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Star entertainers Mark Thomas and Rab Noakes (below), along with author Owen Jones, are the headline acts in this year’s international workers festival celebrations in Glasgow and elsewhere in west Scotland.
Festival organisers Friends of MayDay anticipate that like last year the May 5 cabaret at Oran Mor in Glasgow will sell out, with comic Thomas returning with Marxist magician Ian Saville, the superb harmonica player Fraser Speirs and that doyen of political song, Arthur Johnstone.
Making a huge contribution to the programme as a whole, renowned singer-songwriter Rab Noakes is not only starring in the main Oran Mor show but headlines two new cabaret venues in Dumfries
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