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THE HAIRST SESSIONS & SATURDAY SKIRLS

JULY 7th – AUGUST 23rd
ALL SESSIONS ARE FREE

SESSIONS three times a week for seven weeks,
on TUESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY EVENINGS 8pm-11pm,
and SUNDAY AFTERNOONS 3pm-6pm
and Live Music outdoors at The Saturday Skirls, one every Saturday, noon – 2pm

The Hairst Sessions (formerly Angus Folk Sessions) and
Saturday Skirls feature a superb range of traditional singers and musicians of all ages, from talented teenagers to the more ‘well-matured’ artiste!

These 26 sessions throughout Angus provide an opportunity to listen to the best of Angus music – open sessions, all most welcome to join in with a song or a tune.

THE HAIRST SESSIONS 2009
Tuesdays & Thursdays 8pm, Fridays 8pm; Sundays 3pm

JULY
Tuesday 7th
8pm
Old Royal Inn, MONIFIETH
Mike Ward & The Fishermans Friends
Thursday 9th
8pm
Chapter & Verse, FORFAR
Maureen Jelks, Leslie McLuckie, Ken Johnston
Friday 10th 8pm Webster Theatre, ARBROATH
The Ferryport Fiddlers Ensemble
Sunday 12th
3pm
Three Bellies Brae, KIRRIEMUIR
Karen Hannah & Michael Kelleher
Tuesday 14th
8pm
Aboukir Hotel, CARNOUSTIE
Eilidh Firth, Lara Findlay, Nicola Campbell, Jim Penny
Thursday 16th
8pm
Caledonian Hotel, BRECHIN
Sinsheen & Roy Henderson
Friday 17th 8pm Webster Theatre, ARBROATH
The Baffie Band
Sunday 19th
3pm
Glenisla Hotel, GLENISLA
Gordon Ewan, Roy Henderson & Nigel Jelks
Tuesday 21st
8pm
Three Bellies Brae, KIRRIEMUIR
David Adam & Friends
Thursday 23rd
8pm
Aboukir Hotel, CARNOUSTIE
Gordon & Davie Ewan, Niel & Grant
Friday 24th 8pm Webster Theatre, ARBROATH
Maureen Jelks, Leslie McLuckie, Ken Johnston
Sunday 26th
3pm
George Hotel, MONTROSE
The Ryan family & Jim Penny
Tuesday 28th 8pm Caledonian Hotel, BRECHIN
Gordon Ewan, Roy Henderson & Nigel Jelks
Thursday 30th 8pm Aboukir Hotel, CARNOUSTIE
Friock Folk & David Adam
AUGUST      
Sunday 2nd
3pm
Glen Clova Hotel, GLEN CLOVA
Pipes, Fiddles, Guitars an’ a’
Tuesday 4th
8pm
Chapter & Verse, FORFAR
Ian Kinnear, Barbara Dymock & Mike McKay
Thursday 6th
8pm
Glenisla Hotel, GLENISLA
David Adam & friends
Friday 7th 8pm Webster Theatre, ARBROATH
Katherine Liley & friends
Sunday 9th
3pm
Glen Clova Hotel, GLEN CLOVA
Maureen Jelks, Leslie McLuckie, Ken Johnston
Tuesday 11th
8pm
Chapter & Verse, FORFAR L-Fish
Thursday 13th
8pm
Caledonian Hotel, BRECHIN Katherine Liley & friends
Friday 14th 8pm Webster Theatre, ARBROATH The Christies and The Barracks & friends
Sunday 16th
3pm
Aboukir Hotel, CARNOUSTIE Eilidh Firth, Lara Findlay, Gillian Ramsay, Roy Henderson
Tuesday 18th
8pm
Three Bellies Brae, KIRRIEMUIR Aff the Cuff
Thursday 20th
8pm
Caledonian Hotel, BRECHIN L-Fish
Sunday 23rd
3pm
Three Bellies Brae, KIRRIEMUIR Mike Ward & The Fishermans Friends

Fri 10th July
Fri 17th July
Fri 24th July
Fri 7th Aug
Fri 14th Aug
 
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ALL ARBROATH
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Times:- Sessions on Tuesdays, Wedsnesdays and Fridays 8pm-11pm; Sunday afternoon sessions 3pm-6pm
 
