GLASGOW'S Star Folk Club reopens after the Christmas into Celtic Connections break with long-time club and folk scene favourites Gaberlunzie on February 10.
Ulster singer-songwriter-guitarist Fil Campbell returns to the club on February 17, accompanied by her husband, Tom McFarland, on percussion, and singer-slide guitarist Joe Topping, whose new album, The Vagrant Kings, has been receiving a lot of radio plays, appears on February 24. Forthcoming guests also include English singer-songwriter Pete Morton and BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2013, accordionist Paddy Callaghan's trio. The club meets every Tuesday in the Admiral Bar on Waterloo Street and the music starts at 8pm.
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SOUNDHOUSE, the organisation that is moving towards opening a new music venue in Edinburgh, has confirmed the February programme for the series of Monday evening concerts of music across the board that it piloted before Christmas. The concerts take place in the Traverse Theatre bar but the series opens with a temporary move to the Pleasance, where klezmer-folk-jazz group Moishe's Bagel, featuring fiddle virtuoso Greg Lawson fresh from his triumphant arrangement of Martyn Bennett's Grit at Celtic Connections, appear on February 2. Jazz pianist Brian Kellock teams up with long-time colleagues, bassist Kenny Ellis and trombonist Brian Keddie, at the Traverse on February 9, with harp-percussion duo Macmaster/Hay following on February 16 and English folk legend Martin Carthy appearing on February 23.
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