The Good Lovelies, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

A Canadian Folk night, with pop and country and rock influences thrown in.  Opening were duo The Fortunate Ones.  Guitar keyboard and vocals, mostly self penned material that showed a variety of roots, with some strong melodies and interesting lyrics.  Gentle ballads through to a rockier sound.  They were funny too, an excellent starter act.

The Good Lovelies trio specialise in harmony singing and friendliness.  Aided by a sound, and at times inspired, rhythm section of bass and drums, and sharing guitars and banjo and keyboards themselves, they performed a strong set of their own and traditional songs with a strong pop influence in many of the arrangements.  A highlight was the threesome coming down off the stage to sing unamplified, the purity of their harmonies shown off to full effect.

Enjoyable.