The Linties + Banjo Jim Hyndman

25 March 2010 (20:00 - 23:00)

Double-bill with all-female act The Linties and Fife's own Banjo Jim Hyndman.

        

Linties hatched from a Scots Music Group singing class in Edinburgh,and since 2003 have been arranging harmonies for a rich and varied repertoire of atmospheric and earthy songs.

Linties have performed at music festivals and folk clubs throughout Scotland including Keith, Kirriemuir, Linlithgow and Innerleithen festivals and at Stirling, Dunfermline, Nitten, Melrose and Edinburgh Folk Clubs. In 2006, Linties won the Best Overall Performance at the Orkney Festival’s Open Stage and in 2007 made the “Highly Recommended” list at Celtic Connections’ Danny Kyle Open Stage.

Linties are also great affectionados of the great Glasgow songwriter Matt McGinn, and have taken part for many years in the Linlithgow Folk Festival Association Matt McGinn Tribute Evening.

Above all, Morag, Helen and Iyaah want to entertain their audiences and to enjoy themselves – singing like Linties.

http://www.myspace.com/linties 

Jim Hyndman plays mainly banjo, some mandolin and Dobro, and all the fiddle with Fife Bluegrass band Longway. He sings some lead and mostly tenor harmonies. Influenced mainly by Flatt & Scruggs, Jim started out playing banjo in 1973, and has played with Country Kin, High Speed Grass, Chinook, Scots Country Comfort and a string of other bands since then. His banjo is a 1954 Gibson with a new neck, and plays a nice mandolin by Canadian luthier Jim Weldrick. He cites his banjo influences as Scruggs, Reno, Crowe, Keith, Adams, Emerson, Trischka and Mills, and other interests include building instruments and fly-fishing for Trout in Scotland's rivers and lochs. He is an Engineer in the Semiconductor industry, and also plays in a folk band, The Scalded Cats.

Jim Hyndman on YouTube Bluegrass banjo, Somewhere over the Rainbow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fefvVdwfQQ