Scottish

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Val Verde are 3 Fifers and a Weejie who in 2008 began to make their mark on the Scottish music scene. They have established themselves on their home turf of Dunfermline, Fife as one of the top live acts on the local scene and have built up a strong following as well as a string of industry admirers. 2008 seen them supporting some quality acts including:
Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets), Chris Helme (The Seahorses), Attic Lights, Sergeant, Figure 5 and Broken Records to name but a few.

Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances. Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….

To call James Yorkston a folk singer is to miss the point by some distance and the fact that among his influences he lists Can, Jacques Brel and Linton Kwesi Johnson tells you something about the diverse and innovative approach he brings to the form. One review of his first album, with backing group the Athletes, Moving Up Country stated “James Yorkston is the real deal” and that simple judgement says a lot more than any attempt to classify or describe his work.