News
Folk hero to mark birthday with gigs
NORTH-EAST folk singer Vin Garbutt will
play several dates in the region to mark his
60th birthday.
The Middlesbrough born singer-songwriter
will play three nights across the North-East
as part of his seven-month world tour to commemorate
the milestone.
He will perform at Reeth Memorial Hall, in
Swaledale, North Yorkshire, on Friday, the following
night he will play Sedgefield Cricket
Club, County Durham, and he will be at Middlesbrough
Knights Club on January 30.
Mr Garbutt has been touring with his
thought-provoking songs for more than 35
years.
In 2001, he was awarded Best Live Act in the
Radio 2 Folk Awards and awarded an honorary
masters degree at Teesside University for his
services to music.
Ticket prices and show times vary. For
Reeth, call 01748-884759, for Sedgefield, call
01740-621347, and for the Middlesbrough date,
call 01642-228330.
9:32am Friday 18th January 2008
Print 
Email this 
Comment
What are these links for?
If you liked this article and would like to share it with others on the web who might be searching for good content we've made it easy for you to do it.
At the bottom of all articles, you'll see links to six sites. These sites - commonly called 'social bookmark' or 'social news' sites - have large communities of web users who share and rate interesting, useful and fun things on the web.
Clicking the links will automatically add the address of the story you are reading to one of these sites, letting you share it with others. Each site will ask you to register to share stories. Registration is free and once a member, you can store, recommend and search for stories that interest you.
More on Digg
More on del.icio.us
More on Furl
More on reddit
More on NowPublic/
More on Yahoo!
