“Dreamy, beautiful. Something very, very special” Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music

Saturday 2nd November 2024

Doors 7pm

The Magic Lantern || Little Clouds || Euan Stamper

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Such a treat in store for you at our last Letham Nights of 2024…

Join us for a beautiful autumn evening of soothing, moving, grooving songs and stories from Jamie Doe’s Magic Lantern. And to add to the splendour, there will be not ONE, but TWO opening acts. We’ll have a very special Australian duo Little Clouds who are touring with Jamie and the band. Then we will also be graced with a set from Euan Stamper.

The Magic Lantern is the moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe, an artist blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary music. Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, The Magic Lantern has released four full length albums and toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others.

His upcoming fifth album ’To Everything A Season’ was written and recorded in the months following his daughter’s birth and his father’s death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched. Of that cathartic moment, Jamie says ‘I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves, beautiful and complicated, which continue to ripple outward’ These songs are my attempt to make sense of this incredible time – ‘A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted’

Working with an ensemble drawn from London’s thriving alternative jazz scene, The Magic Lantern’s live show captures a rich emotional immediacy through spirited improvisation, taught ensemble writing and Jamie’s arresting vocal lyricism to craft songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience with devastating, joyous results.

‘To Everything A Season’ is due for release on 11th October 2024.

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It really is exciting to be bringing this beautiful music to the hall.

Booking acts for Letham Nights is a bit mysterious… a mixture of artists contacting us but also us speculatively reaching out to (cold calling!) musicians we like. Sometimes we just get blanked. But when we reached out to Jamie he replied very quickly and was gracious and enthusiastic. Within a few emails back and forth, we had become the first show booked on the band’s upcoming tour. He obviously saw something in Letham Nights. Here is an extended video of a live show to whet your appetite…

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Little Clouds

Little Clouds are a subtly nostalgic, feel good singer songwriter duo from Sydney, Australia. AKA Nick Henderson & Emily-Rose Sarkova write lofty afternoon inspired hits and introspective midnight bangers, laced with clever lyrics and sweet chords that make you feel real good. And let’s be honest – we are all in it for the feelings. They move between their multi-instrumentalist personalities of guitar, bass, banjo, piano, keys, synths, accordion and vocals. It is intimate. It is real. Journeys will be had. Here’s one…

Euan Stamper

Euan is well-known to some of us at Letham Nights. Their beautiful soaring vocals and compositions will be a wonderful opening to the show. Euan is deep into a new vein of creativity and recently recorded at the Glasshouse as part of the Depression Sessions. Have a listen!

Green Arts Initiative

Letham Nights is a member of the Green Arts Initiative, an interactive community of Scottish arts organisations working to promote sustainability and reduce their environmental impact – a perfect fit for Letham Nights!

Run by Creative Carbon Scotland and Festivals Edinburgh since 2013, the Green Arts Initiative supports Scottish arts organisations to be at the forefront of growing an environmentally sustainable Scotland.

Letham Nights…

Letham Nights began in December 2008.  Our vision is to bring high quality music to our village hall and provide a stage for talent, both local and global.  At the same time we want to promote sustainability and work towards creating a zero carbon village hall. 14 years and over 100 acts later, we have drawn in an audience which now averages 100 in our 120-capacity hall.  We have supported hall improvements so that we now have double glazing, better insulation, renewed wiring and a new efficient boiler.  The events are renowned for their high quality music and the unique, warm and friendly atmosphere.  We really do put on THE BEST SMALL GIGS IN THE WORLD!

Follow Letham Nights on Twitter and Instagram

Like the Letham Nights Facebook Page and join the events.

Contact
If you would like to take to the stage or the dance floor at Letham Nights, buy tickets or simply find out more, contact:

Michael t 01337 810372  m 07838 820659  mike@lethamnights.org

www.lethamnights.org

Sign up to the Letham Nights Mailing list

Join Letham Nights on Facebook

Follow Letham Nights on Twitter

Letham Village Hall, Fife is on the A92 just 15 minutes from the Tay Bridge, 10 minutes from Cupar and 15 from Glenrothes.

Don’t forget that the Clap and Tipple bar will be on hand to quench your thirst and tickle your tastebuds !

