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Travelling Folk: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bruce MacGregor presents live from Celtic Connections in Glasgow. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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Classics Unwrapped: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland.

Jamie MacDougall presents highlights from Proms in the Park. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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Billy Sloan: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Billy focuses on the career of keyboard player ANDY CLARK in Musical Chairs. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

dance music. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland De a-nis: 6.30pm on BBC ALBA. Megan and Sarah introduce us to the fiddle, their favourite musical instrument. www.bbcalba.co.uk Another Country with Ricky Ross: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Live music and conversation with JIM LAUDERDALE, BRENT COBB AND JOSEPH in the studion. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Iain Anderson: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Diana Schad sits in for Ian with the usual miz of songwriting masters of country, folk, blues and soul. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

WEDNESDAY 1 FEBRUARY The Janice Forsyth Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Janice tunes into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bryan plays essential music chosen by listeners. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

The Jazz House: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Paul Towndrow presents a special programme focusing on Perthshire Amber: 11.45pm on BBC ALBA. Featuring emerging Scottish artists. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland KAREN MATHIESON who duets with DOUGIE MACLEAN. Port: 10.30pm on BBC ALBA. JULIE FOWLIS and www.bbcalba.co.uk MUIREANN NICAMHLAOIBH visit Belfast to meet musical friends.

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The Janice Forsyth Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Janice tunes into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

Iain Anderson: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Diana Schad sits in for Ian with the usual miz of songwriting masters of country, folk, blues and soul. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bryan plays artists who found fame after a name change. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

Hebridean Celtic Festival: 11.45pm on BBC ALBA. Performances from COLIN MacLEOD and ANDERSON McGINTY, WEBSTER, WARD AND FISHER. www.bbcalba.co.uk

Vic Galloway: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. The best new material and alternative releases, plus a session from THE LITTLE KICKS. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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Port: 10pm on BBC ALBA. JULIE FOWLIS and MUIREANN NICAMHLAOIBH visit Belfast to meet musical friends. www.bbcalba.co.uk

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Roddy Hart: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Roddy shines a spotlight on great contemporary and classic songwriting. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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The Janice Forsyth Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Janice tunes into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bryan celebrates the best in 90's

THURSDAY 2 FEBRUARY The Janice Forsyth Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Janice tunes into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bryan plays essential music chosen by listeners. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland The Quay Sessions: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland.

ELIZA CARTHY & THE WAYWARD BAND and IAIN MORRISON recorded live at Celtic Connections. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Vic Galloway: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. The best new material and alternative releases, plus a session from THE LITTLE KICKS. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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page 3: music on scotland's tv & radio this week :: scots in london FRIDAY 3 FEBRUARY Perthshire Amber: 8.50pm on BBC ALBA. BLAZIN' FIDDLES perform at the 2016 Perthshire Amber festival. www.bbcalba.co.uk

Sunday Morning with ..... : 10am on BBC Radio Scotland. Music and conversation. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician: 5pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Six young musicians compete in BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician 2017 Seirm: 10pm on BBC ALBA. Mary Ann Kennedy Final. presents music from the 2015 Celtic Connections www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland festival. www.bbcalba.co.uk Pipeline: 8pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Gary

The Music Match: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. FRANCES MCKEE of THE VASELINES fame introduces her choice of eclectic music. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

SATURDAY 4 FEBRUARY Take the Floor: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland.

Gary Innes has another chance to hear BRUCE LINDSAY'S QUARTET in session. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Pipeline: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Gary West presents piping news and music. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Billy Sloan: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Billy plays tracks written by singer-songwriter PADDY McALOON of PREFAB SPROUT fame. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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West presents piping news. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

Classics Unwrapped: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Jamie MacDougall presents highlights from Proms in the Park. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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Billy Sloan: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Billy plays a Great Collaboration track featuring STEVIE WONDER and SMOKEY ROBINSON.

EDDI READER + special guest ADAM HOLMES: At Union Chapel, London. EDDI READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered ------------------------------------------------ Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts. ADAM HOLMES combines the songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own unique brand of Americana, with a hint of

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25 MAY ADAM HOLMES AND THE EMBERS: At St Pancras Old Church, London. (rescheduled from 19th Jan). With his band The Embers Adam combines the songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own unique brand of Americana, with a hint of Scotland. Further information and ticket links at... https://adamholmesandtheembers.com/ 8 AUGUST DAVE ARCARI: At Blue’s Kitchen, Camden, London. Slide guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues and have been showcased via nine internationally acclaimed solo CD releases.

Arcari’s latest release – the Hellbound Train EP – entered the iTunes blues charts at number seven in June 2016 and a follow up album, provisionally titled Givers & Takers, is scheduled for release in early 2017. www.davearcari.com

MOGWAI: Their ‘Atomic’ North American tour began in Los Angeles on 18 January. Tickets for all dates available at http://mogwai.co.uk

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DAVE ARCARI with LEE PATTERSON: At The Voodoo Rooms (Speakeasy), 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh. 8-10pm, £8. Slide guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues and have been showcased via nine internationally acclaimed solo CD releases. Arcari’s latest release – the Hellbound Train EP – entered the iTunes blues charts at number seven in June 2016 and a follow up album, provisionally titled Givers & Reaching our Scottish expat Takers, is scheduled for release in early 2017.

Lee Patterson is an acclaimed Scottish Singer readership in America Songwriter based in Edinburgh. Lee has a peerless reputation as a performer of twisted Send us all your USA blues, folk, gospel and country. He is at home gig and tour details with a Marshall stack as much as with a couple of sticks and a foot stomp and his voice is a Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com thing to witness. Tickets @ www.wegottickets.com/event/385235 www.davearcari.com http://leepattersonmusic.com/

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Sound Collective presents ….. UNION J: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. So are you ready for a night you’ll never forget? Come on down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a great time full of live entertainment, great tunes and a very well stocked bar. 6.30pm. £22.00 - £55.00. All ticket links for all shows @ www.la-belleangele.com

Underground Live presents ….. GEEK MAGGOT BINGO / LINES OF ZAHN / DR VZX MOIST: At Teviot Underground every Thursday, hosted by Edinburgh University Student's Association. 9pm until 12:15am. Free entry shows to see some of the best, new and exciting bands from the East Coast of Scotland. www.facebook.com/UndergroundLiveEdinburgh 3 FEBRUARY MIRACLE GLASS COMPANY WITH ANJI DARCY + DJ DANIEL MCGEEVER: At The Voodoo Rooms, 19A West Register Street, Edinburgh. EH2 2AA. 8pm-1am, £10 / £8 advance (no booking fee). Miracle Glass Company launch a new bi-monthly night at The Voodoo Rooms, playing an extended live set, including brand new material, and inviting only the finest guest bands and DJs for your aural pleasure. Support comes from the incredible Anji Darcy! Star of ‘The 27 Club’, ‘Janis Joplin: Full Tilt’ and fresh from a sold out ‘Roots of Music’ show at The Tron in Glasgow, Anji brings a set of blues, roots and soul and delivers it with that jaw-dropping, authentic voice. Guest DJ - Daniel McGeever: spinning rock'n'soul music of the highest calibre to keep you dancing until the early hours! Tickets @ https://latenightinthebigcity.eventbrite.com www.miracleglasscompany.com THE BREW with support ALBANY DOWN: At Bannermans, 212 Cowgate, Edinburgh, doors 7.30pm. The great news for rock fans, blues fans, live music lovers and aspiring musicians is that The Brew will be playing Glasgow as part of their 10 day Shake The Tree UK Tour! From Grimsby, The Brew continue to grow in stature and ever since the release of their international breakthrough “The Joker”, this award-winning trio has become one of Europe's most potent rock acts, combining the musicianship of classic rock with youthful energy and a brash, contemporary outlook. Advance tickets are £11 + bf (£13 on door) at http://bannermanspub.co.uk www.the-brew.net 4 FEBRUARY George Monbiot and EWAN MCLENNAN’s ‘Breaking the Spell of Loneliness’ Tour: At Sound House at The Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG. Breaking The Spell of Loneliness is a remarkable collaboration between writer George Monbiot and musician Ewan McLennan. They launched their project because they believe that nothing has greater potential to unite and delight than music. They

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page 7: edinburgh + mid - east - west lothian seek to use the music to open up the issue of loneliness, and their performances to help address it. Around the time of the album’s release George and Ewan will perform a small number of special concerts. George will narrate the show, describe the ideas behind the songs, and encourage members of the audience to engage with each other, both then and beyond the concert. Ewan will sing the songs and perform the music that has emerged from this innovative collaboration. Tickets: £14.00 Doors: 7.30pm. Tickets @ www.brownpapertickets.com www.ewanmclennan.co.uk 5 FEBRUARY PAULINE ALEXANDER & SANDY STANAGE: At Wee Folk Club, Royal Oak (Basement Bar) , 1 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LT. Pauline Alexander and Sandy Stanage are a duo that bring together one of Scotland’s finest voices and fingerstyle guitarists. Believing that a good song is a good song regardless of genre, they offer original material & interpretation of song encompassing a bit of contemporary, folk and blues. Join them for an intimate live acoustic set in one of Edinburgh’s cosiest music venues; the Royal Oak’s basement bar. Pauline has been a former album of the week on Iain Anderson’s BBC Radio Scotland show and Sandy brings a wealth of talent as a founding member of some of Scotland’s well remembered folk bands including Kentigern, Scotland Yard and Molendinar. “Pauline Alexander has a beautiful modern Scottish folk voice, reminiscent of Sandy Denny”, Rumer. Doors 8pm, Tickets £5. www.paulinealexander.com

Edinburgh University Student's Association. 9pm until 12:15am. Free entry shows to see some of the best, new and exciting bands from the East Coast of Scotland. www.facebook.com/UndergroundLiveEdinburgh 10 FEBRUARY The Dolly Parton Story featuring Peter White as Kenny Rogers: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh.

So are you ready for a night you’ll never forget?

Come on down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a great time full of live entertainment, great tunes and a very well stocked bar. 7pm £16.50. All ticket links for all shows @ www.la-belleangele.com 11 FEBRUARY LBA presents Monsters on MOVIE POSTERS with support from METRO MAFIA and GUS HARROWER AND THE NUMBER 9s: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. So are you ready for a night you’ll never forget? Come on down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a great time full of live entertainment, great tunes and a very well stocked bar. 7pm - £5. All ticket links for all shows @ www.la-belleangele.com

EDGE: At Teviot Underground every Thursday, hosted by Edinburgh University Student's Association. 9pm until 12:15am. Free entry shows to see some of the best, new and exciting bands from the East Coast of Scotland. www.facebook.com/UndergroundLiveEdinburgh 17 FEBRUARY Edinburgh Blues Club presents ….. INA FORSMAN with ROBBIE HILL: At The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. February sees the Scottish debut of Finnish breakthrough artist of 2016, Ina Forsman, featuring Scotland’s very own Robbie Hill on guitar. Ina Forsman is everything that great music should be: real, raw, written from the heart and shot from the hip. Likewise, Ina herself is everything that great frontwomen are meant to be: enigmatic, honest, passionate and dangerous. Edinburgh Blues Club is a Community Interest Company created to harness popular support for high quality blues music events and related masterclasses. www.facebook.com/bluesclubedinburgh 18 FEBRUARY

DF Concerts presents ….. JULIAN COPE: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. So are you ready for a night you’ll never forget? Come on down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a great time full of 12 FEBRUARY live entertainment, great tunes and a very well stocked bar. 7pm - £26.25. All ticket links for all INDIGO VELVET: At Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh. shows @ Indigo Velvet are a young, Tropical-pop band www.la-belleangele.com from Edinburgh. They’ve had a breakthrough year; dubbed ’one’s to watch’ by Scotland On 19 FEBRUARY Sunday, Clash Magazine, The Sun and Tenement 8 FEBRUARY TV. Airplay on BBC Introducing, Radio X, PATERSANI with support from LOST IN Amazing Radio, and a live session on The Janice VANCOUVER and WYLDE: At La Belle Angèle, LBA presents ….. EMME WOODS with Forsyth Show on BBC Radio Scotland.

