Listings: Folk

Alternative hip hop from Scotland.

The nine-piece collective, based in Edinburgh, performs lively Celtic folk-rock.

Lady banjo players extraordinaire tour their bluegrass ballads.

Meredith Monk explores the artist’s relationship with the environment, in conversation with Philip Campbell, editor of Nature magazine.

Gaughan plays an eclectic mix of styles and stringed instruments combining his classic orchestration skills with a love of the Scots ballad.

One of the few remaining one-man blues outfits in Scotland, playing electric and acoustic guitar, mouth harp, drums and mouth percussion.

European Premiere: After receiving a 2010 Herald Angel Award for Songs of Ascension, US composer, singer, filmmaker and theatre artist Meredith Monk returns to the Festival with her latest music-theatre work, On Behalf of Nature. A poetic meditation on the environment, On Behalf of Nature evokes the Buddhist notion of…

An evocation of early American rural roots, guitar ragtime, blues and hillbilly country. Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi John Hurt, Willie McTell and Jimmie Rodgers all feature in this musical entertainment. ‘…astonishingly versatile’ (Scotsman). www.eddiewalker.net.

Dancey, jazzy grooves and Afro-beats from Senegal.

Bartók’s Romanian Folk Dances and Piazzolla’s Nightclub 1960 along with folk melodies from Denmark and Scotland performed by Kirstine Fritzen Uth (clarinet), Mads Madsen and Astrid Larsen (guitar).

Come on in! Share in a musical feast of Scots tunes, old and new, from local band Shindiggery. Vibrant sounds from our rich mix of instruments - and songs, too. Foot tapping guaranteed! www.shindiggery.wordpress.com.