(Edinburgh Folk Club 2024-2026)

Tis been an amazing, wonderful, freaking awesome couple of years… challenging old ways, enjoying lots of fabby music, songs, & a fair share of pipes, and meeting sooooooo many wicked brilliant people - thank you!!! ✨💛🎶🙏🏻 Sending love, positive vibes, & a reminder clocks spring forward this weekend !! KJHL xx @icklemidgie 💜

This week… Wed 1st April : Calum Stewart Head along to celebrate the fusion of music + dance with Calum Stewart on pipes, Sophie Stephenson (step dance/rhythm) & Luc McNally (guitar) at Edinburgh Folk Club !!! Shhh… This was totally my fave booking for this semester… even tho we’re not meant to have favourites!! 😁 I was super super elated to finally hav Calum Stewart booked into our schedule at EFC (after a few attempts!!), and so, I’m absolutely, totally excited (for yous!) to head along & enjoy it !! 🥳 ⏰ As usual gig starts at 8pm (doors 7:30pm) 🎶 With the awesome Calum Campbell back on sound (maybe, for one night only!) !! @caly.campbell 🎶 📍 Ukrainian Community Centre, 14 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5AB ✨ for more info, details + media, check out; @calumstewartmusic or ps- just so you know, I will only be promoting the gigs I booked myself (for the rest of this semester) for @efc1973 , which is fair doos I think!! ✌🏻💛 kx

Just a wee reminder… Doors open from 7pm… to give everyone a chance to get seated+comfy, grab a drink from the bar, and buy some raffle tickets for our super awesome, extra special, Burns raffle (including a hamper!!). Evening will kick off from 8pm❣️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 we’ve humour, poetry, songs, tunes + haggis !!! I can’t wait… see you there! (Sold out!)

This Wednesday @ Edinburgh Folk Club... BrÒg !! Come along, Wed 7th Jan 2026 @ 8pm (doors at 7:30pm), for the last gig of this semester, and we are going out with a richt hoolie !!! ✨ An evening of tunes, songs, laughs & stories from three legends Gary West, Greg Borland & Sandy Brechin. ✨ Tickets via: /EFC-BrOg 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Don’t forget, we also have our fantastically fabulous Burns Supper on Wed 21st Jan 2026 ✨tickets on sale now: /EFC-Burns❣️ If you don’t know BrÒg... BrÒg is a dynamic Scottish traditional music trio featuring legendary piper Gary West on pipes, whistles, vocals, and guitar; virtuoso fiddler Greg Borland on fiddle and bass; and the sensational accordionist Sandy Brechin. Together, they deliver fiery tunes and beautiful songs rooted in the Scots tradition, captivating audiences with their exceptional musical talent and infectious energy. 💙 Tickets via… /EFC-BrOg ⏰ Wed 7th Jan @ 8pm (doors 7:30pm) 📍 14 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5AB

Here’s tae a Guid Yule, Merry Crimbo, Nollaig Chridheil, Happy Hogmanay, bliadhna mhath ùr… & all the mony festivities; religious, cultural + personal !!! 🎄💙❄️☃️ And for 2026, lang may yer lum reek… 🌟 All of us at Edinburgh Folk Club are sending you best wishes, guid health, much happiness, positive vibes, amazing memories, & monys a braw adventure, tune, dance + song for the coming year !!! 🥳💜 To continue the festivities, please join us for our annual ‘Burns Supper’ on Wednesday 22nd January 2026… 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ✨ Tickets on sale via Eventbrite /o/89731724783 Our Burns extravaganza will round out the first semester of the 2025/26 season, with a historic, chronological journey thro the world of Robert Burns, the Bard. His loves, his fights, his convictions, the traditions he knew, & the rapidly changing world around him. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ✨ dinnae fret, we’ve one more gig as well before then, the mighty, ever popular, ‘BrÒg’ (Sandy Brechin, Gregor Borland, + Gary West) to entertain us all on Wednesday 7th January!!! ❄️ And remember, before all of that, you can check out our festive listening suggestions such as the amazing Tim Edey, Calum Wood & the Brothers Fife…to keep you festivey feeling & cheery !! Thank you again to everyone who had come along during the past 18mths… and the fabulous acts that have entertained us in that time !!! 💛