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THE SATURDAY SKIRLS 2009
Free Open Air Performances
Noon - 2pm
Every Saturday: July 4th - Aug 15th
JULY      
Sat 4th Noon-2pm The MONIFIETH Saturday Skirl
outside Tesco Store
Karen Hannah & Michael Kelleher
Sat 11th Noon-2pm The CARNOUSTIE Saturday Skirl
outside Public Library
Abertay University Pipers & Ceilidh Band
Sat 18th Noon-2pm The FORFAR Saturday Skirl
at The Buttermarket, The Cross
The Baffie Band
Sat 25th Noon-2pm The MONTROSE Saturday Skirl
outside Montrose Town House
The Ryan family & Jim Penny
AUGUST      
Sat 1st Noon-2pm The KIRRIEMUIR Saturday Skirl
ouside The Gateway to the Glens Museum
Kinnear, McKay, Grant & Nigel
Sat 8th Noon-2pm
The BRECHIN Saturday Skirl
outside Town House Museum
Aff the Cuff & ScotchPotch
Sat 15th Noon-2pm The ARBROATH Saturday Skirl
OUTSIDE Public Library
Aff the Cuff
       

The Hairst Sessions 2009

THE ARTISTES

This is the 10th year of The Hairst Sessions (Angus Folk Sessions), a unique and major event in Angus, which features some of the finest Scottish folk musicians and singers from Angus and the surrounding area. We do hope you are able to come along and listen, or as these are open sessions, join in by giving us a song or a tune. Either way, you are most welcome and we will be delighted to see you.

The ‘Key Artistes’ will ‘host’ the sessions, also with fellow musicians and singers and yourselves:


David Adam from Inverness, playing the Border Pipes, the Scottish Small Pipes, flute and a variety of whistles.

David & friends include
- Johnny Beaver of Macumba on percussion, guitarist David Sutherland from Lochaber and fiddler Jamie Wilson.

Katherine Liley, originally from near Portree on Skye, teaches Scottish fiddle in Angus schools where a group of her students from primary 6 to 18 years have gained the name 'The Funky Fiddlers'.

Nathan & Hannah Christie are two of Katherines bright young fiddle students; they will be hosting one of the sessions with their friends – twins Ewan & Kerr Barrack on keyboards and Accordion.

(note - many of the venues are suitable for families, but please check first by telephone; all juniors attending to be accompanied by a responsible adult).


Mike Ward - dynamic fiddling and subtle accompaniment; former member of Tannahill Weavers, Alba, also Fon a Bhord etc,; Mike has a music shop, specialising in stringed acoustic instruments, including pianos!, but mostly fiddle, viola, cello, guitar, mandoline etc; sales, repairs, set-ups, repairs, advice – whatever.

Vintage Strings – 77 Perth Road, Dundee.
Tel: 01382 226415.
Mon - Sat 11 - 5.30. Closed Wednesdays.

www.vintagestrings.co.uk



Fishermans Friends, are a formidable group of sessioners from the local Thursday session in Broughty Ferry;


Maureen Jelks - Fine Dundee singer/workshop leader, traditional and some contempory, few songs also with autoharp. Maureen is well-known for her Dundee songs – recorded on Coorse & Fine, Eence upon a time, First Time Ever as well as her ballads and wee sangs.
www.maureenjelks.co.uk

Maureen will be appearing this year with a couple of friends.

Leslie McLuckie is a member of one of Maureen’s singing groups in Dundee – has some very nice songs;

Ken Johnston is a friend from long ago that has just returned to Angus after 20+ years in Kendal. Fine singer, great repertoire backed up with some tasteful guitar and mandocello – he has recently joined up with Aff the Cuff.


‘Sinsheen’ - a new exciting harmony duo with fine singers Christine Kydd and Barbara Dymock.
www.sinsheen.com

Christine Kydd - singer/workshop leader, traditional & contemporary. Well known for her singing and excellent guitar accompaniment with Calluna, Chantan and Janet Russell.
www.christinekydd.com

Barbara Dymock – singer/workshopleader, founder member of Ceolbeg and Fon a Bhord. Spirited Bodhran player.


Christine is also a member of L-Fish with Frances Wilkins, concertina and Kit Watson, fiddle.