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Angèle, 11 Hastie's Close, off Guthrie Street, Come on down to La Belle Angèle — we promise Edinburgh. So are you ready for a night you’ll 16 FEBRUARY you a great time full of live entertainment, great never forget? Come on down to La Belle tunes and a very well stocked bar. 7pm - £5. All Angèle — we promise you a great time full of LBA presents DROWNED TEN with support ticket links for all shows @ live entertainment, great tunes and a very well from SAPIEN: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's www.la-belleangele.com stocked bar. 7pm - £5.00. All ticket links for all Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. So are you shows @ ready for a night you’ll never forget? Come on 23 FEBRUARY www.la-belleangele.com down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a great time full of live entertainment, great tunes Underground Live presents ….. RACHEL 9 FEBRUARY and a very well stocked bar. 7pm - £5. All ticket ALICE JOHNSON (EP Launch with full band) links for all shows @ + DMS + SUPPORT: At Teviot Underground Underground Live presents ….. EARTHS (UK www.la-belleangele.com every Thursday, hosted by Edinburgh University Tour Show) / OUR SMALLEST Student's Association. 9pm until 12:15am. Free ADVENTURES / FRAUEN: At Teviot Underground Live presents ….. THE entry shows to see some of the best, new and Underground every Thursday, hosted by CLIFTONS / THE MOTION POETS / JOHN exciting bands from the East Coast of Scotland.

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page 8: edinburgh + mid - east - west lothian Scottish-New Zealander and Edinburgh College of Art Graduate RACHEL ALICE JOHNSON returns with her debut EP ‘2AM’ after a another successful season of performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Since being selected for Creative Scotland’s ‘Verden Studios Demo Project 15’, Rachel Alice Johnson has been steadily winning over critics with her contagiously catchy melodies, with her debut EP transitioning in to sultry rock and roll and electro-pop, inspired by Lana Del Rey, Royal Blood, Chelsea Wolfe and Wolf Alice. www.facebook.com/RachelAliceJohnsonArts www.facebook.com/UndergroundLiveEdinburgh LBA presents ….. START STATIC with support from COLOUR TRAP and PARALLEL LIGHTS: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. So are you ready for a night you’ll never forget? Come on down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a great time full of live entertainment, great tunes and a very well stocked bar. 7pm - £5. All ticket links for all shows @ www.la-belleangele.com 24 FEBRUARY Knockengorroch presents ….. 47SOUL, AWRY, SAMEDIA SHEBEEN SOUNDSYSTEM, BEASTIE DRUMMERS and more: At Studio 24 Calton Road, Edinburgh. The night kicks off at 10pm, £9 earlybird price throughout Jan, £10 in advance £13 on the door. The organisers of the renowned Knockengorroch World Ceilidh festival in Dumfries and Galloway are bringing the pioneering Palestinian band 47SOUL to Edinburgh! Previously dubbed a ‘Palestinian Hot Chip’ 47SOUL play electro Palestinian ‘debke’ music – also known as ‘sham step’. On top of beats that have been bumping in the Arab World for centuries they hype it up with analog synthesisers, hypnotic guitar lines, and shattering verses from the four singers. All monies go to the Knockengorroch World Ceilidh festival 25 to 28 May Tickets @ www.knockengorroch.org.uk

Kris Drever and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and Phil Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, Celtic Connections Artistic Director www.siobhanmiller.com LBA presents ….. OI POLLOI with support from MANTILLA: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. So are you ready for a night you’ll never forget?

Come on down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a great time full of live entertainment, great tunes and a very well stocked bar. 7pm - £5. All ticket links for all shows @ www.la-belleangele.com 25 FEBRUARY NORRIE MCCULLOCH: At The Bluebird Café, Edinburgh. 8pm. Norrie McCulloch’s on tour supporting his third full-length album, 'Bare Along The Branches', in as many years effortlessly merges folk, country, americana and indie genres. Recorded live to analogue tape with regular collaborators: Dave McGowan (Teenage Fanclub), Stuart Kidd and Marco Rea (The Wellgreen), Iain Thompson (Bella Hardy band) and Iain Sloan (Wynntown Marshals) this is his most accomplished collection of songs to date. www.norriemcculloch.com SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA plays the songs of MANCINI and MANDEL: At The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Featuring JOE LOCKE on vibes and KENNY WASHINGTON on vocals and new big band arrangements commissioned by the SNJO, as they weave their unique spell around the timeless songs of HENRY MANCINI and JOHNNY MANDEL with Moon River, Pink Panther, Shadow Of Your Smile and more. Also in Dundee (24th) and Glasgow (26th) Edinburgh tickets @ www.thequeenshall.net www.snjo.co.uk

BOII, MADHAT MCGORE + WERD: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. So are you ready for a night you’ll never forget? Come on down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a great time full of live entertainment, great tunes and a very well stocked bar. 6pm - £3. All ticket links for all shows @ www.la-belleangele.com 27 FEBRUARY BARBARA DICKSON: At Queens Hall, Edinburgh. Barbara Dickson’s career spans 50 years and she is now recording some of her most interesting material, a fusion of old and new. ‘I started in folk clubs of the 1960s’, says Dickson, ‘and there I learned songs I’ve never forgotten.’

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BRONWYNNE BRENT: At Traverse Theatre Bar, Edinburgh. Mississippi Delta songbird, Bronwynne Brent returns to these shores for three weeks of touring (in trio format) having entranced the UK on her last visit. Her spinetingling vocal style has been compared to Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and Amy Winehouse - a remarkable singer-songwriter who simply oozes class. Bob Harris, playing tracks from her stunning album, Stardust, repeatedly on his BBC Radio 2 show told listeners: “This is absolutely gorgeous - really special!" www.bronwynnebrent.com

MCFALLS with DOMINIC WAXING LYRICAL + ABERFELDY: At La Belle Angèle, 11 Hastie's SIOBHAN MILLER: At The Queen’s Hall, Close, off Guthrie Street, Edinburgh. So are you Edinburgh. A two-time winner of Scots Singer of ready for a night you’ll never forget? Come on the Year, Siobhan Miller is widely regarded as down to La Belle Angèle — we promise you a one of the foremost vocalists in Scotland. great time full of live entertainment, great tunes www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html Daughter of folk musician Brian Miller and from a and a very well stocked bar. 7pm - £10. All 11 MARCH musical household her new album ‘Strata’ (due ticket links for all shows @ out February 2017) sees her looking back to the www.la-belleangele.com THE LITTLE KICKS: At Voodoo Rooms, songs she grew up around and that influenced Edinburgh. The Little Kicks have announced their her musical life. Refreshing these songs and 26 FEBRUARY new album "Shake Off Your Troubles" - will be recording them for the first time, she is joined by some of Scotland’s finest musicians including Hip Hop At La Belle – STEVIE CREED, SKYY released on 3 March. To celebrate they will be

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 11: edinburgh + mid - east - west lothian playing four release shows with two in their hometown Aberdeen, and also Glasgow and Edinburgh. Tickets for these shows, complete with pre-order album bundles are available now – see website for details. Since forming in early 2009 the band have been regulars on the UK touring circuit but have also played to a great response in Europe. The band has enjoyed sharing stages with the likes of Foals, The Vaccines, Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, Twin Atlantic, Maximo Park, Mystery Jets, Errors, The Kooks, Editors, Wild Nothing and Maccabees and have also performed at many of Scotland’s major music festivals including T in the Park, Belladrum, Insider, Brew at the Bog, Electric Fields, Solus, Kelburn Garden Party and Insider. Gig tickets @ http://tinyurl.com/SOYTEDI11Mar www.thelittlekicks.co.uk 13 MARCH Brookfield Knights present ….. LIZABETT RUSSO TRIO: At Traverse Theatre Bar, Edinburgh. Since releasing her 2013-issued debut ‘The Traveller’s Song’, which stimulated interest across Europe, the US and Canada, Lizabett Russo has continued to develop and fine-tune a style and character that is refreshingly her own. She toured Japan and Seoul in 2015 and 2016, latterly to showcase material from her latest release, “The Burning Mountain”. Reviewing the CD for Acoustic magazine, Julian Piper applauded her “Björk-like intensity” while fRoots praised her “astonishing vocal range” and added: “This is an artist who is well worth investigating.” www.lizabettrusso.com

Edinburgh. Legendary blues band Nine Below Zero perform a Big Band show performing songs from across the blues and R&B spectrum.

Edinburgh Blues Club is a Community Interest Company created to harness popular support for high quality blues music events and related masterclasses. www.facebook.com/bluesclubedinburgh 27 MARCH SOUTHERN TENANT FOLK UNION: At Soundhouse @ Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

September 2016 saw the release of the seventh Southern Tenant Folk Union album Join Forces and the band now tour in support of it. It was written following the May 2015 general election result, and then recorded in June and July last year amidst a quickly changing political landscape, something that has made the suite of songs seem timelier still. The band will be touring to support the release throughout the remainder of 2016 and into Spring 2017.

Musically the album harks back to the more roots and bluegrass sounding earlier albums and is divided into two main strands. www.southerntenantfolkunion.com 30 MARCH

MAIRI CAMPBELL: Pulse: At Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh. Mairi Campbell: Pulse on the road in spring 2017 with more dates to be added. A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling.

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18 MARCH Supported by Made in Scotland. The album Pulse (2016 edition) is also available to buy as a RACHEL ALICE JOHNSON: At Cabaret Voltaire, download or a CD. Edinburgh. Since being selected for Creative www.mairicampbell.scot Scotland's 'Verden Studios Demo Project 15', Rachel Alice Johnson has gone on to perform 7 APRIL with her band at such venues as the BBC Scotland Castle Tent and most recently at King Edinburgh Blues Club presents ….. GILES Tuts Wah Wah Hit. Inspired by Lana Del Rey, ROBSON and GERRY JABLONSKI & THE Royal Blood and The Black Keys, her debut EP ELECTRIC BAND: At The Voodoo Rooms, '2AM' transitions in to a new vibe of sultry rock Edinburgh. Joint headliner show from Giles and toll combined with bass heavy electro-pop. Robson and Gerry Jablonski & the Electric Band. www.facebook.com/RachelAliceJohnsonArts Giles Robson Band: World leading blues harmonica player Giles Robson and his first class 23 MARCH band experienced an awesome 2016. His debut album, "For those Who Need The Blues" Edinburgh Blues Club presents ….. NINE recorded completely live in one session captured BELOW ZERO: At The Voodoo Rooms, the spontaneous dirty and rough blues sound

that is gaining Robson and the band rave reviews and stellar audience reactions. Robson and his band have created an incredible buzz around their dirty sweat down the walls twelve bar road house blues. The Gerry Jablonski Band: Regulars to the Edinburgh Blues Club will know that the Gerry Jablonski Band are a four piece blues rock powerhouse that never fails to win over their audience as they take them on a rollercoaster ride of original music that pays tribute to the blues rock classics that have influenced this band. Edinburgh Blues Club is a Community Interest Company created to harness popular support for high quality blues music events and related masterclasses. www.facebook.com/bluesclubedinburgh 11 APRIL THE NIGHT WITH ….. JOANNA NICHOLSON and EMMA LLOYD: At The Rowantree, 253 The Cowgate, Edinburgh. 7.30pm. Tickets £10 / £8conc. Season ticket £32. Booking fees not included. The Night With returns for a second season. Featuring new work by Nina Whiteman and Matthew Whiteside. www.thenightwith.co.uk 13 APRIL EDDI READER + special guest ADAM HOLMES: At Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. EDDI READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts. ADAM HOLMES combines the songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own unique brand of Americana, with a hint of Scotland. www.eddireader.co.uk 21 APRIL Edinburgh Blues Club presents ….. THE JENSEN INTERCEPTORS: At The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. The Jensen Interceptors are one of the most authentic and exciting Blues bands to hit the UK scene in recent years.

