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Piping Live: 10.30pm on BBC ALBA. Allan MacDonald presents performances from BRUCE GANDY, FRAS and JAMES DUNCAN MacKENZIE. www.bbcalba.co.uk Vic Galloway: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Vic's equipped with his musical-microscope to review some energetic new music. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Tune: 11.55pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Mark Mackenzie discusses Inverness's challenging and exciting dance music scene. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland THURSDAY 6 JUNE The Afternoon Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Tune 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 with all the essential songs. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland The Quay Sessions: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Enjoy live performances from the Foyer @ Pacific Quay. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Natasha Raskin Sharp: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. An eclectic mix of music from Natasha. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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TUNE (Launch): 11-11.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. TUNE is a new late-night music show Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on BBC following Scotland’s music fans into the biggest gigs, Radio Scotland. Bryan with all the essential songs. club nights and sold-out live events happening across www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland the country. Led by Kerr Okan, DJ and frontman of The Lafontaines, the new magazine-style music TV Another Country with Ricky Ross: 9pm on BBC series will feature a host of live performances, from Radio Scotland. Bristol singer-songwriter YOLA venues around the country, shot and crafted by Forest CARTER recounts recording her debut album in of Black (who have worked with Biffy Clyro, Foals, Nashville. Twin Atlantic). On top of that the show brings www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland exclusive sessions, interviews and profiles on artists from around the globe, as they visit Scotland and its Roddy Hart: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Roddy famously wild audiences. The first series launches with shines a spotlight on great songwriting both FRANK CARTER AND THE RATTLESNAKES contemporary and classic. performing to a sold out mosh-pit of devoted fans at www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Edinburgh’s The Liquidroom. Chart-topping hero Horo Gheallaidh: 11pm on BBC ALBA. PATSY REID LEWIS CAPALDI revisits his roots with an intimate rendition of ‘Tough’ on the Bathgate Hills. Glasgow and LUNASA are amongst the guests. based MC SWVN steps into the spotlight for a live www.bbcalba.co.uk session. TUNE also checks out one of Scotland’s biggest dance music events Terminal V; meets the WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE tastemakers moving things forward in Glasgow’s grime and rap scene; and gets to know BRATAKUS, The Afternoon Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture two Riot grrrl inspired sisters from a village near Tomintoul. Kerr Okan, TUNE host, said “TUNE itself from across Scotland. isn’t a conventional music show. It represents a www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland change from the old guard, a show not afraid to represent a true reflection of where music is going in Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on BBC Scotland and beyond” Radio Scotland. Bryan with all the essential songs. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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Travelling Folk: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bruce Macgregor with live music from four of the acts performing at this year's Celtic Connections. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Fonn Fonn Fonn: 10pm on BBC ALBA. An off-beat music quiz show. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Fonn Fonn Fonn: 11.30pm on BBC ALBA. An off-beat music quiz show. www.bbcalba.co.uk FRIDAY 7 JUNE Grant Stott's Vinyl Collection: 6pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Grant celebrates the vinyl revival with classic records and new releases. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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Seirm: 10pm on BBC ALBA. Featuring ALLAN HENDERSON and the duo SMITH AND McCLENNAN. www.bbcalba.co.uk Na Trads: 11.50pm on BBC ALBA. ROSS AINSLIE plays at the Trad Awards. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Belladrum: 11.05pm on BBC ALBA. FRANZ FERDINAND perform at the 2017 Belladrum music festival. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Iain Anderson: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. End the day in the company of the songwriting masters of country, folk, blues and soul. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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Billy Sloan: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Hot new releases, plus rock and pop music from Scotland and around the world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
The Afternoon Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bryan with all the essential songs. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Jazz Nights: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Linley Hamilton with a Scottish Jazz Awards special with interviews live from the event. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Na Trads: 8.15pm on BBC ALBA. FIDDLER'S BID with tunes from the Trad Awards. www.bbcalba.co.uk Classics Unwrapped: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Jamie MacDougal presents the best in classical music. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Vic Galloway: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Featuring live sessions and new material from the best alternative artists. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Piping Live: 10pm on BBC ALBA. The third episode features a session from musical trio ASSYNT. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Iain Anderson: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. End the day in the company of the songwriting masters of country, folk, blues and soul. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Belladrum: 11.15pm on BBC ALBA. YOU ME AT SIX perform at the 2018 Belladrum festival. www.bbcalba.co.uk TUESDAY 11 JUNE The Afternoon Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Horo Gheallaidh: 11pm on BBC ALBA. FEIS ROIS and ELEPHANT REVIVAL are amongst the guests. www.bbcalba.co.uk Roddy Hart: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Roddy shines a spotlight on great songwriting both contemporary and classic. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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UK tour. His name was suddenly everywhere and festival and show dates started to stream in from across the world. His long-awaiting follow-up album to The First Turn, True Born Irishmanwas released in October 2016. The following spring his won two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – Best Traditional Track and Best Newcomer – and performed with a six piece line-up at the awards ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg 11 JUNE RootsBase presents ..... RYAN YOUNG: At Gilded Balloon Basement, Rose Theatre, Rose Street, Edinburgh. A new live music club - dedicated to presenting the very best in folk, trad and roots-based music. Going under the name RootsBase, the weekly gigs will take place every Tuesday at the Gilded Balloon Basement at the west end of Rose Street. All shows begin at 7.30pm (doors open at 6.30pm) and all tickets are priced at £11 (£9 concession) @ www.gildedballoon.co.uk/programme 13 JUNE
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TOMMY SMITH, BRIAN KELLOCK & KATHLEEN MACINNES plus FERGUS SKERRYVORE: At Various dates. 4 JUNE MCCREADIE TRIO: At Queen's Hall, Skerryvore are a multi-award winning Edinburgh. Tommy’s enduring partnership Scottish band creating a ‘trad-rock’ fusion RootsBase presents ..... OBT (TOM with pianist Brian Kellock has produced that has seen them perform in over 25 OAKES, JON BEWS, DANIEL THORPE): outstanding albums and enthralled countries worldwide. Twice awarded 'Live At Gilded Balloon Basement, Rose Theatre, audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Act of the Year' at the Trad Music Awards Rose Street, Edinburgh. A new live music They’re joined for part of this concert by www.facebook.com/skerryvore club - dedicated to presenting the very best Kathleen MacInnes, one of the great voices in folk, trad and roots-based music. Going in Gaelic singing. Supported by the National under the name RootsBase, the weekly gigs Lottery through Creative Scotland and will take place every Tuesday at the Gilded Medici Advisors. At Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. Balloon Basement at the west end of Rose Tickets @ Street. All shows begin at 7.30pm (doors www.thequeenshall.net open at 6.30pm) and all tickets are priced at £11 (£9 concession) @ ALI WHITWELL: At Captain's Bar, South www.gildedballoon.co.uk/programme College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday HELPING SCOTTISH BASED 2.30pm. Americana and other stuff! 6 JUNE www.facebook.com/ali.whitwell.5 MUSICIANS PROMOTE www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh LONDON GIGS ALI WHITWELL: At Captain's Bar, South Send us all your gig College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday 18 JUNE dates for London! 2.30pm. Americana and other stuff! www.facebook.com/ali.whitwell.5 RootsBase presents ..... (to be Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh confirmed): At Gilded Balloon Basement, Rose Theatre, Rose Street, Edinburgh. A 9 JUNE new live music club - dedicated to 5 JULY presenting the very best in folk, trad and Soundhouse presents ..... DAOIRÍ roots-based music. Going under the name ZAL CLEMINSON’s /sin’dogs/: At 100 FARRELL: At The Traverse Bar, Cambridge RootsBase, the weekly gigs will take place Club Century House, 100 Oxford St, Street, Edinburgh. 7.30pm | Music starts: every Tuesday at the Gilded Balloon Fitzrovia, London W1D 1LL. 7.30pm. The 8pm. Tickets: £11 each. Daoirí stepped into Basement at the west end of Rose Street. legendary Zal Cleminson is back with his the limelight in his own right, launching his All shows begin at 7.30pm (doors open at new band /sin’dogs/. Widely respected for own solo live career at Celtic Connections, 6.30pm) and all tickets are priced at £11 his work with The Sensational Alex Harvey in January 2016. In May the same year he (£9 concession) @ Band after Alex’s passing, Zal went on to was invited to fly to Manchester to do a live www.gildedballoon.co.uk/programme play guitar in Nazareth for several years in session on the BBC Radio 2 Folk Show with the late 70s and early 80s, and also worked Mark Radcliffe just a week before his first 20 JUNE
