Fringe Americana 2011

“Fringe Americana” – Wednesday 28th September-Saturday 1st October 2011

Wednesday 28th September 2011
El Rancho Relaxo presents
The Meat Men, The Raw Kings, plus El Rancho Relaxo dj set
The Griffin 226 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4JP
Tickets £3, Doors 8pm

Wednesday 28th September 2011
The Fallen Angels Club presents
Chris Pureka plus support
Bar Brel Ashton Lane Glasgow G12 8SJ
Tickets £7 Doors 7.30pm

Thursday 29th September 2011
The Fallen Angels Club presents
Full Tonne Kid plus support
State Bar 148 Holland Street Glasgow G2 8NG
Tickets £4 Doors 8pm

Thursday 29th September 2011
Sounds In The Suburbs presents
Tokyo Rosenthal plus support
Woodend Tennis and Bowling Club
30 Chamberlain Road Glasgow G13 1QE
Tickets £10, Doors at 8pm

Friday 30th September 2011
Vagabond Social Club presents
Lake Montgomery, Roscoe Wilson plus Tragic O’Hara
State Bar 148 Holland Street Glasgow G2 8NG
Tickets £6 Doors 8pm

Saturday 1st October 2011
With The Hellfire Club
“A Tribute To Gene Clark & The Byrds”
featuring Levee Strollers plus more tbc
The Griffin 226 Bath Street Glasgow G2 4JP
Tickets £3 Doors 8.30pm

February 8, 2012 | Categories: Previous Festivals | Leave A Comment »

TOP-CLASS CANADIAN FOR GLASGOW AMERICANA FESTIVAL

Lynn Miles, one of Canada’s most accomplished singer/songwriters, will appear at the Glasgow Americana Festival this year.

She is the second act confirmed for the event that takes place in October – Alejandro Escovedo’s gig was announced last week.

With eight albums to her credit, the winner of multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards, and a 2003 Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Solo Album of the Year, Lynn is a real talent with a growing following for her rich, deep emotional songs.

During her career she moved from Ottawa to Los Angeles and back again, with stops in Nashville and Austin.

Her latest CD release, “Fall For Beauty” racked up the kind of reviews many artistes can only dream of.

Maverick Magazine (UK) gave five stars out of five for an album with “ten magical reasons to keep pressing the repeat play button.”

“Lynn is one of the best singer/songwriters to emerge from Canada – and it’s a country that’s produced some of the finest,” said Kevin Morris of the Glasgow Americana Festival.

“It’s a delight she can play at the Festival as I know lots of people are keen to hear her live.

“We hope to reveal more acts in due course.”

Lynn Miles with support will play the CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD
Tickets £12 from CCA box office 0141 352 4900, doors 7.30pm, show starts 8pm
Book online
Also available from Tickets Scotland 239 Argyle Street Glasgow 0141 204 5151.
The Glasgow Americana festival will take place between the 5th-9th October 2011 at various venues across the city, the full line up will be announced in due course.

April 29, 2011 | Categories: Previous Festivals | Leave A Comment »

LEGEND ESCOVEDO TO PLAY GLASGOW AMERICANA FESTIVAL

An Acoustic Evening With Alejandro Escovedo

Music  legend, Alejandro Escovedois heading to Glasgow for an exclusive Fallen Angels Club gig, it was announced today.

The highly-rated Texan is the first act confirmed for this year’s Glasgow Americana Festival – and he will perform its final night show at The Arches on Sunday, October 9.

A musician for 30 years, Escovedo – who can count Bruce Springsteen a big fan – turned sixty in January but there’s no sign of him winding down.

He recovered from a near-fatal battle with Hepatitis C in 2003 and during his illness, supporters such as John Cale, Steve Earle, Howe Gelb, Ian Hunter, Calexico and Lucinda Williams, recorded covers of his songs on a double CD.

He returned to music gradually but assuredly and his 10th studio album, “Street Songs of Love” was released last year. It was a major success and hit many top ten “albums of the year” lists.

One reviewer described it as “a triumphant, expansive roots and rock ‘n’ roll record that tenderly captures the value of friendship and family.”

“I’ve been trying to get Alejandro Escovedo to play in Glasgow for the last four years, so I am delighted at long last that he’ll be coming here for the Glasgow Americana Festival,” said Kevin Morris, of The Fallen Angels Club.

“A real legend, his music covers a range of styles as he’s always willing to try out new sounds.

“This is a big deal show for Glasgow and for the Glasgow Americana Festival, a great finale to the event.”.

The Glasgow Americana festival will take place between the 5th-9th October 2011 at various venues across the city, the full line up will be announced in due course.

