Clutha Open Mic 22nd November 2006

Sandy Watson got the ball rolling as usual, with a couple of quiet ballads 'Texas Borderline' and 'Love hurts' then the first person to get up was Alex Mack with his banjo and he did a couple of songs 'Come travelling with me' and 'Venus'.
Sandy Watson
Alex Mack

Next up was Willie 'Jukebox' Mathews and Fraser Lindsay who gave us a couple of blues numbers 'Rock me Baby' and 'Messin' with the Man' which were both well received.
Willie Mathews & Fraser Lindsay
Sandy then had another lovely ballad 'Everything Flows' before handing over to Gerry McDade who sang two of his own compositions 'Unsinkable boat' and 'Vicki'.
Gerry McDade
Elspeth Durkin & Bob Leslie
Duncan Adams
Bob Leslie was next up and gave us yet another original song, from his album Tales from the Mine, 'First man on the moon'. Elspeth Durkin then joined him for the harmonies on 'Dixie Chicken' which got everyone tapping their feet again.
After them came Duncan Adams singing 'The one I love' and then 'I don't care if you love me anymore'.
The ever popular Joe MacAtamy then gave us his rendition of 'Ride on' followed by Kevin Young singing 'What in the world has come over me and his own song 'Sad song to see'.
Kevin Young
Robert Walser
Next up was our corriefisted player[ left handed for the non-scottish readers]Robert Walser, gave room quietening renditions of 'Wooden Chair' and 'Storm'!
Dennis 'the menace' followed Robert with two songs 'I cried last night' and 'I can see clearly now'. Then Bob and Elspeth got up again and sang 'I'll never fall in love again' and 'Take another piece of y heart' much to the delight of the audience, who were joining in with the choruses.
Duncan got back up and gave us his signature tune of 'Where am I gonna live?' followed by Alex singing the Monkees song 'I'm a believer' on banjo! with strong participation by the majority of the audience.
Joe MacAtamy
Sara Hunter
Joe Mac then gave a lovely renditionof "My bonnie heilan' lassie".
At this point Sandy invited up Sandra Hunter who, rather than singing, gave us a wonderful poem she had wrtten about the life of the singer Donovan called simply "Don's song"
Last performers of the evening were Willie Mathews with Fraser singing 'The will has gone'.
There then followed an accoustic session whilst the equipment was put away,
with the bar staff eventually managing to move everyone out by removing any drinks which were not finished in time!!