The Best Small Gigs In The World!

Saturday 29th June – The Tomorrow Band – Lead Sister

Doors 7pm TICKETS HERE >>

Summer’s here and the time is right for DANCING in the… hall!

Schools out, the sun is out, and it’s time to put on those dancing shoes and GET DOWN!

From the same stable as James Brown Is Annie, we bring you a new all-female funk outfit all-out to deliver a funkathon of rhythms to keep you on the dance floor all night long.

Lead Sister are the female-led faction of Scottish funk ‘n’ soul collective, The Tomorrow Band. The septet feature Scottish Jazz Award-winners and musicians made up from other established recording artists. While performing original tracks from the Hamish Stuart (Average White Band)-produced TTB album, Inside/ Outside (“Keeping the funk flame alive” – Daily Record), the group also focus on championing the most edgy, innovative and funky of female-led RnB music. Since forming at the turn of 2024, the outfit have performed at many of the UK’s most popular clubs. These include The Blue Lamp (Aberdeen), Matt & Phreds (Manchester), The Domino (Leeds) and The CLF Art Lounge (London) to name but a few. 

As BBC Radio Scotland say: “Down tools, take five, and shimmy.”

Lead the way, sisters..

Tickets are shifting so get a move on!

More Info and Tickets here >>

Then what..?

Wednesday 24th July – Darlingside – SOLD OUT!

Contact us to go on the waiting list

Sorry, what, pardon?! WEDNESDAY?? IN JULY??

Yes indeed, it was too good to miss. So out-of-this-world-good that we are hosting our very first midweek show during a month we have never hosted a show before.

Well, you would do the same if you were offered a show from….

Darlingside

Eek! We still can’t quite believe it. And it’s the band’s ONLY Scottish show on this short summer tour to the UK.

Darlingside have 350k monthly listeners on Spotify, their NPR Tiny Desk Concert has nearly 190k views. Their UK gigs always sell out and when they’ve come to Scotland they go to much bigger city venues. But this time they’ve decided to go for an intimate show on our village hall stage.

So if you know, you know. And if you don’t then take a look, and listen to their absolutely gorgeous sound

https://www.darlingside.com

Lizzie No – Stunning opening act for our Darlingside show…

Delighted to announce that Lizzie No, an amazing indie folk artist from the US. With the release of her debut album, ‘Hard Won,’ in March 2017, singer-songwriter, harpist, and guitarist Lizzie No established herself as one of the most exciting new voices in indie folk music.

To categorize artists might make it easier to organize record stores and playlists but there’s no one term that could define any artist, least of all one like Lizzie No (she/her/they/them).

You could say that Lizzie No makes “Americana” music, in that her work pulls from the rhythms and traditions of Blues, Folk, and Country — not unlike the artists to whom she’s most often compared: Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens and Adia Victoria — but her collaborations with Brian Dunne, Pom Pom Squad and Domino Kirke display an undeniable Indie influence that allows No to move frequently and seamlessly between overlapping musical circles.

You could say that Lizzie No writes “protest” songs, in that as a Queer, Black woman, her entire existence is a living, breathing, singing protest against a genre and a country that, on their best days, are reluctant to reckon with the very foundations upon which they were built. The erasure of Black artists is central to the myth of country music — what it means, what it stands for, where it comes from — and so simply by standing on stage and singing, whether it be in theaters across the country with the Black Opry, or at Queer Line Dancing nights with the Lavender Country tour, Lizzie No is staging a kind of protest. 

Saturday 24th August – The Bluebells – ALSO SOLD OUT

Get in touch if you want to be on the waiting list

YES! Those Bluebells! EEK! Tickets really shifting. Scottish new wave indie-pop legends, The Bluebells are back and coming to your very own beloved village hall for a Letham Nights to remember for the ages! This one will be a sell out for sure so don’t dilly dally! TICKETS>>

And we are delighted to say that the amazing Irish contemporary folk band, the New Leaves, newly signed to Corn Crake Records whose aim is to showcase and promote acoustic based singer-songwriters and groups in the folk tradition.

