Edinburgh Folk Club is running its annual Carrying Stream Festival (CSF) over the weekend Friday 8 to Sunday 10 November 2019. This festival was created shortly after Hamish Henderson died in 2002 in order to celebrate his life and work.
John Barrow of the Edinburgh Folk Club said : “Last year for a variety of reasons CSF was much reduced, however, this year would have been Hamish’s 100th birthday so we’ve gathered ourselves up and created what we think is an appropriate weekend’s events.”
The festival opens with a concert in St Bride’s Centre, Orwell Terrace at 8.00pm on Friday 8 November 2019. The performers are songwriter Rab Noakes, the 4-piece folk group Malinky and the Sangstream Choir.
Details about the show can be found here on our on-line box office.
Some other events are in the Scottish Storytelling Centre who are in charge of ticketing for these.
First there is the annual lecture Saturday 9 November at midday which this year will be particularly interesting as Janet Henderson, one of Hamish’s daughters, will deliver it. It’s a free event but tickets are required, and are available from the Scottish Story Telling Centre
After the lecture at 2.00pm to 4.00pm, there’s a songwriting workshop with tutor Findlay Napier who created and runs the annual Glasgow Songwriting Festival. There is a charge for this and only 15 tickets are available, also from the Scottish Story Telling Centre.
On the evening of Saturday 9 November at 8.00pm in the Ukrainian Community Centre in Royal Terrace (home of August’s Acoustic Music Centre as well as the new – since early Sept 2019 – home of Edinburgh Folk Club) there’s a concert featuring Findlay Napier, Beth Malcolm who won the Edinburgh FC’s annual songwriting competition in summer 2019. Again tickets can be bought here, on line.
Finally, at 2.00pm on Sunday 10 November there’s a singing session in the Canon’s Gait pub (all welcome) and at 8.00pm in the basement bar of the Ukrainian Community Centre there’s a singing ceilidh hosted/chaired by Professor Margaret Bennett (gaelic singer and a former colleague of Hamish Henderson and whose son, Martin, died very young but not before he’d shown himself to be a very talented young musician).
The ticketed events are all listed here on EFC’s on-line box office. and also here on EFC’s FaceBook Events
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