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page 7: scots in london :: edinburgh + west + mid + east lothian ALI WHITWELL: At Captain's Bar, South College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday 2.30pm. Americana and other stuff! www.facebook.com/ali.whitwell.5 www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh 25 JUNE RootsBase presents ..... WESTWARD THE LIGHT: At Gilded Balloon Basement, Rose Theatre, Rose Street, Edinburgh. A new live music club - dedicated to presenting the very best in folk, trad and roots-based music. Going under the name RootsBase, the weekly gigs will take place every Tuesday at the Gilded Balloon Basement at the west end of Rose Street. All shows begin at 7.30pm (doors open at 6.30pm) and all tickets are priced at £11 (£9 concession) @ www.gildedballoon.co.uk/programme 26 JUNE LAUREN MACCOLL on Tour: At The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Acclaimed fiddle player and composer Lauren MacColl is set to perform her moving album ‘The Seer’ for folk music fans across Scotland this summer, alongside new material which she will share for the first time. She will be joined on stage by folk luminaries Mairearad Green (The Poozies), Rachel Newton (The Shee), Anna Massie (Blazin’ Fiddles), Megan Henderson (Breabach) and Signy Jakobsdottir. Commissioned by the Highland arts organisation Fèis Rois and premiered at Celtic Connections, ‘The Seer’ is a 45-minute suite of music based on the life and prophecies of 17th Century prophet, The Brahan Seer. Audiences can look forward to an emotive and engaging performance from Lauren, informed by tradition and a technique honed over many years, as she performs the album alongside brand new music. This tour is made possible by Creative Scotland www.laurenmaccoll.co.uk 27 JUNE ALI WHITWELL: At Captain's Bar, South College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday 2.30pm. Americana and other stuff! www.facebook.com/ali.whitwell.5 www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh 28 JUNE Sketches Of Spain - The SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA with guest trumpeter LAURA JURD: At The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. 'Sketches Of Spain' in collaboration with Edinburgh’s International Film Festival 28 June. As part of the EIFF’s Spanish theme this year, Miles Davis’ hugely popular Sketches
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was quite different. 2019 sees the band reform once again with the same stripped back classic line-up of vocals, guitar, percussion and plenty of harmonies with some brand-new material, some very old material and an album of B sides featuring music that has never been heard before. It’s going to be a homecoming when they hit The Traverse in July, and you should be there … www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg
30 JUNE 11 JULY Soundhouse presents ..... THE SPOOKY MEN'S CHORALE: At The Traverse Bar, Cambridge Street, Edinburgh. 7.30pm | Music starts: 8pm. Tickets: £16/11 each. The Spooky Men’s Chorale are the gift that keeps on giving… as thunderous as a herd of wildebeest, as sly as a wagonload of Spike Milligans and as sonorous as a cloister of monks. The manchoir emerged blinkingeyed from the Blue Mountains of NSW fifteen years ago and armed with no more than their impressively cavernous vocal chords, a nice line in deadpan, improbable facial hair and an ill-matched set of hats, have been gleefully wooing audiences throughout Australia, NZ and the UK ever since. Brandishing a shiny brand new CD Welcome To The Second Half, the magnificent, craggy ensemblage of heavenly singing male bodies return to the UK in 2019, ever more comfortable with their whimsical humour and musical breadth – a winning spectrum of Georgian songs, pindrop-beautiful ballads, highly inappropriate covers, and immaculate man anthems. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg
Soundhouse presents ..... THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MR NIZ + THE BEVVY SISTERS & THE SOUNDHOUSE CHOIR: At The Queen’s Hall, South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. Doors open: 7pm | Music starts: 8pm. Tickets: £18 (£16/£10/£8) each. Stuart Nisbet (Niz) is well known for his work as Scotland’s first session guitarist, perhaps with China Crisis or the Proclaimers or with Kylie at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Tonight he presents a personal passion as Joe Nisbet Jr. with The Gospel According to Niz, featuring special guests The Soundhouse Choir and The Bevvy Sisters. The music was made in homage to his father Joe Nisbet, an evangelical preacher with whom he toured across the southern states of America as a child. It ignited a lifelong fascination with the classic sound of the black gospel quintets of the 40s and 50s and the commitment and excitement of that music. It took four days to finish the record, but 30 years to start it. It was the first time he’d sung on a recording. Stuart and The Bevvy Sisters first worked together in Dick Gaughan’s band a decade ago, but it was at 6 JULY a gig only last October that the Sisters first heard Joe Nisbet Jr sing with his trio – Nico Soundhouse presents ..... THE BANANA Bruce on string bass, and Neil Weir on SESSIONS: At The Traverse Bar, trumpet. They fell in love and tonight’s Cambridge Street, Edinburgh. 7.30pm | concert was born. Heather Macleod, of the Music starts: 8pm. Tickets: £11 each. The Bevvy Sisters is also Director of the 100Banana Sessions is a band. Not just any strong Soundhouse Choir. The Queen’s Hall band either – the sort of band that haunt extended their endorsement to the your dreams with annoyingly catchy community choir in 2017, and have since melodies, Beatles-esque harmonies and presented two outstanding performances washboard beats. But don’t let that put you here. In addition to their contribution to the off – if Marmite can win the hearts of many, Gospel tonight, the Soundhouse Choir will then so can they. The Banana Sessions open the concert by sharing their work so exploded onto the Scottish music scene way far on a programme of Music from Scotland back when in 2007. Fresh out of music that they will present at the International school, Roberta Pia and Calum Wood had Choir Festival in Santiago de Cuba in met and bonded over tea and bananas and October this year. began to write songs about the most www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg mundane topics they could possibly think of – running out of tea bags, the health 26 JULY benefits of bananas, stories about bears in the forest and being chased by imaginary The Say Award Live At The Longlist 2019 white rabbits. It’s safe to say they had a WITH C DUNCAN, KOBI ONYAME, ROD wild imagination from the off – but with JONES FROM IDLEWILD + MODERN Calum coming from a Pearl Jam background STUDIES: At Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. and Roberta from a Billie Holiday Scotland’s national music prize, The SAY background, their approach to song-writing Award, has announced that the highly
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play thrillingly original cutting-edge klezmer and folk music. An intoxicating, lifeaffirming mix of Eastern European dance music, Middle Eastern rhythms and virtuoso performances. Their long anticipated 5th album will be launched at their gig. The 3X5 performances are part of Made in Scotland’s curated showcase programme. Pianodrome at The Pitt is a brand new venue for Edinburgh Fringe 2019, a custom made auditorium, built entirely from up-cycled pianos. Five pianos are tuned for all to play and over fifty more are used to build a circle of tiered seating. Pianodrome is a radical reimagining of what the piano is and can be in today’s throw-away culture. Originally created for the Botanics in 2018, The Pianodrome has a new home this year, moving to the Leith-based Pitt Street Market. All Tickets: £15/£12 www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com 17 AUGUST
DEAN OWENS - A Hatful of Songs (solo): At New Town Theatre (Edinburgh Fringe). Scottish troubadour Dean Owens has been awarded an “Honorable Mention” by the International Songwriting Competition, for Love Prevails (co-written with Will Kimbrough). The Nashville based competition is open to songwriters worldwide, across a range of genres, with a panel of industry judges including Tom Waits, Adam Lambert and Rodney Crowell. After a string of American dates he now returns to Scotland to play some solo shows and return to Fringe by the Sea Festival in North Berwick with his Celtabilly Allstars band (which sold out in 2018). Owens is widely hailed as one of UK’s finest troubadours (with fans including Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and BBC’s Bob Harris). In September 2017 he became the first Scottish musician to officially showcase at the prestigious Americanafest in Nashville (supported by PRS Foundation/ 16 AUGUST Creative Scotland and Saltire Society) and in 2018 he undertook his first US tour (also The Soundhouse Organisation presents supported by Creative Scotland) which 3X5 with MOISHE’S BAGEL: At The included a headline slot at the Levitt Shell in Pianodrome (Venue 391), Pitt Street Market, Memphis TN 125 Pitt St, Edinburgh EH6 4DE. 9pm. www.deanowens.com Edinburgh’s The Soundhouse Organisation presents 3X5 - three of the most exciting 5- 19 AUGUST piece cross-genre acoustic bands from Scotland - Moishe’s Bagel, John Goldie & The Soundhouse Organisation presents The High Plains and Kinnaris Quintet – with 3X5 with JOHN GOLDIE & THE HIGH three individual concerts, and one almighty PLAINS: At The Pianodrome (Venue 391), showcase of all three in one show. The Pitt Street Market, 125 Pitt St, Edinburgh bands produce ingenious and highly EH6 4DE. 3pm. Edinburgh’s The listenable music, transcending Soundhouse Organisation presents 3X5 categorisation, and appealing to lovers of three of the most exciting 5-piece crossmusic in all its forms. They represent what genre acoustic bands from Scotland Scottish musicians excel at: melding a Moishe’s Bagel, John Goldie & The High variety of styles, influences and origins to Plains and Kinnaris Quintet – with three make exciting, world-leading sounds. individual concerts, and one almighty Soundhouse favourites Moishe’s Bagel showcase of all three in one show. The
