A modern wandering minstrel will be on a pub crawl with a difference in Dunfermline next weekend.
Jonathan Cairney wants to visit all of the town’s hostelries singing a song or two in each in one day, and all in aid of the Chldren’s Hospice Association Scotland.
With guitar in hand, the teacher will start next Saturday, June 18, at the Carnegie Birthplace Museum at 10.30am. He will end up almost 14 hours later at PJ Molloy’s for a final performance.
Jonathan, who did something similar as a student in Kirkcaldy a decade ago, will be joined by fellow musicians George Murray and Stuart Bell and volunteers to drive the van and set up equipment.
Jonathan will perform the same two folky comic songs in each pub “unless I get sick of them.”
The schedule will take in a five-minute performance in 28 places in the town centre and outlying areas as well.
Jonathan’s effort has won wide support and even Belhaven, which owns two of Dunfermline’s biggest pubs The Seven Kings and The Brasshouse has waived its traditional no-music rule.
He said, “While it’s all about raising money for CHAS, it is a way of supporting pubs and getting the whole town involved too. If pub owners see it can be successful, maybe it can lead to other things in the future.”