We get our 2024 programme of events off to our customary start with a Burns Night show. The ticket price includes haggis, neeps and tatties. The haggis will be accompanied by George Turnbull on the pipes and the haggis will be suitably addressed by Ian Laird. Everyone is welcome, nay encouraged, to sing or recite preferably Burns but not essential. Audience numbers are limited to 40 due to the catering involved especially the mashing of the glorious neep. Always a fun night.

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Admission will be by advance ticket only.

 

One of the most exciting duos to emerge from the UK in recent times, Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow combine heartfelt musicality, unparalleled virtuosity and vocal harmony. Using the folk music of the British Isles as a catalyst, Kit and Aaron create dynamic and effervescent interpretations of centuries-old material as well as original songs and compositions, all the while celebrating the timeless aural quality of a guitar, fiddle and vocals duet.

 

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Something of a coup, we have Steeleye Span’s Maddy Prior along with other magnificent singers and musicians.

Maddy Prior & Forgotten Lands is both a performance and an opportunity to learn, experience & explore traditional folk song with some of the very best vocal teachers in the business. 

Maddy Prior and Rose-Ellen Kemp (her daughter and fellow singing teacher) are embarking on some shows around the UK joined by musicians Andrew Sinclair (Steeleye Span guitarist) and Ruth Elder (viola and piano).

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Please note that this is not a BYOB evening and there will be no floor spots.

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Lawrence Menard (USA) and Clare Quinn (AUS) are the transpacific-troubadours known as ‘Those Folk’. With Lawrence’s Cajun beginnings and Californian upbringing melding with Clare’s grounding in Australian folk music, their sound is diverse and inspiring. Vocal harmonies are featured alongside guitars, accordion & banjo.

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This powerhouse group is forging new attitudes towards traditional and folk music with their unique and signature sound.

Expect uplifting and driving harmonies, intricate arrangements, and joy in abundance.

Renowned for having a style quite like no other - powerful, fresh, euphoric, raw,
enigmatic and emotive - Kinnaris Quintet have quickly become the must-see act on
the live music scene.

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For just £2 you can come along to our regular Singers' Nights where you can play, sing, clog dance or just listen. 2023 was a great year for the Singers' Nights with anything up to 15 performers so something for everybody. (Entrance to the small hall at the side)

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"Bruce Molsky is one of those great players who 'gets it': has all the links to the past but is happy not to be chained to it" - Mark Knopfler.

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"An incredible power of history and tradition in his vocal" - Linda Ronstadt

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Wayward Jane’s music is a modern, transatlantic interpretation of American folk and Old Time traditions, blending roots music with fresh arrangements and original compositions. Their rich sound features fiddle, clawhammer banjo, double bass, guitar, wooden flute and close vocal harmonies.

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For just £2 you can come along to our regular Singers' Nights where you can play, sing, clog dance or just listen. 2023 was a great year for the Singers' Nights with anything up to 15 performers so something for everybody. (Entrance to the small hall at the side)

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Singer and guitarist, Jack Badcock is a veteran performer, having toured extensively on four continents, predominantly as frontman and founding member of renowned world-folk band Dallahan. A previous finalist in the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award, his 2021 EP, The Driftwood Project was nominated for Original Work of the Year at the BBC Scots Music Awards. His solo material reveals his astute songcraft exploring human history, cosmology, personal experiences and profound questions all delivered with a musical sensitivity clearly influenced by American folk, funk and soul music as much as the traditional music from Britain and Ireland.

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Bring your own bottle and glass.

 

For just £2 you can come along to our regular Singers' Nights where you can play, sing, clog dance or just listen. 2023 was a great year for the Singers' Nights with anything up to 15 performers so something for everybody. (Entrance to the small hall at the side)

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Bring your own bottle and glass.

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For just £2 you can come along to our regular Singers' Nights where you can play, sing, clog dance or just listen. 2023 was a great year for the Singers' Nights with anything up to 15 performers so something for everybody. (Entrance to the small hall at the side)

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Having formed in 2013, Forgaitherin’ have now performed at folk clubs and events all over Scotland over the past 11 years and have continued to develop their own style during that period. They are Lesley and Hugh Toner, John Reid and Hamish Grant, all based in north east Fife.

Their sets consist of strong vocals with multi-instrumental backing, group harmonies, contemporary and traditional material including chorus songs.

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Winner BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Singer of the Year 2017.

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Winner - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Original Track 2017.

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Nominated - BBC 2 Folk Awards Best Original Track

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For just £2 you can come along to our regular Singers' Nights where you can play, sing, clog dance or just listen. 2023 was a great year for the Singers' Nights with anything up to 15 performers so something for everybody. (Entrance to the small hall at the side)

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Simon and Garfunkel Through the Years has been critically acclaimed as the world’s greatest tribute show to Simon & Garfunkel. Having toured the globe for the past 10 years, selling out theatres and receiving standing ovations, Simon and Garfunkel Through the Years is a masterpiece not to be missed. A welcome return to Crail.

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Please note that this is not a BYOB evening and there will be no floor spots.

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For just £2 you can come along to our regular Singers' Nights where you can play, sing, clog dance or just listen. 2023 was a great year for the Singers' Nights with anything up to 15 performers so something for everybody. (Entrance to the small hall at the side)

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Bring your own bottle and glass.

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Don’t miss a chance to experience Bob’s warm, rich voice, accompanied by a wonderful guitar style that can both drive or embellish his supreme singing. Expect to hear songs of love, joy, work and humour as he performs material from War Horse, newly written songs from the New Radio Ballad series and old favourites from his many recordings.

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Fiddle player, singer and composer Isla Ratcliff is a passionate and inventive musician from Edinburgh. Since releasing her debut album The Castalia in 2021, Isla has been receiving increasing attention for her fiery fiddle playing and her rich singing voice. She was a Semi-Finalist in the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2022 competition, and she was nominated for Up and Coming Artist of the Year 2022 at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards.

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Isla was last seen at Crail Folk Club as a member of Outside Track (she had stepped in to replace Mairi Rankin on that particular tour). Have a look at the photos in the 2022 Gallery.

 

Isla's musicians will be announced in due course

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Award-winning singer, Hannah Rarity, has made a lasting impression since being warmly embraced by the folk world, winning BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year (2018) and recording and touring with top acts Blazin’ Fiddles, Rura, Niteworks and Cherish the Ladies. Both of her albums ‘Neath the Gloaming Star’ (2018) & ‘To Have You Near’ (2022) were shortlisted for Album of the Year at the BBC Alba Scots Trad Music Awards and in 2022, she was invited to work as co-musical director for the Opening Concert of Celtic Connections.

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Hannah will not be performing alone.  Her musician(s) will be announced in due course.

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Why not come along to our legendary Christmas Party.  Free mince pies and, of course, a raffle plus load of great floor spots make this a great start to the festive period.

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Proceeds from the raffle will be going to charity so donations of prizes very welcome. We are strictly limited to 50 people so if you haven't already signed up please reserve your ticket by clicking on the "Reserve Ticket" button below.  Please email crailfolkclub@gmail.com 

to let us know if you would prefer vegetarian mince pies.

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