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The Fallen Angels Club
· The Fallen Angels’ Club
was launched in February 2003 by promoter Kevin Morris and has
played host to an array of Americana acts.
· The Club has promoted over
60 local and international artists from America, Ireland,
England, Wales Canada, Germany and Italy - and of course
Scotland.
· Up and coming local talent
have been provided with their first live experience and the
opportunity to perform with more established artists from
other parts of the world.
· The Fallen Angels’ Club
has worked with Regular Music, The ABC and Soundsfine
organisers of the Big Big Country and Big Big World Festivals
Artists
Recent highlights from The Fallen Angels
Club:
· Karine Polwart perfomed
on the 7th October 2004 and just 5 months after her
Fallen Angels Club gig scooped a BBC Radio 2 folk award
in February 2005.
· Tim O'Brien- Grammy
winner Tim visited Scotland and The Fallen Angels Club twice
in 2006. The first sell out show was at The Riverside Club in
Glasgow on Friday the 5th May and 6 months later, on the 5th
November, he performed at The Queens Hall in Edinburgh. Both
shows featured former Radio 2 folk award musician of the year John
McCusker and current musician of the year Michael
McGoldrick.
· Darrell Scott- a
regular visitor to Glasgow with his one time touring partner
Tim O'Brien and a regular face at Celtic Connections however
it was The Fallen Angels Club that hosted Darrell's first solo
show on the 14th April 2005 at Glasgow's Riverside Club.
· Partick Folk- The
Partick Folk Festival pulled in The Fallen Angels’ promoter
to book and host a 2005. show by English folk legend Roy
Bailey MBE. Roy played to a sold out room at The Annexe
Healthy Living Centre on Saturday the 3rd December 2005. In
2006 the Club brought English folk legend Dave Burland to
Partick who played to another sold out room.
· Celtic Connections
2007- The Fallen Angels Club is delighted to be working
with Celtic Connections at this year's festival with The
Wailin Jennys headlining a show on Saturday 3rd February at
The Strathclyde Suite in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. As a
direct result of this show’s publicity, The Wailin Jennys
have been asked to play a follow up performance at The
Transatlantic Sessions the next evening in the Concert Hall’s
main auditorium.
Quotes
"In its first year the Fallen
Angels club has become a vital component in Glasgow's live
Americana music scene, presenting established masters of the
storytelling song form and many of the flood of new artists who
promise
a great future for music rooted in the American soil. Here's to
a great future for the Fallen Angels, too."
Rob Adams The Glasgow Herald
"Glasgow is lucky to have The
Fallen Angels Club - a keeper of the flame of good roots music.
Thanks for supporting Spit & Polish and so many other good
artists"
-Francis Macdonald, Shoeshine Records /
Spit & Polish
"An excellent opportunity for both
local and established acts."
-Roddy Hart, singer, songwriter
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