Downton Abbey's lady of the manor Elizabeth McGovern has hit the streets to promote her music show at the world's largest arts festival.
While she is most commonly known as Cora Crawley, the Countess of Grantham, in the award-winning ITV drama, McGovern is also a musician and is performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time.
She is the songwriter and lead singer for Sadie and The Hotheads who play music that combines the styles of folk and country.
While thousands of performers struggle to attract attention for their events at the annual festival, a crowd gathered on Edinburgh's Royal Mile as McGovern handed out flyers for her show and chatted to people today, the day after the band's first performance.
The actress and musician has been playing the guitar for years and was self-taught until she started taking lessons with Steve Nelson of The Nelson Brothers.
She was encouraged to write her own material and the band was formed in 2007 with their first album I Can Wait receiving positive reviews.
"I am in awe of the musicians on this project. They create magic out of thin air. Time and time again, on whatever drafty stage or pub we happen to be in," said McGovern.
Sadie and the Hotheads are playing at the New Town Theatre in Edinburgh until August 25.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article