2001 Programme

2002 Programme

2003 Programme

Map of The Pleasance
Map of The Pleasance.

Edinburgh Folk Club
link to BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards
link to Folk Awards

Folk Awards
2003

Folk Club of the Year

The Pleasance Cabaret Bar

Wednesdays 8pm

Doors 7:30pm

Tickets only available on the door
unless otherwise stated

Audience Survey: Check out the best gigs of last year.

Annual Songwriting Competition 9th June - details and rules

Scottish Folk Club listings
Scottish Folk Clubs
November 24th Finlay MacDonald Band

Admission £6; Concession £5; Members £4

The Finlay MacDonald Band,Brings together the tightest of Jazz, Funk grooves with blistering traditional and contemporary Tunes on pipes and fiddle. The band has been it's current line up for about three years and feature's Chris Stout (Fiddle), Kevin MacKenzie (Guitar), Quee MacArthur (Bass) and Fergus MacKenzie (Drums).


Finlay MacDonald Band
Finlay MacDonald Band
December 1st Kevin Burke

Admission £6; Concession £5; Members £4

From the seventies, with the legendary Bothy Band, to the present, with his own Open House, fiddler Kevin Burke has always been one of the top musicians on the celtic scene.

 "Lyric, fluid and precisely as tricky as he needs to be…
    probably the greatest Irish fiddler living." 
- The Village Voice



Kevin Burke
Kevin Burke
December 8th Bachué

Admission £6; Concession £5; Members £4

Celtic Cool" with harpist and vocalist Corinna Hewat, pianist David Milligan and percussionist Donald Hay.

Scottish traditional music by Bachue - 
a sound you have never heard before 
(The Scotsman)



Bachué
Bachué
December 15th Whistlebinkies

Admission £6; Concession £5; Members £4

To finish off the year we welcome for the first time in a long while one of the longest surviving Scottish folk groups - The Whistlebinkies
"Their output has remained consistently good over the years, and they have never once been blown off their committed course by the gimmiky gusts that have swept through folk music since the Seventies." Alastair Clark


Whistlebinkies
Whistlebinkies
The committee of Edinburgh Folk Club wish all our members and guests a merry Yuletide and a happy New Year. We will re-open on the 12th January with the "Bard of Lochee" himself the wonderful Michael Marra

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GENERAL INFORMATION

CONTACTS

For all the latest information and the last minute changes or if you need to tell the Folk Club about any interesting gigs or up and coming events or if you wish to be added to our E-mail list.
E-mail:- Iain MacLennan
Tel: 0131 555 2505
or
E-mail:- Paddy Bort
Tel: 0131 650 2458
    Membership

    Non-menbers are always welcome at Edinburgh Folk Club but you are always welcome to join on any club night and allow yourself to benefit from the special members admission prices, and have your say in the running of the club, the membership fees are:


    individual £7*
    family £12.00*
    (two adults at the
    same address and
    their children)
    * plus £5 initial joining fee

    VENUE

    Pleasance Cabaret Bar
    60 The Pleasance
    Edinburgh
    Phone :- (0131) 650 2349
    Please note that the venue does not hold any tickets.
    They are normally only sold on the door on the night