February 11th 2011
February 11th 2011
Tracer Trails present
James Yorkston
+ Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight
at Old St Paul’s Church Hall
(Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh)
8PM | BYOB | ALL AGES
Tickets (£8/£6 unwaged + b.f.) available NOW from www.wegottickets.com
Tracer Trails returns after a few months’ hiatus with a vintage bill of old and new folk from Fence Collectee / Domino hero James Yorkston, supported by the latest offshoots of the mighty Waterson clan, Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight.
JAMES YORKSTON will be singing songs old and new and reading excerpts from his acclaimed literary debut: It’s Lovely to be Here – The Touring Diaries of a Scottish Gent (Published 3rd February 2011, £9.99, paperback, The Domino Press).
Presented as a series of tour diaries, It’s Lovely to be Here offers a mix of deadpan humour and wide-eyed wonder whilst mapping out the realities and endless disorientations of life on the road.
A resident of the East Neuk of Fife, James Yorkston has been releasing a series of highly acclaimed albums through Domino Records since 2001 and has toured the UK, North America and Europe. A popular figure in the contemporary music world and integral member of the much lauded Fence Collective, his style shows a mastery of song traditions which has seen him collaborate with such artists as the Waterson Family, Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch.
MARRY WATERSON AND OLIVER KNIGHT are brother and sister who have grown up immersed in traditional song. As part of the Waterson Family musical dynasty, the siblings have thrived on communal music-making whilst developing highly original and distinctly English performance styles of their own.
Now signed to One Little Indian, the pair release The Days That Shaped Me (their first album for the label) in early 2011.