bands produce ingenious and highly listenable music, transcending categorisation, and appealing to lovers of music in all its forms. They represent what Scottish musicians excel at: melding a variety of styles, influences and origins to make exciting, world-leading sounds. John Goldie is one of the best acoustic guitarists in the world right now. He is joined by his brand new backing band, The High Plains. Playing original tunes, The High Plains is made up of some of the most accomplished string players in folk, jazz and classical music. The 3X5 performances are part of Made in Scotland’s curated showcase programme. Pianodrome at The Pitt is a brand new venue for Edinburgh Fringe 2019, a custom made auditorium, built entirely from up-cycled pianos. Five pianos are tuned for all to play and over fifty more are used to build a circle of tiered seating. Pianodrome is a radical re-imagining of what the piano is and can be in today’s throwaway culture. Originally created for the Botanics in 2018, The Pianodrome has a new home this year, moving to the Leithbased Pitt Street Market. All Tickets: £15/ £12 www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com 19 AUGUST The Soundhouse Organisation presents 3X5 with KINNARIS QUINTET: At The Pianodrome (Venue 391), Pitt Street Market, 125 Pitt St, Edinburgh EH6 4DE. 9pm. Edinburgh’s The Soundhouse Organisation presents 3X5 - three of the most exciting 5piece cross-genre acoustic bands from Scotland - Moishe’s Bagel, John Goldie & The High Plains and Kinnaris Quintet – with three individual concerts, and one almighty showcase of all three in one show. The bands produce ingenious and highly listenable music, transcending categorisation, and appealing to lovers of music in all its forms. They represent what Scottish musicians excel at: melding a variety of styles, influences and origins to make exciting, world-leading sounds. John Goldie is one of the best acoustic guitarists in the world right now. Kinnaris Quintet is one of Scotland's hottest new folk bands. The line-up is a marriage of five exquisite musicians from diverse musical backgrounds, influences and styles, all distilled into beautifully crafted and powerful arrangements. Medleying between new compositions, traditional Scottish and Irish, Bluegrass, Old-Time and Classical music, they produce a sound which is uplifting, honest and powerful. The 3X5 performances are part of Made in Scotland’s curated showcase programme. Pianodrome at The Pitt is a brand new venue for Edinburgh Fringe 2019, a custom made auditorium, built entirely from up-cycled pianos. Five pianos are tuned for all to play and over fifty
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 11: edinburgh + west + mid + east lothian :: glasgow + surrounding area more are used to build a circle of tiered music. Kinnaris Quintet is one of seating. Pianodrome is a radical reScotland's hottest new folk bands. The lineimagining of what the piano is and can be in up is a marriage of five exquisite musicians today’s throw-away culture. Originally from diverse musical backgrounds, created for the Botanics in 2018, The influences and styles, all distilled into Pianodrome has a new home this year, beautifully crafted and powerful moving to the Leith-based Pitt Street arrangements. Medleying between new Market. All Tickets: £15/£12 compositions, traditional Scottish and Irish, www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com Bluegrass, Old-Time and Classical music, they produce a sound which is uplifting, 20 AUGUST honest and powerful. The 3X5 performances are part of Made in Scotland’s curated ANGUS MUNRO: At The Jazz Bar, showcase programme. Pianodrome at The Edinburgh. Angus Munro is an exciting Pitt is a brand new venue for Edinburgh emerging talent on the Scottish music scene Fringe 2019, a custom made auditorium, for which The Scotsman described him as built entirely from up-cycled pianos. Five ‘soulful and outrageous …the highest range pianos are tuned for all to play and over I’ve ever seen’; The Herald said he is fifty more are used to build a circle of tiered ‘tightly energetic and precisely punchy’ and seating. Pianodrome is a radical reBBC Radio Scotland rated him as ‘the best imagining of what the piano is and can be in artist we’ve ever had in session.’ Angus has today’s throw-away culture. Originally toured and appeared on stage with a wide created for the Botanics in 2018, The range of artists from Scott Bradlee’s Pianodrome has a new home this year, Postmodern Jukebox and Charlie Barnes moving to the Leith-based Pitt Street (Bastille) to Scouting For Girls, The Hoosiers Market. All Tickets: £15/£12 and jazz outfit Snarky Puppy; all of whom www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com have been ‘weirded out’ by him. 18 March marks the launch of Angus Munro’s stunning 23 AUGUST debut deluxe edition EP Mirror Man, featuring 5 self-penned songs released on DEAN OWENS - A Hatful of Songs Councillor Records. (solo): At New Town Theatre (Edinburgh www.angusmunromusic.com Fringe). Scottish troubadour Dean Owens has been awarded an “Honorable Mention” 20 AUGUST by the International Songwriting Competition, for Love Prevails (co-written The Soundhouse Organisation presents with Will Kimbrough). The Nashville based 3X5 Triple Bill: MOISHE’S BAGEL + competition is open to songwriters JOHN GOLDIE & THE HIGH PLAINS + worldwide, across a range of genres, with a KINNARIS QUINTET: At The Pianodrome panel of industry judges including Tom (Venue 391), Pitt Street Market, 125 Pitt St, Waits, Adam Lambert and Rodney Crowell. Edinburgh EH6 4DE. 7pm. Edinburgh’s The After a string of American dates he now Soundhouse Organisation presents 3X5 returns to Scotland to play some solo shows three of the most exciting 5-piece crossand return to Fringe by the Sea Festival in genre acoustic bands from Scotland North Berwick with his Celtabilly Allstars Moishe’s Bagel, John Goldie & The High band (which sold out in 2018). Owens is Plains and Kinnaris Quintet – with three widely hailed as one of UK’s finest individual concerts, and one almighty troubadours (with fans including showcase of all three in one show. The Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and BBC’s bands produce ingenious and highly Bob Harris). In September 2017 he became listenable music, transcending the first Scottish musician to officially categorisation, and appealing to lovers of showcase at the prestigious Americanafest music in all its forms. They represent what in Nashville (supported by PRS Foundation/ Scottish musicians excel at: melding a Creative Scotland and Saltire Society) and variety of styles, influences and origins to in 2018 he undertook his first US tour (also make exciting, world-leading sounds. supported by Creative Scotland) which Soundhouse favourites Moishe’s Bagel included a headline slot at the Levitt Shell in play thrillingly original cutting-edge klezmer Memphis TN and folk music. An intoxicating, lifewww.deanowens.com affirming mix of Eastern European dance music, Middle Eastern rhythms and virtuoso 12 SEPTEMBER performances. Their long anticipated 5th album will be launched at their gig. John Blues Caravan 2019 featuring ..... INA Goldie is one of the best acoustic guitarists FORSMAN (Finland), ALLY VENABLE in the world right now. He is joined by his (USA) and KATARINA PEJAK (Serbia): brand new backing band, The High Plains. At The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. The Playing original tunes, The High Plains is Blues Caravan keeps on rolling. In a shifting made up of some of the most accomplished music industry, you can rely on Ruf’s annual string players in folk, jazz and classical revue tour as the gold-standard for modern
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IMPERIAL WAX: At Broadcast, Glasgow. Formed by three 11 year 5 JUNE veterans of the longest serving and last SHAMANIC: At Cottiers, Glasgow (West line up of The Fall, touring in support of their debut 'Gastwerk Saboteurs' out on End Festival). Following on from its Saustex Records spectacular World Premiere at www.facebook.com/Imperialwaxband Edinburgh’s Old Quad in September 2018, SHAMANIC will have its first performance in Glasgow at the West End 15 JUNE Festival, presented by PM Music. SHAMANIC is a unique, dramatic, visceral TERRY LEE HALE & Support: At The Doublet Bar, Park Road, Glasgow. Terry collision of live music and painting, Lee Hale is a powerful singer-songwriter created by Russian artist Maria Rud (a that has been making great records for development of her AniMotion Shows twenty five years. He first made an with Evelyn Glennie (which toured to USA, China and Europe)), iconic Rezillos impact on the Seattle scene, playing the clubs and bars with his open guitar frontwoman Fay Fife and Martin tunings and dark, dangerous songs, and Metcalfe (Filthy Tongues/Goodbye Mr McKenzie/Angelfish). The music created went on to build a faithful fan base that’s spread around the planet. Tickets £12 for SHAMANIC is a soundclash of 60s from Tickets Scotland @ garage, alternative rock and http://t-s.co/ter08 contemporary electronica, laced with a www.facebook.com/thedoubletbar punk spirit. www.shamaniclive.com Indievous Presents ..... THE FRONTIERS + THE SIDE + RED 6 JUNE HEARTED VIBRATIONS + DR VEERS: At The Record Factory, 17 Byers Road, KIRK BRANDON with THE PACK: At Glasgow. 7.45pm. £5/£4 student. Tickets The Bungalow, Paisley. The origins of on door. The Pack started with the original band www.facebook.com/indievous the Pack of Lies. It consisted of Kirk Brandon, John Fuller (An old school 22 JUNE friend) and a Scottish drummer called Rab Fae Beith. "We rehearsed and got NELL BRYDEN: At Oran Mor, Glasgow. the songs together at John’s uncle’s house in Stanmore". The Pack itself was Distinguished New York-born, Londonbased singer-songwriter Nell Bryden is formed sometime in 1978 in Clapham, on a UK tour with an intimate set of South London amongst the punk anarchist scene. Tickets and information dates to support the release of her new EP, Soundtrack To Little Wing (Part 1). @ The shows will offer Bryden's legions of www.kirkbrandon.com/shows fans the chance to see her, up close and personal, in a trio format with her Cryptic Nights presents JULES longtime bandmates Ali Petrie RAWLINSON :: Interval and Instance: At CCA, Glasgow. 8pm. £10/ (keyboards) and Sebastian Hankins £7. Composer Jules Rawlinson adds new (drums) - and sees Bryden returning to her roots and following in the sonic live score to archival footage from footsteps of some of her biggest pioneering Scottish scientific filmmaker influences, such as Dusty Springfield, Eric Lucey and in an examination of speed, motion and scale. Cryptic Nights Aretha Franklin and Carole King. continues its tenth anniversary year with Admirers can expect soulful, heartfelt performances of new songs from the an audiovisual performance examining EP — the first preview of the upcoming speed, motion and scale in film and companion album for her soon-to-besound. Interval and Instance sees published debut novel, Little Wing— as composer Jules Rawlinson add a live well as favourites from her catalogue. electronic score and sound design to www.facebook.com/nellbrydenmusic archival material from Scotland’s pioneering scientific filmmaker Eric 25 JUNE Lucey. Using extensive layering, timestretching and compression, pitchDJANA GABRIELLE + OTHER shifting, physical modelling and frequency, Rawlinson draws attention to STORIES: At Old Hairdresser's, Glasgow. 7.30pm. Other Stories are a the curious visual character of the films which feature cells dividing and crystals Glasgow based four-piece. As the name suggests, their music has a storytelling forming, insect and animal behaviour, quality. Delicate soundscapes provide the human motion and other physical backdrop for intricate melodies and processes. With a visual style similar to disarmingly dark lyrics. The result is a Bill Morrison’s Decasia and electronic music appealing to fans of Ben Frost and captivating experience that makes the world feel a wee bit different afterwards. Tim Hecker, this experience combines experimentation, invention and rigour to A 2019 Celtic Connections Danny Kyle Stage Winner, Djana Gabrielle is a captivating effect. Tickets on 0141 352 French-Cameroonian singer-songwriter 4900 or @ who has been honing her craft on the www.cca-glasgow.com Scottish music scene for a few years www.cryptic.org.uk now. She released her debut EP, recorded in Glasgow, in late 2015 and 13 JUNE