The New Leaves are:

Decky McKay – Vocals, Guitar 

Cian O’ Hare – Vocals, Guitar

Patrice Mc Kevitt – Vocals, Bass

Paddy Goodfellow – Drums & Percussion

The New Leaves, like so many contemporary music projects, emerged from the post pandemic wilderness. The New Leaves consists of four childhood friends from County Down, Northern Ireland – who blend lush, three-part harmonies, nature inspired lyrics and modern folk aesthetics. The four members came together to breathe life into an expanding songbook written by McKay, who attempts to capture the natural beauty, history, and mythology of homelife beneath the Mourne Mountains and the beautiful townlands that surround Carlingford Lough.

What a night this is going to be!

Saturday 2nd November – The Magic Lantern

Letham Nights is buzzing, excited, giddy (!) to present …

The Magic Lantern

Tickets here >>

The Magic Lantern is the moniker of singer-songwriter and composer Jamie Doe, an artist blurring the boundaries between folk, jazz and contemporary music. Born in Australia before moving to the UK at 12, The Magic Lantern has released four full length albums and toured the UK, Europe and Australia alongside This Is The Kit, Sam Lee and Alabaster Deplume among others.

His upcoming fifth album ’To Everything A Season’ was written and recorded in the months following his daughter’s birth and his father’s death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched. Of that cathartic moment, Jamie says ‘I saw myself in my father, and my daughter in me and I felt joy and grief in overlapping waves, beautiful and complicated, which continue to ripple outward’ These songs are my attempt to make sense of this incredible time – ‘A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted’

Working with an ensemble drawn from London’s thriving alternative jazz scene, The Magic Lantern’s live show captures a rich emotional immediacy through spirited improvisation, taught ensemble writing and Jamie’s arresting vocal lyricism to craft songs that examine the limitless depth of the human experience with devastating, joyous results.

‘To Everything A Season’ is due for release in October 2024.

First single is out on Friday 17th May

Tickets here >>

Malin Lewis || Aref Ghorbani || Erfan Imander || Mehrdad S

Fleur Darkin || Amy Hollinshead || Valerie Ebuwa

Saturday 25th May 2024

Tickets here >>

If you think you have seen this before, you haven’t!

This event is a real one-off. A unique collaboration of musicians and dancers.

Aref Ghorbani, Erfan Imander & Mehrdad S – a trio of virtuoso Iranian musicians settled in Scotland.

Malin Lewis – a pioneering queer bagpiper, fiddler, instrument maker and composer.

Original daring choreographic interventions by Fleur Darkin and world-class dancers Amy Hollinshead and Valerie Ebuwa.

…joining forces in a unique collaboration of music and dance for one night only!

More information and Tickets here >>

Seriously, 2024 is proving to be an absolute belter! And, we promise, it is only going to get better. Read on and your head might explode!

The year started off with a sublime performance from cellist Juliette Lemoine and Friends in February. After a simply stunning set from @ma.r.sutherland whose finger picking and lyrical gymnastics were a joy to behold, @juliettelemoinecello and friends led us on a beautiful journey of new and traditional tunes like beautiful crystal clear waves, slipping, lapping, crashing onto a warm beach we were lying on. Amazing performances from Juliette and Friends – @mattcarmichaelmusic @chloebrycemusic and of course the mercurial @fergusmccreadie. Such a privilege to have them all on our stage.

Next, there is no let up in quality as we welcome The Megan Henderson Trio to the hall on Saturday 27th April. More info and ticket information here >>

And then what?

So, we decided to push the boat out and make it monthly right up to August…

Saturday 25th May – My Muses Take Care of Me and You

Tickets here >>

We always promised we would bring Fleur Darkin’s extraordinary dancers back to the hall and here you go! A bit sooner than planned – another evening of innovation, inspiration and improvisation with music and dance. This time, supported by funding from the Creative Scotland Touring Fund…

What on earth is going to happen here?

Aref Ghorbani, Erfan Imander & Mehrdad S – a trio of virtuoso Iranian musicians settled in Scotland.

Malin Lewis – a pioneering queer bagpiper, fiddler, instrument maker and composer.

Original daring choreographic interventions by Fleur Darkin and world-class dancers Amy Hollinshead and Valerie Ebuwa.

…joining forces in a unique collaboration of music and dance for one night only!. Wow!