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DANNY BRYANT BIG BAND SHOW: At The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. Danny will be performing with a nine-piece big band. The band has been specially assembled and will feature keys, and a four-piece brass section.

The ensemble will begin touring select venues in Europe in January 2017 (see below) culminating with the release of a live album recorded at these shows in April 2017.

Danny will be performing re tooled and rearranged songs from his back catalogue alongside many of his all-time favourite Blues classics. Edinburgh Blues Club is a Community Interest Company created to harness popular support for high quality blues music events and related masterclasses. www.facebook.com/bluesclubedinburgh 5 MAY THE FILTHY TONGUES supporting THE SKIDS: At Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh. The Filthy Tongues have occupied a unique place at the heart of Scottish alternative rock, in various manifestations, since the mid 80’s.

The single Jacobs Ladder, taken from the bands album of the same name has received numerous BBC Scotland plays and the album a 4 star Scottish Express review. God is in the TV said about the album “These songs wrap themselves around you like a warm blanket and effortlessly soothe your soul.” www.filthytongues.com

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FreshOnTheNet.co.uk last May. During last summer Hugh completed a 10 date UK tour before launching into 45 solo gigs in 23 days at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August – his highlights were performances for Scottish Television (STV) & also 2 performances for the BBC. www.hughkellymusic.com 2 FEBRUARY Brookfield Knights present ….. NATHAN BELL: At Celtic Connections Festival, Glasgow. Nathan Bell was raised in Iowa City, the son of a nationally-recognised poet, by 1983, he’d formed the duo Bell & Shore with then-wife Susan Shore. The two scored a record deal, began touring heavily, and would eventually release a pair of records, the second, L-Ranko Motel, scoring rave reviews. Their marriage and musical partnership ended in 1989 and he didn’t pick up a guitar or write a song again for almost 15 years. www.nathanbellmusic.com www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html

RAB NOAKES: At The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow for Celtic Connections. Show at 8pm. Celebrating his 70th birthday and his 50th year touring Scottish singer songwriter Rab Noakes launches his EP ‘The Treatment Tapes’ at Celtic Connections. Early in 2015 Rab was diagnosed with tonsillar cancer.

From March to May that year the treatments took place, thirty early morning radiotherapy sessions and two chemotherapy overnights.

It’s rigorous stuff and rendered him inactive for a few months. He wasn’t inactive for any longer than was necessary though and was soon back in action. The songs on this EP were written during the post-treatment period and were part of that process. They were recorded chronologically so their performances reflect that progress. There was one initial session in December 2015 followed by one in April 2016. There’s no self-pity though, here you’ll find defiance, resilience, love, support and wit. Tickets £16 on 0141 353 8000 or @ www.celticconnections.com www.rabnoakes.com 3 FEBRUARY

MULL HISTORICAL SOCIETY plus special guest Martha Ffion: At St Lukes, Glasgow for Celtic Connections. Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and author Colin MacIntyre celebrates his latest album Dear Satellite and award-winning debut novel The Letters of Ivor Punch with a night of words and music in the beautiful surrounds of Saint Luke’s.

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Brookfield Knights present ….. 3 HAT TRIO www.nathanbellmusic.com + LIZABETT RUSSO: At Celtic Connections www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html Festival, Glasgow. Three hats hang on a rack, an odd assortment: two well used and one newly George Monbiot and EWAN MCLENNAN’s creased. As individuals, the hats come from ‘Breaking the Spell of Loneliness’ Tour: At different musical worlds but live close to one Celtic Connections, The Mackintosh Church, 870 another, which makes up for a lot. Their songs Garscube Road, Glasgow , G20 7EL. Breaking are original, influenced by a wide swath of The Spell of Loneliness is a remarkable musical traditions from Caribbean to the ranges collaboration between writer George Monbiot of the American West with subtle grace notes and musician Ewan McLennan. They launched from the depths of jazz, blues and classical their project because they believe that nothing styling has greater potential to unite and delight than www.facebook.com/3hattrio music. They seek to use the music to open up www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html the issue of loneliness, and their performances to help address it. Around the time of the Brookfield Knights present ….. RUSELL album’s release George and Ewan will perform a DECARLE TRIO At Celtic Connections Festival, small number of special concerts. George will Glasgow. His love and appreciation for the roots narrate the show, describe the ideas behind the of honky tonk and pure country music, as well songs, and encourage members of the audience as the classic country vocalists, the dramatic to engage with each other, both then and ballads of Roy Orbison, and the timeless sounds beyond the concert. Ewan will sing the songs of the Everly Brothers, is evident in his and perform the music that has emerged from songwriting and performance. this innovative collaboration. Tickets: £14.00. www.facebook.com/RusselldeCarle www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html Doors: 7pm. Box Office: 0141 353 8000. www.ewanmclennan.co.uk THE BREW with support ALBANY DOWN: At Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow, doors 7.30pm. The MEURSAULT: At The Hug & Pint, 185 Great great news for rock fans, blues fans, live music Western Road, Glasgow. 7pm. lovers and aspiring musicians is that The Brew www.facebook.com/meursaultmusic will be playing Glasgow as part of their 10 day Shake The Tree UK Tour! From Grimsby, The CRAIG ARMSTRONG and CALUM MARTIN present Salm Music: New Works: At Glasgow Brew continue to grow in stature and ever since Royal Concert Hall, as part of Celtic Connections. the release of their international breakthrough “The Joker”, this award-winning trio has become www.celticconnections.com

one of Europe's most potent rock acts, combining the musicianship of classic rock with youthful energy and a brash, contemporary outlook. Advance tickets are £10.00 + bf at www.nicensleazy.com www.the-brew.net ANNA MEREDITH: At CCA, Glasgow, as part of Celtic Connections. www.celticconnections.com BADSTONE: At The Clutha, Glasgow free admission. 4.30pm. Some Rock, Blues , Soul plus more from a group of experienced musicians who have many years playing, touring and recording experience between them www.facebook.com/Badstone.Band www.facebook.com/Cluthabar BADSTONE: At The Waterside, Largs free admission. 9.30pm. Some Rock, Blues, Soul plus more from a group of experienced musicians who have many years playing, touring and recording experience between them www.facebook.com/Badstone.Band 5 FEBRUARY DOGHOUSE ROSES: At The Hug & Pint, Glasgow. There’s always been a melodic streak through the folk-blues sound of Glasgow’s Doghouse Roses; influenced by the rich musical heritage of the city, along with the fingerpicked guitars and heartfelt tales of many dusty storytellers, this is the 'boundary ignoring landscape' (Americana UK) of the new record, Latest album 'Lost is not Losing’ was released on 25 November.

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BROOKS WILLIAMS: At Woodend Bowling Club, 30 Chamberlain Road, Glasgow. https://twitter.com/suburbs1 9 FEBRUARY THE PINEAPPLE THIEF with support GODSTICKS: At ABC2, Glasgow. The rock trio play Glasgow as part of a string of European dates in support of their highly acclaimed new album, Your Wilderness which received rave reviews in Kerrang, Powerplay magazine and Q magazine, among many others. They will be joined by virtuoso Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson) on drums and will play live together for the first time on this tour. http://pineapplethief.com/tour 10 FEBRUARY DAVE ARCARI: At Hug & Pint, Glasgow. Slide guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues and have been showcased via nine internationally acclaimed solo CD releases. Arcari’s latest release – the Hellbound Train EP – entered the iTunes blues charts at number seven in June 2016 and a follow up album, provisionally titled Givers & Takers, is scheduled for release in early 2017. www.davearcari.com Sounds in the Suburbs presents ..... THE MASTERSONS: At CCA, Glasgow. https://twitter.com/suburbs1 MICKEY 9s (single launch) with KVASIR and BAD MANNEQUINS: At St. Lukes, Glasgow.

Launching their new single 'Planet' at the magnificent St. Lukes. This gig will also mark the public release of the band's new album, 'Galactic Radio'. Joining Mickey 9s on the night will be the hotly-tipped masked electronic genius Kvasir and the soon-to-be-hotly-tipped garage rock duo Bad Mannequins. The 'Planet' music video was filmed in over 50 locations worldwide, across 5 continents, on zero budget. www.facebook.com/mickey9s 11 FEBRUARY Off The Record Glasgow: At Scottish Music Centre, 100 Candleriggs, Glasgow, G1 1NQ. 10:30 - 17:00hrs. Admission £2 (includes lunch + £25 EmuBands voucher). Off The Record returns to Glasgow for a day of workshops, presentations and talks catering for young people interested in working as musicians or in the music business. The event will take place in the Scottish Music Centre, which is partnering with founding organisation, Born To Be Wide.

Open to anyone aged 14-25, Off The Record focuses on key areas of the business, including releasing tracks, getting/organising gigs, promotion and employment opportunities. The event also features a listening session, where musicians can submit a song for feedback from the speakers. Tickets @ www.universe.com/otrglasgow http://offtherecord.me INDIGO VELVET: At Clydebank Town Hall.

Indigo Velvet are a young, Tropical-pop band from Edinburgh. They’ve had a breakthrough year; dubbed ’one’s to watch’ by Scotland On Sunday, Clash Magazine, The Sun and Tenement TV. Airplay on BBC Introducing, Radio X, Amazing Radio, and a live session on The Janice Forsyth Show on BBC Radio Scotland. http://weareindigovelvet.co.uk/

release of a 5-disc, box-set appropriately called “Fifty Years”. The retrospective album covers half a century of his writing featuring almost 100 songs. To coincide with the album’s release. Bob is undertaking an extensive UK tour (see dates below). Growing up in the R&B flavoured city of Memphis was followed by 25 years in the West 15 FEBRUARY Coast pop field and then 16 years as a journeyman writer in Nashville which led him to The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. CHUCK what he describes as his “wonderful life in PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS plus Austin”. A veteran of touring the UK (this MAX GOMEZ: At The O2 ABC2 Glasgow, 300 February being his 12th year), he has earned the Sauchiehall Street Glasgow. Tickets £17.50 from respect of his peers world wide. Do not miss this The 02 ABC Box Office on 0844 477 2000. Doors truly great country singer and cult favourite, 7pm, 7.45pm start. Chuck Prophet returns to whose rootsy, blues-flavoured songs spin tales of Glasgow with the Mission Express in support of life in a conversational language of the heart his thirteenth album which is scheduled for that rock the soul. release early next year on Yep Roc. Where www.bobcheevers.com Chuck excels the most is in the live setting with his two hour powerhouse shows pulling tracks FEROCIOUS DOG: At St Luke’s, Calton, 17 Bain from his massive back catalogue and stretching St. Glasgow, G40 2JZ. Doors: 7pm. Tickets: them out with epic guitar solos on tracks like £12.50 Box Office: 0141 552 8378. Ferocious ‘You Did’ or ‘Castro Halloween’.

Dog are a full-on six-piece band that encompass www.fallenangelsclub.com folk infused with rock, reggae and Celtic vibrations. The combination of instruments 18 FEBRUARY creates a palette of sound that offers infinite variations: going in hard to get the audience up BADSTONE: At The Bellfield Tavern, and moving, or slipping into melodic passages Kilmarnock, free admission. 9pm. Some Rock, and dub-like fusions.

