Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

WOW! Scottish Folk Icon DICK GAUGHAN is coming to Victoria! Dick is perhaps the most influential singer and guitarist of all time to come out of Scotland. There is NO ONE else like him and this is a rare appearance on Vancouver Island. This is one concert to say you were there for! When it comes to folk music legends they don't come much bigger than the man from Leith. Dick Gaughan, pushing 70, has been around the block and back again and his impassioned style of playing and singing aligned with his strong sense of humane socialist politics has created a powerful body of work over the years. He is, in every sense, a protest singer, albeit one with a firm moral backbone and a way with melody that touches a nerve and stirs deep emotions, be they of anger or a wistful kind of nostalgia. ... more...