Carol tops gala concert

FORMER Garelochhead hotelier and international Jazz singer Carol Kidd will top the bill at a gala concert to be staged in Glasgow in October by Artists and Musicians for Mary’s Meals.
The concert will take place in the City Chambers in George Square at 7pm on Friday October 28, following an Arts and Crafts Fair there from 10.30am until 5pm.
It is part of the fund-raising group’s 2011 Festival of the Arts, which will begin with the opening of a Fine Art Exhibition of the work of Scotland’s top painters in the café of House for an Artlover in Bellahouston Park at 7pm on Thursday, October 27.
The exhibition will be opened by Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, the founder of Mary’s Meals, and the Rev Laurence Whitley, minister of Glasgow Cathedral, a patron of Artists for Mary’s Meals.
The gala concert on Friday night will star Scotland’s best-loved jazz singer, Carol Kidd, and will be hosted by the veteran folk singer and radio presenter Jimmie Macgregor.
It will also feature blind folk singer and guitarist Elena Piras from Pitlochry in Perthshire and vocalist and clarsach player Carissa Bovill from Mollinsburn in Lanarkshire. The South Side Fiddlers, a dozen children from King’s Park in Glasgow, who play folk music will also take part as will the Morgan Lee Band, a Celtic music septet from the West End of Glasgow.
The Richard Burton Trio, also from the West End of Glasgow, will entertain on saxophone, guitar and drums and Jon Ritchie’s Swing Sensation Big Band will play jazz. Jazz guitarist Nigel Clark, an accomplished solo guitarist, will accompany Carol Kidd, who is now based in Majorca.
Tickets for all events are obtainable from the Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL. Telephone 0141.565.1000 or contact www.thearches.co.uk
Find out more about Artists and Musicians for Mary’s Meals on www.artists formarymeals.com