Folk Club Guest Concert Nights are held on the first Tuesday of each month at 7.00 for 7.30pm
There is usually an entrance charge, and a night consisting of a guest headline performer supported by floor singers.
Kirsty Law with Jamie Cook
@ The Abbotsford Hotel
14 Corsehill Road, Ayr KA7 4SG
Supported by the Club’s Stalwart Floor Singers
Tuesday 6th May 2025 7.30pm
(Doors open 7.00 pm) £9 entry (Cash only).
Kirsty Law is an innovative Scots song maker and singer based in Edinburgh. From a background learning from ` some of Scotland and Ireland’s great tradition bearers such as Sheila Stewart, Cathal MacConnell, Sheena Wellington, and Margaret Bennett, she has gone on to develop her own strong storytelling voice.
Karine Polwart “Beautiful and feisty… In Kirsty Law, it’s a joy to hear a young singer and writer in Scots with such welcoming, earthy and conversational character to her singing and songs. Better still, she’s complimenting traditional material with her own writing and research, and with a distinctive sense of theatre… a musician doing things her own way.”
The Scotsman “Law has a ravishing voice… her seamless melding of the traditional with the modern is both engaging and entrancing…”
All Welcome
- Folk Club Concert Nights 2025
- 02 December Ukes & Spots
- 04 November Rosie Calvert & Will Finn
- 07 October Eilidh Grant Trio
- 02 September John Graham, Jim Jack & Cy Jack
- 05 August At Home Spots
- 01 July Steven Clark
- 03 June The Quiggs
- 06 May Kirsty Law
- 01 April Steve Turner
- 04 March Tanninzie
- 04 February Ernest Aines
- 28 January Laverock: A Special Feast of Burns Music
- 7th January Alan Reid
- Folk Club Concert Nights 2024
- 03 December Ukes and Spots
- 05 November Alastair McDonald
- 01 October Ian Bruce
- 03 September John Malcolm & Nigel Munro
- 06 August At Home Spots
- 02 July Bob Wood
- 04 June Fil Campbell & Tom McFarland
- 07 May The Ian Walker Band with John Graham
- 02 April The Cafeorchestra
- 05 March Alan Jones
- 06 February Muldoon’s Picnic
- 23 Jan Burns Night: Ken O’Hara/ Davie Hunter/Paul Creighton
- 09 Jan Sean Gray
Folk Club Guest Concert Nights 2023 - 05 Dec Dalrymple UKES and Spots
- 07 Nov Gavin and Clare Livingstone
- 03 Oct Stan Graham
- 05 September Alastair McDonald
- 01 August Floor Singers Unleashed
- 04 July Davey Hunter and Beatrice
- 06 Jun Tapsalteerie
- 02 May Haggerdash
- 04 April Dougie McKenzie & Bran Miller
- 07 Mar Pauline Vallance
- 07 Feb Cafeorchestra
- Folk Club Guest Concert Nights 2022
- 06 Dec Tanninzie
- 01 Nov Paul Walker & Karen Pfeiffer
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Folk Club Guest Concert Nights 2017 - May Tanninzie
A Typical Guest Concert Night
Audience participation in chorus singing is essential
- Get your drink in the Bar
- From 7pm pay your admission and buy your raffle tickets
- Find a seat
- At 7.30 pm the MC will welcome you to the night’s entertainment, update you with any information and maybe sing a song
- He will then invite local floorsingers to start the night off
- After their essential contribution, the MC will invite the main guest(s) to play their first set
- Amid the applause, the MC returns to announce the Intermission and Raffle. with time to get more drinks and raffle tickets
- While the raffle winners are feeling delighted with their prizes the MC returns to invite more local floorsingers to start off the second half
- The MC re-introduces the main guest(s) to play their second and final set
- With rapturous applause, the evening draws to a close with hopefully just enough time for one more song from the guest(s)
- The MC thanks everyone for their contribution, wishes all a safe journey home and has one final song “Take your glasses to the Bar”
- Exit all with a broad smile