More information and Tickets here >>

Saturday 29th June – The Tomorrow Band – Lead Sister

MORE DANCING! You asked for it and here you go. From the same stable as James Brown Is Annie, this almost-all female funk outfit are all-out to deliver a funkathon of rhythms to keep you on the dance floor all night long. Tickets are shifting so get a move on! More Info and Tickets here >>

Wednesday 24th July – Darlingside

Sorry, what, pardon?! WEDNESDAY?? IN JULY??

Yes indeed, it was too good to miss. So out-of-this-world-good that we are hosting our very first midweek show during a month we have never hosted a show before.

Well, you would do the same if you were offered a show from….

Darlingside

Eek! We still can’t quite believe it. And it’s the band’s ONLY Scottish show on this short summer tour to the UK.

Darlingside have 350k monthly listeners on Spotify, their NPR Tiny Desk Concert has nearly 190k views. Their UK gigs always sell out and when they’ve come to Scotland they go to much bigger city venues. But this time they’ve decided to go for an intimate show on our village hall stage.

So if you know, you know. And if you don’t then take a look, and listen to their absolutely gorgeous sound

https://www.darlingside.com

Tickets on sale from 19th April

Saturday 24th August – The Bluebells

YES! Those Bluebells! EEK! Tickets really shifting. Scottish new wave indie-pop legends, The Bluebells are back and coming to your very own beloved village hall for a Letham Nights to remember for the ages! This one will be a sell out for sure so don’t dilly dally! TICKETS>>

Saturday 2nd November – This one is still cooking but it’s exciting!

Get it in the diary!

Letham Village Hall has hosted countless ceilidhs since it opened in 1955 and they are on the rise again!

Eeuch! It’s time for another one with the Herculean Revival Ceilidh Band on Saturday 13th April in the hall!

Doors open 7pm.

Tickets £12 adult £6 child 

Buy on www.boontree.co.uk or on the door

Saturday 27th April 2024

Doors 7pm

Tickets here >>

Megan Henderson of Breabach, one of the foremost talents in Scottish Folk music and Musician of the Year 2022 at the Trad Awards, returns to our hall stage with renowned cellist Su-a Lee & pianist Alistair Paterson, to showcase her brilliant new work.

Highly talented Ceilidh Trail graduates Amy Harrison & Freya Taylor will kick off the evening. It’s going to be a beauty!

Tickets here >>

Juliette Lemoine and Friends + special guest Mairi Sutherland

Saturday 10th February 2024

Doors 7pm

ticket link here>>

We always promise high quality music at Letham Nights. This time, it’s OFF THE SCALE!

Towards the end of 2023, some of the Letham Nights team went to a Glasgow house concert to check out celloist Juliette Lemoine and Friends. We were floored by the performance and by her ‘Friends’ – an extraordinary line up of seriously talented young musicians including Mercury-nominated Fergus McCreadie on keys, Matt Carmichael on sax and Chloe Bryce on fiddle.

Trailblazing a path as a cello soloist, Juliette is exploring and redefining the cello’s role within Scottish Traditional Music.

She is set to burst onto the scene with her debut album ‘Soaring’. Her emotive compositions weave through Scottish Traditional, Western Classical, and Jazz genres to create a highly personal new voice.

With an all-star band of some of Scotland’s most exciting young musicians in the unique line-up of cello, fiddle, piano, and tenor saxophone, Juliette’s show will be a euphoric celebration of the theme of freedom.

ticket link here>>

Mairi Sutherland to open!

Don’t forget the Ceilidhs!

There will be TWO more Herculean Revival Ceilidh’s to end the 2023. The first will be on Saturday 16th December and the second will be a Herculean Hogmanay Hoolie on 31st Dec to see in the New Year! Tickets for both here >>

Future Letham Nights Shows

We are currently working on the rest of our 2024 programme. Put 27th April and 24th August in the diary though. Exciting announcements on that one coming soon!

Green Arts Initiative

Letham Nights is a member of the Green Arts Initiative, an interactive community of Scottish arts organisations working to promote sustainability and reduce their environmental impact – a perfect fit for Letham Nights!

