New venue will help capital sing the blues
New venue will help capital sing the blues
EDINBURGH has a new live music venue specialising in blues and jazz.
Situated under the Phoenix Bar in Broughton Street, 48 Below will include blues singer, guitarist and artist John Hunt, blues groups Hot Tin Roof and Black Cat Bone, and jazz singers Ali Affleck, pictured above, Victoria Bennett and Sophie Bancroft in its regular Fridays and Sundays programme.
Hunt, whose distinctive paintings of musicians are on permanent display in the capital's Jazz Bar and who plays home-made guitars built from papier mache and supermarket shelving, opened the programme on Friday and will return on November 14 and December 12.
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Folk club's Celtic connections
LEITH Folk Club has Irish and Scottish singer-songwriter threads running through next month's programme.
Michelle Burke, the former singer with Irish-American favourites Cherish The Ladies, appears at the club on November 4, with Lanarkshire-based Tom Clelland following on the 11th and Rab Noakes, who recently released the 40th anniversary edition of his classic Red Pump Special album, on the 18th.
Fil Campbell, from the County Fermanagh-Donegal borderlands and one of Ireland's leading songwriters and song interpreters, completes the programme on the 25th.
The club meets at Victoria Park House Hotel in Ferry Road and the music begins at 8pm.
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