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This summer’s biggest party and you’re invited…again!

Linlithgow :: 10-11 August :: www.partyatthepalace.co.uk BUY YOUR TICKETS @ www.loopconnect.net/item/202/party-at-the-palace-10th-and-11th-august-2019/ The award-winning Party at the Palace is delighted to announce who will be performing for 2019. This is the sixth outing for the Linlithgow festival and is set to be another highlight in Scotland’s live music calendar.

Taking the top spots are The Charlatans and KT Tunstall (Saturday) and Deacon Blue and Wet Wet Wet (Sunday) and the rest of the weekend’s acts are sure to prove a hit with Party at the Palace regulars.

In addition to two days of great live music, the festival will also feature a fun fair, kids’ entertainment, a market area, a street food scene, and a pamper zone. The whole weekend will also be compered by popular presenters from Forth One. Co-Producer, John Richardson is thrilled to be bringing such an impressive line up to his home town ..... “We say the same each year, however, we are genuinely delighted with this year’s line-up. There is something for everyone with some truly iconic Scottish acts, some festival favourites and great new bands who will perhaps go on to headline festivals in years to come.”

Fellow producer Peter Ferguson is proud of the festival’s eco policies ..... “We are aiming to become one of the first carbon neutral music festivals this year. This follows on from the massive reduction of plastic in 2018 where plastic cups were replaced with compostable

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cups, there were no plastic cutlery or food containers and no plastic straws either.”

audience and what a treat to get to play in such a stunning location. So, come and dance the night away with us on what’s guaranteed to be a special night!’

Deacon Blue frontman, Ricky Ross is looking forward to the band’s return to the www.partyatthepalace.co.uk festival ..... “We’re delighted to be headlining www.twitter.com/PartyAtPalace the Sunday night of Party at the Palace. Since playing the first Party five years ago we hear it’s www.facebook.com/partyatthepalacelinlithgow got bigger and better than ever and we can’t PATP Line-up ..... Sunday 11 August wait to perform in the great shadow of Deacon Blue Saturday 10 August Linlithgow Palace again.”

Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet are also excited about being part of this year’s line up ..... We’re absolutely delighted to be one of the headliners at Party at The Palace this summer. There’s no better feeling than playing to a Scottish

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Fun Lovin’ Criminals Craig Charles Funk & Soul Club Tide Lines ..... plus, many more.

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Scottish Sea Farms and Oban Live team up in nationwide talent hunt Oban :: 7-8 June :: www.obanlive.com BUY YOUR TICKETS @ www.obanlive.com

Argyll’s biggest outdoor live music concert Oban Live has teamed up with leading salmon grower Scottish Sea Farms to give talented musicians the opportunity to win a stage slot at the rural stadium gig this June.

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The winners will join a whole stream of international Celtic, rock and folk acts confirmed for the 2019 event, attended by thousands on June 7 & 8, including Skerryvore, We Banjo 3, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, Lucy Spraggan and more.

The new Scottish Sea Farms Unsigned Oban Live campaign launched on social media on Tuesday night and is now open for entries. Two slots at Oban Live 2019 are up for grabs, with one winning act being from the local area of Oban and one from the rest of Scotland. A panel of judges will select a shortlist from each category and then it will be up to the public to vote for the winners.

The competition sees big changes this year with opportunities widened up to the whole of Scotland and the introduction of a new title sponsor Scottish Sea Farms.

Georgie Mackenzie, Coordinator for Scottish Sea Farms’ Heart of the Community initiative said: “Encouraging and supporting emerging talent is something we put a lot into at Scottish Sea Farms, both in terms of our own teams and the local communities in which we live and work. So to be approached

about partnering Unsigned Oban Live seemed like a really good fit; one that will give even more local and Scottish talent the chance to shine.”

Daniel Gillespie, Managing Director for Oban Live and co-founder of Skerryvore who started the event in 2016, said: “We are incredibly grateful for the support from

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Scottish Sea Farms. Their Heart of the Community initiative is well suited to our talent competition and the event itself as bringing people and musicians together for the good of the community is at the core of everything we do here at Oban Live.”

