The Great May Day Cabaret 2022

1st May Edinburgh | 2nd May Glasgow

Celebrating international workers’ day and the 125th anniversary of the Scottish TUC.

A top bill of comedy, music and spoken word

EDINBURGH

Sunday 1st May 7.30pm

Southside Community Centre

Performers include singer-songwriter and national treasure Rab Noakes; songwriter and producer Becci Wallace; musician and activist Calum Baird; poet and former refugee and political prisoner Ghazi Hussein;Yemeni Musician Saber Bamatraf; and spoken word artist Iona Lee. Hosted by the incomparable Susan Morrison.  

GLASGOW

Monday 2nd May 7.30pm

Oran Mor, Glasgow

Celebrating international workers’ day are singer-songwriter and national treasure Rab Noakes; harmonica wizard Fraser Speirs; MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards Musician of the Year Iona Fyfe; Gaelic songstress Kathleen MacInnes; comedian Philip Differ; John Byrne Annual Award winner Victoria McNulty; BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2021 Michael Biggins; and the force of nature that is Rosa Moxham.  Compered by the second-best poet to come out of Ayrshire Jim Monaghan and with special guests David Hayman and Roz Foyer STUC General Secretary.

Produced by Fair Pley.

Supported by UNITE, STUC, Edinburgh & Lothians May Day Committee, Art 27, and Peace & Justice Project. 

Fair Pley have been producing the annual Great May Day Cabaret for over ten years.