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Article: Music lovers tune up for town's first folk festival

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August 20, 1999
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THE organisers of Linlithgow's first folk festival have put together a pre-festival programme of events to whet music-lovers' appetites.

The festival will be held next month with a weekend of traditional music, dance and song which includes a family ceilidh, workshops, gigs in pubs and street entertainment.

The pre-festival events will be held later this month in the Black Bitch pub in Linlithgow.

Falkirk favourites The Curragh will play live folk music in the pub a week tomorrow.

The following Saturday, local musicians and singers will be given the opportunity to perform at an open stage evening.

The organisers of the event, Linlithgow Folk Festival Association, have also produced a leaflet ...

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