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Fyne Fiddles (pictured) launch a book and CD, with a suite of lessons for a range of abilities, at the Scots Fiddle Festival in Edinburgh on 19 November with a following tour and workshop - read more in our GIGspotlight on page 15 www.fynefiddles.scot
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Take the Floor: 5pm on BBC Radio Scotland. For the very best in traditional music and song join Gary Innes. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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Jazz Nights at the Quay: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Seonaid Aitken gets to know MEZCLA, led by young Scottish jazz musician DAVID BOWDEN. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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TUESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 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 Na Trads: 7.25pm on BBC ALBA. The N.E. FOLK COLLECTIVE perform at the Trad Awards. www.bbcalba.co.uk Another Country with Ricky Ross: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. American singer-songwriter LANGHORNE SLIM in session and conversation. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Classics Unwrapped: 9.05pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Jamie MacDougall presents two hours of chilled-out classics. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Roddy Hart: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Roddy shines a spotlight on great contemporary and classic songwriting. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
SKIPINNISH: 9.55pm on BBC ALBA. SKIPINNISH at the Barrowlands in Glasgow. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Togaidh Sinn Fonn: 11pm on BBC ALBA. A selection of Scotland's best musicians and singers. 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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Tiree Music Festival: 10pm on BBC ALBA. Sarah Cruickshank and Vicky Kilgour introduce a set from the RED HOT CHILLI PIPERS. www.bbcalba.co.uk
WEDNESDAY 22 NOVEMBER The Janice Forsyth Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Janice tunes into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland.
Perthshire Amber: 11.45pm on BBC ALBA. With songs from DOUGIE MacLEAN recorded at Dunkeld Cathederal. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbcalba.co.uk Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on MONDAY 20 NOVEMBER BBC Radio Scotland. Bryan plays essential music chosen by listeners. The Janice Forsyth Show: 2pm on BBC Radio www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Scotland. Janice tunes into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. Travelling Folk: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bruce Macgregor explores the link between the www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland folk world and political activism. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bryan plays essential music Fonn Fonn Fonn: 10pm on BBC ALBA. An offchosen by listeners. beat music quiz show. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Vic Galloway: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. STUART BRAITHWAITE of MOGWAI lets Vic know the music that matters to him. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Vic Galloway: 11.05pm on BBC Radio Scotland. STUART BRAITHWAITE of MOGWAI lets Vic know the music that matters to him. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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
THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER The Janice Forsyth Show: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Janice tunes into what is happening in
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Get It On... With Bryan Burnett: 6.30pm Fonn Fonn Fonn: 11.30pm on BBC ALBA. on BBC Radio Scotland. Bryan plays An off-beat music quiz show. essential music chosen by listeners. www.bbcalba.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland FRIDAY 24 NOVEMBER Na Trads: 7.25pm on BBC ALBA. The N.E. FOLK COLLECTIVE perform at the Trad Perthshire Amber: 7.20pm on BBC ALBA. Awards. With songs from DOUGIE MacLEAN www.bbcalba.co.uk recorded at Dunkeld Cathederal. www.bbcalba.co.uk The Quay Sessions: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Recent performance highlights Togaidh Sinn Fonn: 8pm on BBC ALBA. A from BLUE ROSE CODE, FINDLAY selection of Scotland's best musicians and NAPIER and LOUISE CONNELL singers. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbcalba.co.uk