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 15: glasgow + surrounding area toured around the UK and Europe to promote it. In 2018, she took on the challenge to write, record and release a brand new song each month, which earned her a "New & Notable" feature on the American music platform Noisetrade. She is now hoping to bring these new songs and her soulful, soothing and melodious sound to new audiences in Scotland and beyond". Tickets @ www.djanagabrielle.com www.facebook.com/DjanaGabrielle www.facebook.com/OtherStoriesGlasgow 30 JUNE HER CROOKED HEART & Support: At The Doublet Bar, Park Road, Glasgow. Minneapolis-based Her Crooked Heart presents a debut record unique in form, made up of cyclical narratives and intertwining histories, each informing the next. To Love To Leave To Live is a transformative song cycle, led by singersongwriter, multi instrumentalist and producer Rachel Ries. Tickets £10 from Tickets Scotland @ http://t-s.co/hercr www.facebook.com/thedoubletbar 2 AUGUST FLIPPER: At CCA, Glasgow. The influential San Francisco rock group Flipper - renowned for their heavily distorted approach to punk - have announced a European tour to celebrate their 40 year anniversary. The line-up for this tour will include David Yow (Scratch Acid, Jesus Lizard) on vocals and Mike Watt (The Minutemen, Firehose) along side founding members; Steve DePace on drums and Ted Falconi on guitar www.facebook.com/flipperofficialband 12 AUGUST RUSSIAN CIRCLES with support A.A. WILLIAMS: At G2, Glasgow [with A.A. Williams supporting]. On tour in support of their upcoming album Blood Year, on Sargent House, the pummelling instrumental 3 piece will check out the new track Arluck www.facebook.com/russiancirclesmusic 21 AUGUST NORRIE McCULLOCH: At Nova Scotia Folk Club, Glasgow. Norrie McCulloch is a singer-songwriter and award-winning visual artist originally from Ayrshire he currently lives and works out of of Stirling, Scotland. McCulloch's songs are a tangle up of folk, indie and country influences that manage to stay true to his Scottish roots, equating to a style that offers a welcome touch of originality and garnering critical acclaim with Americana UK naming McCulloch 'An astonishingly good songwriter', Maverick Magazine calling his sound 'Sublime indie-folk' and David Esson of Scottish Daily Mail describing songs as ‘Caledonia, Folk & Country combined perfectly’. www.facebook.com/norriemccullochmusic 28 SEPTEMBER
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SHAMANIC Spectacular, monumental collision of live painting and music created by AniMotion’s Maria Rud, Rezillos’ Fay Fife and Martin Metcalfe (Filthy Tongues/Goodbye Mr McKenzie) GIGnotes ..... SHAMANIC :: 1 Night Only, Wednesday 5 June at Cottiers, 95 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 5PU (Part of West End Festival). 7.30pm Tickets £22. www.glasgowwestend.co.uk
Following on from its spectacular World Premiere at Edinburgh’s Old Quad in September 2018, SHAMANIC will have its first performance in Glasgow at the West End Festival on 5 June, presented by PM Music.
Rud creates everchanging dramatic, dynamic images in response to the music, painting with hands and brushes on to a light box, simultaneously projected on to a huge screen in the atmospheric surrounds of the Cottiers Theatre; storytelling through the music and the wild, colourful, instant creations of leaping horned beasts, hooded figures, birds, animals SHAMANIC is a unique, dramatic, visceral and iconic faces which are created and swept collision of live music and painting, created by away in an instant, transporting the audience Russian artist Maria Rud (a development of her into sensual overload through a live union of AniMotion Shows with Evelyn Glennie (which sound and vision. toured to USA, China and Europe)), iconic The iconic frontwoman of The Rezillos, a Rezillos frontwoman Fay Fife and Martin vocalist and a songwriter, Fay Fife has recently Metcalfe (Filthy Tongues/Goodbye Mr launched her new band The Countess Of Fife. McKenzie/Angelfish). Martin Metcalfe is guitarist /singer-songwriter The music created for SHAMANIC is a with The Filthy Tongues, Goodbye Mr soundclash of 60s garage, alternative rock and MacKenzie, Angelfish (Shirley Manson) and a contemporary electronica, laced with a punk creator of film music. Martin was also co-writer spirit. The core members have always felt the for The Skids recent UK chart album ‘Burning binding urge to unleash the rebellious Cities’ and is an exhibiting visual artist. uncompromising creative energy they share, The name SHAMANIC conveys transcendence, and that defiant DIY spirit runs through all and the show aims to do just that for the aspects of the show’s development. performers and the audience. The show itself The rhythm section of Rezillos bassist Chris is a unique experience – different every time it Agnew and Filthy Tongues/Goodbye Mr is performed, as its creators respond to the Mackenzie's drummer Derek Kelly complete particular resonances and atmosphere of the the line-up of what has been described as a sites where it is performed. Hammer horror house-band let out from some Haight-Ashbury crypt for the night to whip up SHAMANIC has been invited to perform at SXSW 2020, and plans are afoot to tour it an unholy musical storm. Fife plays trippy globally. Catch it now! organ and theremin, commanding the stage, dervish-like, her voice erupting with hitherto www.shamaniclive.com undiscovered Grace Slick style dimensions.
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 16: glasgow + surrounding area :: :: fife + central + perthshire + tayside The SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA directed by Tommy Smith presents An American Journey featuring BILL EVANS: At Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium, Glasgow. 7.30pm start. A pre-concert talk with Bill and Tommy from 6.45 for 20 mins. The SNJO is joined by saxophonist Bill Evans and invite you to take a wonderful musical expedition across America from north to south and east to west. Along the way, jazz will meet up with bluegrass, soul, funk, fusion and country to create a road trip to remember. Well known for conducting experimental marriages between firmly established but quite distinct forms of American music, Bill Evans' portmanteau projects have included such unlikely bedfellows as soul and bluegrass, and jazz and country music. Here he is reunited with the SNJO to perform a new programme of wild-at-heart, crossgenre music in the true spirit of the west and the music and performance are guaranteed to raise the bar again for jazz music in Scotland. www.snjo.co.uk 17 OCTOBER PELICAN: At Classic Grand, Glasgow. Chicago instrumental post-metal/sludge/ doom titans Pelican are touring the UK in support of their 1st album in 6 years, Nighttime Stories, out 7 June on Southern Lord. Meticulously crafted and detailoriented the compositions recall everything from the triumphant call-to-arms of classic Dischord, to the vicious troglodyte battery of the Melvins. Nowhere is this evinced as clearly as on initial album single Midnight and Mescaline. www.facebook.com/pelicansong 27 OCTOBER The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... MOLLY TUTTLE plus support: At St Andrew's In The Square, Glasgow. Tickets £16 from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151 and Ticketweb. Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start. A virtuosic, award-winning guitarist with a gift for insightful song writing, Molly Tuttle evolves her signature sound with boundarybreaking songs on her compelling debut album, When You’re Ready. Already crowned “Instrumentalist of the Year” at the 2018 Americana Music Awards on the strength of her EP, Tuttle has broken boundaries and garnered the respect of her peers, winning fans for her incredible flatpicking guitar technique and confessional song writing. Graced with a clear, true voice and a keen melodic sense, the 25-year-old seems poised for a long and exciting career. When You’re Ready, produced by Ryan Hewitt (The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers) showcases her astonishing range and
versatility and shows that she is more than simply an Americana artist. Molly's new album "When You’re Ready" is infused with an intoxicating wash of drums and electric guitar while still keeping Tuttle front and centre. “I wanted to keep the focus on the songs,” she says, “but also make an interesting guitar record.” The album opens with “Million Miles,” a song that her song writing collaborator Steve Poltz brought to her, mentioning that he and Jewel started it in the ‘90s and didn’t complete it. With their blessing, she finished the song and enlisted Sierra Hull to play mandolin and Jason Isbell to sing background vocals. The wistful track sets the tone for an album that offers subtle moments of reflection as well as dazzling musicianship. Tuttle wrote or co-wrote all 11 tracks since moving to Nashville, giving the project a unified feeling. “A lot of the songs are more personal than I’ve written before, and many of them are conversational, like one person talking to another,” she says. But, when it comes to the messages of the songs, each one stands apart. “Take the Journey” provides encouragement, even as “The High Road” finds two individuals going their own way. Later, the subdued “Don’t Let Go” concludes with a spaced-out slow groove, while “Lights Came On (Power Went Out)” amplifies the album’s youthful energy. “Sleepwalking,” a gentle love song, may be the album’s most impassioned and emotionally intense moment. www.facebook.com/mollytuttlemusic www.fallenangelsclub.com 16 NOVEMBER A CERTAIN RATIO: At King Tuts, Glasgow. A Certain Ratio embraced the ethic and culture of the late seventies post-punk explosion, but sounded like nothing else around them and refused to fit in. Highlighted recently by FACT, who said: “Their dub-infused punk-funk recordings have proved massively influential over the past thirty years, and Andy Weatherall has called them his favourite ever band (a prestigious accolade in our estimation)”, the band have influenced generations of musicians - from LCD Soundsystem, Happy Mondays, Franz Ferdinand, ESG, Factory Floor and Sink Ya Teeth. Five albums were released on Factory – The Graveyard and the Ballroom (1979), To Each…(1981), Sextet (1982), I’d Like To See You Again (1982) and Force (1986). Following the release of Force, the band moved to A&M for two releases - Good Together (1989) and acr:mcr (1990) and, after the leaving the major, released Up In Downsville (1992) and Change the Station (1997) on Robs Records, the label set up by New Order’s manager and Factory’s director, Rob Gretton, an important catalyst in the Manchester scene. Their sound is not easily
