Friends of Wighton Lunchtime Recital
From Sheena Wellington :
Wednesday 1st February, 1.15pm (admission free) – Lunchtime Recital at the Wighton Heritage Centre. For their first Lunchtime Recital of 2017 Friends of Wighton are delighted to welcome Just3Folk!
Just 3Folk (J3F) got together when they helped to start up a folk club called Sunday Sessions in Monifieth. The group: Liz Crawford, Maggie Douglas and Anne Hamilton share a common love of folk music and have been on an exciting musical journey over the past two years.
The group has taken part in many Folk sessions in Tayside, Angus, and Fife, and are regular performers at Sunday Sessions in Monifieth. They are bowled over by the friendliness of all the singers and musicians they have met in the different venues and love learning new songs and music from these talented performers.
The highlight of 2016 was when they went on tour in Donegal, enjoying 5 gigs in 5 nights. On one memorable occasion J3F found themselves performing to a bus load of American and Swedish tourists in Leo’s Tavern, the home of Enya and Clannad .
J3F have developed a varied repertoire of traditional and contemporary folk music, arranging the songs in three part harmony, and performing them accompanied by guitar, banjo and occasionally ukulele.
Liz, Maggie and Anne have been incredibly busy in musical pursuits since retiring from full time employment. Anne, as well as teaching classical guitar in Broughty Ferry, runs a very popular folk singing group and co-runs a unique string group for Dundee U3A. Liz leads the very successful Dee Ukes, a Ukulele band who play in many different locations throughout Dundee and further afield. And Maggie is busy developing her ukulele and guitar skills.
J3F are keen to perform wherever and whenever possible and thoroughly enjoy every minute of their musical experience. They plan to do another tour this summer on the West Coast of Scotland. They are delighted to be playing at the Wighton Centre lunchtime concert.