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KELSO FOLK and LIVE MUSIC CLUB The Kelso Folk and Live Music Club’s home for the last few years has been The Cobbles Inn on Bowmont Street. The Friday night sessions start after 9pm and may attract anything from two or three regulars - a rare instance now - to over twenty musicians and singers with visitors from far afield.
Acoustic guitars form the mainstay for singers but you’ll encounter electronic smallpipes and piano, accordion, melodeon, five-string banjo, flute, fiddle, whistle, bouzouki, mandolin, harmonica, hand percussion, ukulele-banjo, acoustic bass and many other instruments. Unaccompanied singing is appreciated just as much as a full dance-tune stramash and you’ll hear originals from the 12th the 21st centuries.
The club was formally constituted in at the turn of the millennium when three years of sponsored ‘Seasons of Sessions’ brought in funds, donated by the members who anchored sessions round the Borders. These in turn enabled the first Kelso Free Folk Festival in 2003, supported by a council grant.
Since then the club has been self-supporting with a programme of visiting guest concerts, a regular weekly open session, and frequent contributions to the cultural life of Kelso by taking part in events. One recent event was our own 2008 Burns Supper.
To let our organisers know if you are planning to come along as a new musician, singer or just to listen email david@maxwellplace.demon.co.uk. The club also has a new Website which you can view for more information and events at http://www.kelsofolk.co.uk
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Club Burns Supper, January 2008 Roger and Anneka lock shoulders in the doorway to see what gets into the room first, the whisky or the haggis! 
The beast safely in (the haggis, that is), the best bit of the night commences. (photos by James Shepherd) 
Andrew, John and Debbie do their spot. 
Kelly Glasheen in full song. 
Likewise, David Kilpatrick | 
Typical session at the Cobbles 
Bob with Peter Fry and David Kilpatrick at Kelso Farmers Market, Kelso Square. 
Musicians Peter Fry, Pete Gillespie, Dave Mullen and Ron Hastings entertain at Kelso Farmers Market, Kelso Square. |
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