Who's Who in Scottish Music - K

Last updated: 22nd April 2005

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Keynotes, The This vocal group released an EP, Scotland Forever, with another group, The Stargazers. No date is given on the record. Killies, The Alan Thomson (guitar, tin whistle), Doug Carrie (guitar, harmonica, whistle) and Alan Grant (mandolin) were all from Dundee, and chose their name after their favourite song, The Braes o' Killiecrankie. They performed mainly Scottish, Irish and American material and played in local folk clubs in the late 1960s. Doug Carrie also occasionally performed with singer Heather McKenzie. The group had split by 1970. Kirriedees, The 1972: A duo from Aberdeen, The Kirriedees were students Sheila Cunningham and Chris McChelry.

Killiecrankie were Tom Berry (bass guitar, guitar, electric piano, synthesiser, strings, vocals), and George Boag (vocals, 12 string guitar). In 1981 they were involved in a recording project with two other acts (including The Craven), releasing a single. Kirrie Folk, The Bill Flett and Ferg Ewart, as The Kirrie Folk, were regulars at the Newton Hotel in Kirriemuir, and were resident at the Forfar Folk Club during the late 1960s. They split in 1969 because "Playing at hotels every weekend was becoming just a little too much like work; we weren't enjoying it any more." Kishmals Plankton Danny Martin (guitar, banjo and mandolin), and Stan Davidson, regulars at the Abbey Folk Club in Arbroath, played as Kishmals Plankton in various folk clubs arouns Angus and beyond in the late 1960s.