The Bert Jansch Foundation, a charitable trust, is sending four guitars around the world for Bert Jansch enthusiasts to run events and/or film performances to keep his music alive. My associate Steve McCann ran a public event last weekend in Belfast at the Black Box café, which he invited me to play at. The invitation resulted in a new song and it seemed I might as well go the whole hog and film it for the Foundation’s online collection. I added ‘Blues For a Green Earth’, an instrumental I recorded with Bert in 2004.
Big thanks to the award-winning Mark Case for filming this, and to Lamppost Café legends Mary Armstrong and Victoria Armstrong-Corbett for staying late letting us film in their fabulous first-floor room. No coffee (regrettably) was consumed in the making of this video. I’m sure we can make up for that in the fullness of time.
More info on the Around the World venture here. Get in touch if you’re a BJ fan, get involved…
https://80plays.bertjanschfoundation.org/
That’s great Colin – congratulations and thanks for posting. As well as Bert, a touch of the Andy Whites about the song…
Really? I’ve never heard him. But thanks for listening 🙂 Give it a go yourself…
Probably just putting two Belfast songwriters together and imagining a link where none exists! At least I didn’t compare you with Van….
Ah, the accents. Well, we can’t help them – at least I can’t. Van’s is unique to him – nobody else around here actually speaks like that. Andy White, from what I recall of passing hearings of songs decades ago, has a strangely camp sounding Belfast accent. But maybe we all sound like that to non-natives…