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FOLK PREVIEW Mackenzie
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I 1,4449, Fiona Mackenzie: more bands than you’ve had hot dinners
Thanks to Mackenzie the five-part Songs Of Scotland series at the Tron Ceilidh includes a concert wholly in the language of the Garden of Eden, as the Gaels amusingly describe their own tongue. There are actually three Mackenzies, three young singing sisters from Lewis, who learned their celebrated vocal harmony in their father's chairs. Their fine first album is now in the record stores.
For youngest sibling Fiona Mackenzie life is getting complicated. 'I got back last week from North America wuth Seelyhoo (including the Wrigley Sisters, Sandy Brechin and more). We're playing the Spiegeltent And there’s the Mackenzie gig to rehearse, which is difficult, as Eilidh is a mum With young kids, and Gillian IS a lawyer — I'm the only who's working at music full time'
Then there's Anam. With the departure of Amy Leonard from the globetrotting outfit, they've brought in Fiona and fiddler Anna Wendy Stevenson to bring the band up to a five-piece. So she's now in three bands (Norman Chalmers) 2a Mackenzie (Fringe) Songs Of Scat/and at the Tron Ceilidh House (Venue 9) 226 0937, 75—77Aug, 8pm. £5 (£4).
% See/yhoo (Fringe) Spiegeltent (Venue 87) 558 8070, 25 Aug, I 7.45pm [7 (£5).
FOLK PREVIEW The Lanterns
As Finley Quaye guns Edinburgh for the Big Smoke, The Lanterns look poised to become the Scottish capital’s Next Big Thing — but on the basis of talent, originality and a shared wealth of experience rather than Quaye’s overblown hype, The band comprises producer, multi- instrumentalist and now songwriter Jim Sutherland, whose preVious ventures include collaborations With everyone from Page and Plant to Shooglenifty, together With singing , sisters Gina and SyIVia Rae, of Edinburgh’s renowned Jazz dynasty They were snapped up by Columbia last year on the basis of four or five rough-cut tracks, With A&R chief David Balfe flying up to clinch the deal within three days of receivmg the tape. Sutherland describes the songs as clasSic in structure - ’verse, chorus, middle eight' ~ but beat- driven, led by the Raes’ lambent, highly-coloured harmonies With the band’s debut album due out early next year, preceded by an inaugural Single in October, their maiden festival gig probably marks the last chance to see them in so intimate a venue. (Sue Wilson) 255% The Lanterns (Fringe) Bongo Club (Venue 743) 558 7604, 79 Aug, 77pm (band onstage midnight), [5 ([4)
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