Edinburgh Folk Club - Tony McManus and Julia Toaspern
Schedule
Wed Jul 03 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
Ukrainian Community Centre, 14 Royal Terrace, EH7 5AB Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Edinburgh, SC
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Edinburgh Folk Club’s weekly folk nights continue in 2024 with a wealth of talent.Celebrating its 50th year at the heart of the capital’s traditional music scene, the beloved Club lights up Wednesday nights at Edinburgh’s Ukrainian Community Centre, bringing together performers and music lovers from all generations and backgrounds.
On Wednesday 3rd July, we welcome the incredible Tony McManus and Julia Toaspern.
Hailed by the late John Renbourn as the best Celtic guitarist in the world, Tony McManus has been listed as one of 50 transcendental guitarists of all time by Guitar Player Magazine.
Julia Toaspern, from Berlin, combines classical violin and voice training with an interest in jazz, baroque and traditional music. She has released two albums of original songs and performed both as a classical player and as a singer/songwriter on both sides of the Atlantic. Her skills as a guitarist are prodigious and make a very exciting fit with Tonys work.
The duo's guitar treatments of traditional music is unique, exploring the harmonic possibilities of these old, and sometimes not so old, tunes. Flat-picking or finger-picking at the highest level, they are always at the service of the music rather than simply displaying technical prowess - although that is very evident as well. Julia's violin effortlessly morphs into a fiddle as she weaves from Italian madrigal to Scottish reel. Julia's songs go to the heart of love and loss, hope and survival and are infused with a musical input from wide and eclectic experience of musical life.
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Where is it happening?
Ukrainian Community Centre, 14 Royal Terrace, EH7 5AB Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 14 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5, United Kingdom,Edinburgh, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