pigeon holed and their influence can never be understated. The band introduced the avant-garde elements of funk, jazz, electronics, tape loops and technology to the pop song, wrapping it in a post punk aesthetic, adding great clothes and the coolest haircuts. www.facebook.com/acertainratio 23 NOVEMBER The SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA with Grammy nominated vocalist JAZZMEIA HORN: At Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra is delighted to announce three exclusive concerts in Scotland as Grammy nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn visits for the first time to join the SNJO in a wonderful mixed programme of jazz. Winner of the 2015 Thelonius Monk and 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competitions, Jazzmeia Horn is an extraordinary jazz vocalist whose name speaks for itself and captures her very essence. "Jazzmeia has one of the best voices I've heard in over 40 years" -Jon Hendricks www.snjo.co.uk
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becoming a significant fixture on the region’s live music calendar, often welcoming back many of the musicians who grace its stage to take their place in the crowd. Taking a local and international outlook, Yorkston has successfully encouraged performers across the Forth Bridge to a reverent audience, including Radiohead’s Philip Selway, Pennsylvanian folk legend Michael Hurkey, SAY award winner Kathryn Joseph, Super Furry Animals guitarist Gruff Rhys and late Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison. Tickets onsale now @ www.onfife.com www.taesup.co.uk
with her longtime bandmates Ali Petrie (keyboards) and Sebastian Hankins (drums) - and sees Bryden returning to her roots and following in the sonic footsteps of some of her biggest influences, such as Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin and Carole King. Admirers can expect soulful, heartfelt performances of new songs from the EP — the first preview of the upcoming companion album for her soon-to-bepublished debut novel, Little Wing— as well as favourites from her catalogue. www.facebook.com/nellbrydenmusic 22 JUNE
Langtoun Jazz presents ..... Swing into Summer with Singers Unlimited: At Rothes Halls, Glenrothes. From 2-4.30pm. CATRIN FINCH + SECKOU KEITA: At GRACE BLACK and 5 other Scottish Tolbooth, Stirling. Welsh harpist Catrin vocalists in concert with a jazz trio of piano, Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou bass and drums. We are working towards a Keita are due to take to the Highlands and mini festival in October 2019 and a full Islands this June for a tour of some of blown festival in July 2019 - we have lots of Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as fundraising events planned and looking for some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. support from jazz lovers in Kirkcaldy and The award-winning duo will be swapping surrounding area. Advance bookings are their tour bus for a campervan and will be preferred but it should always be possible to hitting the road with harp and kora onboard pay at the door. Tickets £10 on Rothes Halls to travel for a fortnight of dates which will Box Office 01592 611101 or @ include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, www.onfife.com Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; The Macphail www.facebook.com/langtounjazz/ Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Stornoway; Aros Community Theatre, Portree; Eden 24 JUNE Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. LAUREN MACCOLL on Tour: At Perth www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita Theatre, Perth. Acclaimed fiddle player and Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club composer Lauren MacColl is set to perform presents ..... TERRY LEE HALE: At The 20 JUNE her moving album ‘The Seer’ for folk music Polish Ex-serviceman's Club, Forth Park fans across Scotland this summer, alongside Drive, Kirkcaldy, doors 7.30pm. The Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club new material which she will share for the Acoustic Music Club provides concerts every presents ..... THE MILE ROSES: At The first time. She will be joined on stage by Thursday night in the Polish Club. The club Polish Ex-serviceman's Club, Forth Park folk luminaries Mairearad Green (The encourages interest in Scottish Traditional Drive, Kirkcaldy, doors 7.30pm. The Poozies), Rachel Newton (The Shee), and World music. We also actively Acoustic Music Club provides concerts every Anna Massie (Blazin’ Fiddles), Megan encourage links with other countries and Thursday night in the Polish Club. The club Henderson (Breabach) and Signy have hosted bands from USA, Canada, encourages interest in Scottish Traditional Jakobsdottir. Commissioned by the Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, and World music. We also actively Highland arts organisation Fèis Rois and Norway, Sweden & Germany amongst encourage links with other countries and premiered at Celtic Connections, ‘The Seer’ others. We encourage involvement in have hosted bands from USA, Canada, is a 45-minute suite of music based on the playing instruments and in song and Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, life and prophecies of 17th Century prophet, regularly host “Open Mic” nights for our club Norway, Sweden & Germany amongst The Brahan Seer. Audiences can look members and visitors. others. We encourage involvement in forward to an emotive and engaging www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk playing instruments and in song and performance from Lauren, informed by regularly host “Open Mic” nights for our club tradition and a technique honed over many 15 JUNE members and visitors. years, as she performs the album alongside www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk brand new music. This tour is made possible Tae Sup wi’ a Fifer presents ..... by Creative Scotland JOSEPHINE FOSTER + JENNY LINDSAY 21 JUNE www.laurenmaccoll.co.uk + ADRIAN CROWLEY: At Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy. There's a transatlantic NELL BRYDEN: At Green Hotel, Kinross. 27 JUNE treat for music fans at next month’s Tae Distinguished New York-born, London-based Sup. Performers from Scotland, Ireland and singer-songwriter Nell Bryden is on a UK Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club the US come together for James Yorkston’s tour with an intimate set of dates to support presents ..... SAIR BANES: At The Polish prolific social club at Adam Smith Theatre. the release of her new EP, Soundtrack To Ex-serviceman's Club, Forth Park Drive, Launched in 2015 and supported by Little Wing (Part 1). The shows will offer Kirkcaldy, doors 7.30pm. The Acoustic Creative Scotland, Tae Sup wi’ a Fifer Bryden's legions of fans the chance to see Music Club provides concerts every continues to go from strength to strength, her, up close and personal, in a trio format Thursday night in the Polish Club. The club Crail Folk Club presents ..... JAMES HICKMAN + DAN CASSIDY: At Crail Town Hall, Crail. 8pm. BYOB, £8. A transatlantic duo inspired by the traditions of America and Britain. Hickman’s emotive, soaring vocals and driving guitar is complemented by the brother of the late Eva Cassidy’s ingenious and virtuosic fiddling. Their sound flows from the connection between British and American folk and is bursting with all the humour, heartbreak and excitement of these genres. The lively English wit of Hickman is set against Cassidy’s bone-dry irony and American drawl as they take audiences on a dynamic and unforgettable transatlantic journey. Full details and tickets on 01333 450572 @ www.crailfolkclub.org.uk
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 20: fife + central + perthshire + tayside :: aberdeenshire + north east encourages interest in Scottish Traditional and World music. We also actively encourage links with other countries and have hosted bands from USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Norway, Sweden & Germany amongst others. We encourage involvement in playing instruments and in song and regularly host “Open Mic” nights for our club members and visitors. www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk 28 JUNE SECKOU KEITA (SOLO): At East Neuk Festival, Fife. Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Keita are due to take to the Highlands and Islands this June for a tour of some of Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. The awardwinning duo will be swapping their tour bus for a campervan and will be hitting the road with harp and kora onboard to travel for a fortnight of dates which will include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; The Macphail Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Stornoway; Aros Community Theatre, Portree; Eden Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita 29 JUNE CATRIN FINCH + SECKOU KEITA: At East Neuk Festival, Fife. Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Keita are due to take to the Highlands and Islands this June for a tour of some of Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. The award-winning duo will be swapping their tour bus for a campervan and will be hitting the road with harp and kora onboard to travel for a fortnight of dates which will include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; The Macphail Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Stornoway; Aros Community Theatre, Portree; Eden Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita 30 JUNE CATRIN FINCH (solo): At East Neuk Festival, Fife. Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Keita are due to take to the Highlands and Islands this June for a tour of some of Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. The awardwinning duo will be swapping their tour bus for a campervan and will be hitting the road with harp and kora onboard to travel for a fortnight of dates which will include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space,
Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; The Macphail Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Stornoway; Aros Community Theatre, Portree; Eden Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita 13 JULY