He added: “Not only is Oban Live the perfect stage for musicians to showcase their talents in front of thousands, but it is also an excellent opportunity to get hands-on experience of performing in a stadium-sized arena. Good luck to all who enter. We look forward to receiving entries and seeing who the public chooses in the coming months.”

The prize package also includes a performance slot at the Official Oban Live 2019 After Party at The View, Oban, a major part of the Oban Live Fringe Programme, £300 towards expenses and access to the concert both days so they can enjoy the party too. Winners and shortlisted artistes will be able to enjoy some well-earned attention in campaign promotions on Oban Live and Scottish Sea Farms social platforms and beyond.

Those shortlisted in the local category will also battle it out at a special shortlist night in April at The View, Oban, as part of their campaign for votes.

Musicians interested in entering will be asked to submit examples of work including live performance footage and links to music. To enter and for full terms and conditions visit www.obanlive.com/unsigned.

Tickets are on sale now for Oban Live which takes place on 7 & 8 June at Mossfield Stadium in Oban.

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KT Tunstall And The Shires To Headline Hebcelt This Summer Hebrides :: 17-20 July :: www.hebceltfest.com BUY YOUR TICKETS @ www.hebceltfest.com/booking

The multi-million-selling singer songwriter KT Tunstall and award-wining duo The Shires are the latest headliners to be announced for the Hebridean Celtic Festival this summer.

Eight years after last appearing at the internationallyrenowned festival, KT Tunstall will top the bill on the Friday of HebCelt week, which runs from 17-20 July in Lewis and Harris.

The Shires will headline the Saturday programme of the event, which is being held for the 24th consecutive year.

line-up. They are outstanding artists who have rightly won acclaim, both here and in the US, and we look forward to seeing them on the HebCelt stage.”

Celebrating a decade in music, Newton Faulkner has sold more than 1.5 million records, with 180 million streams, making him one of the UK’s most successful singer-songwriters this millennium. Last year he took to the stage in Jeff Wayne's UK Arena tour of The War of the Worlds.

He comes to HebCelt as part of a major UK tour in the spring and releases a 31-track album ‘The Very Best of Newton Faulkner…So Far’ next month. It will feature fans’ favourites, new songs and some newlyrecorded live versions of iconic songs, including Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.

The HebCelt line-up so far looks like – Thursday - Tide Lines, Mànran, Kim Carnie, Beinn Lee.

HebCelt favourites Mänran are one of the best-loved Scottish bands on the scene today. Their 2011 debut single ‘Latha Math’ began their meteoric rise which saw them playing many of the most prestigious festivals in Europe a few months after forming. A multi-award-winning debut album followed and the band have not stopped since, with appearances across Weekend tickets for this year’s festival also go on sale Scotland and Europe. today from www.hebceltfest.com Acclaimed contemporary Gaelic singer Kim Carnie has HebCelt also confirmed today (14 Feb) eleven other acts, including Newton Faulkner, one of the UK’s most successful singer songwriters. They join the previously announced Tide Lines, Talisk and FARA in a strong and diverse line-up that showcases the vibrant Scottish traditional and contemporary music scene.

many other strings to her bow. She is the voice of KT Tunstall’s career was launched in 2004 with the THQ Nordic’s ‘Black Mirror’, the first videogame to release of her debut album ‘Eye to the Telescope’ feature Gaelic song, and also appears on the second, which went on to sell over five million copies. The following year she outsold every other female artist in ‘The Bard’s Tale’, a live premiere of which was performed at Celtic Connections recently. the UK and went on to be nominated for a Mercury Prize, BRIT Award for Best British Live Act. A law graduate, she has soundtrack and on-screen In 2006, she won an Ivor Novello best song award for appearances in Netflix’s ‘Outlaw King’ and is also a sought-after Gaelic TV presenter.

