Dick Gaughan

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Local audiences will no doubt be delighted to hear that favourite folk legend Dick Gaughan (www.dickgaughan.co.uk) is returning to enchant once again. Dick was an early member of the band Boys of the Lough, playing on their first album and was the now-legendary Scottish folk-rock band, Five Hand Reel, making 3 albums with them. He is also a prolific songwriter whose compositions have been recorded by the likes of Billy Bragg, Christy Moore, Mary Black, Roy Bailey and Capercaillie.

Having very eclectic tastes, Dick also plays everything from free jazz and rock to country music. He plays most fretted stringed instruments but perhaps what he is happiest playing acoustic guitar.

Dick is a Scot, from Leith on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. His mother, Frances MacDonald, a Highland Scot, sang in both Gaelic and English while his paternal Irish grandparents were also musicians. Therefore Gaughan was brought up immersed in the musical traditions and culture of the Gaels, both Scots and Irish, which provided the foundation for everything he does.

Tickets £10 PRE-BOOK or £12 on the Door