Run by Creative Carbon Scotland and Festivals Edinburgh since 2013, the Green Arts Initiative supports Scottish arts organisations to be at the forefront of growing an environmentally sustainable Scotland.

Letham Nights…

Letham Nights began in December 2008.  Our vision is to bring high quality music to our village hall and provide a stage for talent, both local and global.  At the same time we want to promote sustainability and work towards creating a zero carbon village hall. 14 years and over 100 acts later, we have drawn in an audience which now averages 100 in our 120-capacity hall.  We have supported hall improvements so that we now have double glazing, better insulation, renewed wiring and a new efficient boiler.  The events are renowned for their high quality music and the unique, warm and friendly atmosphere.  We really do put on THE BEST SMALL GIGS IN THE WORLD!

Follow Letham Nights on Twitter and Instagram

Like the Letham Nights Facebook Page and join the events.

Contact
If you would like to take to the stage or the dance floor at Letham Nights, buy tickets or simply find out more, contact:

Michael t 01337 810372  m 07838 820659  mike@lethamnights.org

www.lethamnights.org

Sign up to the Letham Nights Mailing list

Join Letham Nights on Facebook

Follow Letham Nights on Twitter

Letham Village Hall, Fife is on the A92 just 15 minutes from the Tay Bridge, 10 minutes from Cupar and 15 from Glenrothes.

Don’t forget that the Clap and Tipple bar will be on hand to quench your thirst and tickle your tastebuds !

The Best Small Gigs In The World!

Happy New Year everyone!

Thank you for all your support in 2023. You can look back on all last year’s shows here >>

The programme for 2024 is already looking tasty…

Ticket links for all our shows and events for 2024>>

The link is always updated to give you all our dates and events in one place. You can also follow Letham Nights on Eventbrite to see our programme for the year as it evolves.

Letham Nights Shows 2024

We are currently finalising our Spring and Summer programme for 2024 and already we have 5 exciting shows planned and 4 booked and in the bag. Look out for more info soon but right now, get these dates in your diary:

10th February – Juliette Lemoine and Friends – beautiful jazz-folk sounds led by Juliette’s cello compositions and supported by an extraordinary group of talented friends including Mercury-nominated Fergus McCreadie on keys – wow! Tickets for this one are going to go quickly! Opening the evening will be brilliant young singer-songwriter, Mairi Sutherland. Full info about the show here >> and Tickets here >>

27th April – The Megan Henderson Trio – Megan Henderson of Breabach, one of the foremost talents in Scottish Folk music and Musician of the Year 2022 at the Trad Awards, returns with renowned cellist Su-a Lee & pianist Alistair Paterson, to showcase her brilliant new work. Highly talented Ceilidh Trail graduate Freya Taylor will kick off the evening with her duo Tickets here >>

1st June – It’s a beauty, just not fully cooked and ready to put on the table!

29th June – The Tomorrow Band – Lead Sister – ever since we staged our Year of Funk with Tom Maguire and the Brassholes (twice) and James Brown is Annie, we have listened to your pleas! Bring us more! And here it is, the female-led incarnation of the exciting, funktastic, Tomorrow Band. Tickets here >>

24th August – The Bluebells – Yes, those Bluebells!! Those purveyors, along with Orange Juice and Aztec Camera of that most iconic of sounds of the early 80’s post-punk pop. And they are back, not just with the oldies but some newies too, from their recently released album In the 21st Century. Ticket Link Here >>

Green Arts Initiative

Letham Nights is a member of the Green Arts Initiative, an interactive community of Scottish arts organisations working to promote sustainability and reduce their environmental impact – a perfect fit for Letham Nights!

Run by Creative Carbon Scotland and Festivals Edinburgh since 2013, the Green Arts Initiative supports Scottish arts organisations to be at the forefront of growing an environmentally sustainable Scotland.

Letham Nights…

Letham Nights began in December 2008.  Our vision is to bring high quality music to our village hall and provide a stage for talent, both local and global.  At the same time we want to promote sustainability and work towards creating a zero carbon village hall. 15 years and over 100 acts later, we have drawn in an audience which now regularly sells out in our 120-capacity hall.  We have supported hall improvements so that we now have double glazing, better insulation, renewed wiring and a new efficient boiler.  In early 2024 we began a process which we hope get us to our zero-carbon goal by 2025. The events are renowned for their high quality music and the unique, warm and friendly atmosphere.  We really do put on THE BEST SMALL GIGS IN THE WORLD!