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Sounds in the Suburbs presents ..... JEFF Daughter of folk musician Brian Miller and from a FINLIN and CLIVE BARNES: At Woodend musical household her new album ‘Strata’ (due Bowling Club, 30 Chamberlain Road, Glasgow. out February 2017) sees her looking back to the https://twitter.com/suburbs1 songs she grew up around and that influenced her musical life. Refreshing these songs and 24 FEBRUARY recording them for the first time, she is joined by some of Scotland’s finest musicians including NORRIE MCCULLOCH: At The State Bar, Kris Drever and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and Glasgow. 7.30pm. Norrie McCulloch’s on tour Phil Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new supporting his third full-length album, 'Bare traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, Along The Branches', in as many years Celtic Connections Artistic Director effortlessly merges folk, country, americana and www.siobhanmiller.com indie genres. Recorded live to analogue tape with regular collaborators: Dave McGowan 26 FEBRUARY (Teenage Fanclub), Stuart Kidd and Marco Rea SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA (The Wellgreen), Iain Thompson (Bella Hardy band) and Iain Sloan (Wynntown Marshals) this plays the songs of MANCINI and MANDEL: At The Royal Conservatoire, Glasgow. Featuring is his most accomplished collection of songs to JOE LOCKE on vibes and KENNY date.

WASHINGTON on vocals and new big band www.norriemcculloch.com arrangements commissioned by the SNJO, as they weave their unique spell around the 911: At The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. G2 3LW. 7pm. 911, the massive multi timeless songs of HENRY MANCINI and JOHNNY MANDEL with Moon River, Pink million selling 90’s boyband are coming back to where it all started…in Glasgow. The boys are set Panther, Shadow Of Your Smile and more. Also in Dundee (24th) and Edinburgh (25th). Glasgow to blast their way through their popular hit singles and explosive dance routines. 911’s first tickets @ www.rcs.ac.uk ever show was at the famous Glasgow venue and that gig helped propel them to superstardom www.snjo.co.uk and on to becoming one of the biggest selling BADSTONE: At The Tea Gardens, Paisley, free pop bands of the 90’s with 14 hits, 12 top 10 singles including Body Shaking, Don’t Make Me admission. 7pm. Some Rock, Blues, Soul plus Wait, Party People…Friday Night and the Number more from a group of experienced musicians who have many years playing, touring and no 1 single A Little Bit More. This appearance marks the start of a new era for 911 with lots of recording experience between them www.facebook.com/Badstone.Band new music to come but for now, fans can relive the magic and excitement of that golden pop era of the 90’s. Fans can also hear their forthcoming 1 MARCH single I Do, the wedding song that has received THE NIGHT WITH ….. RED NOTE ENSEMBLE: over 12 million views on YouTube and earned At The Hug and Pint, 171 Great Western Road, the lads a new major record deal. Tickets @ Glasgow. 7.30pm. Tickets £10 / £8conc. Season www.garageglasgow.co.uk ticket £32. Booking fees not included. The Night www.911official.com With returns for a second season. Music by BOB CHEEVERS “Fifty Years” UK Tour: At Berits David Fennnessy, Michael Gordon and Kaija and Brown, Eurocentral (just off M8 near Airdrie, Saariaho. behind Dakota Hotel). Celebrating his 50th year www.thenightwith.co.uk as a songwriter with over 3,000 songs to his BARBARA DICKSON: At Royal Concert Hall, credit, Bob Cheevers’ is touring to support the

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WORSE THAN MOE: At Ivory Blacks, Glasgow.

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MAIRI CAMPBELL – ‘Wolves’: At Tramway, Glasgow. 3pm + 7pm. Wolves, is a new show that Mairi Campbell’s working on with the Barrowland Ballet. “I always wondered what crowd surfing would be like and yesterday I found out, being lifted by five dancers while playing viola! Luke Sutherland is the composer so it’s a real thrill being part of a new creation which also includes an intergenerational cast of dance artists including older performers, teenagers and children.” Tickets are available now. For a full list of upcoming gigs visit www.mairicampbell.scot/gigs/

StG Promotions Presents ….. SPACE - Give Me Your Future Tour 2017 with special guests ESCOBAR 9: At The Classic Grand, Glasgow. Doors 7pm £15. Over 18's *1st 200 tickets sold receives a free aftershow wristband send proof of purchase to stgpromotions@gmail. com - After show entertainment is The Glitter 22 MARCH and Grind Revue and the band djing till 3am.

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Norrie McCulloch’s on tour supporting his third 7 MARCH full-length album, 'Bare Along The Branches', in as many years effortlessly merges folk, country, Brookfield Knights present ….. americana and indie genres. Recorded live to BRONWYNNE BRENT: At Performing Arts analogue tape with regular collaborators: Dave Centre, Kilbarchan. Mississippi Delta songbird, McGowan (Teenage Fanclub), Stuart Kidd and Bronwynne Brent returns to these shores for Marco Rea (The Wellgreen), Iain Thompson three weeks of touring (in trio format) having (Bella Hardy band) and Iain Sloan (Wynntown entranced the UK on her last visit. Her spineMarshals) this is his most accomplished tingling vocal style has been compared to Billie collection of songs to date.

Holiday, Peggy Lee and Amy Winehouse - a remarkable singer-songwriter who simply oozes www.norriemcculloch.com class. Bob Harris, playing tracks from her stunning album, Stardust, repeatedly on his BBC Sounds in the Suburbs presents ..... PETER BRUNTNELL TRIO: At Doublet Bar, Glasgow.

Radio 2 show told listeners: “This is absolutely https://twitter.com/suburbs1 gorgeous - really special!" www.bronwynnebrent.com 24 MARCH www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html 10 MARCH THE LITTLE KICKS: At The Hug & Pint, Glasgow. The Little Kicks have announced their new album "Shake Off Your Troubles" - will be released on 3 March. To celebrate they will be playing four release shows with two in their hometown Aberdeen, and also Glasgow and Edinburgh. Tickets for these shows, complete with pre-order album bundles are available now – see website for details. Since forming in early 2009 the band have been regulars on the UK touring circuit but have also played to a great response in Europe. The band has enjoyed sharing stages with the likes of Foals, The Vaccines, Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, Twin Atlantic, Maximo Park, Mystery Jets, Errors, The Kooks, Editors, Wild Nothing and Maccabees and have also performed at many of Scotland’s major music festivals including T in the Park, Belladrum, Insider, Brew at the Bog, Electric Fields, Solus, Kelburn Garden Party and Insider.

Gig tickets @ http://tinyurl.com/SOYTGLA10Mar www.thelittlekicks.co.uk

Sounds in the Suburbs presents ..... WILL KIMBROUGH and BRIGITTE DEMEYER: At (venue to be confirmed), Glasgow. https://twitter.com/suburbs1 25 MARCH MAIRI CAMPBELL – ‘Wolves’: At Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock. 7pm. Wolves, is a new show that Mairi Campbell’s working on with the Barrowland Ballet. “I always wondered what crowd surfing would be like and yesterday I found out, being lifted by five dancers while playing viola! Luke Sutherland is the composer so it’s a real thrill being part of a new creation which also includes an intergenerational cast of dance artists including older performers, teenagers and children.” Tickets are available now. For a full list of upcoming gigs visit www.mairicampbell.scot/gigs/

1 APRIL Ian Prowse’s PELE: At Weavers, Cumbernauld.

2017 is 25 years since Ian Prowse’s first ever album with his band Pele. Fireworks was a classic debut album bursting with energy and melody which gained Ian’s songwriting it’s first ever set of fans when the band toured the land constantly in the early 90’s. Fireworks was released on Polydor/M&G and produced 4 singles, 3 of which were playlisted on BBC Radio 1. To celebrate the anniversary the album will be re-issued & re-mastered with a beautiful souvenier booklet and free extras CD. Ian and his 6 piece band will also recreate the madness of those early shows by playing the album in full on a UK tour to coincide with the actual anniversary. Fireworks is only 38 minutes long so all the best of the rest of Ian’s career will feature in this very special show. Tickets available from www.amsterdam-music.com/live www.facebook.com/ian.prowse.5 12 APRIL THE NIGHT WITH ….. JOANNA NICHOLSON and EMMA LLOYD: At The Hug and Pint, 171 Great Western Road, Glasgow. 7.30pm. Tickets £10 / £8conc. Season ticket £32. Booking fees not included. The Night With returns for a second season. Featuring new work by Nina Whiteman and Matthew Whiteside. www.thenightwith.co.uk 17 APRIL Sounds in the Suburbs presents .....

REBECCA PRONSKY: At Woodend Bowling Club, 30 Chamberlain Road, Glasgow. https://twitter.com/suburbs1 20 APRIL

EDDI READER + special guest ADAM HOLMES: At City Halls, Glasgow. EDDI 30 MARCH READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her THE PINEAPPLE THIEF with support time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It GODSTICKS: Pulse: At ABC2, Glasgow. As part was the short-lived but warmly remembered of a string of European dates in support of their Fairground Attraction that really brought her into highly acclaimed new album, Your Wilderness.

17 MARCH the limelight and to the attention of a much They will be joined by virtuoso Gavin Harrison wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson) on drums and Brookfield Knights present ….. LIZABETT album First of a Million Kisses both topped the will play live together for the first time on this RUSSO TRIO: At The Performing Arts Centre, British charts. ADAM HOLMES combines the tour. On tour, the band will be performing Your Kilbarchan. Since releasing her 2013-issued songwriting influences of artists such as John Wilderness plus a string of re-imagined debut ‘The Traveller’s Song’, which stimulated Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van favourites from their back catalogue, and with an Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and interest across Europe, the US and Canada, expanded 5-piece line-up including Darran Lizabett Russo has continued to develop and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Charles on additional guitar duties. Seen as one Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own fine-tune a style and character that is of the most vital rock bands the UK has refreshingly her own. She toured Japan and unique brand of Americana, with a hint of produced over the last two decades, The Seoul in 2015 and 2016, latterly to showcase Scotland.

Pineapple Thief was formed in 1999 by founder material from her latest release, “The Burning www.eddireader.co.uk and chief songwriter Bruce Soord. The band has Mountain”. Reviewing the CD for Acoustic magazine, Julian Piper applauded her “Björk-like steadily evolved and refined its sound with the 21 APRIL bass playing of Jon Sykes and the production intensity” while fRoots praised her “astonishing vocal range” and added: “This is an artist who is and keyboards of Steve Kitch vital ingredients of EDDI READER + special guest ADAM the unmistakable TPT sound. well worth investigating.”

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 20: glasgow and surrounding area :: fife + central + perthshire + tayside READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts. ADAM HOLMES combines the songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own unique brand of Americana, with a hint of Scotland. www.eddireader.co.uk 22 APRIL EDDI READER + special guest ADAM HOLMES: At Palace Theatre, Kilmarnock. EDDI READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts. ADAM HOLMES combines the songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own unique brand of Americana, with a hint of Scotland. www.eddireader.co.uk 29 APRIL The Stripped Sessions Presents ….. BRIAN (NASHER) NASH - (Ex Frankie Goes to Hollywood) with special guest DARYL SPERRY: At Audio Glasgow. Doors 7:30 pm £10. Over 18's. Tickets Available from Tickets Scotland www.facebook.com/events/763191313819273/ Brookfield Knights present ….. CONNLA: At Performing Arts Centre, Kilbarchan. These five tremendous musicians came together while studying at Ulster University. Their debut EP won them loads of attention and rave reviews. Irish Music magazine said of the sampler: “Consider this your early warning system…there is something serious on the horizon and that creative storm is Connla.”Their 2016-issued album, River Waiting, won them even more welldeserved exposure. www.connlamusic.com www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html

alternative rock, in various manifestations, since the mid 80’s. The single Jacobs Ladder, taken from the bands album of the same name has received numerous BBC Scotland plays and the album a 4 star Scottish Express review. God is in the TV said about the album “These songs wrap themselves around you like a warm blanket and effortlessly soothe your soul.” www.filthytongues.com 10 MAY Sounds in the Suburbs presents ..... THE KENNEDYS: At (venue to be confirmed), Glasgow. https://twitter.com/suburbs1 14 JUNE THE NIGHT WITH ….. TOM POULSON, DANIELLE PRICE and TIMOTHY COOPER: At The Hug and Pint, 171 Great Western Road, Glasgow. 7.30pm. Tickets £10 / £8conc. Season ticket £32. Booking fees not included. The Night With returns for a second season. Music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alistair MacDonald and Jonathan Harvey. www.thenightwith.co.uk 17 JUNE StG Promotions Presents ….. THE FILTHY TONGUES with special Guests: At 02 ABC, Glasgow. The Filthy Tongues have occupied a unique place at the heart of Scottish alternative rock, in various manifestations, since the mid 80’s. The single Jacobs Ladder, taken from the bands album of the same name has received numerous BBC Scotland plays and the album a 4 star Scottish Express review. God is in the TV said about the album “These songs wrap themselves around you like a warm blanket and effortlessly soothe your soul.” Doors 19:00 £12.50ADV/£14.50 OTD, Over 14's. Tickets @ www.tickets-scotland.com www.filthytongues.com www.facebook.com/StgPromotions

FIFE / CENTRAL / PERTHSHIRE / TAYSIDE Send us all your gig dates for Tayside, Perthshire, Fife and Central areas . Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 2 FEBRUARY

Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club presents …..