Please join us for our annual ‘Burns Supper’ on Wednesday 22nd January 2026… 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ✨ Tickets on sale via Eventbrite /o/89731724783 Our Burns extravaganza will round out the first semester of the 2025/26 season, with a historic, chronological journey thro the world of Robert Burns, the Bard. His loves, his fights, his convictions, the traditions he knew, & the rapidly changing world around him. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 There will also be a little Ukrainian treat, & nod to our ever wonderful host venue of the Ukrainian Community Centre @augbedinburgh 🇺🇦 and no, I’m afraid, the treat is not me Cossack Dancing on this occasion… Please remember our tickets are fairly limited - We have regular, vegetarian + vegan meal options - There will be a fabulously awesome raffle, with some very special prizes too !! And one VERY special extra awesome prize 🏆 Hope to see you there - everyone welcome !!! ✨ Tickets: /o/89731724783 We have a few spaces/opportunities for floor spots (recital, music, song) - enquiries by DM. thanx. More info on all things ‘Edinburgh Folk Club’, check out @efc1973 & 💙

It’s here… our festive listening selection for 2025!! Move over Mariah Carey, Slade, Charlotte Church, Hanson, Elton, The Pogues, & baby shark… We’ve the Brothers Fife, Calum Wood, Tim Edey, the Tannahill Weavers + Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook !! 🎄 The Brothers Fife @thebrothersfife have released a festive single every year for the past 10yrs… for a bit of tongue-in-cheek, fun, cheery, clever folkie-pop, this is the perfect alternative this christmassy time ☃️ Along with the singles, there are some absolutely brilliant videos !!! (link below) And if you find yourself free, The Brothers Fife, have a gig at Summerhall on the 19th December… so get a little Christmas in about ya… it’ll be a hoot & a hoolie !! 🥳 Find the single videos at - https://youtu.be/NYJHjLzLgxo 🍽️. Calum Wood, @calum_wood_music , of The Banana Sessions, has released a fab new album of classic christmas songs… he may now live very very far away, but home is very close to his heart. 💚 True fact, the album cover is a photee from a family Christmas in Edinburgh in the 00s, curtesy of his lovely wife!! ✨ https://linktr.ee/calumwood?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=d6bbbf14-386d-453f-94ad-18cc93bf3c8b ✨ The next three albums will be more familiar to you all… ☃️ First up, released in 2003, we’ve the wonderful Celtic Christmas from Tim Edey, featuring many of Tim’s fabby, & very talented, pals, and songs/tunes from here + ireland… @therealtimedey or -for more info + links!! 💙 You can get the album at /album/2654131/a-celtic-christmas ❄️ Next, the original ‘Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook’ album… So, if you, like Phil, you cannot make it along to Edinburgh’s other traditional outing this year, you can fill your hoose with Phil + friends instead!! We love ya @philbox 💚!! If you can make the Songbook Gigs, click here for info - /a/1036753-phil-cunningham’s-christmas-songbook 🥳 And last, & maybe the loudest is The Tannahill Weavers with their 2024 release, Solstice !! A wonderful weaving of tunes, traditional songs, festive faves, and tunes for not just Xmas 🎄

All the fun + antics from our fabulous 49th Song Writing Contest !! I posted the winners a while back but thot it’d be lovely to show off all the other wonderful faces that joined us, entered & came to support one another 💙 It was a great evening with wonderful entertainment, amusing incidents, fabulous people & lots of freakin’ amazing talent !!!! 🏆🥳💜 ps- I’ve tried to tag everyone, if I’ve missed anyone, just shout !! ✌🏻

