The council has its headquarters in Hamilton, has 16,000 employees, and a budget of almost £1bn. South Lanarkshire Council ( Scottish Gaelic: Comhairle Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas) is the unitary authority serving the South Lanarkshire council area in Scotland. If you would like to come along to the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards in Dundee’s Caird Hall call the Caird Hall box office on (01382) 434940 or buy online.Council Offices, Almada Street, Hamilton, M元 0AA To become more widely known as a Folk Musician in my own right & play more gigs. To help organise the first Strathaven Folk Festival. To keep the Folk Club going and continue to build our audience by publicising to folk community and local community. – Being Booked to play at Wimborne Minster Folk Festival. – First ever performer at Strathaven Folk Club 2014 – Organising & Performing at charity event “Folk Fights Cancer” – Performing at Carnegie Hall in Dunfermline with Andrew Gordon in 2014 – Appearing on Celtic Music Radio with Mary Kathleen Burke & Ciaran Dorris – Meeting Peggy Seeger (at Milngavie Folk Club) who encouraged me to play the Banjo. Since then I have become an established performer, playing in various Folk clubs & Festivals in Scotland & England. We moved to Strathaven in 2006 and I began to attend Quarter Acoustic Music Club near Hamilton where I met lots of great people from the Folk scene, began to seriously learn lots of Folk Songs, and did my first headlining show. We are gratified by the fact that our audiences are a mixture of both established Folkies and people from the wider local community.īecause I am a musician from England who happened to marry a Scot. Strathaven once had a fine Folk Club but it fizzled out some years ago so we are proud to have resurrected it. Our aim is to provide a welcoming home for Traditional Music in Strathaven in a lovely venue. We meet on the third Friday of each month at The Gallery with alternate Guest Performer Evenings and Singers’ Nights. Strathaven Folk Club was founded in May 2014 by Graham Carter(Organiser), Lucy Dawson (Treasurer & Venue Proprietor) and Ian Thomson (Club MC). We asked Graham Carter of Strathaven Folk Club the following questions. Congratulations to Strathaven Folk Club who have been nominated in Club of the Year sponsored by Trac Scotland in the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards 2015.
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