Party: Emily Smith & Jamie MacLennan at Montrose Folk Club

Party: Emily Smith & Jamie MacLennan at Montrose Folk Club

A rare Folk Club appearance by Emily Smith, currently the leading female Folk Singer in Scotland, who is now established upon the Concert Hall and Festival circuit. Appearing in a duo with her Husband, Jamie McLennan, with backing from herself on keyboards and from Jamie on guitar and fiddle.

Time has passed ridiculously fast since Emily was named BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year back in 2002. The accolades continued as she won the USA Songwriting Competition in 2005, Scots Singer of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2008, and she received two nominations in the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

In that time she’s toured the world, thrilling audiences from Cambridge Folk Festival all the way down to the National Folk Festival in Australia, via Europe, Russia, Canada and New Zealand.

Her face has been all over the telly thanks to BBC Four’s Transatlantic Sessions, BBC One’s Songs of Praise, Scotland’s Hogmanay Live, BBC Ulster’s Santer and an exclusive performance for Sky Arts Channel. In 2013 Emily toured as part of the Transatlantic Sessions extended family, singing with the likes of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eric Bibb and Teddy Thompson - adding to an impressive list of onstage collaborators which also includes Richard Thompson, Eddi Reader and Beth Neilson Chapman.

The Guardian as Scotland’s “most impressive young songwriter”. Blimey.

Tickets: £9.50