THE JELLYMAN'S DAUGHTER: At Polish ExTHE NIGHT WITH ….. THE AUREA QUARTET: servicemen's Club, Bennochy House, Forth Park Drive, Kirkcaldy, KY2 5TA. Entry £8 members, At The Hug and Pint, 171 Great Western Road, Glasgow. 7.30pm. Tickets £10 / £8conc. Season £10 non-members. Starting at 7.30 till about ticket £32. Booking fees not included. The Night 10.30.

With returns for a second season. Music by Kevin www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk Volans, Arvo Part and Garth Knox.

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DAVE ARCARI: At The Green Room, Perth.

Slide guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt. blues sounds owe as much to trash country, MAIRI CAMPBELL’s ‘Pulse’ on tour: At Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock. 8.00pm. Pulse is punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta "One musician's extrodinary tale of of finding her blues and have been showcased via nine internationally acclaimed solo CD releases. way back home" and the story of Pulse resonates far and wide and is touring to all kind Arcari’s latest release – the Hellbound Train EP – entered the iTunes blues charts at number seven of venues, For a full list of upcoming gigs visit in June 2016 and a follow up album, www.mairicampbell.scot/gigs/ provisionally titled Givers & Takers, is scheduled SKIDS with support THE FILTHY TONGUES: for release in early 2017. www.davearcari.com At ABC, Glasgow The Filthy Tongues have 6 MAY

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9 FEBRUARY Crail Folk Club presents ….. THE OUTSIDE TRACK: At Crail Community Hall, Crail. 8pm.

BYOB. Crail Folk Club aims to provide a quality guest list with the emphasis on entertainment.

Come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere.

During Singers' Nights the club features local singers and musicians, as well as those visiting Crail. It usually meets in the historic Town Hall in the centre of Crail. www.crailfolkclub.org.uk Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club presents …..

SESSION A92: At Polish Ex-servicemen's Club, Bennochy House, Forth Park Drive, Kirkcaldy, KY2 5TA. Entry £8 members, £10 non-members.

Starting at 7.30 till about 10.30. Session A92 are playing an acoustic session www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk 16 FEBRUARY Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club presents …..

EWAN MACPHERSON TRIO: At Polish Exservicemen's Club, Bennochy House, Forth Park Drive, Kirkcaldy, KY2 5TA. Entry £8 members, £10 non-members. Starting at 7.30 till about 10.30. www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk 21 FEBRUARY BOB CHEEVERS “Fifty Years” UK Tour: At Backstage at the Green Hotel, Kinross.

Celebrating his 50th year as a songwriter with over 3,000 songs to his credit, Bob Cheevers’ is touring to support the release of a 5-disc, boxset appropriately called “Fifty Years”. The retrospective album covers half a century of his writing featuring almost 100 songs. To coincide with the album’s release. Bob is undertaking an extensive UK tour (see dates below). Growing up in the R&B flavoured city of Memphis was followed by 25 years in the West Coast pop field and then 16 years as a journeyman writer in Nashville which led him to what he describes as his “wonderful life in Austin”. A veteran of touring the UK (this February being his 12th year), he has earned the respect of his peers world wide. Do not miss this truly great country singer and cult favourite, whose rootsy, bluesflavoured songs spin tales of life in a conversational language of the heart that rock the soul. www.bobcheevers.com 23 FEBRUARY NORRIE MCCULLOCH: At The Tolbooth, Stirling. 8pm. Norrie McCulloch’s on tour supporting his third full-length album, 'Bare Along The Branches', in as many years effortlessly merges folk, country, americana and indie genres. Recorded live to analogue tape with regular collaborators: Dave McGowan (Teenage Fanclub), Stuart Kidd and Marco Rea (The Wellgreen), Iain Thompson (Bella Hardy band) and Iain Sloan (Wynntown Marshals) this is his most accomplished collection of songs to date. www.norriemcculloch.com Crail Folk Club presents ….. RICHARD DIGANCE supported by the BROADSIDE BOYS: At Crail Town Hall. 8pm. BYOB. Crail Folk Club aims to provide a quality guest list with the emphasis on entertainment. Come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. During Singers' Nights the club features local singers and musicians, as well as those visiting Crail. It usually meets in the historic Town Hall in the centre of Crail. www.crailfolkclub.org.uk Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club presents …..

TIA MCGRAFF: At Polish Ex-servicemen's Club,

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 21: fife + central + perthshire + tayside Bennochy House, Forth Park Drive, Kirkcaldy, KY2 5TA. Entry £8 members, £10 non-members.

Starting at 7.30 till about 10.30. www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk BOB CHEEVERS “Fifty Years” UK Tour: At Dave McNamara House Concert, Perth. Celebrating his 50th year as a songwriter with over 3,000 songs to his credit, Bob Cheevers’ is touring to support the release of a 5-disc, box-set appropriately called “Fifty Years”. The retrospective album covers half a century of his writing featuring almost 100 songs. To coincide with the album’s release. Bob is undertaking an extensive UK tour (see dates below). Growing up in the R&B flavoured city of Memphis was followed by 25 years in the West Coast pop field and then 16 years as a journeyman writer in Nashville which led him to what he describes as his “wonderful life in Austin”. A veteran of touring the UK (this February being his 12th year), he has earned the respect of his peers world wide. Do not miss this truly great country singer and cult favourite, whose rootsy, blues-flavoured songs spin tales of life in a conversational language of the heart that rock the soul. www.bobcheevers.com 24 FEBRUARY

Barbara Dickson’s career spans 50 years and she is now recording some of her most interesting material, a fusion of old and new. ‘I started in folk clubs of the 1960s’, says Dickson, ‘and there I learned songs I’ve never forgotten.’

That material, paired with soaking up the ‘new’ songs of the time has given her a prodigious knowledge of music. Tickets @ www.ticketline.co.uk www.barbaradickson.net

Crail Folk Club presents ….. MAGGIE HOLLAND: At Crail Town Hall. 8pm. BYOB. Crail Folk Club aims to provide a quality guest list with the emphasis on entertainment. Come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. During Singers' Nights the club features local singers and musicians, as well as those visiting Crail. It usually meets in the historic Town Hall in the centre of Crail. www.crailfolkclub.org.uk

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Crail Folk Club Singers Night: At Crail Town Hall. 8pm. BYOB. Crail Folk Club aims to provide a quality guest list with the emphasis on entertainment. Come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. During Singers' Nights the club features local singers and musicians, as well as those visiting Crail. It usually meets in the historic Town Hall in the centre of Crail. www.crailfolkclub.org.uk

EDDI READER + special guest ADAM HOLMES: At Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy.

EDDI READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts. ADAM HOLMES combines the songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own unique brand of Americana, with a hint of Scotland. www.eddireader.co.uk

11 MARCH SIOBHAN MILLER: At Tolbooth, Stirling. A two-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year, Siobhan Miller is widely regarded as one of the foremost vocalists in Scotland. Daughter of folk musician Brian Miller and from a musical household her new album ‘Strata’ (due out February 2017) sees her looking back to the songs she grew up around and that influenced her musical life. Refreshing these songs and recording them for the first time, she is joined by some of Scotland’s finest musicians including Kris Drever and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and Phil Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, Celtic Connections Artistic Director www.siobhanmiller.com

SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA plays the songs of MANCINI and MANDEL: At Gardyne Theatre, Dundee. Featuring JOE LOCKE on vibes and KENNY WASHINGTON on vocals and new big band arrangements commissioned by the SNJO, as they weave their unique spell around the timeless songs of HENRY MANCINI and JOHNNY MANDEL with Moon River, Pink Panther, Shadow Of Your Smile and more. Also in Edinburgh (25th) and Glasgow (26th) Dundee tickets @ www.dundeebox.co.uk www.snjo.co.uk 16 MARCH 25 FEBRUARY BOB CHEEVERS “Fifty Years” UK Tour: At Greyfriars, South Street, Perth. Celebrating his 50th year as a songwriter with over 3,000 songs to his credit, Bob Cheevers’ is touring to support the release of a 5-disc, box-set appropriately called “Fifty Years”. The retrospective album covers half a century of his writing featuring almost 100 songs. To coincide with the album’s release. Bob is undertaking an extensive UK tour (see dates below). Growing up in the R&B flavoured city of Memphis was followed by 25 years in the West Coast pop field and then 16 years as a journeyman writer in Nashville which led him to what he describes as his “wonderful life in Austin”. A veteran of touring the UK (this February being his 12th year), he has earned the respect of his peers world wide. Do not miss this truly great country singer and cult favourite, whose rootsy, blues-flavoured songs spin tales of life in a conversational language of the heart that rock the soul. www.bobcheevers.com 26 FEBRUARY BARBARA DICKSON: At Rothes Hall, Glenrothes. Barbara Dickson’s career spans 50 years and she is now recording some of her most interesting material, a fusion of old and new. ‘I started in folk clubs of the 1960s’, says Dickson, ‘and there I learned songs I’ve never forgotten.’ That material, paired with soaking up the ‘new’ songs of the time has given her a prodigious knowledge of music. Tickets @ www.ticketline.co.uk www.barbaradickson.net 28 FEBRUARY

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Brookfield Knights present ….. LIZABETT RUSSO TRIO: At Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy. Nashville-based roots music hotshots Woody Pines have wowed the crowds on both sides of the Atlantic and last time they toured over here, reviewers unanimously declared them to be one of the most entertaining acts on the Americana circuit. Recently signed by Muddy Roots Records, Maverick magazine praised their Brookfield Knights present ….. LIZABETT last release as “an intoxicating blend of rural RUSSO TRIO: At Acoustic Music Club, and urban stringband, country blues and jug Kirkcaldy. Since releasing her 2013-issued debut band music.”

‘The Traveller’s Song’, which stimulated interest www.woodypines.com www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html across Europe, the US and Canada, Lizabett Russo has continued to develop and fine-tune a style and character that is refreshingly her own. 27 APRIL She toured Japan and Seoul in 2015 and 2016, Brookfield Knights present ….. CONNLA: At latterly to showcase material from her latest release, “The Burning Mountain”. Reviewing the Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy. These five tremendous musicians came together while CD for Acoustic magazine, Julian Piper applauded her “Björk-like intensity” while fRoots studying at Ulster University. Their debut EP won them loads of attention and rave reviews. praised her “astonishing vocal range” and Irish Music magazine said of the sampler: added: “This is an artist who is well worth “Consider this your early warning system…there investigating.” is something serious on the horizon and that www.lizabettrusso.com www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html creative storm is Connla.”Their 2016-issued album, River Waiting, won them even more Crail Folk Club presents ….. WIZZ JONES: At well-deserved exposure.

