Cottiers concert will celebrate first milestone

AULD Hat New Heids, the group formed by brothers Fraser and Ian Bruce, play a Fair Friday concert at Cottiers Theatre in Glasgow on Friday to mark the release of their first album, Volume One.

The brothers were popular on the folk scene in the 1980s before Fraser took time off to concentrate on his civil engineering business and their concerts aim to recreate the audience-involving atmosphere of folk clubs when entertainers including Matt McGinn, Billy Connolly and Iain Mackintosh played the circuit.

The album cover celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper with a collage that features over 120 people from the 1960s and 1970s folk scene.

Following their Glasgow concert the group, which also includes fiddler Pete Clark and accordionist Gregor Lowrie, play Pitlochry Festival Theatre (July 17), Faw Kirk, Falkirk (21st), and Whiting Bay Hall, Arran (27th).