Old Kirk, Kirk Wynd, Kirkcaldy. From 2-4pm. Filip Verneert & Eo Simon Quartet marvellous guitar player and piano player from Belgium and Spain with friends on bass and drums Jean-Baptiste Richon Quartet, piano based quartet from Edinburgh. We are working towards a mini festival in October 2019 and a full blown festival in July 2019 we have lots of fundraising events planned and looking for support from jazz lovers in Kirkcaldy and surrounding area. Advance bookings are preferred but it should always be possible to pay at the door. Advance bookings are preferred but it should always be possible to pay at the door. For £10 adults / £5 U16s tickets email info@langtounjazz.co.uk for details or online @ www.brownpapertickets.com www.facebook.com/langtounjazz/
DEAN OWENS (solo): At Woodside Hotel, Aberdour. Scottish troubadour Dean Owens has been awarded an “Honorable Mention” by the International Songwriting Competition, for Love Prevails (co-written with Will Kimbrough). The Nashville based competition is open to songwriters worldwide, across a range of genres, with a panel of industry judges including Tom Waits, Adam Lambert and Rodney Crowell. After a string of American dates he now returns to Scotland to play some solo shows and return to Fringe by the Sea Festival in North Berwick with his Celtabilly Allstars band (which sold out in 2018). Owens is widely hailed as one of UK’s finest troubadours (with fans including Send us all your gig dates for Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and BBC’s Aberdeenshire and the Bob Harris). In September 2017 he became north east area the first Scottish musician to officially showcase at the prestigious Americanafest Email them to Carol in Nashville (supported by PRS Foundation/ carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com Creative Scotland and Saltire Society) and in 2018 he undertook his first US tour (also 8 JUNE supported by Creative Scotland) which included a headline slot at the Levitt Shell in NORRIE McCULLOCH: At The Blue Lamp, Memphis TN Aberdeen. Norrie McCulloch is a singerwww.deanowens.com songwriter and award-winning visual artist originally from Ayrshire he currently lives 24 AUGUST and works out of of Stirling, Scotland. Tae Sup wi’ a Fifer presents ..... HORSE McCulloch's songs are a tangle up of folk, indie and country influences that manage to MCDONALD + DAOIRÍ FARRELL + KAVIRAJ SINGH: At Adam Smith Theatre, stay true to his Scottish roots, equating to a Kirkcaldy. Launched in 2015 and supported style that offers a welcome touch of originality and garnering critical acclaim with by Creative Scotland, Tae Sup wi’ a Fifer Americana UK naming McCulloch 'An continues to go from strength to strength, astonishingly good songwriter', Maverick becoming a significant fixture on the Magazine calling his sound 'Sublime indieregion’s live music calendar, often welcoming back many of the musicians who folk' and David Esson of Scottish Daily Mail describing songs as ‘Caledonia, Folk & grace its stage to take their place in the Country combined perfectly’. crowd. Taking a local and international www.facebook.com/norriemccullochmusic outlook, Yorkston has successfully encouraged performers across the Forth 21 JUNE Bridge to a reverent audience, including Radiohead’s Philip Selway, Pennsylvanian LAUREN MACCOLL on Tour: At The Barn, folk legend Michael Hurkey, SAY award Banchory. Acclaimed fiddle player and winner Kathryn Joseph, Super Furry Animals composer Lauren MacColl is set to perform guitarist Gruff Rhys and late Frightened her moving album ‘The Seer’ for folk music Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchison. Tickets fans across Scotland this summer, alongside onsale now @ new material which she will share for the www.onfife.com first time. She will be joined on stage by folk www.taesup.co.uk luminaries Mairearad Green (The Poozies), Rachel Newton (The Shee), Anna Massie 28 SEPTEMBER (Blazin’ Fiddles), Megan Henderson (Breabach) and Signy Jakobsdottir. Langtoun Jazz presents ..... FILIP Commissioned by the Highland arts VERNEERT & EO SIMON QUARTET + organisation Fèis Rois and premiered at JEAN-BAPTISTE RICHON QUARTET: At
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CATRIN FINCH + SECKOU KEITA: At The Macphail Centre, Ullapool. Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Keita are due to take to the Highlands and Islands this June for a tour of some of Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. The award-winning duo will be swapping their tour bus for a campervan and will be hitting the road with harp and kora onboard to travel for a fortnight of 27 JUNE dates which will include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; CATRIN FINCH + SECKOU KEITA: At The The Macphail Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Lemon Tree, Aberdeen. Welsh harpist Catrin Stornoway; Aros Community Theatre, Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Portree; Eden Court, Inverness; The Lemon Keita are due to take to the Highlands and Tree, Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. Islands this June for a tour of some of www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. 23 JUNE The award-winning duo will be swapping their tour bus for a campervan and will be LAUREN MACCOLL on Tour: At Resolis hitting the road with harp and kora onboard Hall, Black Isle. Acclaimed fiddle player and to travel for a fortnight of dates which will composer Lauren MacColl is set to perform include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, her moving album ‘The Seer’ for folk music Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; The Macphail fans across Scotland this summer, alongside Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Stornoway; new material which she will share for the Aros Community Theatre, Portree; Eden first time. She will be joined on stage by folk Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, luminaries Mairearad Green (The Poozies), Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. Rachel Newton (The Shee), Anna Massie www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita (Blazin’ Fiddles), Megan Henderson (Breabach) and Signy Jakobsdottir. Commissioned by the Highland arts organisation Fèis Rois and premiered at Celtic Connections, ‘The Seer’ is a 45minute suite of music based on the life and prophecies of 17th Century prophet, The Brahan Seer. Audiences can look forward to Send us all your gig dates an emotive and engaging performance from for the Highlands Lauren, informed by tradition and a technique honed over many years, as she Email them to Carol performs the album alongside brand new carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com music. This tour is made possible by Creative Scotland 20 JUNE www.laurenmaccoll.co.uk
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CATRIN FINCH + SECKOU KEITA: At St Mary’s Space, Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll. Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou Keita are due to take to the Highlands and Islands this June for a tour of some of Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. The award-winning duo will be swapping their tour bus for a campervan and will be hitting the road with harp and kora onboard to travel for a fortnight of dates which will include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; The Macphail Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Stornoway; Aros Community Theatre, Portree; Eden Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita 21 JUNE
LAUREN MACCOLL on Tour: At Bonar Bridge, Tain (Sutherland Sessions). Acclaimed fiddle player and composer Lauren MacColl is set to perform her moving album ‘The Seer’ for folk music fans across Scotland this summer, alongside new material which she will share for the first time. She will be joined on stage by folk luminaries Mairearad Green (The Poozies), Rachel Newton (The Shee), Anna Massie (Blazin’ Fiddles), Megan Henderson (Breabach) and Signy Jakobsdottir. Commissioned by the Highland arts organisation Fèis Rois and premiered at Celtic Connections, ‘The Seer’ is a 45minute suite of music based on the life and prophecies of 17th Century prophet, The Brahan Seer. Audiences can look forward to an emotive and engaging performance from Lauren, informed by tradition and a technique honed over many years, as she performs the album alongside brand new music. This tour is made possible by Creative Scotland www.laurenmaccoll.co.uk 29 JUNE
LAUREN MACCOLL on Tour: At Lyth Arts Centre, Wick. Acclaimed fiddle player and composer Lauren MacColl is set to perform her moving album ‘The Seer’ for folk music fans across Scotland this summer, alongside new material which she will share for the first time. She will be joined on stage by folk luminaries Mairearad Green (The Poozies), Rachel Newton (The Shee), Anna Massie (Blazin’ Fiddles), Megan Henderson (Breabach) and Signy Jakobsdottir. Commissioned by the Highland arts organisation Fèis Rois and premiered at Celtic Connections, ‘The Seer’ is a 45minute suite of music based on the life and prophecies of 17th Century prophet, The Brahan Seer. Audiences can look forward to 26 JUNE an emotive and engaging performance from Lauren, informed by tradition and a CATRIN FINCH + SECKOU KEITA: At technique honed over many years, as she Eden Court, Inverness. Welsh harpist Catrin performs the album alongside brand new Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou music. This tour is made possible by Keita are due to take to the Highlands and Creative Scotland Islands this June for a tour of some of www.laurenmaccoll.co.uk Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. 3 AUGUST The award-winning duo will be swapping their tour bus for a campervan and will be NORRIE McCULLOCH: At Belladrum hitting the road with harp and kora onboard Festival. Norrie McCulloch is a singerto travel for a fortnight of dates which will songwriter and award-winning visual artist include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, originally from Ayrshire he currently lives Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; The Macphail and works out of of Stirling, Scotland. Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Stornoway; McCulloch's songs are a tangle up of folk, Aros Community Theatre, Portree; Eden indie and country influences that manage to Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, stay true to his Scottish roots, equating to a Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. style that offers a welcome touch of www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita originality and garnering critical acclaim with Americana UK naming McCulloch 'An
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Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, Stornoway; Aros Community Theatre, Portree; Eden Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita
