu 18 Sep, 7.30 - 9.30pm

Is it possible to engage the reader with even the FREE /£3 open mic participants most bizarre of subjects providing the writing is good enough? Or is it necessary to compromise Anita Govan will host this Open Mic event that and follow the trends? will incorporate the Off the Stanza poetry prizewinners event. Come along and perform Our three experienced panelists will guide your work and listen to others performing theirs. aspiring writers through the dilemmas of writing material that is honest, original yet engaging.

A platform for Stirling poets in a relaxed cabaret setting.

Hosted by Stirling Centre for International Publishing and Communication.

Douglas Jackson Fri 19 Sep, 7.30 - 9pm £7/£6

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Thu 18 Sep, 6.30 - 7.30pm Age 9yrs+ £4 or 3 for £10 Join best-selling author Cathy Cassidy as she shares her top tips for friendship, daydreaming and lots of chocolate!

Douglas Jackson left his career as Assistant Editor for the Scotsman to become a full-time writer and writes primarily historical Roman fiction. His novels Claudius and Caligula were bought by Transworld in 2006 for a ‘six figure sum’.

tickets 01786 27 4000

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Shang-A-Lang

Shang-A-Lang Thu 25 Sep, 7.30pm The Albert Halls £15/£14/£12 16yrs+ Take a step back in time to the days of the Bay City Rollers, with loud fashions and, laugh out loud, adult humour.

Written by Catherine Johnson (writer of the hit musical Mamma Mia!), Shang-a-Lang

follows three flighty forty-something Scottish women on their way to a 70s revival weekend in Butlins, where the Bay City Rollers are playing.

They were all Rollerettes back in the day and decide it is time to recapture their youth, chase their unfulfilled dreams and have a ball while they do it.

Lauren tries to stay sober, Jackie tries to stay married and Pauline continues to search for her Woody.

Shang-a-Lang is the perfect girls’ night out laced with shocking laughs, warm tears and a fabulous soundtrack - a cross between a Scottish Shirley Valentine and Shameless.

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett Fri 26 Sep, 8pm / £13/ £11 FILM SCREENING / 6pm ‘Rock and Roll’s Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie’ FREE with a ticket for the gig.

Both John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett remain enigmas to the vast majority of the British public, but for those who know they are amongst the top ten of favourite artists to see live.

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The show is a wonderful eclectic mix of bizarre humour, superb visual effects, fine guitar playing and the best use of a theremin anywhere.

Julie Fowlis A regular face on BBC ALBA, TG4 (Ireland) and a familiar voice also on BBC Radio Scotland, as well as co-presenter of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for the last 3 years. Julie's band has the outstan ding line up of Éamon Doorley on bouzouki, Duncan Chisholm on fiddle and Tony Byrne on guitar.

Julie Fowlis & Fred Morrison Sat 27 Sep, 7.30pm The Albert Halls £17.50/£16.50/£14.50 One of Scotland’s brightest stars, Julie Fowlis comes to The Albert Halls with her band to perform music

from her latest release Gach Sgeul (Every Story), a beautiful collection of Gaelic songs.

Her first release since two of her songs appeared in the Oscar-winning Disney Pixar film Brave!

The performance will be opened by the wonderful piper Fred Morrison, a long time friend of Julie’s and performs regularly on bagpipes, encompass whistles, Scottish smallpipes, or reelpipes, and Irish uilleann pipes.

This has all the ingredients for an evening of magical music...

Dave Swarbrick & Martin Carthy

Dave Swarbrick & Martin Carthy Fri 3 Oct, 8pm £15/£13 We welcome a remarkable paring who have played such a pivital role in British folk music from the 60's right through to the present day.

Their experienced approach to their art lacks none of the fevour of their early days. Having first teamed up in 1966, their time together resulted in a new era of English instrumental folk music

and for more than 40 years their combined contribution and influence has been unique.

Expect the sublime and passionate playing of two masters of their art.

Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri

Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri Sat 4 Oct, 8pm £16 For almost two decades, Kiki and Carmelo have been touring their spellbinding live show, taking audiences on an acoustic journey of stories and song.

Having just celebrated her 50th year in the music industry Kiki performs unique covers of songs by artists such as Kate Bush and Frank Sinatra

and, of course, her own hits including "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"

HIGHLIGHTS

Fri 10 Oct, Nik Kershaw: Me, myself and I tour Sat 11 Oct, Lulo Reinhardt

Sat 18 Oct, The Pearlfishers

ARTS NEWS WANT TO PLAY?

We are looking for new members to join our well established music groups, the Trad Music Workshops and Stirling Youth Jazz Ensemble.