• Alejandro Escovedo, The Arches, Glasgow, Sunday, October 9, 2011.
• Tickets £15 from The Arches Box office 0141 565 1000
. Doors 7pm, Start 7.30pm.
Book online

www.thearches.co.uk

April 19, 2011 | Categories: Previous Festivals | Leave A Comment »

Promoters of most good roots/Americana music

Glasgow Americana was established in 2007 by The Fallen Angels Club, promoters of most good roots/Americana music that passes through the city of Glasgow. The festival emerged through grief following the sad passing of the hugely admired Billy Kelly in 2007 whose Big Big Country festivals drew large audiences over the years.

The Glasgow Americana festival has attracted many established and newer acts in it’s four-year existence, the likes of Mary Gauthier, Kinky Friedman, Crooked Still, The Wailin Jennys, The Handsome Family, Tift Merritt, The Hotclub Of Cowtown, plus many more.

The festival has now moved to a settled five-day period in October and is now an important and welcome addition to Scotland’s musical map.

Check our news page for all the latest and our gig guide for a list of shows.

Glasgow Americana is brought to you by The Fallen Angels Club.

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Glasgow Americana 2010 Dates

The full line-up, which runs from October 6 to 10, is:

OPENING NIGHT

Eilen Jewell
plus The Southern Tenant Folk Union

When -Wednesday 6th October  2010

Where- ABC 300 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JA

Door Time-7.00pm

Show Starts- 7.45pm

Tickets £12 0844 477 2000

Eilen Jewell, who is a rising star in a new generation of roots musicians, made her Scottish debut in Glasgow last October and sparked off glowing reviews. She has a folk base but is equally at home with the blues, rockabilly and even garage rock.

Opening up the show and kicking off Glasgow Americana 2010 will be Southern Tenant Folk Union, the most highly acclaimed folk/bluegrass band in the UK today, Union have just released their third album ‘The New Farming Scene’.

“Authentically Americana in the Gillian Welch tradition,” one critic has said.

Brian Houston & Yvonne Lyon

When -Wednesday 6th October  2010

Where- Bar Brel Ashton Lane Glasgow G12 8SJ

Door Time-7.30pm

Show Starts- 8.00pm

Tickets £8 0141 342 4966

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Girly Man
plus The Porch Song Anthology

When -Thursday 7th October  2010

Where- Stereo 20 Renfield Lane Glasgow G2 5AR

Door Time-7.30pm

Show Starts- 8.00pm

Girlyman, who have never toured in the UK before, clocked up a biggest selling album accolade on CD Baby recently with current release “Everything’s Easy.” The Independent Music Award winners have enlisted JJ Jones, formerly drummer with Po’Girl, who played the festival last year, for their visit.

The Porch Song Anthology are a Scots-Irish country-folk four-piece formed from the ashes of 1990s post-rockers Telstar Ponies. Their debut album, Spell of the Trembling Earth, is a tender tribute to their favourite lovers, losers, drunkards and thieves.

Tickets £10 0141 204 5151 (Tickets Scotland)

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Roddy Hart plus support

When – Friday 8th October  2010

Where- CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JA

Door Time-8.00pm

Show Starts- 8.30pm

Tickets £8 0141 352 4900

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Described as “one of Scotland’s best kept secrets”, Glaswegian singer/songwriter Roddy Hart promises to shake off the tag with the release of his second studio album Sign Language on Vertical Records. Inviting comparisons with greats such as Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, Hart has established himself as an artist in the classic mould, and is gaining a growing reputation for his live shows.

Frazey Ford (from The Begood Tanyas)
plus support

When –Saturday 9th October  2010
EARLY SHOW

Where- CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

Door Time-4.30pm

Show Starts- 5.00pm

Tickets £12 0141 352 4900

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Frazey Ford, well known as one third of Canadian all-girl band, The Be Good Tanyas is a welcome addition to the line-up. She has a solo album “Obadiah” due for release next month. On the night, Frazey will be joined by Trish Klein – banjo, electric guitar and vocals; John Raham – drums, both from The Be Good Tanyas  plus Darren Paris on electric bass.

Tift Merritt
plus Ben Glover

When –Saturday 9th October  2010
EVENING SHOW

Where- CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

Door Time-8.00pm

Show Starts- 8.30pm

Tickets £13 0141 352 4900

Tift Merritt has a growing fan base that admires the intimate story telling in her songs and her June 1 release “See You On The Moon” was included in Paste magazine’s 25 most eagerly anticipated albums of the summer.

Book online

Gurf Morlix

When –Sunday 10th October  2010
AFTERNOON SHOW

Where- Bar Brel Ashton Lane Glasgow G12 8SJ

Door Time-3.00

Show Starts- 3.30pm

Tickets £10

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Gurf Morlix, the Americana Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year for 2009, is a top-drawer songwriter and solo artiste while the likes of Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Mary Gauthier have all benefited from his expertise as producer.

