Montrose Folk Club

The Outside Track are one of the leading bands playing Celtic Music.  The band are previous winners of the Best Group category in both the Live Ireland and Tradition in Review Awards and also won the German Radio Critics’ Prize for their album “Flash Company”.

The band was originally formed in 2005 by graduates of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick.  The current line up of the band is drawn from Scotland, Ireland and Canada.  The repertoire of the band draws not only from Scotland, Ireland and Cape Breton but also features Scandinavian influences in addition to the best of contemporary song writing.

The band are Ailie Robertson, on harp, Fiona Black, on accordion, Teresa Horgan, from County Cork, on flute and vocals, Cilian O’Dalaigh, on guitar, together with Mairi Rankin, of the celebrated Rankin Family dynasty of Nova Scotia, on fiddle and vocals.

This will be a glorious conclusion to the first half of the 2018 season at Folk Club.

After a brief summer break, Montrose Folk Club resumes with an outstanding Double Bill.  Glasgow based Duo, The Doghouse Roses, are touring together with the outstanding American Singer Songwriter, Joseph Parsons.

The Doghouse Roses are a Glasgow based duo consisting of guitarist, Paul Tasker and singer, Iona MacDonald.  Paul Tasker is an exceptional guitarist whose fretwork has been compared to that Bert Jansch and Richard Thompson.

Iona MacDonald has a powerful and memorable bluesy-toned voice and is also the principal songwriter for the Duo, who most recently supported Television on a UK tour.

Joseph Parsons, originally from Philadelphia, USA, but now based in Germany, is a Songwriter, whose music is located somewhere between Folk and Rock.  He has now released 19 albums, both Solo and Band, in Germany, where he also performs as part of the rock band, US Rails, and in a duo with Todd Thibaud.  Joseph Parsons has a distinctive voice and as a solo artist his live shows are dynamic and deeply moving performances.

We are delighted to present a return visit to Montrose by the talented Findlay Napier, who is, in the opinion of many, the leading Singer/Songwriter currently operating on the Scottish Music Scene.  As acknowledged in the Title of his remarkable 2015 solo debut CD entitled VIP: Very Interesting Persons (No2 in the Daily Telegraph’s top Dozen Folk Albums for that year) Findlay Napier commands musical VIP status.

Findlay has turned those same supreme song writing and storytelling gifts, allied with magpie – minded imagination and truly magnificent vocals, to his adoptive hometown, on VIP’s hotly anticipated follow-up, Glasgow.  At the 2018 Celtic Connections Festival, Findlay Napier headlined a stellar concert based around the new CD.  His concert at Montrose will include a performance of all the songs on the CD.

Continuing Findlay’s collaboration with Boo Hewerdine, who produced the record, the new CD combines freshly – penned originals with classics and rarities from Glasgow’s vast and colourful Song Canon, by writers as diverse as Hamish Imlach, Michael Marra and The Blue Nile.

The CD forms an extended musical love letter to Scotland’s metropolis, celebrating 20 years since Findlay first arrived as a Student, swopping his idyllic Speyside childhood home for the Fourteenth Floor of Glasgow’s notorious Red Road Flats.

Findlay Napier has been described as “Michael Marra meets Elvis Costello”.  His concert at Montrose Folk Club should not be missed.

Delightful Squalor features the talented Singer/Songwriters, Lake Montgomery of Paris, Texas and Cera Impala of Flagstaff, Arizona.

Lake and Cera deliver an authentic Americana duet project, unique in its charm, providing honeyed harmonies.

With guitar, Five String Banjo and ukulele in hand, backed by Dirk Ronnenburg on Fiddle, Lake and Cara craft songs that feel timeless, songs to help you forget a world gone mad.  Their influences, ranging from Country Blues, Gospel, Folk and Old-time Jazz, produce a unique and passionate sound.

Delightful Squalor are currently in the studio producing their first Album, which should be available for their appearance in Montrose.

Singer/Songwriter and Guitarist, Kelly Oliver has been described by Bob Harris of BBC Radio 2 as “an emerging voice in Folk Music” and as “an amazing young Songwriter” by Mike Harding.

Kelly’s 2014 debut album “This Land” won the Folkwords “Best Album by a Female Artist” and was nominated for the FATEA Best Debut Album.

Kelly’s second album, “Bedlam”, was included in the Sunday Times Essential New Releases.  Kelly was the winner of the Best Female Artist 2016 in the FATEA Awards.

The last 5 singles released by Kelly have all gained BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 music air play from presenters such as Bob Harris, Mark Radcliffe and Chris Hawkins.

Kelly has a superb voice, showcased in her concerts both by her own original material, traditional songs and by covers of writers such as Bob Dylan’s “Boots of Spanish Leather”.