Fair sets our course…
St James’s Fair, that is – we have now finalised the arrangements for Dick Gaughan, a great musician and singer, to star in a closing concert for the fair weekend on Sunday September 5th 2010. Yes, it’s not official ‘fair dealing’, it’s organised by the club with TMSA support as a unilateral addition to the Fair’s busy two days.
Dick will appear in concert at the Cross Keys Hotel, in the ballroom where we will have table seating for a good sized audience. The bar will open from 7pm to 11pm. Take your seats at 7.30pm for opening support (to be announced). Tickets are £10 each, with a concessionary price of £6 for students, under-18s, freebuspassers, jobseekers and members of TMSA.
Since the folk club has no formal membership criteria, you can also claim a concessionary admission in return for performing at the club’s Open Mic (Black Swan, Friday nights from 7.30pm onwards) on any date in June, July or August 2010.
There will be a TMSA free open song and music session at the Cobbles Inn earlier in the Sunday – 2.30pm to 5.30pm at the Cobbles Inn. Why not make it a day out, visit the fair, come to the session, book a meal at any one of Kelso’s many restaurants or pubs, and round off with Dick’s concert?
We will also have our Open Mic on Friday September 3rd at the Black Swan (7.30pm); late session at the Cobbles Inn the same night (10.30pm); and informal music sessions in both our pub venues during Saturday, when there will be music in the square including the local Moorhouse Band which includes several club regulars.
For the BMF Bikefest weekend, we have energetic guitar and fiddle duo Rantum Scantum from Edinburgh at the Cobbles on Saturday July 10th. Like North Sea Gas last year, this is an amplified gig with a strong Scottish flavour and loads of energy and virtuosity, and it’s free.
We always have great support from the bikers, who can sing, dance, and blow or beat any instrument it’s possible to transport on two wheels (we’ll have a house guitar on hand to lend out, and it will be a full sized dreadnaught – I remember one year getting a disappointed look when I handed over a wee parlour guitar to a man who was used to something bigger!)
Later in the year (watch this space) we have Wizz Jones on October 1st at the Black Swan, and Jackie Leven on November 26th. More details to follow.
- DK
