14 Feb      Sandy Wright & The Toxic Cowboys

We’d like you to meet Sandy Wright, a longtime

underground hero in his native Edinburgh, latterly

championed by the likes of Eddi Reader, Kris Drever,

Karine Polwart and folk/pop favourites Aberfeldy and

children’s entertainer. He’s played in covers bands, ceilidh bands, country bands and jazz combos, meanwhile building a reputation as Scotland’s finest undiscovered songwriter bar none. And now, at long last, in his 60th year, he’s made his first solo album.That long-awaited debut, The Songs of Sandy Wright, is a treasure-trove twice over, firstly comprising a hand-picked selection - from a catalogue of some 250 compositions - sung by the man himself, recorded with half-a-dozen pals (The Toxic Cowboys) in the stone-built cottage outside Edinburgh that he currently calls home. The companion volume features a crème-de-la-crème array of fellow singers and songwriters, among them the aforementioned Reader, Drever and Polwart, plus the likes of Boo

last year nominated as Composer of The Year at the Scot’s Trad Music Awards. He’s been a civil service clerk, an army bandsman and a balloon-tying

21 Feb Rebecca Wright

Freshly revealing, bright and beautiful... Rebecca’s songs will stir your heart. Her deftly exquisite arrangements of voice and acoustic guitar, and graceful, grounded performances captivate her audiences and weave connections among people.

Growing up in the public eye (winning her first national award at the age of 18), Rebecca's artful songwriting and authentically Australian vocal tones have been inspired by and compared with Indigo Girls, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Judy Small, Penelope Swale, Dar Williams and Gillian Welch. A heady mix of strong, yet gentle women, whose lineage Rebecca is proud to carry forward.

Hewerdine, Chris Wood, Roddy Woomble, New Yorker’s Gramercy Arms and Kendall Meade, Lau’s Martin Green with recent Bonnie Prince Billy collaborator Inge Thomson, upcoming talent such as William Douglas and Lori Watson and acclaimed duo Macmaster/Hay performing new versions of Wright’s material.

A well-known and popular singer-songwriter and globetrotting troubadour, Pete has been engaging audiences around the folk scene with his distinctive singing, rhythmic guitar and thoughtful songs for many years. With several notable albums under his belt, his latest, 'Napoleon Jukebox', revisits those songs of his that are most requested at concerts, including Shepherd’s Song, I’m In Love With Emily Dickinson, the wonderful Another Train and many others. Always an entertainer at heart, Pete can do raucous (The Battle Of Trafalgar) and tender (On Your Side) with equal aplomb.

28 Feb Pete Morton