CLYDESDALE Folk Club have pulled off a great coup in landing the legendary 70’s folk-rock group the JSD Band for a concert at this year’s Biggar Little Festival.

Formed in 1969, the band achieved world wide acclaim with their exciting approach to folk music.

Their first three albums, Country of the Blind, JSD Band and Travelling Days have become collector’s pieces. Songs such as ‘Sarah Jane’, ‘Groundhog’,’ Fishin’ Blues’, ‘Galway Races’ and the Woody Guthrie classic ‘Going Down That Old Dusty Road’, were given the unique JSD Band treatment.

The band played through the 70’s breaking up in the latter part but made a brief reunion with a different line up in the mid 90’s.

Last year the original members got together at Stonehouse Folk Club for a fabulous sell out reunion concert and followed that up with a concert in their home town of Rutherglen and an appearance at the Lomond Folk Festival.

The five original members Jim Divers on bass, Sean O’Rourke on flute and acoustic guitar, Des Coffield on banjo and electric guitar, Chuck Fleming on fiddle and drummer Colin Finn will be together again to provide a rare chance to see a band which greatly influenced many of the bands which followed after them.

As an appetiser, the opening act will be Lanark duo Touchwood, Hunter McConnell and Dougie Semple. Dougie and the late Seamus Flafferty provided support to the JSD Band in one of their last appearances in Clydesdale at Cartland Bridge Hotel in the late 70s. Touchwood last year released their excellent debut CD ‘Our Turn’ This concert is at Biggar Municipal Hall on Thursday, October 23, and doors will be open at 7pm for an 8pm start.

Admission will be by ticket only. Tickets priced £15 (£12 for Clydesdale Folk Club members) for this exciting concert are now on sale online at www.biggar-little-festival.com , and also in person at Atkinson Pryce Books in Biggar High Street.