Kit teaches also violin and viola, also Kodaly musicianship in Angus.

Frances started playing Shetland and Scottish music on concertina whilst living in the Shetland Islands, playing with various bands and currently studying for a PHD in Ethnomusicology at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen.



Eilidh Firth, Lara Findlay & Gillian Ramsay.

Eilidh and Lara played last year as Birlin’ , together with Douglas Dorward.
This year they will be playing at the sessions with Gillian, another fiddler and friend, also former member of The Tayside Young Fiddlers.
Eilidh is on a tour in Poland and Ireland with the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra for much of July and August but will still find time for some lively jigs and reels at the Hairst Sessions.

Douglas is doing other things most of this summer but we do hope to see him some time with his fiddle, and guitar. Check the voice as well on YouTube – ref Valley of the Moon 2008 Fiddle Camp Morning Raid

No doubt some of these excellent young musicians will be attending Alasdair Fraser Fiddle Week at Sabhal Mor Ostaig on Skye.

www.taysideyoungfiddlers.co.uk
www.studentjourney.uhi.ac.uk/ipp/smcgafwsmcgafw.htm.uk
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk


Karen Hannah is another younger well-travelled fiddler having played in UK and abroad with Young Fife Roadshow, Keltic Fiddlers etc., currently playing with the Moonzies and Baffie Band.
Involved in organising music events; loves playing at sessions and ceilidhs; busy teaching fiddle, including at The Wighton Centre in Dundee and private pupils.

www.friendsofwighton.com



The Baffie Band –
David Hunter & Kyle Howie – Highland, Border & Scottish Small Pipes, whistles, accordion;
Karen Hannah – fiddle:
Paul Campbell - guitar, vocals;
Graeme Robertson - Djembe, Cajon, Bouzouki.

www.thebaffieband.co.uk

A new band formed in 2008.

David and Kyle are both busy in August, playing in Pipe Bands at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - David with the RAF, & Kyle with the Highland Fusiliers .




The Ferryport Fiddlers are a fun group from Angus and North Fife.
Lead by Morag-Anne Elder, who is a well-known player and researcher, having contributed greatly to the magnificent and monumental book - The Scottish Fiddle Music Index by Charles Gore.
Husband Ian Flett handles the double-bass, and their daughter Elizabeth is a fiddle-player of considerable musical maturity well beyond her 13+ years. Other instruments in the ensemble include more fiddles, guitars, mandolins etc.


Ian Kinnear makes, repairs, sets up and teaches and plays the Scottish Small Pipes. Established as a pipe-maker in 1993, his pipes are played all over Scotland and worldwide, can be heard on many Scottish recordings.
www.scottishsmallpipes.com

Aff the Cuff, function band formed from the regular session at Carnoustie, includes singers, guitars, mandolines, bodhran, with Andy Davis on small pipes & bodhran and fiddler Ian Hunter for their allegedly true life story and excellent i-pod recordings of the Angus Folk Sessions visit;
www.affthecuff.org.uk

Ian is also a member of The Abertay University Pipers and Ceilidh Band – various instruments, obviously including pipes, fiddles, guitar etc


Friock Folk – session group from the regular session at Friockheim includes banjo-player Iain Milne and singer/guitarist Jim Penny, who’ll also give you a tune on the mandola, and a thump on the bodhran.
[You can check out his success as an author on www.albannaich.co.uk]


Gordon Ewan & Davie Ewan - Fine Scots tunes from 1700’s to present day with the twin fiddlers.
Avid fiddle enthusiasts, nuts-about-fiddles, can't stop buying or examining and admiring fiddles; great repertoire, sessioners and ceilidh band musicians; Davie has a full-time business repairing and restoring them, plus other instruments, also plays button-box .


Mike McKay – fiddle; pictured here with twin Brian, who is unable to make it to this year’s sessions – hope to see him again next year.

The Ryan Family - Willie Ryan, bodhran/percussion and tin whistle/flute – talented dad with talented youngsters - Megan Ryan on fiddle and Ciaran Ryan on tenor banjo - both winners of umpteen trophies for Scottish and Irish music.

www.musicplockton.org





 

Pipes, Fiddles, Guitars an’ a’ – this session coincides with the Glen Clova Beer Festival – music led by Scottish Small Pipers Ian Kinnear and Mike Katz - outstanding musician, and world-renowned piper with the Battlefield Band - plus fiddlers, guitar-players, singers and various – all welcome.




