Top Scottish singer to perform in South Roscommon this weekend

On foot of a highly successful South Roscommon Singers Festival over the Bank Holiday Weekend, the Singers Circle will be back in Murray’s Lounge, Knockcroghery, this Saturday, November 2 for its regular monthly session.

Special guest on the night will one of Scotland’s best singers currently on the scene, Heather Heywood.

She is well known among traditional singers in Scotland and has earned the respect of many of the UK’s top performers, with most regarding her as among the very best of the current generation of Scotland’s traditional singers.

Heather is modest in relation to her own talents and would naturally shy away from any claim to be special, but if you ask any singers in Scotland to name favourites among their peers, Heather’s name will come up again and again.
Heather unquestionably has a rare and beautiful voice, but what distinguishes her singing from many other voices is a quite exceptional depth of understanding about the material.

Beryl Marriott, comparing her with Jeannie Robertson said: “Heather has an impact on people in a way that other special singers like Jeanne Robertson or Lizzie Higgins had. It is not just the voice. It is something else that comes over. She moves people”.

Heather was one of the leading lights of the Kilmarnock Folk Club in the 1970s; one of the organising team behind the Girvan Folk Festival, a festival with strong links to Ireland; and for the last 20 years doing essential behind the scenes work with The Living Tradition magazine.

Admission on Saturday night is free and the singing starts around 9.30pm.
All singers and listeners are welcome.