organisation Fèis Rois and premiered at Celtic Connections, ‘The Seer’ is a 45minute suite of music based on the life and prophecies of 17th Century prophet, The Brahan Seer. Audiences can look forward to an emotive and engaging performance from 25 JUNE Lauren, informed by tradition and a technique honed over many years, as she CATRIN FINCH + SECKOU KEITA: At performs the album alongside brand new Aros Community Centre, Portree. Welsh music. This tour is made possible by harpist Catrin Finch and Senegalese kora Creative Scotland maestro Seckou Keita are due to take to the www.laurenmaccoll.co.uk Highlands and Islands this June for a tour of some of Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. The award-winning duo will be swapping their tour bus for a campervan and will be hitting the road with harp and kora onboard to travel for a fortnight of dates which will include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; Send us all your gig dates The Macphail Centre, Ullapool; An Lanntair, for Dumfriesshire, Stornoway; Aros Community Theatre, South West and Cumbria areas Portree; Eden Court, Inverness; The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen and East Neuk Festival, Fife. Email them to Carol www.facebook.com/CatrinFinchSeckouKeita
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25 JUNE LAUREN MACCOLL on Tour: At An Crùbh, Skye. Acclaimed fiddle player and composer Lauren MacColl is set to perform her moving album ‘The Seer’ for folk music fans across Scotland this summer, alongside new material which she will share for the first time. She will be joined on stage by folk luminaries Mairearad Green (The Poozies), Rachel Newton (The Shee), Anna Massie (Blazin’ Fiddles), Megan Henderson (Breabach) and Signy Jakobsdottir. Commissioned by the Highland arts organisation Fèis Rois and premiered at Celtic Connections, ‘The Seer’ is a 45minute suite of music based on the life and prophecies of 17th Century prophet, The Brahan Seer. Audiences can look forward to an emotive and engaging performance from Lauren, informed by tradition and a technique honed over many years, as she performs the album alongside brand new music. This tour is made possible by Creative Scotland www.laurenmaccoll.co.uk
6 JUNE The Night Train Plug in and Play Jam Session: At Red Lion, Prestwick. 9.30pm every Thursday. Musicians and bands welcome. www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Lion-Prestwick/405633106305386
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ROWAN RHEINGANS: At Loch Arthur Community Hall, Beeswing, Dumfries. DG2 8JQ. Doors: 19:30. Tickets: £11.00. Rowan Rheingans is a fiddle player, banjoist and songwriter widely regarded as one of the foremost innovators in folk music today. Best known for her work with acclaimed bands Lady Maisery, The Rheingans Sisters and Songs of Separation, Rowan has won two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and is a fivetimes nominee.In June this year Rowan will premiere her ambitious and deeply personal one-woman show Dispatches on the Red Dress in a 10-date tour across the country. In what could prove to be a career-shifting 24 JUNE year, Rowan will also perform the show during a two week run at the Edinburgh CATRIN FINCH + SECKOU KEITA: At An 27 JUNE International Festival in August, before Lanntair, Stornoway. Welsh harpist Catrin releasing her first solo album, a companion Finch and Senegalese kora maestro Seckou LAUREN MACCOLL on Tour: At An Tobar, to the show. Tickets available from farm Mull. Acclaimed fiddle player and composer Keita are due to take to the Highlands and shop on 01387 259669 or @ Lauren MacColl is set to perform her Islands this June for a tour of some of moving album ‘The Seer’ for folk music fans www.locharthur.org.uk Scotland’s iconic music venues, as well as www.rowanrheingans.co.uk some more intimate gigs in beautiful places. across Scotland this summer, alongside new material which she will share for the first The award-winning duo will be swapping The Night Train Plug in and Play Jam time. She will be joined on stage by folk their tour bus for a campervan and will be Session: At Red Lion, Prestwick. 9.30pm hitting the road with harp and kora onboard luminaries Mairearad Green (The Poozies), every Thursday. Musicians and bands Rachel Newton (The Shee), Anna Massie to travel for a fortnight of dates which will welcome. include Tolbooth, Stirling; St Mary’s Space, (Blazin’ Fiddles), Megan Henderson www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Lion-Prestwick/405633106305386 (Breabach) and Signy Jakobsdottir. Fasnacloich, Appin, Argyll; The Macphail Commissioned by the Highland arts
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TINDERBOX ORCHESTRA with THREE OUT OF FOUR, GECKOHEAD: At Mac Arts, www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Lion-Prestwick/405633106305386 Bridge St, Galashiels. 7-10pm, £10 / £5 (student/conc). Tinderbox Orchestra (2022 JUNE piece band, new music and orchestral collaboration! ) join forces with two rising BADSTONE: At The Black Bull, Darvel. young bands from the Scottish Borders 9pm. This group of seasoned musicians play Three out of Four and Geckohead. a wide variety of music from the likes of the www.facebook.com/geckoheadband Beatles, The Stones, ZZ Top, Thin Lizzy, www.tinderboxcollective.org Stereophonics, ACDC, Fleetwood Mac, Bad Company, Queen, David Bowie, The Cult, 8 JUNE Stevie Wonder and more. www.facebook.com/Badstone.Band Radio Rooms presents ..... Beer and Food Pairing: Fyne Ales Beer 27 JUNE Showcase!: At The Radio Rooms (An exciting new event venue in Berwick-UponThe Night Train Plug in and Play Jam Tweed), Main Street, Tweedmouth, BerwickSession: At Red Lion, Prestwick. 9.30pm upon-Tweed. TD15 2AW. 7pm. We will keep every Thursday. Musicians and bands you entertained into the night with live welcome. music! Tickets £25 per person which www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Lion-Prestwick/405633106305386 includes 15 beer and food pairings and live music. Available via Eventbrite or email: info@radiorooms.co.uk www.facebook.com/theradiorooms
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carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 7 JUNE The String Jam Club presents ..... MIKE WHELLANS: At The County Hotel, Selkirk. 7.30-11pm approx. Think of Mike Whellans as “a Jimmy Reed or Willie Dixon transplanted from Lake Michigan to the shores of Loch Lomond” and you’re on the right track. Mike was ‘Best Act’ of Mettman Blues Week 2008 (Germany). Unashamedly good rockin' 12-bar blues on 6/12-string guitars (accurately picked at eye-watering speed), mouth-harps (Mike just packs 'em with great music and blows it at you), and a wee tottie drum-kit, are all hallmarks of his unique take on the blues. This man rocks like an express train. Hear his showstopping vocal percussion - a veritable tour de force. A one-man blues powerhouse, Mike Whellans is the real thing, the keeper of the blues flame. He sings, plays guitar & drums, writes songs in what can only be described as a total blues explosion - a bluesman with boundless energy - that's what it's all about: energy! The most dynamic one-man blues band either side of the Forth delta. There's only one guy onstage, but close your eyes ...it's the Mike Whellans Band! Tickets £12 on 01750-
Country combined perfectly’. www.facebook.com/norriemccullochmusic
GECKOHEAD: At Transcend Festival, Nether Pirn Farm,Innerleithen. We're playing at the brand new TweedLove Transcend Bike Festival from Noon-1pm, catch us on the Saturday for an amazing 1 hour set, featuring all of our best songs. Originating from Peebles & Bathgate in the summer of 2017, Cameron Boak (rhythm guitar/ vocals), Lewis Mackenzie (lead guitar), James Muir (bass) and Euan Russell (drums), formed the alt-rock band “Metropolis”. The oldest member only being 17, and having recorded 5 of their own songs, they channel their main influence of 90s rock to create a fresh and uplifting sound. In December 2018, the band underwent a name change to “Geckohead”, ready for a new promotional push in 2019. £10 entry. U16s free. www.facebook.com/TweedLove www.facebook.com/geckoheadband
Radio Rooms presents ..... Wireless at The Radio Rooms: Electronica Night: At The Radio Rooms (An exciting new event venue in Berwick-Upon-Tweed), Main Street, Tweedmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed. TD15 2AW. 8pm. A night of live electronica and class DJ skills from some of the area's most ambitious producers. ROUNDH0USE - the latest electronica project from Travelled Music's Thompson and Knox takes influences from the pioneers in electronica they meet on the road as tour managers and techs. The live AV set brings electronic methods mixed with live drums, samples and live arpeggiated synths - visuals. AUTOTELIC is a new act from local heads, Dytor, Schmid, McGow n Hope. The exBrigante producers bring their latest tunes onto the stage. We're expecting sounds in the style of Chemical Brothers to Soulwax and obviously, a proper bit of swagger. Tickets £5: available in advance from The Music Gallery on Berwick High Street or via Eventbrite. www.facebook.com/theradiorooms 22 JUNE Radio Rooms presents ..... Gin and Blues; hosted by The Kelso Gin Company: At The Radio Rooms (An exciting new event venue in Berwick-Upon-Tweed), Main Street, Tweedmouth, Berwick-uponTweed. TD15 2AW. 4pm. Blues will be provided by the fantastic STEVE MORRISON BAND playing from 8pm- late and French Street Food will be available from ‘La Rue’. £6 entry including tastings, music etc. Tickets available on the door or in advance via Eventbrite or from The Music Gallery on Berwick High Street. www.facebook.com/theradiorooms 31 AUGUST
The Big 'Hing's Summer Love 'Hing: At The Vale Club, Innerleithen. We have the 17 JUNE return of 'Hing favourites GECKOHEAD - A warm welcome to the amazing THE 62 NORRIE McCULLOCH: At String Theory, Our superb trio NOBLE MISCHIEF - Frank Hawick. Norrie McCulloch is a singerUsher and Seoras Ashby with another songwriter and award-winning visual artist incredible set as as "HUSH HUSH" originally from Ayrshire he currently lives Rounded off with the 'Hings house band and works out of of Stirling, Scotland. THE DERIVATIVES. The Big 'Hing is a McCulloch's songs are a tangle up of folk, night of great live music, a collaboration of indie and country influences that manage to great bands. Watch out for a 'Big Hing stay true to his Scottish roots, equating to a arriving at a venue near you in Peeblesshire style that offers a welcome touch of soon! originality and garnering critical acclaim with www.facebook.com/geckoheadband Americana UK naming McCulloch 'An www.facebook.com/thebighing astonishingly good songwriter', Maverick Magazine calling his sound 'Sublime indiefolk' and David Esson of Scottish Daily Mail describing songs as ‘Caledonia, Folk &
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The annual Inverness-based XpoNorth, formerly goNORTH, is Scotland’s leading creative industries festival and offers delegates access to an exceptional creative programme. The conference and showcase take place over two vibrant days and nights in the Highland capital.