They start up again in September and thanks to funding from the Youth Music Initiative they are completely FREE for young people aged 10-18 from Stirling and Clackmannanshire schools!

For more info contact Clare Hoare, 01786 233226 or ymi@stirling.gov.uk

YOUNG FOLKS VISIT

Last year the Tolbooth senior Trad band, 'No More Cages' visited Bonn in Germany to spend some time with a young German band called 'Young Folks'.

This summer we are looking forward to welcoming 'Young Folks' to Scotland for a week of sharing ideas, music and performance.

A huge thanks to the tutors involved; Lori Watson, Innes Watson and Claire Mann (No More Cages) and Sabrina Palm (Young Folks) along with UK-German Connection who have part funded both exchanges.

MDO HELLO!

Kenny Bates has recently taken up the Music Development Officer role at the Tolbooth. He wanted to say hi...

Hello! Kenny Bates here... really excited to join the Tolbooth as Music Development Officer.

My background is in event management and community arts tuition, running a little DIY label through in Glasgow, promoting monthly events and squeezing in as much writing, recording and performing as I can in between.

It's been fantastic to meet so many local musicians, enthusiasts and supporters of new music in Stirling.

If you're a musician, a songwriter, a promoter or just an enthusiast, I'd love to hear from you and get your thoughts on music development in Stirling and ho we can boost the local scene together. batesk@stirling.gov.uk facebook.com/tolbooth. musicdevelopment

CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

Our new season of classes and workshops will be announced shortly.

The Tolbooth Singers, with new tutor Susie Kelly, starts back again in the autumn, please let us know if you are interested in joining.

The usual ceramics, fiddle and studio recording workshops will also be back for adults.

Young people will be able to take part in the trad and jazz workshops, Pump Up The Jam, City Music Project but also art and pottery, and the Feis Fhoirt trad classes in the Tolbooth.

Full details in our next brochure and online soon!

INFORMATION Tolbooth is Stirling’s venue for live music and the arts and is the home for Stirling Council’s arts development team.

TICKETS Book online www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth By phone

01786 27 4000 open Tue - Sat: 10am - 6pm

In person

Tolbooth Box Office is open Tue - Sat: 10am - 6pm 30 mins after a performance starts.

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Box Office: 01786 27 4000 Book online: www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth

Concessions

Conditions

Discounts are available to children (those under 16), students, people with disabilities, senior citizens, the unemployed and former and current members of the armed forces.

Proof will be required when purchasing or collecting tickets.

Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded unless the event is cancelled.

We reserve tickets for a maximum of 3 days. No reservations will be taken within 3 days of an event.

Booking fees vary but you will be advised at the time of purchase.

ACCESS

Tolbooth is fully accessible and can accommodate a number of wheelchair users at each performance. Please mention at the time of booking if you require a wheelchair space.

The Tolbooth has an induction loop system, please ask at Box Office for more details.

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

GETTING HERE Public Transport

For information contact Traveline Scotland on 0871 200 22 33 www.travelinescotland.com

Parking On street parking is limited and metered until 5.30pm around Tolbooth. There are longer stay carparks in the city centre.

The information in this guide was correct at the time of going to print. © Tolbooth, Stirling Council 2013

Wed 2 Jul

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Trad

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Fri 11 Jul

Jamie Smith's Mabon

8pm

Trad

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Fri 18 Jul

Robert Gillies + Support

8pm

Pop

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Sat 19 Jul

NYJOS: The Magic of Brecker

8pm

Jazz

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Wed 23 Jul

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Trad

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Fri 8 Aug

NYJOS: Same River Twice

8pm

Jazz

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Wed 13 Aug

Summer Ceilidh

8pm

Trad

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Fri 22 Aug

Think Thoughts

8pm

Indie/Pop

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Sat 23 Aug

Blazin' Fiddles

8pm

Trad

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Sat 30 Aug

Battle of the Bands

7.30pm

Rock/Pop

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Fri 5 Sep

Call Mr Robeson

7.30pm

Drama

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Thu 11 Sep

Honeyblood + Algernon Doll + Polarnecks

8pm

Indie/Pop

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Sat 13 Sep

Wha's Like Us?

from 9am

13 - 19 Sep

Off The Page

various

Book Fest

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Thu 25 Sep

Shang-A-Lang [The Albert Halls]

7.30pm

Drama

p10

Fri 26 Sep

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett

8pm

Rock

p10

Sat 27 Sep

Julie Fowlis & Fred Morrison [The Albert Halls] 7.30pm

Trad

p11

Fri 3 Oct

Dave Swarbrick & Martin Carthy

8pm

Folk

p12

Sat 4 Oct

Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri

8pm

Pop

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