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FifeSing2026: The Fife Traditional Singing Festival15, 16, 17 May 2026 in Freuchie, Fife
This will be the twenty third Fife Traditional Singing Festival - a unique opportunity to meet singers and hear traditional song in an informal gathering and participate in concerts, workshops and singarounds. A celebration of traditional singing - the songs and the bothy ballads - for singers and enthusiasts with guest singers from England, Ireland and Scotland.
Most events will take place in the Lumsden Memorial Hall in Freuchie just across the road from the Lomond Hills Hotel. The Friday Gathering will be laid out as usual with seats around tables - bring along your own refreshments - food/ drink. The Weekend and Day tickets include a Buffet Lunch in the Lumsden Memorial Hall. Full details on the website:
www.springthyme.co.uk/fifesing
GUESTS
Brian and Margaret Peters: Brian is one of the English folk scene’s great all-rounders, a compelling singer of narrative songs from the tradition, and an outstanding multi-instrumentalist on squeezeboxes and strings. Brian’s wife Margaret is a lovely singer of mainly English folk songs and we are very pleased she is able to join with Brian at FifeSing. Brian has played most of the major folk festivals in Britain, performed and tutored in the USA, Canada and Australia, and appeared several times at the Glasgow Ballad Workshop.
Seán Lyons is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Growing up in a musical family in County Clare, he played the tin whistle and uilleann pipes from a young age, regularly competing and performing around Ireland and overseas. At age 15, he began singing, playing the guitar and writing songs. He is influenced by jazz and the broader folk genre but his music is deeply rooted in Irish traditional music and he is an enthusiast for the older traditional song repertoire with many songs picked up from his father John Lyons and uncle Tim Lyons - both of whom were fine singers and musicians.
Janice Clark/Reavell was born and brought up in Aberdeen and from a very early age, took an interest in the traditional music and song of the North East of Scotland. Her ballad singing style was heavily influenced by some of the great local source singers like Stanley Robertson and his aunt, Jeannie Robertson and her daughter, Lizzie Higgins. She began singing at Folk Clubs and Festivals in her early teens and travelled and recorded with bands such as Iolair, Lang Johnnie Moore and Highland Connection. Janice has given singing workshops at Folk Festivals throughout Scotland and now tutors for SC&T in Aberdeen.
Jack Beck: When Dunfermline’s folksong club ‘The Howff’ began in 1961, traditional singers like Jeannie Robertson, Jimmy McBeath and Willie Scott appeared alongside the young folkies and changed the folk scene for ever. In the mid 1970s Jack became a member of the Dunfermline multi-instrument folk group ‘Heritage’ toured their Scots music and song repertoire at festivals in Italy, France and Switzerland. Jack has recently returned from the USA where, for nearly 20 years, he has worked with the Scots-Appalachian Studies Programme to presents a weekly Celtic music programme broadcast online and over radio stations in Tennessee and Virginia.
The weekend events will be hosted by festival organisers Pete Shepheard from Balmalcolm, Chris Miles from Kirkcaldy and Jimmy Hutchison from Newburgh.
Peter Shepheard
www.springthyme.co.uk/fifesing/
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Event Venue
Balmalcolm House, KY15 7TJ, Balmalcolm, Cupar, KY15 7, United Kingdom
Tickets
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