Woodenbox With A Fistful Of Fivers

plus Adriana Spina

When – Sunday 10th October  2010
Evening show

Where- Stereo 20 Renfield Lane Glasgow G2 5AR

Door Time-7.30pm

Show Starts- 8.00pm
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Folk, country, full-on anthems, glorious harmonies – Woodenbox With A Fistful of Fivers don’t stint on their musical repertoire. The “Home And The Wild Hunt” CD was recorded at Stow College and released on its acclaimed in-house record label Electric Honey. Support comes in the form of Adriana Spina.

Kevin Welch & Alana Levandowski

When – Sunday, October 10
Evening show

Where- The Recital Rooms City Halls Candleriggs Glasgow G1 1NQ

Door Time-7.30pm,

Show Starts- 8.00pm

£11

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Log cabin dweller from  Texas , Kevin Welch, whose latest CD “A Patch Of Blue Sky,” is highly rated, pipped only by the likes of Steve Earle, Robert Plant/Alison Krauss to top music awards in recent years. Canadian roots singer Alana Levandovski will open up the show.

April 12, 2011 | Categories: Previous Festivals | Leave A Comment »

The line-up for Glasgow Americana 2011

Wednesday 5th October 2011

Opening Night

“An Evening With Eric Taylor”

CCA Cinema Glasgow, Eric on stage at 8pm

Book online

The Glasgow Americana 5th Anniversary Festival opening night will be in the
company of Texan, Eric Taylor, who is rated as one of the most influential
songwriters to emerge from the Lone Star State.

Taylor will appear in the intimate 74-seat cinema space of the CCA to deliver songs from his seven album releases including the most recent “Hollywood Pocketknife.”

Nanci Griffith and Lyle Lovett have covered his songs among many others and he was a major part of Houston song writing scene that included Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, and Guy Clark.

According to Earle, Taylor is “the real deal” while Griffith adds: “For me to say that Eric Taylor is one of the finest writers of our time is an understatement.”

Taylor, with an exquisite narrative style allied to intricate, roots-driven guitar work, has toured Europe extensively – invariably with the “sold out” signs at the door.

“I think Eric Taylor will be a brilliant opening guest for the Glasgow Americana Festival,” said Festival director, Kevin Morris.

“Big names in the business rate him so highly and his fan base thinks he can do no wrong, so this should be a gig to savour.”

Wednesday 5 October 2011

Jake Cogan plus support

Bar Brel Glasgow G12 8SJ
Tickets £6 from 0141 204 5151

Book online

Jake is without doubt one of the most exciting and outstanding vocal talents to emerge from Scotland in recent years, and we genuinely believe she is one to watch. Jake’s debut album blew everyone’s socks off last year with its exemplary musicianship, original contemporary writing, and its rootsy, Americana & folk flavours, becoming Iain Anderson’s Album of the Week on BBC Radio Scotland. Her unique rendition of ‘Parcel of Rogues’ reduced several people to tears at this year’s live Burns Night show at BBC Radio Scotland’s Culture Café, such was its emotional impact. Invited personally by her biggest champion, Dick Gaughan, to perform at this event, Jake makes a deep impression wherever she appears. Her unforgettable voice is full of great soul and emotion – once heard, never forgotten – and the band are knockout.

Thursday 6th October 2011

Bap Kennedy plus special guest Anna Coogan

St Andrews In The Square 1 St Andrews Square Glasgow G1 5PP
Doors open 7.30pm, shows starts at 8pm

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The Irish singer/songwriter’s Bap Kennedy latest album, produced by Mark
Knopfler, is titled “The Sailor’s Revenge” and will be another opportunity for fans
to hear music that one critic describes as “a mixture of American optimism and
Irish melancholy.”

Anna Coogan’s bittersweet Americana has enchanted listeners since she began writing her own songs in early 2002. A trained opera singer and field biologist, Anna translates her love for desolate landscapes, dark alleyways, and neon
valleys into simple, sweet melodies.

St Andrews In The Square 1 St Andrews Square Glasgow G1 5PP,
Tickets from 0141 204 5151

Friday 7th October 2011

Israel Nash Gripka plus The Wynntown Marshals
Stereo 22-28 Renfield Lane Glasgow G2 6PH, doors open at 7.30pm, show starts 8pm

Book online

Israel effectively mixes down to earth roots rock tunes to back his notable and strong vocals that have brought comparisons to the famous Johns, Fogerty and Mellencamp, or The Stones in prime country mode.

“His breakthrough album”

-BOB HARRIS, BBC RADIO 2

The Baptist minister’s son’s new release, “Barn Doors and Concrete Floors” was recorded in an old, dusty hay barn in upstate New York with concrete floors.

