OOTB 510 – 2nd March – John Crawford
Dear Sir/Madam. I am writing to you hoping all is well and good to attend what will be a great Saturday night of original live music coming our way.
Featured act this week is John Crawford. Usually when these write-ups are in progress the world wide web is often utilised to retrieve whatever information necessary to complete the task. Concerning the name ‘John Crawford’ and adding alongside it ‘Edinburgh music’ in the search-box I get as a result one long dead Scottish landscape painter, an accordionist, a violin professor, someone who works at Morrisons Supermarket and a person who has his vicious looking pet dog as a profile picture on Facebook. So it’s just as well I’ve seen John play several times out on the live circuit. His songs are carefully crafted works which have a folk/country influence clearly coming through. The lyrics are sensitive and take you on a rolling journey of human emotion sung with the subtle warmth of John’s confident smooth vocals. I’ve enjoyed all his performances and I’m sure you will too. Well worth seeing.
Slots for stage time are open for the taking as usual. OOTB starts at 8pm, but it’s wise to get there before 7:30pm to confirm one of those slots. Our weekly raffle will summon the famous silver bag of dreams to present the chosen one with a present of delight and wonder, to wonder over.
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See you there, not even the chair…
Yours faithfully, TB 😀