Crail Town Hall. 8pm. BYOB. Crail Folk Club aims www.connlamusic.com to provide a quality guest list with the emphasis www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html on entertainment. Come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. During Singers' Nights the 30 APRIL club features local singers and musicians, as well as those visiting Crail. It usually meets in DAVE ARCARI: At Bonfest, Kirriemuir. Slide the historic Town Hall in the centre of Crail. guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues www.crailfolkclub.org.uk sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues and 30 MARCH have been showcased via nine internationally acclaimed solo CD releases. Arcari’s latest Crail Folk Club Singers Night: At Crail Town Hall. 8pm. BYOB. Crail Folk Club aims to provide release – the Hellbound Train EP – entered the iTunes blues charts at number seven in June a quality guest list with the emphasis on 2016 and a follow up album, provisionally titled entertainment. Come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. During Singers' Nights the Givers & Takers, is scheduled for release in early 2017. club features local singers and musicians, as www.davearcari.com well as those visiting Crail. It usually meets in the historic Town Hall in the centre of Crail. www.crailfolkclub.org.uk 13 APRIL

BARBARA DICKSON: At Perth Concert Hall.

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 22: aberdeen + north east playing four release shows with two in their hometown Aberdeen, and also Glasgow and Edinburgh. Tickets for these shows, complete with pre-order album bundles are available now – see website for details. Since forming in early 2009 the band have been regulars on the Send us all your gig dates for UK touring circuit but have also played to a great Aberdeenshire and the north east response in Europe. The band has enjoyed area sharing stages with the likes of Foals, The Vaccines, Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, Email them to Carol Twin Atlantic, Maximo Park, Mystery Jets, Errors, carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com The Kooks, Editors, Wild Nothing and Maccabees and have also performed at many of Scotland’s 2 FEBRUARY major music festivals including T in the Park, Belladrum, Insider, Brew at the Bog, Electric Red Note Ensemble presents ….. Parlour Fields, Solus, Kelburn Garden Party and Insider.

Sounds by PATRICIA ALESSANDRINI: At Gig tickets @ Wooden Barn, Banchory, 8pm. Parlour Sounds is http://tinyurl.com/SOYTABZ03Mar a multimedia project involving kitchen devices, www.thelittlekicks.co.uk and housekeeping aids in a subversive, experimental electronic aesthetic. Coming out of 4 MARCH Patricia Alessandrini’s Sound and Music Embedded residency with Red Note Ensemble, in SIOBHAN MILLER: At Town Hall, Stonehaven. partnership with the Conservatoire de Paris, it A two-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year, will also feature work by composers associated Siobhan Miller is widely regarded as one of the with the Conservatoire. Tickets: £12, £8 from foremost vocalists in Scotland. Daughter of folk 01330 825431 or musician Brian Miller and from a musical www.woodendbarn.com household her new album ‘Strata’ (due out www.facebook.com/AlessandriniPatricia February 2017) sees her looking back to the www.rednoteensemble.com songs she grew up around and that influenced her musical life. Refreshing these songs and 5 FEBRUARY recording them for the first time, she is joined by some of Scotland’s finest musicians including George Monbiot and EWAN MCLENNAN’s Kris Drever and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and ‘Breaking the Spell of Loneliness’ Tour: At Phil Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, AB25 traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, 1BU. Breaking The Spell of Loneliness is a Celtic Connections Artistic Director remarkable collaboration between writer George www.siobhanmiller.com Monbiot and musician Ewan McLennan. They launched their project because they believe that THE LITTLE KICKS: At The Studio, The Lemon nothing has greater potential to unite and delight Tree, Aberdeen. The Little Kicks have announced than music. They seek to use the music to open their new album "Shake Off Your Troubles" - will up the issue of loneliness, and their be released on 3 March. To celebrate they will be performances to help address it. Around the time playing four release shows with two in their of the album’s release George and Ewan will hometown Aberdeen, and also Glasgow and perform a small number of special concerts.

Edinburgh. Tickets for these shows, complete George will narrate the show, describe the ideas with pre-order album bundles are available behind the songs, and encourage members of now – see website for details. Since forming in the audience to engage with each other, both early 2009 the band have been regulars on the then and beyond the concert. Ewan will sing the UK touring circuit but have also played to a great songs and perform the music that has emerged response in Europe. The band has enjoyed from this innovative collaboration. Tickets: £12/ sharing stages with the likes of Foals, The £10. Doors: 7.30pm. Tickets @ Vaccines, Frightened Rabbit, The Twilight Sad, www.ticketsource.co.uk Twin Atlantic, Maximo Park, Mystery Jets, Errors, www.ewanmclennan.co.uk The Kooks, Editors, Wild Nothing and Maccabees and have also performed at many of Scotland’s 9 FEBRUARY major music festivals including T in the Park, Belladrum, Insider, Brew at the Bog, Electric Almost Blue Promotions presents …..

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AMYTHYST: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen. "Now Gig tickets @ in our 4th Year, Almost Blue Promotions continue http://tinyurl.com/SOYTABZ04Mar to bring the best of independent Americana and www.thelittlekicks.co.uk Roots music to Aberdeen. With between 10-12 gigs per year, ABP have again been working 5 MARCH tirelessly to come up with an impressive programme for 2017 with artists from the USA SIOBHAN MILLER: At The Drouthy Cobbler, as well as the UK. Elgin. A two-time winner of Scots Singer of the www.AlmostBluePromotions.com Year, Siobhan Miller is widely regarded as one of the foremost vocalists in Scotland. Daughter of 23 FEBRUARY folk musician Brian Miller and from a musical household her new album ‘Strata’ (due out INDIGO VELVET: At The Tunnels, Aberdeen.

February 2017) sees her looking back to the Indigo Velvet are a young, Tropical-pop band songs she grew up around and that influenced from Edinburgh. They’ve had a breakthrough her musical life. Refreshing these songs and year; dubbed ’one’s to watch’ by Scotland On recording them for the first time, she is joined by Sunday, Clash Magazine, The Sun and Tenement some of Scotland’s finest musicians including TV. Airplay on BBC Introducing, Radio X, Kris Drever and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and Amazing Radio, and a live session on The Janice Phil Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new Forsyth Show on BBC Radio Scotland. traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, http://weareindigovelvet.co.uk/ Celtic Connections Artistic Director www.siobhanmiller.com 3 MARCH

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THE LITTLE KICKS: At The Studio, The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen. The Little Kicks have announced Brookfield Knights present ….. their new album "Shake Off Your Troubles" - will BRONWYNNE BRENT: Glenbuchat Hall, be released on 3 March. To celebrate they will be

Strathdon. Mississippi Delta songbird, Bronwynne Brent returns to these shores for three weeks of touring (in trio format) having entranced the UK on her last visit. Her spinetingling vocal style has been compared to Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and Amy Winehouse - a remarkable singer-songwriter who simply oozes class. Bob Harris, playing tracks from her stunning album, Stardust, repeatedly on his BBC Radio 2 show told listeners: “This is absolutely gorgeous - really special!" www.bronwynnebrent.com www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html

17 MARCH MAIRI CAMPBELL: Pulse: At Woodend Barn, Banchory. Mairi Campbell: Pulse on the road in spring 2017 with more dates to be added. A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling. Pulse is the story of Mairi Campbell’s quest to heal cultural wounds.

From classical training at London’s Guildhall, to love and danger in Mexico and discovering stepdancing in Cape Breton. Co-devised and directed

by Kath Burlinson. Supported by Made in Scotland. The album Pulse (2016 edition) is also available to buy as a download or a CD. www.mairicampbell.scot 19 MARCH MAIRI CAMPBELL: Pulse: At Newton Dee and Camphill Community, Aberdeen. Mairi Campbell: Pulse on the road in spring 2017 with more dates to be added. A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling. Pulse is the story of Mairi Campbell’s quest to heal cultural wounds. From classical training at London’s Guildhall, to love and danger in Mexico and discovering step-dancing in Cape Breton.

Co-devised and directed by Kath Burlinson.

Supported by Made in Scotland. The album Pulse (2016 edition) is also available to buy as a download or a CD. www.mairicampbell.scot 22 MARCH MAIRI CAMPBELL’s ‘Pulse’ on tour: At New Deer Village Hall, Aberdeenshire. Pulse is "One musician's extrodinary tale of of finding her way back home" and the story of Pulse resonates far and wide and is touring to all kind of venues, For a full list of upcoming gigs visit www.mairicampbell.scot/gigs/ 23 MARCH MAIRI CAMPBELL’s ‘Pulse’ on tour: At Tullynessle & Forbes Hall, near Alford, Aberdeenshire. Pulse is "One musician's extrodinary tale of of finding her way back home" and the story of Pulse resonates far and wide and is touring to all kind of venues, For a full list of upcoming gigs visit www.mairicampbell.scot/gigs/ 24 MARCH Almost Blue Promotions presents ….. PETER BRUNTNELL: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen.

"Now in our 4th Year, Almost Blue Promotions continue to bring the best of independent Americana and Roots music to Aberdeen. With between 10-12 gigs per year, ABP have again been working tirelessly to come up with an impressive programme for 2017 with artists from the USA as well as the UK. www.AlmostBluePromotions.com MAIRI CAMPBELL’s ‘Pulse’ on tour: At MacRobert Memorial Hall, Tarland, near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. Pulse is "One musician's extrodinary tale of of finding her way back home" and the story of Pulse resonates far and

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Almost Blue Promotions presents ….. THE LOWEST PAIR: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen.

"Now in our 4th Year, Almost Blue Promotions continue to bring the best of independent Americana and Roots music to Aberdeen. With between 10-12 gigs per year, ABP have again been working tirelessly to come up with an impressive programme for 2017 with artists from the USA as well as the UK. www.AlmostBluePromotions.com

EDDI READER + special guest ADAM HOLMES: At Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen. EDDI READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts. ADAM HOLMES combines the Send us all your gig dates songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van for the Highlands Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and Email them to Carol folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com unique brand of Americana, with a hint of Scotland.

29 JANUARY www.eddireader.co.uk ROBYN STAPLETON (album launch tour): At THE FILTHY TONGUES: At Cafe Drummond, Eden Court, Inverness. 20 January marks the Aberdeen. The Filthy Tongues have occupied a release of Robyn Stapleton's album, Songs of unique place at the heart of Scottish alternative Robert Burns. Through the poetry of Scotland's rock, in various manifestations, since the mid national bard, the album explores the themes of 80’s. The single Jacobs Ladder, taken from the history, humanity, love and nature. It features bands album of the same name has received an array of Scotland's finest instrumentalists, numerous BBC Scotland plays and the album a 4 with arrangements that echo the sensitivity and star Scottish Express review. God is in the TV raw emotion of Burns' works. The album said about the album “These songs wrap captures the incredible range and depth of themselves around you like a warm blanket and Burns' works and the passion, humour and effortlessly soothe your soul.” sensitivity of his words. This album is a www.filthytongues.com celebration of Burns and a celebration of Scotland's musical heritage and language, which 22 APRIL are at the heart of Burns' literary and musical legacy.

Brookfield Knights present ….. LIZABETT www.robynstapleton.com/concerts RUSSO TRIO: At Glenbuchat Hall. Strathdon.

Nashville-based roots music hotshots Woody 2 FEBRUARY Pines have wowed the crowds on both sides of the Atlantic and last time they toured over here, George Monbiot and EWAN MCLENNAN’s reviewers unanimously declared them to be one ‘Breaking the Spell of Loneliness’ Tour: At of the most entertaining acts on the Americana Eden Court, One Touch Theatre, Bishops Road, circuit. Recently signed by Muddy Roots Records, Inverness, IV3 5SA. Breaking The Spell of Maverick magazine praised their last release as Loneliness is a remarkable collaboration between “an intoxicating blend of rural and urban writer George Monbiot and musician Ewan stringband, country blues and jug band music.” McLennan. They launched their project because www.woodypines.com they believe that nothing has greater potential to www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html unite and delight than music. They seek to use the music to open up the issue of loneliness, and 23 APRIL their performances to help address it. Around the time of the album’s release George and Brookfield Knights present ….. LIZABETT Ewan will perform a small number of special RUSSO TRIO: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen. concerts. George will narrate the show, describe Nashville-based roots music hotshots Woody the ideas behind the songs, and encourage Pines have wowed the crowds on both sides of members of the audience to engage with each the Atlantic and last time they toured over here, other, both then and beyond the concert. Ewan reviewers unanimously declared them to be one will sing the songs and perform the music that of the most entertaining acts on the Americana has emerged from this innovative collaboration. circuit. Recently signed by Muddy Roots Records, Tickets: £14/£12. Doors: 7.30pm. Box Office: Maverick magazine praised their last release as 01463 234234. “an intoxicating blend of rural and urban www.ewanmclennan.co.uk stringband, country blues and jug band music.” www.woodypines.com 23 FEBRUARY

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Moniack Mhor presents ….. RODDY WOOMBLE KATHRYN WILLIAMS AND RACHEL SERMANNI: At Abriachan Village Hall (15km south-west of Inverness), 8pm. Moniack Mhor are running a songwriting course and as part of it these three amazing musicians will be putting on a very special one-off gig. More details and tickets @ www.moniackmhor.org.uk

Almost Blue Promotions presents ….. THE WOODY PINES: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen.

