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St Andrews Folk Club with Heritage 25-2-79 (full concert)

This upload is based on an archived audio recording of Scottish folk group HERITAGE performing at St Andrews Folk Club in the St Andrews Hotel (the Scores), St Andrews, Fife, Scotland on 25th February 1979. [The graphics are collated from available sources and relate to the group over the number of years of its existence. They do not directly relate to the audio recording.] HERITAGE – a short history of the group (information supplied by Jack Beck). In late 1975 a number of Dunfermline folk-music enthusiasts met weekly in a pub called the ‘Brig Tavern’, situated under a railway bridge carrying the main line from Edinburgh to Aberdeen; leading to some interesting constraints on the music! Among those were Jack & Aileen Beck, Jimmy Dunn, Lindsay Porteous, Archie Todd, Mike Ward, Davy Lockhart, George Haig, Mike O’Connor, Mike Mustard, Mark Milligan, Tam (the bam) Flanagan and Jean Gardiner. A move to the 'Lynn Tavern', and a group was formed to play a charity gig the name adopted was ‘Heritage’. A further move to the ‘Union Inn’ saw Heritage seeking bookings in clubs around Scotland. The ‘Union Inn’ period was short term and the group moved again to George Haig’s ‘local’, the ‘Bruce Tavern’ in the centre of Dunfermline. By 1977 the line-up of the group had become: Jack Beck (vocals, guitar), Jimmy Dunn (accordeon), George Haig (five string banjo), Davy Lockhart (fiddle, viola), Mark Milligan (bodhran), Mike Mustard (fiddle), Mike O’Connor (fiddle), Lindsay Porteous (pan pipes, jaw harp, mouth organ, percussion) In ‘78 Heritage were asked to tour in Brittany. The line-up changed with the arrival of Mike Ward (whistle, harmonium and small pipes) and departure of Mark Milligan and the ‘fiddeling’ Mikes. For the tour the group were joined by piper Peter Forbes & his daughter Helen on penny whistle. On return from Brittany the group had an active period of playing festivals and clubs all over Scotland. They signed to the ‘No Bad Records’ label and recorded their first ‘real’ album NBLP2 ‘When the Dancin’ it’s a’ Done’ at Robin Morton’s Temple studios. An earlier tape was remastered as NBLP1 ‘Some Rantin’ Rovin’ Fun’ and both albums were released at the end of ‘80 - beginning of ‘81 receiving complimentary reviews. In the spring of ‘81 the group replaced the ‘Gaugers’ on a tour in the South of France, started a love affair with the music and people of the area. That summer Heritage returned to Lorient as part of the Scottish contingent for the Festival Interceltique. This was followed by a tour of Switzerland and then Friuli in Northern Italy. ‘83 saw them return to Lorient playing support to ‘Runrig’at the ‘Palais de Congres’. During the late ‘70’s & early ‘80’s the group hosted a jamboree every September at Kinlochrannoch and appeared on STV in the series ‘Hear Here’ - on Zurich TV – and featured on BBC Radio Scotland and Radio Forth. By late 1990 the group joined by Alan Macdonald (fiddle & mandolin) made a return trip to the South of France, meeting up again with many old friends. Heritage now had a repertoire not only music from England, Ireland, Scotland and the Northern Isles, but also from all over Europe and the USA. In 1992 they decided to invest in the production of a new album. Robin Morton of Temple Records, who had produced their first albums agreed to take on the project. The album ‘Tell tae Me’ Temple/Flying Fish COMD 2051 took a long time to record and by the time it was finished the group comprising: Jack Beck, Pete Clark, George Haig, Alan Macdonald, Alistair Marshall, Lindsay Porteous and Mike Ward had reached the end of its life. Heritage lasted longer than many groups and developed remarkably - both in terms of musical ability and repertoire. The group still gets regular airplay and its final CD still sells around the world - as do a number of Greentrax compilations containing Heritage tracks. [This ‘live’ recording, believed made with a single microphone placed arbitrarily near the stage, was made during one of their ‘early years’ performances. The exact group line-up is uncertain.]