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TEN TRACKS and THE FOREST CAFE present
R O O F R A I S E R
a month of live music to help Save the Forest
various live shows …in various venues in aid of various causes
…but mostly to Save The Forest Cafe
SHOWS 8pm-11pm (unless marked otherwise)
BRING YOUR OWN BOTTLE (Forest Hall Shows only) Corkage: Small bottle/can (beer/cider) £0.50 Large Bottle (wine/cider) £1.50 No Spirits
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Friday 25th March @ Forest Hall
ROOFRAISER :: OPENING PARTY
WHITE HEATH UNION CANAL YUSUF AZAK
Donation £5
Saturday 26th March @ Forest Hall
THE POLICE BOX
LADY NORTH ILIOP
Donation £5
Friday 1st April @ Forest Hall
TRACER TRAILS PRESENT
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSIO’S MALAIKAT DAN SINGA THE LEG
Donation £5
Wednesday 6th April @ Forest Hall
BROKEN RECORDS (Acoustic) DONNA MACIOCIA
Donation £5
Thursday 7th April @ Wee Red Bar
LIPSYNC FOR A LULLABY TOKAMAK
7PM
Tickets £4
Friday 8th April @ Forest Hall
REAL DAVE & THE PEOPLE :: ALBUM LAUNCH
with special guests PORTNAWAK & THE WOO BLUDSLUGZ
Donation £3
Saturday 9th @ Forest Hall
ROBIN WILLIAMSON (The Incredible String Band) plus support
N.B. AFTERNOON SHOW
4PM
Donation £5
Sunday 10th April @ The Store (GRV)
THE BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS (Club night 11pm-3am) + DJs
£1 before 11pm £3 after
Wednesday 13th April @ The Forest Hall
CONSCIOUS ROUTE plus SUPPORT
Donation £4
Friday 15th April @ The Forest Hall
SMALL FEET LITTLE TOES plus support
Donation £5
Saturday 16th April @ The Forest Hall
THE PINEAPPLE CHUNKS BILLY LIAR HIVA OA
Donation £5 on the door.
Sunday 17th April @ The Caves, Niddry Street South
TEN TRACKS PRESENTS
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW JAMIE SUTHERLAND (Broken Records) ADAM STEARNS BAND
7PM
£10 in advance
via http://www.tentracks.co.uk/blog/76-ten_tracks_presents_hawk_a_hacksaw_live_april_17th_2011
£12 on the door
Friday 22nd April
DOUNE THE RABBIT HOLE FUNDRAISER
Featuring Acts (tbc) Performing at Doune The Rabbit Hole Festival (June ‘11)
Donation £4
Saturday 23rd April
SCREEN KIDS FIEVEL PRIMI HUMPHREY WOOD
Donation £5
Sunday 1st May @ The Store (GRV)
DELTA MAINLINE (Club night 11pm-3am) + DJs
£1 before 11pm £3 after
INKY FINGERS WORDLAB
27th March, 2 - 4pm - Bristo Hall
a new series of workshops for writers and performers launching with an open session from ZORRAS!
“Poetry with Music and Film:
BEYOND RANDOM MULTIMEDIA”
Building on our hugely popular monthly open mic (fourth Tuesday) and writers’ groups (second Thursday), Inky Fingers is launching a new series of special free workshops, where the best of local and national writing and performing talent will be sharing their skills. Each month, one of our open mic feature performers will be running a workshop to stimulate your brains and help you expand the horizons of your writing and performance.
The series launches on March 27th with a session from the poetry-music-film fusion act Zorras, who’ve been taking bars, clubs, theatres and autonomous centres by storm since 2007 They’ll be working with you on looking at how different forms can work together, expanding the possibilities for poetry and performance, without just becoming “random multimedia”. This is an amazing opportunity to have a masterclass with some very special performers — and it’s totally free!
more about Zorras
You can find out more about Inky Fingers at our website , on our Facebook or by following us on Twitter (@InkyFingersEdin)
A live interview on Leith FM’s Talk Show with Harry from the Save the Forest campaign, chatting about what’s happened so far and how you can get involved.
CLICK CLACK CLUB
24th March, 9pm
featuring:
Ears Have Walls (Mystery Improv Ensemble)
Young Dawkins (Beat Poet - Winner Of The ‘Aye Write’ Slam Poetry Award)
Steve Kettley’s Odd Times (Sax&Cello Tunesmiths)
Amazing news of events in London, a thrilling splash of press coverage, and a special announcement about the total raised so far — and what you can do to help hit the target of £50,000 by June 1st.
GOLDEN HOUR
23rd March, 8pm
This month with:
Rosie Phenix-Walker - New voice, new stories.
Morag Edward — dark modern Scottish urban fiction.
Robin J. Thompson — Leave Your humanity at the door. Robin launches “Leave Your humanity at the door.”
Jen and the Gents —- Poppy loveliness which warms all the cold bits.
Panda Su — raw emotional honesty and blunt lyricism framed with an impressive array of strange and wonderful instruments.
The Chans — unstoppable, upbeat Scottish Soul Music! Boom!
INKY FINGERS OPEN MIC
22nd March, 8pm
The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place in the main room of the Forest every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.
We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.
Our feature performers this month are Zorras, the blistering global words-music-video-megaphone combo, and Glasgow-based Nuala Watt with wryly-observed and lyrical poems.
Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail contact address to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website for more details.
Golden Hour After Hour Party
16th March, 10pm
Aikman’s on Bell Street, St Andrews
Hailey Beavis – angel-voiced mama getting devilish on 6 strings.
John Langan Band – extravagant, eclectic three-piece melding celtic, balkan, gypsy swing and progressive music
