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!
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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
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