Belladrum Festival: 11.45pm on BBC ALBA. Three songs from an exclusive acoustic set by GRUFF RHYS at Belladrum 2016. www.bbcalba.co.uk SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER Take the Floor: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. For the very best in traditional music and song join Gary Innes. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Pipeline: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Gary West with pipe music and news. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Na Trads: 9pm on BBC ALBA. Julie Fowlis narrates a celebration of 15 years of the Tiree Music Festival: 10pm on BBC ALBA. Ceol: 9pm on BBC ALBA. A tribute concert Trad Awards. Featuring music from Sarah Cruickshank and Vicky Kilgour that reveals the links between shinty, music KATHLEEN MACINNES and the introduce a energetic set from BLAZIN' and the Great War. TREACHEROUS ORCHESTRA. Amongst FIDDLES. www.bbcalba.co.uk those taking part are Mary Ann Kennedy www.bbcalba.co.uk and Tony Kearney who recall highlights SKIPINNISH: 10pm on BBC ALBA. from over the years. Natasha Raskin Sharp: 11pm on BBC SKIPINNISH at the Barrowlands in www.bbcalba.co.uk Radio Scotland. An eclectic mix of music Glasgow. and new releases. www.bbcalba.co.uk Billy Sloan: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland A selection of hot new releases and tracks Jill Barclay: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. from Scotland's musical archive and Belladrum Festival: 11.15pm on BBC Classic floor-fillers with lively chat. beyond. ALBA. Three songs from an exclusive www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 5: music on scotland's tv & radio this week :: scots in london www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER Take the Floor: 5pm on BBC Radio Scotland. For the very best in traditional music and song join Gary Innes. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Jazz Nights at the Quay: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Seonaid Aitken presents a special BBC Music Introducing concert. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Classics Unwrapped: 9.05pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Jamie MacDougall presents two hours of chilled-out classics. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland SKIPINNISH: 9.55pm on BBC ALBA. SKIPINNISH at the Barrowlands in Glasgow. 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
IONA FYFE with KOSHKA DUFF & ------------------------------------------------ CAROL ANDERSON: At The Burns Club of London. Aberdeenshire folksinger, Iona Fyfe, has become one of Scotland’s finest young ballad singers, rooted deeply in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland. A finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2017, Iona embraces the repertoire of her native North East throughout the UK and Europe. Described as “one of the most sunning voices on the circuit today” (Artree), "East", her debut 6-track EP encapsulating North East folksong was received with great acclaim. www.ionafyfe.com/tour/
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Perthshire Amber: 11.45pm on BBC 19 NOVEMBER ALBA. With songs from DOUGIE MacLEAN recorded at Dunkeld Cathederal. SIOBHAN WILSON: At The Victoria, www.bbcalba.co.uk Dalston, London. Following the release of her critically acclaimed LP There Are No THURSDAY 30 NOVEMBER Saints, Scottish multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Siobhan Wilson celebrates St Andrew’s Night Special: 9pm on BBC the end of 2017 with a new accolade of Radio Scotland. Gary Innes presents a being part of The List Hot 100, a nomination musical celebration for St Andrew’s Night at for The Skinny's Scottish Album of 2017 and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. PHIL a 6 Music session with Cerys Matthew. Since CUNNINGHAM MBE and JENN the album came out in July 2017, Siobhan BUTTERWORTH, one of Scotland's Wilson has been featured in Rolling Stone, foremost folk guitarists, lead musicians from DIY magazine, Drowned in Sound. The 405 the Traditional Music degree course, and The Line of Best Fit. Her first album together with a brass ensemble and Brass track, "Whatever Helps", was picked up by department head, JOHN LOGAN. Joining the NRP's All Songs Considered New Mix. this unique band are award-winning singer, There Are No Saints was selected as Album SIOBHAN MILLER, while special guests of The Day on BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC will also take a turn in this celebration of Radio Scotland's Roddy Hart made the folk-inspired music both new and old. BBC album his Record of Note. Scotland’s Poet in Residence STUART www.facebook.com/siobhanwilsonmusic PATERSON reads a poem for the occasion with more surprises planned for the night, 20 NOVEMBER so tune in to be a part of it all.