‘Suddenly I See’ and in 2007 ‘Black Horse and the Cherry Tree’ earned her a Grammy. She relocated to Kim released her debut EP in 2017, featuring some of California in 2012 and was accepted as one of six the best names in the folk scene, and has since annual fellows for the Sundance Film Institute’s performed across Europe and made eight appearance Composers Lab (hosted by George Lucas’s Skywalker at last year’s Celtic Connections, including with Ranch in Northern California) and has since scored Niteworks, with the BBC Scottish Symphony music for short and feature films.

Orchestra, as part of an ensemble of Gaelic singers KT is currently on tour following the release last year of her sixth album ‘WAX’, the second part of a ‘spirit, body and mind’ trilogy.

and in two sold-out shows with her own band.

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Lorde and Tom Waits.

The Youth And Young are an eight-piece band from the east coast of Scotland who play “panoramic indiefolk”. Formed in 2012, they released an EP and single the following year and in 2016 issued their debut album ‘Gestures’. They are currently recording a new record and their HebCelt appearance will be one of few 2019 live performances.

Saturday - The Shires, Elephant Sessions, Talisk, Jake Morrell, Awkward Family Portraits and Keir Gibson

Six-piece traditional outfit, Beinn Lee, from Uist, released their debut album ‘Osgarra’ last year and will Elephant Sessions, who exploded onto the indie folk She said: “I can’t wait to come back and play HebCelt. issue a new single this spring. scene in recent years, will release their third album It’s an excellent festival with a great vibe. A real Formed in 2013, the band’s combination of accordion, next month, ahead of visits to the US and Australia diamond of the summer.” fiddle, pipes/flute, guitar, piano, drums and vocals and a welcome return to HebCelt during a UK tour.

The Shires were formed in 2013 when Ben Earle made have made them increasingly in demand at festivals, Having appeared at some of the world’s most notable a plea on Facebook for a female singer with a mutual including HebCelt and Celtic Connections, and they have also supported artists such as Sharon Shannon. festivals, they notched up a number of accolades last love of country music. A year later, he and Crissie year including winning Album of the Year at the Trad Rhodes signed for Decca Records and have gone on to Friday - KT Tunstall, Newton Faulkner, Fara, Awards, being shortlisted for Best Group at the BBC play Glastonbury, tour with Irish chart-toppers The Radio 2 Awards and collecting the first Belhaven Breabach, Roseanne Reid and The Youth Corrs, present awards at the C2C (Country to Bursary for innovation in music. They were also And Young.

Country) awards and release two gold-certified shortlisted for Scottish Album of the Year and albums.

The multi award-winning contemporary folk band performed at the Edinburgh Hogmanay celebrations.

Breabach continue to build their reputation of being at The Shires also became the first UK act to win a the forefront of the UK’s world and roots music scene. Jake Morrell, from Norfolk, came to attention after prestigious CMA Award, the Jeff Walker Global Artist featuring on Dermot O’Leary’s Radio 2 Show. One Last year they performed tours in Australia, Canada Award, which recognises achievements from artists influential listener was Glastonbury boss Emily Eavis, and Europe and released their sixth studio album outside the US. who asked Jake to perform at the iconic festival.

‘Frenzy of the Meeting’.

Their third album, ‘Accidentally on Purpose’, released His debut single ‘Wire and Thorns’ reached No.2 in the The success follows the band picking up Best Folk last year, was made in Nashville where the duo have iTunes country charts on the first day of release and Band and Best Album titles at the MG ALBA Scots Trad made a name for themselves in the home of country led to Jake being invited to perform at the C2C music. It features a track, ‘Stay and Night’ which was Music Awards in 2016, as well as nominations for Best festival.

Group at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and European written by Ed Sheeran who is one of the many leading Album of the Year in the Songlines Music Awards. writers who are fans.

Glasgow-based Awkward Family Portraits have been Edinburgh singer songwriter Roseanne Reid was playing roots music to the streets of Glasgow since They said: “We are both so excited to be playing the nominated for the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award in 2016 and Keir Gibson, from Fort William, got his start festival. Looks like a magical place to play, and 2015 and in the same year was selected by Steve in music by uploading cover versions of his favourite Scottish audiences are always amazing.”

