REGULARS at a Glasgow folk music session were reunited for the first time in four months at a jam session in a park fountain.

The Glasgow Old Time session regulars met on Friday night for a get together and a song in the fountain in Kelvingrove Park on Friday night.

Jeri Foreman, who organises the session - which revolves around a type of American folk music called Old Time - was delighted to be reunited with the friendly group of musicians for a socially-distanced open air jam in the park.

She said: “It’s a really lovely community, I love those guys that would come along regularly. They’re all just such nice people and great players. It was a joy to see them again.”

Jeri started the session in March last year with her friend Laura Wilkie and relies on gigging and hosting sessions for her income.

She said she is on the fence about allowing musicians in pubs again and despite desperately wanting to go back to normal, will not do so until it is safe.

“The point of having a session in the pub is to keep people in and keep people drinking,” she said. “Right now that’s not anyone’s aim, while distancing measures are in place. The whole traditional music scene in Glasgow are really worried about when we can go back because for a lot of us, sessions and ceilidhs are a part of our regular income.”

Despite a four-month break, a video of the group playing on Friday night showed them playing as tight as ever. Jeri said that, despite it feeling a bit “rocky” at points, the players slotted back into the swing of things as if there had been no break.

Glasgow Old Time session was started by the two musicians who shared a love of the genre, which is the oldest type of folk music in America to bring together influences from African-American, white Appalachians and Native Americans.

She said: “It’s where all those styles came together and me and Laura are really into it. We thought there were so many traditional Scottish sessions going on, so we wanted to start a bit of an Old Time thing going.

“It was the first time we’d played together since Covid and there were times where it felt a little bit rocky but it definitely felt good to be back into it. I hadn’t forgotten as much as I thought I had.”

Jeri, from Adelaide, South Australia, plays a few styles of fiddle and got into Old Time when she was asked by the grandmother of one of her fiddle students to teach her it and play it her pub.

The Scottish government’s current guidelines say that it is hoped live events can be restarted in hhase three of lifting lockdown measures, with more venues allowed to reopen as the country moves into phase four.