26 NOVEMBER LAU: At Cadogan Hall, London. An “Evening with Lau” – two sets spanning the first ten years. www.lau-music.co.uk 29 NOVEMBER Roots in the Round with DEAN OWENS, ROBERT VINCENT + special guests: At Green Note, London. A Nashville style 'Songwriters Circle'. More info @ www.scarybiscuits.com 1 DECEMBER Roots in the Round with DEAN OWENS, ROBERT VINCENT + special guest WORRY DOLLS: At Cabbage Patch, Twickenham, London. A Nashville style 'Songwriters Circle'. More info @ www.scarybiscuits.com 9 DECEMBER GUN with InMe: At London Electric Ballroom. GUN’s seventh studio album, ‘Favourite Pleasures‘ – came out on 15 September – stands proudly alongside the very best of their work. The band will be showcasing tracks from the album in 3 live dates in December. Informed by a back-tobasics approach tempered by an innate sense for melody, the record was made in the band’s own Morse Code studios in
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Paisley. It’s an album that dances on a knife-edge, one that can turn on a single note from the raw pain of emotions hitting the rocks, to an unbridled celebration of hedonism. www.gunofficial.co.uk 20 APRIL 2018 KRIS DREVER and special guests: At Union Chapel, London. 7.30pm. An evening with BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of Year. Latest album and tickets @ www.krisdrever.com
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FYNE FIDDLES (Book + CD launch): At Scots Fiddle Festival, Edinburgh. Fyne Reaching our Scottish expat Fiddles - Amy Geddes - multi talented, award-nominated, traditional fiddle player readership in America and teacher - and guitarist Donald Knox Send us all your USA launch their new book/CD (a suite of gig and tour details lessons for a range of abilities, from improving beginner to advanced learners. A Email them to Carol treasure chest of information and advice on carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com the technical and creative aspects of both playing and understanding traditional music) - with a series of preview events and workshops (19 Nov - 3 Dec). www.fynefiddles.scot
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Soundhouse presents ..... MOLSKY'S MOUNTAIN DRIFTERS: At Traverse FEBRUARY Theatre Bar, Edinburgh. 8pm. We’re very excited about the prospect of Bruce TALISK: At Folk Alliance International in Molsky’s brand new trio with Allison de Kansas City. Nominees of the 2017 BBC Groot and Stash Wyslouch. Molsky’s Radio 2 Folk Awards’ Horizon Award, and Mountain Drifters are aptly billed as winners of the 2015 Young Folk Award, “tradition steeped in possibility” and we’re Talisk are one of the fastest rising bands on sure you’re going to love them. BRUCE the UK folk scene in recent years. MOLSKY, “one of America’s premier fiddling www.facebook.com/TaliskMusic talents” (Mother Jones) and Grammynominated artist on fiddle, banjo, guitar and song is delighted to present his new group already on tour in the US. ALLISON DE GROOT combines wide ranging virtuosity
and passion for old-time music. Like Bruce, Allison loves collaborating and bringing new ideas to old music, and brings a fresh approach to the trio. Boston-based STASH WYSLOUCH is one of bluegrass’ great young genre-bending pioneers. He got his start as a guitarist in metal bands before immersing himself in roots music as a member of The Deadly Gentlemen. Coming over from the punk-metal world, Stash brings great sensitivity and real emotion to the trio, plus some superb guitar and vocal chops. The Soundhouse Organisation is currently raising money to provide a live music venue in Edinburgh - The Soundhouse will be a new state-of-the-art music venue for Edinburgh, offering a fair deal for musicians, and a warm welcome to audiences of all ages. It will offer workshops and masterclasses for musicians of all levels. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg 22 NOVEMBER RESTLESS LOVE featuring MEOW MEOW: At Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. 7.45pm. Reinbert de Leeuw: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai. An evocative and intimate reimagining of Schubert and Schumann’s best-loved songs, Restless Love shuns beautiful, melodic singing and, instead, embraces the raw, guttural emotions of love, anger and loss. Arranged and orchestrated by renowned Dutch composer and pianist Reinbert de Leeuw, this powerful work is performed by Hebrides Ensemble led by cabaret diva Meow Meow, who hypnotises, inspires, and terrifies audiences in equal measure. A darkly captivating and entertaining production. www.hebridesensemble.com 25 NOVEMBER DJANGO DJANGO: At Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh. Live, Django Django are incendiary, see them live in Edinburgh this autumn. After their 2012 Mercury Prize nominated debut and 2015’s Top 20 followup ‘Born Under Saturn’, musical adventurers Django Django are back for 2017, exploring