Earle for a scholarship at his song writing camp in artists to Facebook which led to an invite to play the New York. He selected her for a scholarship again the Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival last summer. A debut Festival director Caroline Maclennan said: “KT Tunstall following two years. single is due for release in early 2019. is one of our greatest singer songwriters and a Her debut album was recorded in Brooklyn and brilliant live performer. Many HebCelt fans will Stay connected with all the festival’s news @ features a duet with Steve Earle, who described her as remember her wonderful show here in 2011 and we an outstanding songwriter. www.hebceltfest.com are very excited that she will be back in Stornoway this summer.

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Legends Mix With Homegrown Talent at Edinburgh's Wee Dub Festival 2019 Edinburgh :: 1-3 March :: www.weedubfestival.co.uk

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Edinburgh-based promoters of worldclass dub and reggae music are gearing up for their 9th edition at the start of March. Over the past few years, the Wee Dub Festival has become established as one of the finest and most-loved events of its kind in the UK and beyond, attracting the very best established and up-andcoming artists to the Capital each year for a unique celebration of reggae and soundsystem culture.

Wee Dub Festival attracts ticket-buyer from across the UK and from many European countries. To entertain visitors this year Wee Dub has unveiled a line-up in keeping with previous years, where established legends meet a host of home-grown and rising talent meet across 4 soundsystem sessions in venues throughout Edinburgh’s historic Old Town: La Belle Angele, The Bongo Club, The Mash House, Liquid Room and Skylight, as well as two Fringe sessions: a film screening and a family social event.

While Wee Dub is about serious bass-weight mediation and proper dub music, but it is also about the party. And few DJ duos do that better than festival-faves The Nextmen, who appear on the Saturday night with one of the most promising new reggae voices in the UK, Kiko Bun, signed to Island Records and destined for cross-over success.

Other vocalists who appear at the festival include the legendary jungle-don Dynamite MC, and first ladies of reggae Marina P from France and Madrid’s Ponchita Peligros take the mic with Mungo’s Hi-Hi and Stalawa Sound respectively.

But the festival would be nothing with the foundation of the music: the soundsystem. And Wee Dub will be amplified by the best systems in the country: Mungo’s Hi-Fi, Electrikal, Messenger and Mighty Oak. Each has a different style and a different vibe, and across the 4 sessions ticket-buyer will experience the full range of the music and culture over the weekend.

The festival is also proud to continue their partnership with Edinburgh College, where music business and production students are offered the chance to volunteer at the festival and gain some insight into one of the best-regarded music festivals in the city.

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The 2019 edition is headlined by two bona-fide www.facebook.com/weedubfestival godfathers of the UK scene: Jah Shaka and Adrian Sherwood. Shaka is regarded as the leading light in traditional soundsystem style dub music, whose dedication to the original roots style and spiritual marathon sets has gained him an almost mythic status globally – there is no more influential artist that Jah Shaka and his first appearance at Wee Dub is hotly anticipated. Sherwood can be regarded as a vanguard of the secondary wave of UK producers, whose influential On-U Sound label helped take dub into the wider counter-culture movement and nascent dance scene of the early 1980s, leading to collaborations with acts like Depeche Mode and Primal Scream.

Beyond these two headline-grabbing appearances, the 2019 line-up sees a whole host of sets from the current crop of talent pushing soundsystem culture forward in the current era. Kahn & Neek, in particular, have gained a huge following for their uncompromising modern clash of dub and grime, while fellow Bristolians Gardna & Kreed are following the same path in establishing themselves nationally as a force of the new generation.

" ..... one of the most promising new reggae voices in the UK, Kiko Bun, signed to Island Records and destined for crossover success. "

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Stonehaven Folk Festival have their 'World’s Largest Ceilidh Band' in 2018 declared a Guinness World Record Stonehaven :: 12-15 July 2019 :: www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk BUY YOUR TICKETS (from March) @ www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/

It's official! The World’s Largest Ceilidh Band, organised by 'Stonehaven Folk' last year is a Guinness World Record Holder.

