Kelso Folk & Live Music Club
FRIDAYS! Open Mic at the ACE CENTRE 7.30-10.30pm – Pub session at the Cobbles Inn 10.00pm-late

Diageo has announced that its iconic Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky Lagavulin™ is sponsoring this year’s Islay Jazz Festival. The Islay Jazz Festival is a well-established annual event that takes place over a weekend in September, attracting hundreds of jazz lovers to Islay from Scotland, the rest of the United Kingdom, and overseas. The dates of this year’s Festival are 17 – 19 September. The event will now be known as the Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival.
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For Kelso’s Civic Week closing Saturday night, we have a session with concert sets from Shona Mooney (fiddle) and Christopher Keatinge (accordion) – both recipients of Young Musician awards in their own rights. This should be a good evening for tune players, it will include informal sessions before/between/after a couple of performance sets by Shona and Christopher.

Admission is free, music starting 8pm or shortly afterwards. Shona and Christopher will be using minimal amplification, partly to allow the use of some new ideas in arrangement with a loopstation; the sessions will be acoustic-friendly, of course. Singers are also very welcome, this is not for tunes alone!

Kelso Community Events puts up £500 prize money for “Borders Has Talent” Contest.

Have you got what it takes to charm and thrill audiences at this years St James’ Fair? You do! Then fill in an application form for “Borders Has Talent” auditions, which will be held at the British Legion Club, Kelso on Saturday 21^st August.

The St James’ Fair Organisers said, “It doesn’t matter whether contestants are magicians, singers, dancers or story tellers, we are looking for the performer who has that certain something and can capture an audience’s imagination”.

The auditions are limited to the first 50 applications received with the best 12 acts going forward to the finals, which take place on the main stage at St James’ Fair on the 4^th and 5^th of September.

“Borders Has Talent” is open to non-professional musical and novelty acts of all ages. Some limitations apply; please see application form for details. Application forms can be requested from bordershastalent@btinternet.com and will be sent to you in WORD or PDF format by email. Completed forms must be posted and reach the organisers by 2^nd August 2010. For more information please visit us at www.stjamesfairkelso.co.uk