JULIE FOWLIS . Jock Tamson‘s Bairns
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ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTRE @ ST BRIDES . Jock Tamson‘s Bairns head up folk mini-fest . steeped in quality
With all the hullabaloo of infamous or outrageous artists at the festival, our modest friends in the Scottish folk scene can appear to spend four weeks
3, jigging and lamenting somewhere beneath the radar. Often however this is .4; where the real rare talent lies and thus to supplement the handful of bigger 23, names securing high profile venues the Acoustic Music Centre is
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‘ traditional outfits at St. Brides in the city's western district of Dalry. One g such pioneering traditional troupe is Scots' folk saviour Jock Tamson’s . ‘ . " Bairn's. appearing for one night only and featuring special guest and ever- - a \ I ‘ ascending star Siobhan Miller. Testing the boundaries of conventional Celtic instrumentation the Bairns‘ put a torch under our heritable music in the late 70s, a time when all eyes were on the Emerald Isle, before putting up their tapping feet in 1983. Regrouping in 1995, original members Rod Paterson. John Croall, Dereck Hoy and The List's own Norman Chalmers now boast the talents of recently recruited classical and traditional fiddler and composer Anna-Wendy Stevenson. Throw the young, emerging talent of Miller into the mix and you have just one of many fine reasons to step out of the centre of town for the formative and future sounds of Scots roots music.
Further to their cause. the St. Brides line-up includes stunning collaborations like that of winning vocal trio Karine Polwart, Corrina Hewat and Annie Grace. as well as festival favourites like Tam White and a whole host of gloriously up-beat outfits from Deaf Shepherd to The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience. Peppered with the odd act from South Africa and the US. and storytelling by way of Novecento (1900), the tale of a liner BC; m. pianist never to set foot on dry land, the Acoustic Music Centre makes for own 01312262428 a festival in itself. (Mark Edmundson)
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