Featuring
Half Stoned Cowboys & Illegal Smile
Sunday May 4
The John Hewitt 8.00pm
By now a firmly established Festival institution, our
annual John Prine night brings people from all over
to celebrate the genius from Maywood, Illinois.
From modest country folk beginnings John Prine has gone
on to be one of the most consistently accomplished and
popular singer songwriters of his generation. Protest
songs, comedy songs, love songs, story songs, Prine
is the unassuming voice of everyman.
A cult hero who has deliberately avoided the trappings
of stardom, he even overcame cancer to return at the
turn of the century to delve deep into his own country
roots to make one of the best - and most commercially
successful - albums of his career, In Spite Of Ourselves.
‘Prine is so good we may have to break his thumbs’
Kris Kirstofferson
Tickets £5 available from the Festival Office
on 028 9023 2403
www.jpshrine.org
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Saturday May 10
John Hewitt Bar 3.00pm
This brilliant acoustic guitar quartet has a broad
sound drawing on Celtic, folk, Spanish and gypsy influences,
as well as various shades of jazz.
Ged Brockie is one of Scotland’s finest composers
who has worked on many diverse projects including
film/TV music, West End Shows, and with the Scottish
National Orchestra.
Nigel Clark has contributed his talents to a wide
range of artists and idioms, from the seminal Hot
Club, through Carol Kidd, to his own quintet who produced
the UK Jazz Top Ten CD ‘Worldwide Sound’.
Malcolm MacFarlane performs with The Watercolours,
and The Mulford–MacFarland Group. Other recent
projects include working with the Royal Opera and
commissions for the Scottish Arts Council.
Kevin MacKenzie is a prime mover in the new generation
of Scottish musicians exploring the fusion of Jazz
and Traditional music. His current projects include
the Trio AAB and his jazz/fusion/drum ‘n’
bass/house outfit ‘Swirler.’
These 4 talented acoustic guitarists combine to produce
a unique, multi-dimensional and very sweet flavour,
with fantastic writing and improvising at its heart.
‘Brilliant… a national asset’ The Scotsman
Tickets £5 available from the Festival Office
on 028 9023 2403
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