It took months of planning to meet the stringent requirements for last year’s attempt to set a new record for the world’s largest ceilidh band.

Forms had to be filled and strict evidence protocols followed. Stewards, counters, dancers, video photographers and even Aberdeenshire’s Lord Provost were needed to ensure the event met the challenge.

Nerves were taut as the July attempt date approached. Guinness World Records require a minimum of 250 participants for any mass participation record to be set.

Liz Johnstone was so determined to recruit, that no musician was safe .....

“I would accost people anywhere,” she said. “I was standing in a queue in Glasgow and spotted a woman carrying a violin case, so I asked her if she could play. It turned out she was a member of the National Fiddle Orchestra.”

Meanwhile Scottish Culture and Tradition tutor Sandy Tweddle, who was musical director on the day, was teaching all his pupils the tunes for the ceilidh dance sets. Musicians came from all over Scotland, mostly from Aberdeen City and Shire but also England and even the USA and Germany.

The delighted Stonehaven Folk Festival organisers celebrate hearing they have set a new world record. L-R: Sandy Tweddle, Kenn Clark, Martin Kasprowicz, Liz Johnstone and Meg Findlay

So it is with absolute triumph that the committee of Stonehaven Folk Festival now declare themselves ‘officially amazing’ - and they have the certificate to prove it.

The record-setting event took place on 6 July 2018, in the assembly hall of Mackie Academy, Stonehaven, with Aberdeenshire Lord Provost Bill Howatson adjudicating. Music played included The Muckin’ o’ Geordie’s Byre, the Atholl Highlanders and Harvest Home and the dancers were provided by SC&T - they danced Strip the Willow, the Canadian Barn Dance and the Gay Gordons. Instruments played included: Accordion, Jubilation at a faultless performance by the 288-strong band was followed Banjo, Bodhran, Cello, Clarsach, Fiddle, Flute, Free Reed Instruments, Guitar, Keyboard, Mandolin Family, Mouthie, Viola and Whistle! by frustration over the following months: new records are not declared without stringent vetting of the evidence provided. www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk Meg Findlay said: “You can imagine how I felt when they came back to www.twitter.com/stonehavenfest us in December asking for a list of names and instruments of all the www.facebook.com/Stonehaven-Folk-Festival-241183992686719 participants.”

There was the usual last minute panic ..... T-shirts had been ordered both to identify the musicians and, cunningly, had music printed on the back to help the rows of players. But they did not arrive until literally minutes before the non-stop procession of tin whistles, guitars, bodhrans, banjos and fiddles appeared at the Mackie Academy school hall!

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Knockengorroch promises a melting pot of innovative traditional and electronic music Galloway :: 23-26 May :: www.knockengorroch.org.uk BUY YOUR TICKETS @ www.knockengorroch.org.uk/tickets/

Knockengorroch's 2019 lineup will feature some of the best home-grown Scottish talent alongside an eclectic mix of international acts, all coming together to create a melting pot of innovative traditional and electronic music.

Acclaimed Syrian singer Omar Souleyman will top the bill at the roots music festival in the hills.

Perfomring a mix of ‘dabke’ Syrian wedding music, Kurdish rhythms and Iraqi songs combined with breakneck techno-style synths and beats, Souleyman is set to be a firm festival favourite for the hundreds of revellers who return to the festival year-on-year, alongside new festival audiences.

Other line-up highlights are .....

The multi award-winning Highland band Elephant Sessions. Combining the very best of trad, funk and electronica this quartet’s live set has sent audiences into euphoria throughout Europe, Australia and beyond.

2019’s Belhaven Bursary for Innovation winners Talisk will also take to the Knockengorroch stage this spring. Led by the concertina virtuoso Mohsen Amini, this band are currently taking the Scottish folk world by storm.