OTHER MUSICIANS AND SINGERS
Nigel Jelks – mandoline, concertina & fiddle.
Plays guitars mostly for work with Ceilidh & Dance Bands, never stuck for a chord or a key.
Great knowledge of music and tunes, bit of an arranger, collector & researcher - now knows more than he can do,.... or remember!

Roy Henderson – guitar, and some great songs with great arrangements; also front man for the Portobello Ceilidh Band.

www.portobelloceilidhband.com

Michael Kelleher - guitar – member of Randan with Karen Hannah - and some very special songs!

More info at www.acousticecosse.org

 
Rachel Harris, from Glen Clova. Just returned from Aberdeen Uni , summer in Skye at Salmor Ostaig and a year at the Gaelic College on Uist. Went out with a tin-whistle, came back with a flute! Continuing studies now at Limerick, her appearance at the 2009 Sessions is awaiting confirmation – we hope so!

and many many more ….


Hope to see you all there.
www.thehairst.co.uk

       
THE VENUES

ARBROATH - The Webster Theatre, 64 High Street, Arbroath. Tel: 01241 435800 .
Email: info@webstertheatre.co.uk

The sessions will take place in the Assembly Hall, licensed. Magnificent room with fine paintings. Parking available at rear of the theatre, but entry to Car Park is via one-way road system from harbour area, look for P-parking sign.


BRECHIN - Caledonian Hotel, 43-47 Southesk St., Brechin
Tel: 01356 624345. Contact – Ian Meldrum.
Recently refurbished hotel with open bar, wood floor/surrounds. Real ale.
Situated just down from the public library, opposite Caledonian (steam) Railway.
(www.sca-host.com for railway)


CARNOUSTIE - Aboukir Hotel, 38 Ireland St., Carnoustie
Tel: 01241 852149. Contact – Dave Scorgie/Lynda
Very recently refurbished hotel. Situated at east end town, continuation of High Street, at bend into Carlogie Road. Originally built for an engineer working and resident in Aboukir, Egypt in 1900. Built as Aboukir Lodge, a house, became a Temperance Hotel in 1930, later a Licensed premises. This information came from the Craigie column in The Courier, but there’s a better story about the name on their website! www.aboukirhotel.com www.aboukirhotel.co.uk


FORFAR - Chapter & Verse, 114 Castle Street, Forfar.
Tel: 01307 468688. Contact – Ali or Audrey.
Open plan Bistro & Bar.


GLEN CLOVA HOTEL - Glen Clova Hotel, Glen Clova
Tel: 01575 550350. Contact - Jane Niven / Claire Cameron
Large Hotel plus bunkhouse accommodation. Climbers Bar, Lounge Bar, Conservatory, Restaurant. .

www.clova.com


GLENISLA - Glenisla Hotel, Kirkton of Glenisla
Tel: 01575 582223. Contact: Warwick & Shelley McKiever.
'The Inn in the Glen'. Open plan bar area , real ales, food.
www.glenisla-hotel.com


KIRRIEMUIR - Three Bellies Brae, 3 Bellies Brae, Kirriemuir
Tel: 01575 574889. Contact – Ed Wilson.
Wood area, food/snacks available. Local music session pub, just off the High Street, opposite the Gateway to the Glens Museum.


MONIFIETH - The Old Royal Inn, 69-71 High Street, Monifieth
Tel: 01382 532114. Contact – James Withers or Larisha McGurty

Public Bar, Lounge/Restaurant area.
Session held in excellent third area with wood floor and surrounds for live music.
Beer Garden


MONTROSE - The George Hotel, 22 George St., Montrose
Tel: 01674 675050. Contact – Daniel Morgan / Tracy Park.
Session held in function room opposite their car park - adjacent to the 26+ bedroom hotel with lounge/restaurant. George Street situated at junction with west end of High Street.
www.thegeorge-montrose.co.uk


ADDITIONAL NOTES

Nigel Jelks contact -
Tel: 01575 573276, fax by arrangement
E-mail: nigelsjelks@tiscali.co.uk


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