"Now in our 4th Year, Almost Blue Promotions continue to bring the best of independent Americana and Roots music to Aberdeen. With between 10-12 gigs per year, ABP have again been working tirelessly to come up with an impressive programme for 2017 with artists from 24 FEBRUARY the USA as well as the UK. www.AlmostBluePromotions.com INDIGO VELVET: At Aviemore for Groove Cairngorm. Indigo Velvet are a young, Tropical3 MAY pop band from Edinburgh. They’ve had a breakthrough year; dubbed ’one’s to watch’ by

Scotland On Sunday, Clash Magazine, The Sun and Tenement TV. Airplay on BBC Introducing, Radio X, Amazing Radio, and a live session on The Janice Forsyth Show on BBC Radio Scotland. http://weareindigovelvet.co.uk/ 9 MARCH SIOBHAN MILLER: At Eden Court, Inverness. A two-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year, Siobhan Miller is widely regarded as one of the foremost vocalists in Scotland. Daughter of folk musician Brian Miller and from a musical household her new album ‘Strata’ (due out February 2017) sees her looking back to the songs she grew up around and that influenced her musical life. Refreshing these songs and recording them for the first time, she is joined by some of Scotland’s finest musicians including Kris Drever and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and Phil Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, Celtic Connections Artistic Director www.siobhanmiller.com 16 MARCH MAIRI CAMPBELL’s ‘Pulse’ on tour: At Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. Pulse is "One musician's extrodinary tale of of finding her way back home" and the story of Pulse resonates far and wide and is touring to all kind of venues, For a full list of upcoming gigs visit www.mairicampbell.scot/gigs/ 23 MARCH SOUTHERN TENANT FOLK UNION: At Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. September 2016 saw the release of the seventh Southern Tenant Folk Union album Join Forces and the band now tour in support of it. It was written following the May 2015 general election result, and then recorded in June and July last year amidst a quickly changing political landscape, something that has made the suite of songs seem timelier still. The band will be touring to support the release throughout the remainder of 2016 and into Spring 2017. Musically the album harks back to the more roots and bluegrass sounding earlier albums and is divided into two main strands. www.southerntenantfolkunion.com 15 APRIL EDDI READER + special guest ADAM HOLMES: At Strathpeffer Pavillion, Strathpeffer.

EDDI READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent album First of a Million Kisses both topped the British charts. ADAM HOLMES combines the songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own unique brand of Americana, with a hint of Scotland. www.eddireader.co.uk 17 APRIL EDDI READER + special guest ADAM HOLMES: At Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. EDDI READER famously harmonized with Annie Lennox touring with the Eurythmics, after her time with successful punk outfit Gang of Four. It was the short-lived but warmly remembered Fairground Attraction that really brought her into the limelight and to the attention of a much wider audience. The single ‘Perfect’ and parent

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WEST COAST ISLANDS / SHETLAND / ORKNEY Send us all your gig dates for all of the Scottish islands Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com

Pierhead Tavern, Lamlash, Isle of Arran. 3pm.

Free admission. Acoustic set. Delivering 100% Blues from the delta, the Clyde Delta that is.

This 4 piece band from Glasgow play the blues in a completely uncompromising style, from an 'in your face' hard nosed fashion, much like you would expect from a Glasgow band, to the smooth and intensely melodic that can make the hair on the back of your neck stand up! www.facebook.com/ThePHTArran 25 FEBRUARY THE THREE N EIGHTS: At The Pierhead Tavern, Lamlash, Isle of Arran. 9pm. Free admission. Live show features originals as well as classic Rock n' Roll and Rockabilly performed with a vintage punk attitude and of course a right good dusting of SKA. www.facebook.com/ThePHTArran 26 FEBRUARY

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Professional saxophonist Spike Bain is accompanied by the talented guitarist & singer Keith Robertson. www.facebook.com/ThePHTArran

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SIOBHAN MILLER: At Catstrand, New Galloway, Castle Douglas. DG7 3RN. A two-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year, Siobhan Miller is widely regarded as one of the foremost vocalists in Scotland. Daughter of folk musician Brian Miller and from a musical household her new album ‘Strata’ (due out February 2017) sees her looking back to the songs she grew up 8 MARCH around and that influenced her musical life.

Refreshing these songs and recording them for SIOBHAN MILLER: At Sabha mor Ostaig, Skye. the first time, she is joined by some of A two-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year, Scotland’s finest musicians including Kris Drever Siobhan Miller is widely regarded as one of the and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and Phil foremost vocalists in Scotland. Daughter of folk Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new musician Brian Miller and from a musical traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, household her new album ‘Strata’ (due out Celtic Connections Artistic Director February 2017) sees her looking back to the www.siobhanmiller.com songs she grew up around and that influenced her musical life. Refreshing these songs and 12 MARCH recording them for the first time, she is joined by some of Scotland’s finest musicians including Brookfield Knights present …..

Kris Drever and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and BRONWYNNE BRENT: At Harbour Arts Centre, Phil Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new Irvine. Mississippi Delta songbird, Bronwynne traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, Brent returns to these shores for three weeks of Celtic Connections Artistic Director touring (in trio format) having entranced the UK www.siobhanmiller.com on her last visit. Her spine-tingling vocal style has been compared to Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee and Amy Winehouse - a remarkable singersongwriter who simply oozes class. Bob Harris, MAIRI CAMPBELL’s ‘Pulse’ on tour: At playing tracks from her stunning album, Atlantic Islands Centre, Luing, Slate Islands, Stardust, repeatedly on his BBC Radio 2 show Argyll. Pulse is "One musician's extrodinary tale told listeners: “This is absolutely gorgeous of of finding her way back home" and the story really special!" of Pulse resonates far and wide and is touring to www.bronwynnebrent.com all kind of venues, For a full list of upcoming www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html gigs visit www.mairicampbell.scot/gigs/ 21 APRIL 10 MARCH

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Brookfield Knights present ….. LIZABETT RUSSO TRIO: At The CatStrand, New Galloway.

SOUTHERN TENANT FOLK UNION: At An Nashville-based roots music hotshots Woody Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle Of Lewis. September Pines have wowed the crowds on both sides of 2016 saw the release of the seventh Southern the Atlantic and last time they toured over here, Tenant Folk Union album Join Forces and the reviewers unanimously declared them to be one band now tour in support of it. It was written of the most entertaining acts on the Americana 18 FEBRUARY following the May 2015 general election result, circuit. Recently signed by Muddy Roots and then recorded in June and July last year Records, Maverick magazine praised their last THE GEORGE LINDSAY BAND: At The amidst a quickly changing political landscape, release as “an intoxicating blend of rural and Pierhead Tavern, Lamlash, Isle of Arran. 9pm. something that has made the suite of songs urban stringband, country blues and jug band Free admission. Delivering 100% Blues from the seem timelier still. The band will be touring to music.” delta, the Clyde Delta that is. This 4 piece band support the release throughout the remainder of www.woodypines.com from Glasgow play the blues in a completely 2016 and into Spring 2017. Musically the album www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html uncompromising style, from an 'in your face' harks back to the more roots and bluegrass hard nosed fashion, much like you would expect sounding earlier albums and is divided into two 30 APRIL from a Glasgow band, to the smooth and main strands. intensely melodic that can make the hair on the www.southerntenantfolkunion.com Brookfield Knights present ….. CONNLA: At back of your neck stand up!

Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine. These five www.facebook.com/ThePHTArran 14 APRIL tremendous musicians came together while studying at Ulster University. Their debut EP 19 FEBRUARY MAIRI CAMPBELL’s ‘Pulse’ on tour: At Mull won them loads of attention and rave reviews.

Theatre, Druimfin, Tobermoray, Isle of Mull.

Irish Music magazine said of the sampler: THE GEORGE LINDSAY BAND: At The 8.00pm. Pulse is "One musician's extrodinary “Consider this your early warning system…there

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and then 16 years as a journeyman writer in Nashville which led him to what he describes as his “wonderful life in Austin”. A veteran of touring the UK (this February being his 12th year), he has earned the respect of his peers world wide. Do not miss this truly great country singer and cult favourite, whose rootsy, bluesflavoured songs spin tales of life in a conversational language of the heart that rock the soul. www.bobcheevers.com

THE DON PATERSON SITUATION: At The Hippodrome, Eyemouth. The Don Paterson Situation with leading poet and jazz guitarist www.brookfield-knights.com/up-coming-tours.html Don Paterson,Tim Garland on saxophone, Steve Hamilton on keyboards, Euan Burton on bass and Alyn Cosker on drums and. 8.00pm Tickets £13.50 Early Bird £11.50. The Hippodrome is an arts space where people of all ages can meet to enjoy theatre, music, exhibitions, poetry and film in the picturesque Berwickshire fishing town of Eyemouth.

25 FEBRUARY Send us all your gig dates for www.eyemouthhippodrome.org CARDBOARD FOX: At The Hippodrome, Scottish Borders and 14 FEBRUARY Eyemouth. Winners of the 2015 Spiral Earth Northumberland areas award for best debut, Cardboard Fox are an EDUARDO NIEBLA: At The Hippodrome, exciting four piece band, featuring the Carrivick Email them to Carol Eyemouth.

Valentine’s Day concert with one of sisters, Laura and Charlotte on guitar, fiddle and carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com the most potent forces in flamenco jazz fusion, vocals, Joe Tozer on mandolin and John Breese guitarist Eduardo Niebla. 8.00pm Tickets £10.00 on double bass. 8.00pm Tickets £12.00 Early 2 FEBRUARY Child £5.00. The Hippodrome is an arts space Bird £10.00. The Hippodrome is an arts space where people of all ages can meet to enjoy where people of all ages can meet to enjoy KAZMIRANDA JAMMING BAND: At The theatre, music, exhibitions, poetry and film in theatre, music, exhibitions, poetry and film in Auction House in Tweedmouth, Berwick-uponthe picturesque Berwickshire fishing town of the picturesque Berwickshire fishing town of Tweed (next to Asda). 7.30-11pm. Free. The Eyemouth.

Eyemouth. band has a singer for the first time in the history www.eyemouthhippodrome.org www.eyemouthhippodrome.org of the jam band (8 years) - Emily Lerpiniere has the most amazing voice and with Simon Usher 16 FEBRUARY 2 MARCH on drums, Yves Martins and Nick Holmes on electric guitars and Alex Hek on bass and Brian KAZMIRANDA JAMMING BAND: At The KAZMIRANDA JAMMING BAND: At The Martin on acoustic guitar its sure to be a great Auction House in Tweedmouth, Berwick-uponAuction House in Tweedmouth, Berwick-uponnight!