The inimitable Moonlight Benjamin will play the Galloway hills for the first time. With her amazingly powerful and original fusion between Caribbean voodoo melodies and rhythms alongside 70's US blues rock, Moonlight’s voodoo trance will have Knock’s audiences transfixed.

Griogair Labruidh, collaborator with Afro Celt Sound System, will draw on the Gaelic tradition of spoken word and rhythm. He’ll be performing his new album, featuring Gaelic rap, African percussion, MC and DJs.

Musician Moonlight Benjamin, and members of Talisk help launch the line-up for Knockengorroch World Ceildh Music Festival 2019 www.facebook.com/TaliskMusic www.facebook.com/moonlightbenjamin :: photo by Elaine Livingstone

Holmes, said: “We’re overjoyed to be hosting some of the most incredible music from across the globe, side by side with tradition and talent from Scotland. Everyone is invited to celebrate differences and shared commonalities in our very own world ceilidh in the hills!”

Band…with still more to be announced

Knockengorroch festival is the longest running camping music festival in Scotland. It takes place in a beautiful setting in the hills of the Galloway, South West Scotland. The festival also features comedy and theatre shows, arts, crafts, Also premiering his brand new album live will be Other artists confirmed for Knockengorroch nature and heritage workshops and activities. It rapper, multi-instrumentalist and singer Dizraeli. 2019 include ..... is open to all ages with a dedicated family This knock performance will mark a muchcamping area, children’s tent and procession anticipated comeback onto the music scene after Knockengorroch’s own new music commission plus real ales, good food and a healing area.

Oran Bagraidh featuring a heady blend of Welsh, a period of self-reflection and development.

Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scots and English from www.knockengorroch.org.uk Knockengorroch festival organiser Liz Gwyneth Glyn, Josie Duncan, Lorcán Mac www.twitter.com/Knockengorroch Mathúna, Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde, Barnaby www.facebook.com/Knockengorroch The Honey Farm Brown, Bragod, Conor Caldwell and MacGillivray www.facebook.com/TheHoneyFarmOfficial

Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, Scotland’s own authentic taiko drumming outfit complete with after dark UV show Glasgow’s own dub heavyweights and Knockengorroch regulars, Mungos Hi Fi Sound System, complete with full sound system and featuring MC Kenny Knots Solareye aka Dave Hook of Stanley Odd, winner of the Scottish Alternative hip hop Awards.

From the Basque country top sounds and dance workshop from Korrontzi Techno legend DJ Jerome Hill British Drum and Bass pioneers Ed Rushand Optical All female, Scottish rap group The Honey Farm

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Plus Delightful Squalor, Omar Afifand Gnawa Trance Fusion, Gypsy Roots, Bristol Branch, The Matatunes, Awry, the Dalmellington Silver

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Glasgow Film Festival Is Underway Celebrating Music As Well As Film Glasgow :: 20 February - 3 March :: www.glasgowfilm.org/festival TICKETS @ www.glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-film-festival/visiting-the-festival/tickets

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 is the city’s 15th annual celebration of cinema which will host 337 individual screenings, talks and events - showcasing 7 world premieres, 102 UK premieres and 49 Scottish premieres from 54 countries ..... PLUS ..... it also celebrates the strong link between cinema over the ages and the importance of music to entertain and grip the audience.

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Musical highlights include VISITATIONS, a night of music and film from Lost Map created on the Isle of Eigg and the UK premiere of Daydream Nation, Lance Bangs concert film of a 2007 Sonic Youth gig at Glasgow's ABC. The festival's official music strand 'Sound & Vision' celebrates the bold and strong link between cinema and music in one of the world’s great music cities.

