Perth folk sensation Beth Malcolm is getting set to perform her new album to hometown audiences across two nights at the end of January.
The 27-year-old former Perth High School pupil has just won Scots Singer of the Year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards for the second time in her career.
Beth said of the Perth gigs: “I feel so honoured to be playing not one but two hometown shows – which will be my biggest gigs to date.
“To be able to share these songs with Perth Theatre audiences in a space that has a special place in my heart will be unforgettable and I look forward to brightening people’s nights this January.
“It’s been an incredible year, rounded off with the great honour of being named Scots Singer of the Year and I’m looking forward to starting 2025 on a high.”
Beth – who also won the MG ALBA Scots Singer of the Year title in 2022 – quickly became known for her deft storytelling and stunning vocals after winning a coveted Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections 2019.
Her second album FOLKMOSIS is in three acts – taking listeners and audiences on a journey from the traditional music and Scots tongue she was brought up with, through an eclectic mix of modern, neo-soul and jazz influences that soundtracked her later years.
The album will be brought to life for Perth audiences on Thursday January 30 and Friday January 31.
Born out of a New Voices commission for Celtic Connections, FOLKMOSIS, released in November, celebrates connections to land and language through shared music, and how the different threads and experiences in our lives can weave together over time.
Audiences can expect moving modern and traditional folk songs woven together by captivating spoken word to form a musical coming of age story and an exploration of what it means to belong.
Beth said: “Creating FOLKMOSIS has been the joy of my life. I wanted to create a musical story and an absorbing world that people can immerse themselves in. To find songs, learned through osmosis years ago, which echo how you feel inside, and how you feel about the world around you, is a profound experience.”
Beth’s inimitable vocals and beguiling spoken word will be accompanied on stage across the two nights by some of Scotland’s finest musicians in the folk and jazz scene, including David Bowden (bass), Heather Cartwright (acoustic guitar), Callum Convoy (bodhrán), Eryn Rae (fiddle), Andrew Waite (accordion),Laura Penman (clarsach), Dorian Cloudsley (electric guitar), Alan Benzie (piano), Dorian Cloudsley(piano), Mark Scobbie (drum kit) and Tiernan Courell (flute, whistles, bansuri).
Beth has collaborated with a number of Scotland’s finest outfits including Fat-Suit and Adam Holmes, sang with Gaelic electronic pioneers Niteworks on the hit track John Riley, has toured extensively and recently lent her voice to new electronic musical project LUSA.
Beth Malcolm will play Perth Theatre on Thursday and Friday January 30 and 31.
Tickets are available at www.perththeatreandconcerthall.com/whats-on/beth-malcolm-folkmosis-328402.