Follow Letham Nights on Twitter and Instagram

Like the Letham Nights Facebook Page and join the events.

Contact
If you would like to take to the stage or the dance floor at Letham Nights, buy tickets or simply find out more, contact:

Michael t 01337 810372  m 07838 820659  mike@lethamnights.org

Sign up to the Letham Nights Mailing list

Join Letham Nights on Facebook

Follow Letham Nights on Twitter

Letham Village Hall, Fife is on the A92 just 15 minutes from the Tay Bridge, 10 minutes from Cupar and 15 from Glenrothes.

Don’t forget that the Clap and Tipple bar will be on hand to quench your thirst and tickle your tastebuds !

The Best Small Gigs In The World!

Thank you for all your support in 2023. Since we are at the end of the year, let’s look back…

Although, if reviewing the year is not for you, just go straight to the link for next year’s shows!

Ticket links for all our shows and events for 2024>>

The link is always updated to give you all our dates and events in one place. You can also follow Letham Nights on Eventbrite to see our programme for the year as it evolves.

The year began…

…with a beautiful show from new all-female outfit CLR Theory with support from Mima Merrow. Gill Higgins’ and Hannah Jarrett-Scott’s new work was conceived during covid and came to fruition in the context of the gathering storm around pay and conditions for NHS staff. As a qualified surgeon, Gill had worked throughout the covid crisis, including in ICU in Glasgow Royal Infirmary and in her ‘spare time’, not only began to develop this new music with Hannah but together, they set up the Scottish wing of Medical Supply Drive to source PPE for her colleagues. The Letham Nights team contributed to this in a small way by taking part in contacting potential suppliers and so we were proud to have the opportunity to present their new music as a celebration of our NHS and other key workers during the pandemic. It didn’t disappoint! It was a joyful affair – beautiful melodies, spine-tingling harmonies and innovative rhythms combining into a warm, enveloping soundscape.

Then came MAD MARCH!

High energy, high bants, Orkney duo Saltfishforty sold out in no time and even an extra SF40 lunchtime show at Monimail Tower drew in a sold out crowd of young families. Douglas Montgomery and Brian Cromarty’s sensational music, phenomenal natural sound was so well crafted it seemed effortless! The banter was of the very finest quality to match! The opening act from Esther Swift (ahem, appearance 2/3 within 12 months) was enchanting and emotive and she then joined the boys for a few numbers, taking the music to another level.

Just a week later, it was time for My Muses – a wholly new departure for Letham Nights and the village hall: a stunning, innovative dance performance directed by the highly-regarded, award-winning choreographer and performer, Fleur Darkin. Another sold out audience watched in awe as the 4 performers created a haunting immersive dance experience and then invited everyone to get on the floor for a proper, full-on DJ set from Matthew Brown, creating our very first Letham Hall Club Night on that iconic dance floor. A very special night!

Finally, bleeding into April…

Don’t forget the Ceilidhs!

The magnificent Herculean Revival Ceilidh Band began what became a series of highly popular ceilidhs. These have continued throughout the year and finish on the last day of January with a special Hogmanay Hoolie – Tickets here >>

Another first in June – Letham Nights Goes Classical!

Local violin teacher, Eva Lundell put together a classical recital with her long-time musical partner Keiko Asakawa-Golden, who came across from the States to play for us. Every aspect of the repertoire was carefully considered, rehearsed in Brooklyn at Easter time and presented to another full house in an engaging and entertaining evening. We’ll have to do that again said EVERYONE!

All that jazz!

In August, the amazing multi-award-winning jazz outfit (very big outfit!) Fat-Suit crammed themselves onto our tiny stage with 8 consummate players and an array of keys, guitars and horns, and delivered a virtuouso performance of their upbeat and exuberant tunes and arrangements, bringing in a new audience of devotees and thrilling another packed out hall. Opening for them we had a lovely set from Kirkcaldy pair Graeme and Adel.

