APPEARING in Scotland for the first time this month is BaBushKa, a live music and theatre revue dedicated to the music of Kate Bush. Its dates in Edinburgh, Arisaig and Aviemore follow sell-out shows in Northern Ireland, home to the company behind it, Blunt Fringe Productions.
Inspired by the fringe theatre of London and Edinburgh, where established actors can perform in smaller venues in between bigger jobs, the company features Fra Fee, an award-winning West End performer and actor in Tom Hooper’s 2012 film Les Miserables.
In BaBushKa, Fee plays keyboards in accompaniment to his sister Nan, who conceived and stars in the show dedicated to the work of the truly outstanding Bush.
The Fees are originally from Dungannon, County Tyrone, and Nan, a music teacher, now teaches primary school children on the Isle of Eigg following a recent move there. She has since enlisted the talents of musicians local to the Hebrides, such as Daimh’s Ross Martin, The Poozies’s Tia Files and Kenny Knowles, for these shows, so this run will be a bigger tribute to the revered writer and performer of the likes of the perennially astonishing Wuthering Heights, Bush’s 1978 number one debut single which was written when she was just 18.
July 12, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 8.30pm, £10. Tickets: bit.ly/BaBushKaEdinburgh
July 13, Arisaig Hotel, Arisaig, Lochaber, 9pm.
July 15, Old Bridge Inn, Aviemore, 9pm www.facebook.com/MeandBabushka www.bluntfringe.com
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