Oban Live
Oban 7-8 June 2019 Early bird tickets for Oban Live 2019, Argyll’s biggest outdoor music concert, are to go on sale on Saturday November 10, the event team has announced. The event, started in 2016 by one of Scotland’s finest musical exports Skerryvore, takes place on June 7 and 8 next year at Mossfield Stadium in Oban, Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland.
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Tiree Music Festival Tiree 12–14 July
TMF is celebrating the fastest ever ticket sales for the annual festival, with 750 early bird tickets selling out in just 52 minutes and all Glampwww.obanlive.com ing and Campervan tickets selling out in just 10 minutes, an unprecedented record for the festiKillin Music Festival val that will help mark its 10th edition. 2019 will Killin see the 2000 capacity festival celebrate its 10th 14-16 June birthday and a special year of celebrations will mark the decade, beginning in January with TIREE: A Toast to 10 Years of Tiree Music FestiAn electric three day festival of music featuring live bands and artists on the main stage, as well val show at Celtic Connections. This one-off night will be hosted by Tiree natives Skerryvore as fringe events throughout the area over the weekend. The packed 2019 lineup includes: Ele- and Trail West at Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket phant Sessions // Trail West // Siobhan Miller // where a number of very special guests alongside Blue Rose Code // Kinnaris Quintet // Torridon // brand-new collaborations from musicians who have played the TMF stages over the last 10 Ryan Young // Gnoss // Tom McGuire & The Brassholes // Beinn Lee // Eabhal // DLÙ // The years. TMF10’s line-up will also be officially announced in spectacular fashion as part of this 101 // Headland // Greig Taylor Music Blues celebratory night and remaining tickets will also Combo // Katie & Abi // Open Stage Sunday be released on general sale. Competition. All remaining tickets are on sale now! www.tireemusicfestival.co.uk www.killinmusicfestival.com
Glasgow Jazz Festival Glasgow 19-23 June
Stonehaven Folk Stonehaven 11-14 July
The pretty North East coastal town of Stonehaven comes alive with a vibrant mix of tradiGlasgow’s longest running music festival and music fans across the city won’t be far from un- tional and contemporary “Folk” music and song ….. concerts, ceilidh, sessions, singarounds, missable live jazz with a diverse and exciting programme. The Glasgow International Jazz Fes- workshops, the famous aqua ceilidh and world paper’n’comb championships! tival was founded in 1987, when Glasgow was bidding to become the European City of Culture www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk for 1990. The City had studied the competition and worked out that all major cities in Europe had a jazz festival. If they had one, then so HebCelt should Glasgow. From the very beginning, the Hebrides Glasgow International Jazz Festival brought 18-20 July some of the biggest names of jazz to the City. www.jazzfest.co.uk
St Magnus Festival 21-27 June Orkney
The magical atmosphere of Orkney at midsummer, its ancient landscape and unique performance settings blend together to create a very special experience for audiences. Performances take place across the Orkney Islands, in venues as diverse as a tall ship, outdoor gardens, a sports centre and the great medieval cathedral of St Magnus in Kirkwall. www.stmagnusfestival.com
JULY XpoNorth Festival Inverness 3-4 July
Fringe by the Sea North Berwick 2-11 August
Tickets for our first wave of acts for Fringe By The Sea are now on sale. Check out our website for who’ll be joining us in North Berwick this summer, and scroll right down for the full line-up so far, by date. Follow us on social media for more music, comedy, film, family, literature, conversation, wellbeing & exploration announcements over coming weeks. We look forward to welcoming you harbour-side! www.fringebythesea.com
Party at The Palace Linlithgow 10-11 August
This is the sixth outing for the Linlithgow festival and is set to be another highlight in Scotland’s live music calendar. Taking the top spots are The Charlatans and KT Tunstall (Saturday) and Deacon Blue and Wet Wet Wet (Sunday) and the rest of the weekend’s acts are sure to prove a hit with Party at the Palace regulars. It’s only 20 mins from Edinburgh and 35mins from Glasgow, making it one of the most easily accessible music festivals in Scotland. www.partyatthepalace.co.uk
Lindisfarne Festival
Beal Farm, Berwick-upon-Tweed 29 August - 1 September An epic 3 day festival on the Northumberland coast, overlooking Holy Isle. Anyone who has been to the Northumberland coast will be well aware of the sheer magnificence of the scenery. Located in a recognised Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), in the UK's voted #1 Holiday Destination, our festival site overlooks the mythical & magical Holy Island of Lindisfarne, boasting breath-taking views stretching from Goswick Sands to the North, to Bamburgh Castle to the South. www.lindisfarnefestival.com
SEPTEMBER
Advance weekend tickets for next year’s Hebridean Celtic Festival, to be held from 18-20 July Party in the Park 2019, are available from the festival website. Bathgate Day tickets and those for opening shows, late night activities and community events in Lewis 1 September and Harris go on sale next year when the full festival programme is finalised. Celebrating it’s 10th Anniversary in 2019 Bathgate's 'Party in the Park' is a yearly family fowww.hebceltfest.com cused music festival with two music stages, childrens rides, free face painting, food, stalls, and lots of fun - it's held in the town's Kirkton Park. Doune the Rabbit Hole There is a main stage and acoustic stage with Port of Menteith music on both throughout the day with free en19-21 July try and no ticket required. A real mix of music from local bands and artists to those further Doune the Rabbit Hole is an intimate family afield. There is no ticket required and no entry friendly, dog loving independent music & arts fee and as this is geared towards families there festival located amidst the glorious ancient oak is a strict no alcohol policy. trees of the Cardross Estate in Port of Menteith. See you there! www.facebook.com/partyinthepark www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk
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rowland Ballroom, Saint Luke's & The Winged Ox, BAaD with more to be announced. Stay tuned for headliner announcement coming soon. Early Bird Tickets are on sale now!
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Linlithgow 11-15 September
Organisers are promising a real "Feast of Folk" www.facebook.com/tenementtrail/ at this year’s festival. Planning for the Linlithgow Folk Festival in 2019 is now underway. Our programme is launched annually in July and will be available here at that time.
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Aberdeen 19-22 September
The Perthshire Amber Festival brings together many musicians and entertainers from different Aberdeen Performing Arts presents True North, parts of the world who have been involved with Aberdeen’s festival of music and song, celebrat- Dougie MacLean over the years. This unique fesing the North-east's singer songwriter tradition. tival shares Dougie’s inspiring music, celebrates True North is Aberdeen’s music festival - located the history and culture of Perthshire in the heart at the heart of the city, the festival features the of Scotland and showcases the beautiful scencontemporary music industry’s most interesting, ery. It’s a vibrant, welcoming festival with music relevant and exciting artists. The festival feaat its core in beautiful autumnal Perthshire. The tures a series of unique performances in city Festival Hub is Amber Central (The Royal Hotel, centre venues, a Fringe programme of intimate Dunkeld). With concerts from castle to concert gigs across the city, and an opportunity to get hall plus Cabaret Amber, Open Mic + acoustic up close and personal with festival artists. sessions. Contact 01350 724261 for latest or email admin@butterstone.com
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Glasgow Americana Glasgow 2-6 October
Glasgow Americana has lined up gigs featuring overseas and home-based acts for this year’s five-day-long festival. We are delighted to confirm our dates for our 2019 Americana extravaganza. Please watch this space for details on the first acts confirmed for this year. www.glasgowamericana.com
The Cumnock Tryst Cumnock 3-6 October
Isle of Skye 22-30 November
The Festival of Small Halls on the Isle of Skye brings music to ten remote village halls around the Island and Lochalsh. The SEALL Festival of Small Halls runs for eight days and includes concerts, cèilidhs and public and music workshops in halls and schools by some of the nation’s finest traditional musicians. www.seall.co.uk/small-halls
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Edinburgh 31 December
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A music festival under the leadership of Scottish composer, James MacMillan CBE Cumnock, Scotland. The Cumnock Tryst is an annual event with concerts in venues in and around the town. The programme will feature some of the finest, international classical artists, as well as music and musicians from different backgrounds both stylistically and socially. The Cumnock Tryst aims to make its strong commitment to the community at the heart of all its activities, for instance involving young people at school and college, amateur choirs and local bands.
See in the New Year at the world’s best street party as Edinburgh invites the world to share the love, embrace friends – old and new – and celebrate the New Year in the home of Hogmanay. Get 2020 ready now - take advantage of our Early Bird discount with tickets for £20.00 + £1.00 booking (limited availability). www.edinburghshogmanay.com
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Ullapool Guitar Festival Ullapool 4-6 October
Celtic Connections Glasgow 16 January - 2 February
Musicians from across the globe will take part in over 300 events in venues throughout Glasgow for the largest winter music festival of its kind So why is the UGF so special? Perhaps it’s the and the UK's premier celebration of Celtic music. mix of music old and new, of electric and acousThe 18 days of entertainment will brighten up tic, of steel and nylon, of seasoned performers the dark, wet January nights with a mixture of and those, like the students from the Royal Conconcerts that include a host of one-off musical servatoire of Scotland, just starting out on their collaborations alongside talks, workshops, film careers. Perhaps it’s the location on Loch Broom screenings, theatre productions, ceilidhs, exhibiand the drive up through some of Scotland’s tions, free events and late-night sessions. most spectacular scenery. Perhaps it’s the informal air of the whole weekend: there’s no “us www.celticconnections.com and them”, no VIP area. Everyone mingles, and you’re likely to find yourself sitting beside a guitar legend in the Festival Club – or even jamming with them on one of the trade stands.
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