Ah the antics we get up to at the back of the hall during gigs… (and afterwards in Sandy Bells) 🙈 heh! Thank you for a wonderful semester one at @efc1973 thus far… to the musicians, singers, songwriters, everyone who came along to enjoy & support our fabulous evenings!! 🙌🏻 But, dinnae fret, we’ve still an open floor festive evening (10th December), the michty BrÒg (7th January) + our Burns Supper extravaganza (21st January) before our wee break !! 💙 ✨ Altho we’ve not finished up yet, I’d still love to take a wee moment to personally thank the freakin’ amazing @freyaraemusic @pablodalama @sianniemoodie @timmle_tim @rosscouper1 @tomoakesmusic @tannahillweavers @fraserfifield @rossainsliepipes @rachel.gaughan @marinarolink @sylvia.mcgowan @jameskinnearmusic @celtscotuoe !!!! ❣️ What a roster of awesomely talented peeps… ✨ The joys of sharing, encouraging, participating in, supporting, showcasing, promoting & archiving Scottish Trad Folk music, song, songwriting, culture + heritage… Hope Hamish would be proud of efforts thus far… 🙌🏻💙🌟

This Wednesday, 10th December, @ 8pm Join us for an Open floor festive evening of songs, singalongs, songwriters, poetry, tunes, step dance & all things trad/folk…with a bit of a festive twist! ☃️ Starts at 8pm… you can contribute to the entertainment, or simply enjoy the evening… tickets are available on the door* 📍14 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5AB 💙 Everyone welcome, & hope to see you there !!! * entrance fee tickets just go towards hiring the hall !!❣️

Tonight !!! ✨ Wed 3rd Dec ✨ Come & join us for a celebration of female song; of female vocals; &, of female voices...!! 💛 It’ll be an absolutely wonderful night with these Three Quines… Rachel Gaughan, Sylvia McGowan, & Marina Rolink (of vocal group “Alma”: Danny Kyle Open Stage Winners 2025). 🌟Tickets via: /o/89731724783 NB This is three mini gigs... each artist with roughly half an hour to entertain you all. Gig starts @ 8pm 💙 Taking back the narritive of many songs, re-interpretating classic themes, & switching the viewpoint... a new wave of strong & diverse Scottish female voices are beginning to be heard,including those of Rachel, Sylvia, & Marina. With a subtle mix of Trad/Folk, singer/songwriter, Jazz/Blues & Contemporary; guitar, piano, & gorgeous vocals; showcasing vocal variation, different stylings, & distinctly curated repertoires, from these three stunning + beautiful voices. 🌟Tickets available ‘on the door’ & in advance via: /o/89731724783 ⏰ We start at 8pm (doors at 7:30pm) An Intermission / a wee liceansed bar (run by the Ukrainain Community Centre) / festive wee raffle with some super prizes !! / Usually we finish c.10:30pm 📍You can find us at: 14 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5AB (& YES, we are outside the LEZ)

✨ Wednesday 3rd December ✨ Three Quines: Rachel Gaughan, Sylvia McGowan, Marina Rolink… Please come and join us for a celebration of female song; of female vocals; &, of female voices...!! 💛 🌟Tickets via: /o/89731724783 Taking back the narritive of many songs, re-interpretating classic themes, & switching the viewpoint... a new wave of strong & diverse Scottish female voices are beginning to be heard,including those of Rachel, Sylvia, & Marina. With a subtle mix of Trad/Folk, singer/songwriter, Jazz/Blues & Contemporary; guitar, piano, & gorgeous vocals; showcasing vocal variation, different stylings, & distinctly curated repertoires, from these three stunning + beautiful voices. Please join us for an absolutely wonderful night with these Three Quines… Rachel Gaughan, Sylvia McGowan, & Marina Rolink (of vocal group “Alma”: Danny Kyle Open Stage Winners 2025). NB This is three mini gigs... each artist with roughly half an hour to entertain you all. Gig starts @ 8pm 🌟Tickets available ‘on the door’ & in advance via: /o/89731724783 ⏰ We start at 8pm (doors at 7:30pm) An Intermission / a wee liceansed bar (run by the Ukrainain Community Centre) / festive wee raffle with some super prizes !! / Usually we finish c.10:30pm 📍You can find us at: 14 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5AB (& YES, we are outside the LEZ) 💙 Please like / follow, us: @efc1973 (insta)+ ‘Edinburgh Folk Club est. 1973’ (fb). Hope to see you there !!! ps- Please repost / share links to our gigs... we relay largely on social media, & word of mouth!! 🙏🏻