Tweed (next to Asda). 7.30-11pm. Free. The Tweed (next to Asda). 7.30-11pm. Free. The www.facebook.com/AuctionHouseBerwick band has a singer for the first time in the history band has a singer for the first time in the history www.facebook.com/TheMusicGalleryUK of the jam band (8 years) - Emily Lerpiniere has of the jam band (8 years) - Emily Lerpiniere has www.facebook.com/cafekazmirandaberwickontweed the most amazing voice and with Simon Usher the most amazing voice and with Simon Usher on drums, Yves Martins and Nick Holmes on on drums, Yves Martins and Nick Holmes on 4 FEBRUARY electric guitars and Alex Hek on bass and Brian electric guitars and Alex Hek on bass and Brian Martin on acoustic guitar its sure to be a great Martin on acoustic guitar its sure to be a great Kazmiranda Open Mic: At (new venue) The night! night!

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9 FEBRUARY STEPHEN FEARING: At The Hippodrome, Eyemouth. A stunning guitarist with a smooth, intimate and powerful voice, Canadian singer/ songwriter Stephen Fearing in concert at the Hippodrome. 8.00pm. Tickets £12.00 Early Bird £10.00. The Hippodrome is an arts space where people of all ages can meet to enjoy theatre, music, exhibitions, poetry and film in the picturesque Berwickshire fishing town of Eyemouth. www.eyemouthhippodrome.org

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STOWED OUT: At Stow Town Hall. 7pm £6/£4.

Following the huge success of last years fundraiser for Unicefs work in Syria we have decided to do it again but this time with a great selection of acoustic acts. Some of the acts are being kept secret just now but we can tell you that our headliner has 5 albums to his name, appeared on the BBC's Quay sessions and The Sunday Times said: "A beautiful album that has Mercury Music Prize Shortlist written all over it" Tickets are available now from Brown Paper Tickets or the usual Stow outlet. www.stowedoutfestival.org.uk

JOHN GOLDIE: At The Hippodrome, Eyemouth.

World class acoustic guitarist, John Goldie, plays jazz, blues, Celtic and funk. 8.00pm Tickets £12.00 Early Bird £10.00. The Hippodrome is an arts space where people of all ages can meet to enjoy theatre, music, exhibitions, poetry and film in the picturesque Berwickshire fishing town of Eyemouth. www.eyemouthhippodrome.org 7 MARCH

SIOBHAN MILLER: At Hippodrome, Eyemouth.

A two-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year, 11 FEBRUARY THE OUTSIDE TRACK: At The Hippodrome, Siobhan Miller is widely regarded as one of the Eyemouth. Pan Celtic group, The Outside Track foremost vocalists in Scotland. Daughter of folk String Jam Club presents ….. AMYTHYST perform Scots, Irish and Cape Breton songs and musician Brian Miller and from a musical KIAH: At The County Hotel, 1-5 High Street, stepdance. 8.00pm Tickets £13.50 Early bird household her new album ‘Strata’ (due out Selkirk, Scottish Borders TD7 4BZ. A Southern £11.50. The Hippodrome is an arts space where February 2017) sees her looking back to the Gothic, alt-country blues singer/songwriter people of all ages can meet to enjoy theatre, songs she grew up around and that influenced based out of Johnson City in Tennessee, which music, exhibitions, poetry and film in the her musical life. Refreshing these songs and has been her permanent residence for nearly a picturesque Berwickshire fishing town of recording them for the first time, she is joined by decade. Not only are her influences eclectic, but Eyemouth. some of Scotland’s finest musicians including they span across decades. She draws heavily on www.eyemouthhippodrome.org Kris Drever and Aidan O’Rourke, from Lau, and Old Time music (Mississippi Sheiks, Son House, Phil Cunningham. ‘one of the most exciting new Jimmie Rodgers, Olla Belle Reed, Carter Family) 20 FEBRUARY traditional singers in Scotland.’ - Donald Shaw, and is inspired by vocal stylings of R&B and Celtic Connections Artistic Director. 8.00pm Country music from the '50s-'70s (Big Mama BOB CHEEVERS “Fifty Years” UK Tour: At String Tickets £13.50 Early Bird £11.50. The Thornton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mahalia Theory, Heart of Hawick, Tower Mill, Hawick.

Hippodrome is an arts space where people of all Jackson, Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn).

Celebrating his 50th year as a songwriter with ages can meet to enjoy theatre, music, She also draws heavily from contemporary over 3,000 songs to his credit, Bob Cheevers’ is exhibitions, poetry and film in the picturesque artists that have similar powerful vocal integrity touring to support the release of a 5-disc, boxBerwickshire fishing town of Eyemouth. such as Adele and Florence and the Machine. set appropriately called “Fifty Years”. The www.eyemouthhippodrome.org She has toured throughout the UK including retrospective album covers half a century of his www.siobhanmiller.com major festivals such as the Southern Fried writing featuring almost 100 songs. To coincide Festival in Perth, the Cambridge Folk Festival, with the album’s release. Bob is undertaking an Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and SummerTyne Americana Festival. Tickets £12 from the County extensive UK tour (see dates below). Growing up in the R&B flavoured city of Memphis was Hotel 01750 721233 or online from Eventbrite. followed by 25 years in the West Coast pop field Doors 7.30 pm.

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SCOTTISH MUSIC FESTIVALS Read our full festival listings @ http://musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com/festivals/ JANUARY 2017 Celtic Connections Glasgow 19 January - 5 February

Celtic Connections 2017 comprises a wealth of concerts, ceilidhs, talks, workshops, free events and late night sessions taking place over 18 days across various venues in Glasgow. From Thursday 19 January to Sunday 5 February 2,100 musicians from across the globe will take part in 300 events at venues throughout Glasgow, Scotland, for one of the leading annual festivals of world, folk and roots music. The festival is supported

by Glasgow City Council and Creative Scotland, and delivered by Glasgow Life. 18 days of concerts, ceilidhs, talks, art exhibitions, workshops, free events, late night sessions and a host of special one-off musical collaborations will once again light up the Scottish winter when Celtic Connections returns. www.celticconnections.com

FEBRUARY

TradFest Edinburgh | Dùn Èideann Edinburgh 26 Apr – 7 May 2017

Experience Scotland Live with a seasonal feast of living traditions and local cultures.

Encounter music, storytelling, dance, craft, song and folk drama at venues – indoor and outdoor – across Edinburgh and the Lothians. Rooted in the past yet resonating in the present, TradFest showcases dynamic engagement with Scotland’s History and Heritage as well as providing a platform for up and coming talent in the world of Trad.

Look out for the Battle of the Folk Band event as part of the finale performances this year! www.tracscotland.org/tradfest

MAY Southside Fringe Glasgow 12-18 May 2017

Groove CairnGorm

With their festival programme running from the 12th-28th of May 2017, Southside Fringe is now gearing up for its 5th year.

Online event applications launch on the 30th Launched last year as the UK’s first resort of November, you can register your event based snowsports festival, Groove Cairnvia www.southsidefringe.com . Building on gorm combined winter snowsports, along the success of 2016 with 50 venues hosting with a selection of DJs and acoustic acts more than 200 events, Southside Fringe are performing over two stages up the mounnow putting the call out for all kinds of tain, followed by an Apres-ski party until the events to be part of next year’s festival – early hours at Badaguish Outdoor Centre Theatre, Music. Comedy, Art, Cabaret, Spofeaturing acts including Grandmaster Flash, ken Word, Family, Heritage, Food & Drink, Hot Chip and Radio 1’s Monki amongst many Health & Wellbeing, Film, and Literary/ others.

Books. Closing date for applications, 17 February 2017. For more information, conwww.facebook.com/groovecairngorm tact: corinna@southsidefringe.org.uk Cairngorms 25-25 February 2017

relatively close to the festival itself, as the festival consists of around 35 individually programmed and ticketed events, rather than offering all-in-one day or weekend tickets. Artists visiting the festival perform on several occasions, though, offering a number of chances to catch them over the weekend. www.orkneyfolkfestival.com

JUNE Solus

The Bield at Blackruthven, Perthshire 23-25 June 2017 Solas Festival is an allage arts festival held in Perthshire from 17 to 19 June, with hiphop, electro loops and some of the finest folk and roots music you’ll find in a Scottish field: a rich mix of traditions, talents and tastes. Expect an unusual mix of art, music, theatre, comedy, debate and soulsearching. The programme also makes space for challenging debate with activists, writers and thinkers from across the political, cultural and religious spectrum. Solas Festival offers a creative and entertaining programme for festival-goers of all ages in a safe environment. www.solasfestival.co.uk

JULY Hebridean Celtic Festival Hebrides 19-22 July

Fantastic four-day festival set against the rich cultural backdrop of the Outer Hebrides, featuring top quality music from around the Celtic nations and beyond. Stornoway and throughout Lewis and Harris. The cream of www.southsidefringe.com international folk and Celtic music have heaped praise on HebCeltl as it celebrated Orkney Folk Festival its 20th year in 2015 by hosting its biggest Lochwinnoch Arts Festival Orkney number of live performances ever. AwardLochwinnoch 25-28 May 2017 winning artists who took part in this year's 15-26 March 2017 Hebridean Celtic Festival hailed it a huge One of Scotland’s longest-running folk festi- success after bosses laid on new venues and The 16th annual Festival of Music, Drama, vals, celebrating its 35th outing in 2017, the returned to its roots for the showpiece Literature, Creative & Visual Arts in LochOrkney Folk Festival is one of the most pro- event. winnoch, Renfrewshire takes place across a lific events in the Scottish and UK folk calenrange of local venues. There are a number dars, and one of the highlights of Orkney’s www.hebceltfest.com of our favourite performers and artists rediary of community events. An entirely volturning in 2017 including Karine Polwart, untary run event, the festival annually atEirlys Myfanwy Davies, Flute Phonics, Govan tracts artists from all corners of the folk ButeFest Gaelic Choir, Calder Drama, Glasgow Thea- world - from leading international names to The Isle of Bute tre Guild, the Rose Room and many more!

28-30 July 2017 up and coming fresh faces - to Stromness, We have some exciting new acts and perin Orkney’s West Mainland, for four days of formances including Fara - four exciting concerts, ceilidhs, clubs, sessions, talks and A three day festival of music, food and fun.

Orkney musicians, Tony Roper, the Glasgow craic. Artists and audiences are welcomed This accessible and hugely friendly family Caledonian Fiddle Orchestra and many festival all takes places a mere thirty-five by and into Orkney’s own thriving folk more!. Visit our website for more info: miles as the crow flies from Glasgow. scene, with Orcadian artists providing Butefest has endeavoured to compile a around two thirds of the festival prohttp://lochwinnochartsfestival.co.uk/ gramme. Line-up announced across Decem- richly varied and superb line-up that includes both the contemporary and the clasber-March, with tickets on sale in April, around six weeks ahead of the event. This is sic of the music world and runs that gamut

MARCH

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SEPTEMBER

Party in the Park Bathgate, West Lothian 3 September

Now in its 7th year ‘Party in the Park’ music festival and family fun day is a great day Beauly Electric Fields out for music lovers with families, held in 3-5 August 2017 Drumlanrig Castle Bathgate’s Kirkton Park. There is a main 1-2 September 2017 stage and acoustic stage with music on both Get yourself a ticket to Scotland’s all ages throughout the day from 11am to 6pm with wackiest festival of music and performing Nestling in the beautiful surroundings of free entry and no ticket required. A real mix arts. Bella is back in its beautiful Highland Drumlanrig Castle, south west Scotland. of music from local bands and artists to setting with all the crazy variety that makes We’ve been working really hard to top last those further afield. This is no ticket reit Scotland’s premier boutique festival. year and we’re pretty excited about this quired and no entry fee and as this is ''Belladrum - quite simply, it’s what everysummer, as well as having some brand new geared towards familys there is a strict no day life should be like, if only everyday life developments. One of the most exciting alcohol policy. didn't get in the way.'' - Clare Damdoaran, music festivals in Scotland returns in 2016, eFestivals. Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival over two days in the stunning grounds of www.facebook.com/partyinthepark takes place in the beautiful Highland surDrumlanrig Castle! roundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly

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