Vancouver Island folksinger Eileen McGann plays the Cuckoo's Nest tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. with a mix of material made for the London folk club's fans.
McGann will divide the evening between her own songs, including environmentalist compositions, and the Celtic-flavoured material she played at the start of her career. It used to be more McGann and less traditional songs when she began to write her own material. Tomorrow, the mix will be a Cuckoo's Nest special.
"I think Cuckoo's Nest is more traditional than that, so it will probably be 50-50," McGann says. The oldest song in her repertoire is likely a lament for the mistress of Henry II, an English king during the 12th-century. "The poor girl.
She was 15 and he was all-powerful," she says. The old song's themes about power and powerlessness and the casual cruelty of those in authority are also in her new material, she says. The Cuckoo's Nest is at Chaucer's pub, 122 Carling St.
Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door.
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