19 March 2025 – Song Boat from Shetland – Barry Nisbet, Andrea Baldwin, Lizzie Flynn & The Runaway Trains, Good Tunes
Wednesday 19 March 2025 – The End Bar, 73 Vulture Street, West End, Brisbane
Tickets can be purchased online
Entry: Full $20 Pre-Purchase, $25 at the door, Youth (12-18) with paying parent $10, Child U12 free
An evening of folk tunes and songs with touring musician Barry Nisbet (Shetland Islands) + Andrea Baldwin, Lizzie Flynn & The Runaway Trains and hosts The Salty Sirens
- 6.30pm to 7.30pm – learn Good Shetland Tunes with Barry Nisbit. Sheet music provided
- 7:45pm – Andrea Baldwin
- 8:25pm – Lizzie Flynn and The Runaway Trains
- 9:15pm- Barry Nisbet in concert
Barry’s story so far:
I’m a fiddle player, songwriter and composer from Cullivoe, in the Northern parts of Shetland, which is where I spend my non-touring, non-sailing time.
I take a lot of my inspiration from language and dialect, and explore the possibilities these offer in my music, working in Shetland and Orkney dialects as well as English; right now I’m exploring a long-held connection with Norn and Nordic languages.
I’ve produced two albums (so far) of my own music, with the help of some very talented friends – listen at https://bandzoogle.com/albums
I’ve been part of groups such as ‘The Cullivoe Fiddlers’, France-based Americana trio ‘Tildon Krautz’, Dundee punk-bluegrass explosion ‘Wire and Wool’, and Shetland line-up ‘Rack and Ruin’.
In these early weeks of 2025 I’m focusing much of my energy on studying and learning; this will all feed into some new musical projects that will become clear over the coming months. I’ll post updates on my blog https://bandzoogle.com/blog.
These projects promise to be something of a journey, and the destination is as yet unwritten – so there’s lots to reveal and discover together!
I’m the meantime I’m continuing to tour ‘The Springbank Voyage’, with upcoming dates in Scotland and Orkney; I’m enjoying performing this music with some great new line-ups.
I run the Sessions and Sail musical sailing voyages and we’ll be covering more miles than ever before in 2025.
~Barry~
LIZZIE FLYNN & THE RUNAWAY TRAINS
With a combination of lyrical honesty and charming melodies, Lizzie Flynn writes songs that blend a little satirical storytelling with a lot of joyful emotion.
She’ll be joined by the Runaway Trains which includes Hugh Curtis (violin, mandolin) and Sam De Santi (guitar) and Benja King (double bass).
ANDREA BALDWIN
Andrea Baldwin is a dyed-in-the-wool folkie – she sings, she sessions, she even Morris dances. Andrea weaves songs out of life’s everyday adventures, from motherhood to tall ship sailing to forgetting people’s names. Her songs are simple, touching and usually true. Andrea loves audience participation so bring your ears for listening, your voice for singing and your funny bone for tickling.