Like his successful debut “New York Town,” it’s being widely praised by the critics for its grounding in all that’s good about Americana with classic Rock Nʼ Roll grit thrown in.

“Israel’s CDs and live performances clearly show that he is a really powerful and interesting artiste whose style will certainly appeal to Glasgow Americana Festival fans”, said its director, Kevin Morris from The Fallen Angels Club.

The Wynntown Marshals
Formed in Edinburgh in 2007, The Wynntown Marshals tip their hat to artists like
The Jayhawks, Wilco, Drive By Truckers, Ryan Adams and Neil Young.

Saturday 8th October 2011

Canadian Song Writing Circle
Featuring David Myles, Norma Macdonald and Gabriel Minnikin

CCA Cinema 350 Glasgow Sauchiehall Street Glasgow G2 3JD

Doors open 2.30pm, shows starts at 3pm

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The show, featuring these three up and coming artistes, has been made possible through the Festival working in association with Communities, Culture & Heritage, Nova Scotia and Music Nova Scotia.

Multi-award winning David Myles is genre-bending songwriter with a knack for effortlessly straddling jazz, blues, folk and pop styles.

Gabriel Minnikin, formerly a member of The Guthries, is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, who has toured extensively as a soloist.

Norma MacDonald has three albums to her credit with the third prompting one critic to observe: “…she instils her thoughtful songs with a healthy dose of soul and feeling…”

Saturday 8th October 2011

Lynn Miles plus support
The CCA, Glasgow

Book online

Lynn Miles, one of Canada’s most accomplished singer/songwriters, will appear at the
Glasgow Americana Festival this year.

With eight albums to her credit, the winner of multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards, and a 2003 Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Solo Album of the Year, Lynn is a real talent with a growing following for her rich, deep emotional songs.

During her career she moved from Ottawa to Los Angeles and back again, with stops in Nashville and Austin.

Her latest CD release, “Fall For Beauty” racked up the kind of reviews many artistes can only dream of.

Maverick Magazine (UK) gave five stars out of five for an album with “ten magical reasons to keep pressing the repeat play button.”

Sunday 9th October 2011

Alejandro Escovedo plus Andrea Glass
The Arches 253 Argyle Street Glasgow G2 8DL, doors open at 7.30pm, show starts 8pm

Book online

MUSIC legend, Alejandro Escovedo will pull the curtain down on this years Glasgow
Americana festival.

The highly-rated Texan will be the final night act of this year’s Glasgow Americana Festival at The Arches on Sunday, October 9.

A musician for 30 years, Escovedo – who can count Bruce Springsteen a big fan – turned
sixty in January but there’s no sign of him winding down.

He recovered from a near-fatal battle with Hepatitis C in 2003 and during his illness, supporters such as John Williams, recorded covers of his songs on a double CD.

He returned to music gradually but assuredly and his 10th studio album, “Street Songs of Love” was released last year. It was a major success and hit many top ten “albums of the year” lists.

One reviewer described it as “a triumphant, expansive roots and rock ‘n’ roll record that tenderly captures the value of friendship and family.”

“I’ve been trying to get Alejandro Escovedo to play in Glasgow for the last four years, so I am delighted at long last that he’ll be coming here for the Glasgow Americana Festival,” said Kevin Morris, of The Fallen Angels Club.

Sunday 9th October 2011

Sarah MacDougall plus support

Bar Brel Ashton Lane Glasgow G12 8SJ
Doors open at 7.30pm, show starts 8pm

Book online

Half Canadian, half Swedish but entirely brilliant! Sarah was an immediate hit when she toured the UK in 2009 and further cemented her reputation with a highly acclaimed national tour last year. She has an astonishing voice and writes extraordinary songs that will have your emotions on tenterhooks. A unique talent who returns to the UK armed with two brilliant musicians and a brand new CD.

“She could make stone weep. Classic North American folk. Only the coldest of hearts couldn’t take up her plea to ‘ramble with me now’” Q Magazine

“Heartbreakingly beautiful” Americana UK

Sunday 9th October 2011

Hazy Recollections @ Glasgow Americana

Stereo 22-28 Renfield Lane Glasgow G2 6PH, Tickets from 0141 204 5151
Tickets £8, £6 in advance, doors open at 2pm, show finishes at 5.30pm.

Book online

Five acts appearing in a special afternoon session in Stereo featuring The Doghouse Roses, The Dirt, Andrea Glass, Porch Song Anthology and Colin Train – organised by Hazy Recollections.

Hazy Recollections are well known for staging great musical showcases so their involvement with the Festival is a welcome addition, this set will offer greater choice for the final day of the Festival

April 12, 2011 | Categories: Previous Festivals | Leave A Comment »