During the first Folk-on-Fort Front Room Festival, I was particularly struck by Karene Polwitz description of the amazing community spirit in her home village of Pathhead Midlothian during the lockdown.

She talked about the way people had rallied around and come together to help each other.

And then I got an email from the harpist, Karina Huat,

who also lives in the village and said,

you do know there's more than two musicians who live here, don't you?

You should come and meet them.

So here we are in Pathhead Midlothian,

about to go on a journey from house to house in search of music.

And we're hoping that we're going to meet Inga Thompson, Martin Green from Lao,

Karina Hewatt herself, and her husband, Dave Milligan, the pianist, who's recently collaborated with Karene Polward,

jazz singer Sophie Bancroft and her partner Tom Line, who's a bass player, and Amy Geddiss, the fiddle player. And we're hoping now to bump into

Corrine Polwood. Corrine, it's lovely to see you and love you to be at your house, because I feel like

I've been inside your house on the front room festivals.

I feel like I've seen inside it before.

Just tell me a little bit about Pathead Midlodian.

Is it a remarkable architectural village?

Are there any interesting buildings here?

Well, the core kind of artery of the village, which is part of the A68, which runs down to Jedburgh. There are a lot of old houses on there, so there's kind of houses that date village which is part of the A68 which runs down to Jedburgh

there are a lot of old houses on there so there's kind of houses that date from the 1700s

so there are some conservation buildings on the main part of the village and that's what you would

notice if you drove through it but actually most of the village is this bit behind so it's kind

of 1950s 1970s scheme housing if you know what I mean which is where I

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