The Poozies, Friday 26th October 2012

Featuring EILIDH SHAW (Fiddle &, vocals), MARY MACMASTER (Electro-harp, metal-strung harp & vocals), MAIREARAD GREEN (Piano accordion, pipes & vocals) and SALLY BARKER (Guitars, percussion & vocals), the POOZIES began their career in 1990 after Patsy Seddon and Mary Macmaster (aka the Scottish harp duo, Sileas) had been working with singer Sally Barker on her second solo album. They all agreed there was a gap for a women’s folk super group and when Sally met the all-Ireland accordion champion, Karen Tweed, at the Hong Kong Folk Festival, the band was born.

Twenty two years later the band is still acknowledged as a force to be reckoned with on the traditional folk scene, with fantastic vocal harmonies and spectacular instrumentals and Britain’s premiere Celtic roots all-woman super-group.

The Poozie recipe is a fragrant casserole of inventive interpretations, creative collaborations and melodic mastery, saturated by the spice of open-mindedness with which they happily explore the musical universe.

Tickets cost £8 (£6 for under 18s) available locally and at the door.

Source: Glenuig Hall