The Other…

…brought an-other inspired collaboration, this time crossing continents and bringing together the music of different cultures into an amazing evening of rich rhythms and percussive magic. With players from Scotland playing with those with experience of migration from Iran, Chile and Brazil, the diversity of voices and instrumentation blended into a beautiful whole that was testimony to the power of international collaboration – Not to mention the THIRD appearance in 12 months of the extraordinarily talented harpist, Esther Swift, now a firm Letham Nights favourite, AND an exciting opening act from local pair Robin Mason and Colin Donati as ‘Various Moons’.

Finally, in December…

Oh my! Were you there? Did you miss this one? Well, it was a beauty! Two unique and distinctive voices. Two of the very, very best. A sensational opening set from Beth Malcolm that would melt your heart followed by a quite extraordinary performance from Lizabett Russo that made it fit to burst. Our sound engineer Alan Ramsay said ‘it’s as if singing and playing like that is just like breathing to them – I don’t know how they do it’. And neither do we, but we are so glad we got to experience this on our wee village hall stage.

Thank you to everyone involved. We did it again!

Future Letham Nights Shows

We are currently finalising our Spring and Summer programme for 2024 and already we have 5 exciting shows planned and 4 booked and in the bag. Look out for more info in January but right now, get these dates in your diary:

10th February – Juliette Lemoine and Friends – beautiful jazz-folk sounds led by Juliette’s cello compositions and supported by an extraordinary group of talented friends including Mercury-nominated Fergus McCreadie on keys – wow! Tickets here >>

27th April – The Megan Henderson Trio – Megan Henderson of Breabach, one of the foremost talents in Scottish Folk music and Musician of the Year 2022 at the Trad Awards, returns with renowned cellist Su-a Lee & pianist Alistair Paterson, to showcase her brilliant new work. Tickets here >>

1st June – It’s a beauty, just not fully cooked and ready to put on the table!

29th June – The Tomorrow Band – Lead Sister – ever since we staged our Year of Funk with Tom Maguire and the Brassholes (twice) and James Brown is Annie, we have listened to your pleas! Bring us more! And here it is, the female-led incarnation of the exciting, funktastic, Tomorrow Band. Tickets here >>

24th August – The Bluebells – Yes, those Bluebells!! Those purveyors, along with Orange Juice and Aztec Camera of that most iconic of sounds of the early 80’s post-punk pop. And they are back, not just with the oldies but some newies too, from their recently released album In the 21st Century. Ticket Link Soon!

Green Arts Initiative

Letham Nights is a member of the Green Arts Initiative, an interactive community of Scottish arts organisations working to promote sustainability and reduce their environmental impact – a perfect fit for Letham Nights!

Run by Creative Carbon Scotland and Festivals Edinburgh since 2013, the Green Arts Initiative supports Scottish arts organisations to be at the forefront of growing an environmentally sustainable Scotland.

Letham Nights…

Letham Nights began in December 2008.  Our vision is to bring high quality music to our village hall and provide a stage for talent, both local and global.  At the same time we want to promote sustainability and work towards creating a zero carbon village hall. 15 years and over 100 acts later, we have drawn in an audience which now regularly sells out in our 120-capacity hall.  We have supported hall improvements so that we now have double glazing, better insulation, renewed wiring and a new efficient boiler.  In early 2024 we began a process which we hope get us to our zero-carbon goal by 2025. The events are renowned for their high quality music and the unique, warm and friendly atmosphere.  We really do put on THE BEST SMALL GIGS IN THE WORLD!

Follow Letham Nights on Twitter and Instagram

Like the Letham Nights Facebook Page and join the events.

Contact
If you would like to take to the stage or the dance floor at Letham Nights, buy tickets or simply find out more, contact:

Michael t 01337 810372  m 07838 820659  mike@lethamnights.org

www.lethamnights.org

Sign up to the Letham Nights Mailing list

Join Letham Nights on Facebook

Follow Letham Nights on Twitter

Letham Village Hall, Fife is on the A92 just 15 minutes from the Tay Bridge, 10 minutes from Cupar and 15 from Glenrothes.

Don’t forget that the Clap and Tipple bar will be on hand to quench your thirst and tickle your tastebuds !

The Best Small Gigs In The World!

Hands Up For Trad Awards 2023