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new sounds with their brand new album ‘Marble Skies’ which will be released on January 26th on Because Music. Today the album launches with first single ‘Tic Tac Toe’, a rousing, trippy upbeat rock track with an enormous echoing hookline which will excite fans of the band’s rockabillyinfluenced elements. www.djangodjango.co.uk SIOBHAN WILSON: At The Alternative Peers' Ball, Edinburgh. Following the release of her critically acclaimed LP There Are No Saints, Scottish multi-instrumentalist singersongwriter Siobhan Wilson celebrates the end of 2017 with a new accolade of being part of The List Hot 100, a nomination for The Skinny's Scottish Album of 2017 and a 6 Music session with Cerys Matthew. Since the album came out in July 2017, Siobhan Wilson has been featured in Rolling Stone, DIY magazine, Drowned in Sound. The 405 and The Line of Best Fit. Her first album track, "Whatever Helps", was picked up by the NRP's All Songs Considered New Mix. There Are No Saints was selected as Album of The Day on BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio Scotland's Roddy Hart made the album his Record of Note. www.facebook.com/siobhanwilsonmusic 27 NOVEMBER Soundhouse presents ..... DJ DOLPHIN BOY featuring GRAEME STEPHEN: At Traverse Theatre Bar, Edinburgh. 8pm. “DJ Dolphin Boy is a unique entity. His openminded musicality and ability to make even the folkiest of dirges sexy means he’s loved by the folkies and jazzers as well as by the hardcore clubbers on the dance floor“– Aidan O’Rourke. “Stephen’s music speaks loudly of ambition, imagination, nous, and harmonic adventure yet teemed with the sort of tuneful realisation that swells the heart” – Rob Adams, The Herald. Andy Levy aka DOLPHIN BOY has been a producer and DJ for more than 20 years, and in that time he has pulled off the neat trick of evolving and innovating whilst his early work remains as fresh as ever. GRAEME STEPHEN’s peerless improvisational skills and talent for composition make him one of Scotland’s most exciting and prodigious musical talents. He is a very unusual jazz guitarist in that he is as skilled and comfortable playing in a virtuoso way over standards and chord changes, as he is heading into completely free improvised soundscapes. The Soundhouse Organisation is currently raising money to provide a live music venue in Edinburgh - The Soundhouse will be a new state-of-the-art music venue for Edinburgh, offering a fair deal for musicians, and a warm welcome to audiences of all ages. It will offer workshops and masterclasses for musicians of all levels. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg JAWS: At The Caves, Edinburgh. Revelling in the jubilant reception to their sophomore record - JAWS - are delighted to announce a fresh run of UK dates that will extend their Simplicity Tour. The news also follows the recent unveiling of the band’s video for current single ‘Cast’. Like much of the album it stems from, ‘Cast’ is a sonic manifestation of temerity and evokes a sense of self-
determination and of overcoming inner turmoil. Accompanied with on-the-road footage shot during some of the band's ecstatic UK shows earlier in the run, the video turns the camera around on the crowds that have feverishly supported Simplicity at the overwhelming gigs and on record. www.facebook.com/JAWSJAWSJAWSJAWS
millions of albums with Average White Band, Stuart spent 5 years touring with The Paul McCartney Band in the late 80s and early 90s, and has worked closely with music legends such as Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, and Quincy Jones to name but a few. The 67-year-old recently returned to recording himself, releasing an album of new music in August under the name 360 a new group consisting of two other former 30 NOVEMBER AWB members: drummer Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty, Duran Duran, Bee Gees) and OCEANCODE + LUCY AND THE LYRICS + saxophonist Molly Duncan (Bryan Ferry, THE MARITIMES: At Sneaky Pete's, Chaka Khan, Eric Clapton). Edinburgh. This is a student - led initiative www.facebook.com/360bandofficial aiming at promoting the music scene of www.jbia.co.uk Edinburgh and Scotland. In a night not to be missed, OceanCode, Lucy and the Lyrics and 4 DECEMBER The Maritimes come together to each launch their brand new single down at Sneaky Soundhouse presents ..... MARTIN Pete’s! Tickets cost £5 in advance (stbf) and CARTHY: At Traverse Theatre Bar, doors open at 7pm. OCEANCODE: Carefully Edinburgh. 