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Singer-songwriter and live musician from Edinburgh, Scotland

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Hello everyone and welcome to the 3rd Friday of 2020. I hope we’re all settling into the new year as well as is possible! I’m playing my first gig of the year next Thursday (23rd) at the Leith Festival Burns Night in the Leith Docker’s Club. I’ll be performing Burns’ classic poem, “A Man’s A Man”. It’s a great piece of literary work all about the fraternities all people share regardless of race, creed or class. I’m really looking forward to playing, Leith Festival is a wonderful community initiative and I say all power to them. More events like Leith Festival, less Underbelly! 🌛🚩

As the end of the decade approaches, I would just like to thank everyone who has been there with me and supported me throughout my journey as a musician and singer-songwriter. If you went out your way to watch me play, or bought a CD, downloaded or streamed my songs, booked me for a gig or told a friend about my music, thank you. To all the musicians, poets, playwrights and promoters, venue managers, union reps and sound engineers that I met and made my experiences of playing richer and better, thank you. Since I began writing, recording and performing in 2013, I’ve played all over the UK, in Ireland, Spain, Germany and Portugal. Each gig taught me something about myself, my music, where we were both going and I am grateful to everyone who gave me the opportunity to play at festivals and gigs in the towns and cities in these countries. To all the friends I picked up along the way, thank you too. Being a solo musician can be a lonely experience sometimes but meeting other musicians doing the same things and swapping mad stories and great experiences has been wonderful. Who knows where the 2020s will take me, I certainly don’t. I’m not even sure if I’ll still be singing and writing songs. But, if I am, I will continue to be grateful for the help, support and new experiences you all give me. Happy New Year to you all when it comes. 🌛

Another Hallowe’en party, another Fidel costume. The benefits of having a beard are limitless! @elmcc ✊🎃👻🇨🇺🌹

Spent the past week becoming one with nature and English real ale in Shropshire. . . . 🌲🌧🌞🍁🍻🌜

Meeting the locals and making friends out in the English countryside.

Out in the wild photographing nature with my Praticka MTL5 camera, made in the DDR. . . . 📷🌹🌜

Next Wednesday night, I play at the For the Many Cabaret in The Rum Shack Glasgow at 7:30pm alongside Becci Wallace, Victoria McNulty, Paul McDaniel and Tickle. I will also be playing the For the Many Cabaret in Edinburgh on October 31st in The Wee Red Bar and then in Livingston on November 1st. For the Many is an evening of Music, Poetry and Comedy in support of the ideas behind the Corbyn manifesto, hosted by Jim Monaghan. Entry is £10 (£5 concession) and tickets can be bought at the links below or entry is payable on the door. Sponsored by UNITE, UNISON and ASLEF. Glasgow: www.eventbrite.com/e/for-the-many-tickets-74951175985 Edinburgh: www.eventbrite.com/e/for-the-many-edinburgh-tickets-74954301333

Falls of Dochart. Water, rocks and @elmcc

Evening all! I hope you’re all enjoying the week. Firstly, I want to thank everyone who’s listened to Modern Man over the past 5 days, to everyone who’s shared it, added it to their playlists and those who have written about it also. I’m glad so many of you like the song and I hope you’ll carry on listening to it and sharing it with your friends and anyone else. Secondly, I play in The Wee Red Bar on Friday night with Jack Hinks and Shuna Lovelle. Doors open at 7pm and we’ll playing for you until 10pm. Entry is £5 and, if I may so, that’s a total steal. So please, come along. We look forward to seeing you 🌜 Picture is by Tricia Yourkevich/BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals.

Calum Baird

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