SCOTLAND Live Awards 2016 are accepting applications until Friday, March 18 from new promoters who want to set up their own music club. After helping to launch new clubs in Dundee, Bishopton and Arisaig during 2015 the awards are looking to establish three more organisations to present regular live music events. Each of the selected clubs will receive £2000 to help with start-up costs and advised by an experienced Promoter throughout the setting-up process. Details are available from https://projects.handsupfortrad.scot
LONG-established Scottish troubadour Rab Noakes, pictured, will stand in for singer-guitarist Dick Gaughan at Edinburgh Folk Club on March 30. Noakes, who was a co-founder of Stealers Wheel with Gerry Rafferty, recently released an enthusiastically received double album, I’m Walking Here, which contains new original songs alongside songs that inspired him to pick up a guitar in his home town of Cupar, in Fife. Edinburgh Folk Club meets every Wednesday at 8pm in the capital’s Pleasance Cabaret Bar and the club’s other guests for March are, as scheduled, North Sea Gas (9th), Other Roads (16th), and current Scots Trad Music Awards Scots Singer of the Year, Fiona Hunter with multi-instrumentalists Mike Vass and Innes Watson (23rd).
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