Coughlan concert dates

IRISH singer Mary Coughlan returns to Scotland to play three concerts this weekend.

Galway-born Coughlan is known across the world for her soul-bearing performances of torch songs, jazz ballads and blues and her ribald and often disarmingly frank interaction with her audience. She achieved fame with her first album, Tired and Emotional, in 1985, and has gone on to record 15 further albums as well as acting on stage and on screen, dramatizing her 2008 release, The House of Ill Repute, and writing Bloody Mary – My Story.

She appears at The Accies Club, Glasgow, on Friday; String Jam Club, Selkirk on Saturday; and Backstage @ Green Hotel, Kinross on Sunday.