GFF19 is honoured to welcome one of the biggest names in music videos Lance Bangs for an ‘In Conversation’ event looking back at his career working with the likes of R.E.M. and Björk, plus the UK premiere of Daydream Nation - the Sonic Youth concert film he shot in 2007 in Glasgow at the legendary ABC venue, which was sadly lost in the Glasgow School of Art fire last year.

footage shot during the musicians’ residencies on the island.

legendary one-man-band Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee and harmonica master Adam Gussow on the streets of 1980s Harlem, and two of Jim Galloway: A Journey Into Jazz chronicles the Hollywood’s favourite leading ladies also step life of the amazing Scotsman who emigrated to behind the mic as Elisabeth Moss stars as a selfCanada as a young man and went on to carve destructive punk rock singer in the UK premiere out an international career as a saxophonist and of Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell, and Natalie impresario, followed by an exclusive gig from Portman plays a troubled pop diva in Brady Lost Map will bring the music of Eigg to Glasgow Ken Mathieson’s Classic Jazz Orchestra in Corbet’s celebrity cult satire Vox Lux. with VISITΔTIONS, featuring live performances association with Glasgow Jazz Festival. from Slow Tree, Monoganon and Free Love, and Allison Gardner, Glasgow Film Festival CoSatan & Adam chronicles the unlikely pairing of director, said: As ever the Sound & Vision strand is filled with music of all types from Classic to Jazz and a brilliant live event hosted by Lost Map records featuring Monoganon and Free Love performing to footage of Eigg filmed by Slow Tree. This heady strand is topped off with films such as Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell starring Elisabeth Moss as a self-destructive rock star and Brady Corbett’s electric Vox Lux. This year the festival's Audience Award – GFF’s only award - features six (out of 10) films that are directed by women with strong and vibrant films telling a variety of stories.”

Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) is one of the leading film festivals in the UK and run by Glasgow Film, a charity which also runs Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). GFF is made possible by support from Glasgow Life, Screen Scotland, the British Film Institute (using funds from The National Lottery) and EventScotland.

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Glasgow Film Festival 2019 is the city’s 15th annual celebration of cinema PLUS it also celebrates the strong link between cinema over the ages and the importance of music to entertain and grip the audience. www.glasgowfilm.org

MARCH

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paper’n’comb championships! www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk

Knockengorroch's 2019 line-up will feature some of the best home-grown Scottish talent alongside HebCelt an eclectic mix of international acts, all coming together to create a melting pot of innovative Hebrides traditional and electronic music.

18-20 July www.knockengorroch.org.uk

JUNE Oban Live

Oban 7-8 June 2019

Advance weekend tickets for next year’s Hebridean Celtic Festival, to be held from 18-20 July 2019, are available from the festival website. Day tickets and those for opening shows, late night activities and community events in Lewis and Harris go on sale next year when the full festival programme is finalised. www.hebceltfest.com

Early bird tickets for Oban Live 2019, Argyll’s biggest outdoor music concert, are to go on sale Wee Dub Festival on Saturday November 10, the event team has Edinburgh announced. The event, started in 2016 by one of 1-3 March Scotland’s finest musical exports Skerryvore, Party at The Palace takes place on June 7 and 8 next year at Edinburgh-based promoters of world-class dub Linlithgow Mossfield Stadium in Oban, Argyll, on the west and reggae music are gearing up for their 9th 10-11 August coast of Scotland. edition at the start of March. Over the past few www.obanlive.com years, the Wee Dub Festival has become This is the sixth outing for the Linlithgow festival established as one of the finest and most-loved and is set to be another highlight in Scotland’s events of its kind in the UK and beyond, live music calendar. Taking the top spots are The Killin Music Festival attracting the very best established and up-and- Killin Charlatans and KT Tunstall (Saturday) and coming artists to the Capital each year for a Deacon Blue and Wet Wet Wet (Sunday) and the 14-16 June unique celebration of reggae and soundsystem rest of the weekend’s acts are sure to prove a hit culture. with Party at the Palace regulars. It’s only 20 An electric three day festival of music featuring www.weedubfestival.co.uk live bands and artists on the main stage, as well mins from Edinburgh and 35mins from Glasgow, making it one of the most easily accessible music as fringe events throughout the area over the festivals in Scotland. weekend. The packed 2019 lineup includes: www.partyatthepalace.co.uk Elephant Sessions // Trail West // Siobhan Miller // Blue Rose Code // Kinnaris Quintet // Shetland Folk Festival Torridon // Ryan Young // Gnoss // Tom McGuire Shetland & The Brassholes // Beinn Lee // Eabhal // DLÙ // The 101 // Headland // Greig Taylor 3-5 May Music Blues Combo // Katie & Abi // Open Stage Party in the Park The Festival as the UK's most northerly folk Sunday Competition. All remaining tickets are on Bathgate, West Lothian festival is regarded a prestigious event for sale now!

