Two local bands are set to rattle the rafters for revellers at an up-coming gig in New Winton village hall in aid of the community venue.
Funds raised at the New Winton gig are to help maintain the hall and keep it open for community use. Tickets can be bought on the door for £5. From 7.30pm on Saturday the 20th of April 2013. Cost of entry includes tea or coffee and a raffle. Bring your own bottle.
After Blueflint played in Haddington’s new John Gray Centre, the second of three live acoustic gigs is set to take place on 26th October with Paul Gilbody.
Known as The Front Room, the events have been organised with Lamp House Music. The first evening was a sell-out and it is expected the second with Paul Gilbody will be just as popular.
Paul Gilbody is a Belfast-born, Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter who has worked with the likes of KT Tunstall, Tom Jones and Horse and is now concentrating on his own career. He has an abundance of skills including double bass, guitar, beatboxing and pedal-looping.
The Front Room provides an opportunity to catch this highly regarded, multi-talented musician perform his catchy, melodic and chilled-out tunes starting at 7pm on the 26th. The event takes place in the centre’s Star Room, made to resemble a cosy front room with clever use of cardboard artwork created by artists Vic Macrae and Neil Ogg.
Tickets are £8 from the John Gray Centre (01620 820680) or Lamp House Music (01620 825630) and on the door, subject to availability. The bar opens at 7pm, first band 7.30pm
The Front Room is a collaboration between East Lothian Council and Lamp House Music. Also involved are Jewel & Esk College, whose students will oversee the sound production at the event. ELJAM and the Haddington Music Initiative are supporting the gigs and selecting an East Lothian youth support act to perform a short set each evening.
Track: Ricochet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6DWqVOyCAc
Track: Tell me what I’m missin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn1Y49Cd4Mk
Want to hear more? You can listen to more tracks on Paul’s SoundCloud page.
Lamp House Music opened in April 2012. Based in an original Victorian railway building – ‘The Lamp House’ is set in Station Yard, Hospital Road, Haddington, offering rehearsal rooms for musicians and bands. These rooms have been soundproofed and acoustically engineered and are now light, clean and modern practice environments. Rooms are open seven days a week and are available to hire by the hour. They come fully equipped with new, top spec equipment. Lamp House Music lessons are fun, friendly and affordable, available in a variety of instruments for both children and adults. Fully experienced and qualified tutors are available for one-to-one tuition and class-style lessons, which include guitar, drums, vocals and keyboards. Lamp House Music have run two very successful children’s Summer Schools and will be holding an Autumn School during the October school holiday.
The Fraser Centre, formerly the Winton Cinema in Tranent, is being given a new lease of life as a learning, development, arts and entertainment centre.
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Set up as a community trust, the intention is to be able to offer the former cinema to various community groups as a venue for holding educational, arts and entertainment activities. The aim is to include conferences, training projects, concerts, as well as a cinema; harking back to the origins of the building.
The Fraser Centre Community Trust (FCCT) was formed in 2011 with the aim of providing an Arts, Learning and Development Centre in Tranent. The 700 seater 1900’s style cinema is in the Fa’side constituency which has around 14,000 residents with varying needs for just such a nearby venue for their communities.
In 2011 a long term lease with the FCCT culminated in the latest revival of this unique venue.
For further information on activities planned at the centre visit the website.
Pencaitland Community Council
