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St Andrews Folk Club with Barty's Bow & Hamish Imlach circa 1966 full concert

Based on an archived audio recording of a double bill featuring Dundee Group “Barty’s Bow” and Scottish folk singer and entertainer “Hamish Imlach”, performing at St Andrews Folk Club in the Star Hotel, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland circa 1966. BARTYS’ BOW Allan Barty, a prominent member of the Dundee folk scene and celebrated Dundee mandolinist and fiddler has been called a Scottish Dave Swarbrick. His first group, Barty's Bow, was formed in Dundee in 1966, after which he played in a number of Tayside groups, such as The Inn Folk, and appeared on television and radio, and toured with acts such as Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy. In 1971 he was considered as a replacement fiddler in The JSD Band after Chuck Fleming left. He appeared on more than forty records by the late seventies and recorded his single solo LP in 1980. This a very early ‘live’ recording of the group was made at St Andrews Folk Club in around 1966 and features Allan, John MacGuire, Willie Haines and Ian Buick. Sadly Allan passed away in 2008 at the age of only 59 years. Willie formed the band “Shegui” before quitting touring to form Blackfriars Music, a shop in Edinburgh devoted to folk music and a base for his many musical projects until his death in 2021. Ian Buick now lives in Germany and John Macguire now lives near Dublin. Hamish Imlach Hamish Imlach, who died in 1996 was a Scottish folk singer and entertainer, born in Calcutta to Scottish parents. He had a strong influence on many other artists, including John Martyn, Billy Connolly, Dick Gaughan and Christy Moore and enjoyed a great reputation as a ‘live’ performer. He began playing guitar in his late teens, learning the finger picking style directly from American, Ralph Rinzler, and fromo records of the Reverend Gary Davis, Pink Anderson and Brownie McGee. After playing at the first night of Glasgow Folk Club in 1959 with Josh MacRae and Archie Fisher, with whom he had been at school, he became a regular performer at the club and at other clubs around Scotland. Hamish signed to Transatlantic Records and went on to appear on over thirty albums for the label. His reputation as a superb entertainer extended into Europe, North America, Australia and even Bermuda. After moving to Ireland for a spell in 1978, he enjoyed considerable success with Ron Hynes’ “Sonny’s Dream”, featuring Mary Black on backing vocals and accompaniment by Donal Lunny. Suffering ill-health he continued to work until he died suddenly on New Year’s Day 1996.