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Once a month (and sometimes twice) the joint is jumping and what we guarantee is happy, smiling faces. Since Brookfield Nights began, some top names have passed through. Everybody has a ball and each time, a charity benefits as profits go to a worthy causes.
Among those we have helped are:
 ROKPA, the charity which does so much valuable work in Nepal with Tibetan refugees.
Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue Trust, the hospital for wild creatures large and small in Ayrshire.
Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust
The Tsunami Disaster Appeal
Swarbaid, to help British folk legend Dave Swarbrick (Fairport Convention) get back on his feet after double lung transplant surgery.
African Youth Development Action Project, towards sports training initiatives for young people in Liberia.
Brookfield Nights may be popular with our regulars but musicians also enjoy our beautiful village hall as one of the better of the small-is-beautiful gigs in Scotland. |
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We aim to encourage more local communities to join with us to try and develop a circuit, using Brookfield as an example of what can be achieved in a rural setting.
In the past, we have been entertained by world-class performers such as Huun-Huur-Tu, The Bills and The Paperboys, Stairwell Sisters, Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three, Chris Smither, Gurf Morlix, Laura Boosinger, Alastair Moock, Beverly Smith & Carl Jones, Backstreet, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike, The Wilders, Hunger Mountain Boys, The Hot Seats, The Wiyos, The Groanbox Boys, Packway Handle Band, Earl Brothers and The Crooked Jades; great home-based talent such as Andy Fairweather Low, The Classic Jazz Orchestra, Vatersay Boys, Michael Marra, Fraser Fifield, Lee Patterson, Doghouse Roses, Jackie Leven, Rory McLeod, Mike Whellans, Yvonne Lyon, The Lost Brothers, Crescent City Soul, The Border Boogie Band, Black Rose Ceilidh Band, Rockin' Horse, The Accelerators, Glasgow Gospel Choir and Back Of The Moon; Cajun hot shots Bayous from Denmark; Roll's Boys from the Czech Republic; Eva Eastwood, Olav Larsen & The Alabama Rodeo Stars and Willy Clay Band from Sweden...and the one and only Lollo Meier Quartet, featuring Tcha Limberger.
What do they share in common? They all want to return, and some have indeed been welcomed back.
Keep checking our forthcoming attractions list below for all of the news on who’s on next at Brookfield, as well as The Steeple Hall and Old Library in Kilbarchan, where the best of roots music is also showcased regularly. |
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 |
| Woody Pines – (£12.00) |
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 Last time Woody Pines toured over here as a trio, reviewers unanimously declared them to be one of the most entertaining acts on the Americana circuit. Now, as a four-piece, and with a brand new album to promote, the band is returning for their biggest ever UK tour to date, and promising once more to deliver what The Scotsman declared was "a rollicking and engagingly idiosyncratic" show.
Front man Woody's impeccable playing combines with slide guitar, slap bass, percussion and occasional clarinet, and they all sing and make what Maverick magazine described as "an intoxicating blend of rural and urban stringband, country blues, ragtime and jug band music".
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Saturday, March 10, 2012 |
| The one and only Chris Smither (£12.50) |
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 We are delighted to welcome Chris back to Brookfield where he played a stormer to a capacity crowd in 2008.
We can't wait for this one!
"Smither is among the finest acoustic guitarists anywhere in American music (Bonnie Raitt calls him my Eric Clapton), and his songs, while banked in the blues, are as modern as tomorrow’s newspaper" - The Boston Globe
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