1 September performers, locals and visitors alike. Organised www.killinmusicfestival.com by a voluntary committee (and run by an even Celebrating it’s 10th Anniversary in 2019 bigger pool of volunteers) the Festival prides Bathgate's 'Party in the Park' is a yearly family itself in reaching out to even the most far flung focused music festival with two music stages, areas of Shetland. Concerts are organised childrens rides, free face painting, food, stalls, throughout the isles, consisting of some of the and lots of fun - it's held in the town's Kirkton Tiree Music Festival best International, British and Shetland music Park. There is a main stage and acoustic stage Tiree that the world has to offer. In fact, visiting with music on both throughout the day with free 12–14 July artistes are regularly dumbfounded by the entry and no ticket required. A real mix of music quantity and quality of local musicians that our from local bands and artists to those further TMF is celebrating the fastest ever ticket sales remote isles have to offer. for the annual festival, with 750 early bird tickets afield. There is no ticket required and no entry www.shetlandfolkfestival.com fee and as this is geared towards families there selling out in just 52 minutes and all Glamping is a strict no alcohol policy. and Campervan tickets selling out in just 10 www.facebook.com/partyinthepark minutes, an unprecedented record for the Orkney Folk Festival festival that will help mark its 10th edition.

2019 Orkney will see the 2000 capacity festival celebrate its 23-26 May 10th birthday and a special year of celebrations One of Scotland’s longest-running folk festivals, will mark the decade, beginning in January with Perthshire Amber TIREE: A Toast to 10 Years of Tiree Music celebrating its 37th outing in 2019, the Orkney Folk Festival is one of the most prolific events in Festival show at Celtic Connections. This one-off The Dougie MacLean Festival night will be hosted by Tiree natives Skerryvore Perthshire the Scottish and UK folk calendars, and one of and Trail West at Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket the highlights of Orkney’s diary of community 1-3 November where a number of very special guests alongside events. An entirely voluntary run event, the festival annually attracts artists from all corners brand-new collaborations from musicians who The Perthshire Amber Festival brings together have played the TMF stages over the last 10 of the folk world - from leading international many musicians and entertainers from different years. TMF10’s line-up will also be officially names to up and coming fresh faces - to parts of the world who have been involved with announced in spectacular fashion as part of this Stromness, in Orkney’s West Mainland, for four Dougie MacLean over the years. This unique celebratory night and remaining tickets will also days of concerts, ceilidhs, clubs, sessions, talks festival shares Dougie’s inspiring music, be released on general sale. and craic. Artists and audiences are welcomed celebrates the history and culture of Perthshire www.tireemusicfestival.co.uk by and into Orkney’s own thriving folk scene, in the heart of Scotland and showcases the with Orcadian artists providing around two thirds beautiful scenery. It’s a vibrant, welcoming of the festival programme. Line-up announced Stonehaven Folk festival with music at its core in beautiful across December-March, with tickets on sale in autumnal Perthshire. The Festival Hub is Amber Stonehaven April, around six weeks ahead of the event.

Central (The Royal Hotel, Dunkeld). With 12-15 July www.orkneyfolkfestival.com concerts from castle to concert hall plus Cabaret The pretty North East coastal town of Amber, Open Mic + acoustic sessions. Contact Stonehaven comes alive with a vibrant mix of Knockengorroch 01350 724261 for latest or email traditional and contemporary “Folk” music and admin@butterstone.com World Ceilidh song ….. concerts, ceilidh, sessions, singarounds, www.perthshireamber.com Galloway workshops, the famous aqua ceilidh and world

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