Established as recently as February of this year, the weekly RootsBase series of gigs, held in the Rose Theatre’s Gilded Balloon Basement, is already proving to be a very welcome addition to Edinburgh’s music scene. On 26th March, it was the turn of Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter and pianist, Kim Edgar, to grace this intimate space and she was given a suitably warm and rousing welcome to the stage. The opening song, the gracefully lilting Leaf For A Sail, was inspired by a line from a John Glenday poem and served early notice of Kim Edgar’s gifts as a storyteller in song. Edgar informed us that she had delivered on her promise to write three new songs in time for this gig and the first of these was You Are Loved, a heartfelt and heart-warming message to mark her niece’s 18th birthday. Anchor In The Sky used the North Star as a motif in a moving tribute to the Good Samaritans of this world. Having once been dubbed “Edinburgh’s very own Tori Amos”, Kim Edgar is equally adept at crafting songs which are deliciously dark and edgy and this was exemplified by the heady swirl and underlying menace of Scissors, Paper, Stone. Edgar’s graceful vocals positively soared on the sweeping and majestic Red, an affectionate reflection on her mum’s early life growing up in Bathgate.