October 2019
Aidan O’Rourke & Kit Downes
Alvah Parish Hall Saturday 12 October 2019 7:30pm Laughing Dog Music Ages 8+ Aidan O’Rourke is a fiddler, composer, producer and curator. With his trio Lau, in multiple solo projects and in collaborations, he has pioneered a new sound in Scottish folk music and redefined traditional forms. He joined Blazin’ Fiddles in 2008; in 2010 he formed the quartet Kan with whistle player Brian Finnegan; in 2016 he formed a duo with the jazz pianist Kit Downes. Lau came together…
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Jenny Sturgeon with Jonny Hardie
Alvah Parish Hall Thursday 28 November 2019 7:30pm Laughing Dog Music Ages 12+ Jenny Sturgeon is a singer-songwriter described as "a significant new talent" (Bright Young Folk) on the folk and acoustic scenes. Her music is rich with imagery and her songs are bound together by common threads of folklore, history and the connection people have with the wild. Having trained as a biologist her passion for nature and wild places emerges to create songs which are “musically superb, absolutely fascinating and…
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