EDINBURGH Folk Club is organising a memorial concert for the club’s long-time chair and emcee Paddy Bort, who died suddenly on February 17 aged sixty-two.
As well as his involvement with Edinburgh Folk Club, for many years Bort organised the Wee Folk Club, which runs every Sunday in the capital’s popular folk pub, The Royal Oak, and he was the energetic driving force behind The Carrying Stream festival, held annually in Edinburgh during November since 2002 to celebrate the life and work of the late folklorist, song collector, writer and poet Hamish Henderson.
The memorial concert will take place in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on Thursday, June 8 and will feature singers and musicians including leading Scots song specialists Malinky, singer-songwriter Karine Polwart, popular folk band North Sea Gas, and Boys of the Lough founder Cathal McConnell’s current group with fiddler Kathryn Nicoll and harper Karen Marshalsay.
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THE COVE Park artist residency has announced the 27 artists who will be working there this summer. The artists come from across the UK as well as Netherlands, India and Germany in residencies which explore craft, film, literature and visual arts.
Cove Park, on the Rosneath Peninsula, Argyll, is a 12 bedroom arts residency centre, founded in 2000 by Peter and Eileen Jacobs, which has been home to more than 1600 artists so far. The artists residences run between May and September 2017.
Six residencies have been awarded to craft makers including UK textile designer Laura Slater, Aimee Lax and Jonathan Wade. Awarded the International Craft Residency is product design duo Anja Lapatsh and Annika Unger.
Two residencies have been awarded to two BAFTA-winning female filmmakers Robin Haig and writer/director Lou McLoughlan. Residencies have been awarded to novelists Wytske Veersteeg, Linda Cracknell and Kirsty Logan, pictured.
Visual artists in residence will include Anne-Marie Copestake, Scott Myles, Mark Vernon, Florrie James, Katrina Palmer, Sophie Mallet, Marie Toseland and Louise Giovanelli.
Cove Park’s International Visual Arts Resident this year will be the Indian artist Sahej Rahal who works primarily in sculpture, installation and performance.
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DRUMMER Ken Mathieson’s Classic Jazz Orchestra, whose repertoire extends from the early jazz of Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke through to Gil Evans, appears at Paisley Arts Centre on Friday, April 21. The concert will be followed by more jazz in the bar from local singer Evelyn Laurie.
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