8pm. The Soundhouse marrying elements of folk, pop and rock Organisation is currently raising money to together, OceanCode create a distinctive provide a live music venue in Edinburgh sound with catchy melodies and clever The Soundhouse will be a new state-of-thehooks. LUCY AND THE LYRICS: Lucy and the art music venue for Edinburgh, offering a Lyrics are a four piece band from fair deal for musicians, and a warm welcome Dunfermline, fronted by singer-songwriter to audiences of all ages. It will offer Lucy Hume. Their songs are packed with big workshops and masterclasses for musicians melodies, and even bigger harmonies! Think of all levels. KT Tunstall meets Patti Smith with a touch www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg of early-Blondie. THE MARITIMES: The Maritimes, a young Folk and Country Duo 7 DECEMBER consisting of Elizabeth Reid and Julen Santamaria have a charming yet solemn The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... sound. Formed in 2017, the Glasgow based LAU: At The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. An band have succeeded in capturing the art of “Evening with Lau” – two sets spanning the classic Folk song-writing whilst breathing first ten years. new life into a well-established genre, to www.lau-music.co.uk create something that is both fresh and familiar. Tickets @ 11 DECEMBER www.sneakypetes.co.uk www.facebook.com/ Soundhouse presents ..... DEAN OWENS events/124492984897834/ AND THE WHISKY HEARTS: At Traverse Theatre Bar, Edinburgh. 8pm. The Out Of The Bedroom - Open Mic: At Soundhouse Organisation is currently raising Woodland Creatures, 260-262 Leith Walk, money to provide a live music venue in Edinburgh EH6 5EL. 8pm–11pm. OOTB Edinburgh - The Soundhouse will be a new hosts an open mic night every fortnight on state-of-the-art music venue for Edinburgh, Thursdays at Woodland Creatures, 260-262 offering a fair deal for musicians, and a Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 5EL and entry is warm welcome to audiences of all ages. It free. The night runs from 8pm to 11pm and will offer workshops and masterclasses for there is a feature act at the end of the musicians of all levels. evening. The open mic slots are from 8pm - www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg 10.15pm and sign up for an open mic slot starts from 7.30pm. Sign up is on a first14 DECEMBER come, first-served basis. www.facebook.com/ Out Of The Bedroom - Open Mic: At OutOfTheBedroomEdinburgh Woodland Creatures, 260-262 Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 5EL. 8pm–11pm. OOTB 2 DECEMBER hosts an open mic night every fortnight on Thursdays at Woodland Creatures, 260-262 EDDI READER plus special guest DAN Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 5EL and entry is WHITEHOUSE: At The Brunton, free. The night runs from 8pm to 11pm and Musselburgh, East Lothian. there is a feature act at the end of the www.eddireader.co.uk evening. The open mic slots are from 8pm 10.15pm and sign up for an open mic slot 3 DECEMBER starts from 7.30pm. Sign up is on a firstcome, first-served basis. JAMES BROWN IS ANNIE with very www.facebook.com/ special guest HAMISH STUART: At The OutOfTheBedroomEdinburgh Jazz Bar, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. 9pm. £10 (pay-on-the-door), 0131-220 4298. 16 DECEMBER Soul-music giant, Hamish Stuart, will make a special guest-star appearance alongside Hit The Road presents ..... THE 101 + Capital funk outfit, James Brown Is Annie, at LAST LIGHT + BELLAROSE: At The Mash The Jazz Bar. A one-off Scottish show to House, Edinburgh. National youth music celebrate the funding of JBiA's new album touring project, Hit The Road visits by Creative Scotland. As well as selling Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh from 15-
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Soundhouse presents ..... THE BEVVY SISTERS: At Traverse Theatre Bar, Edinburgh. 8pm. The Soundhouse Organisation is currently raising money to provide a live music venue in Edinburgh The Soundhouse will be a new state-of-theart music venue for Edinburgh, offering a fair deal for musicians, and a warm welcome to audiences of all ages. It will offer workshops and masterclasses for musicians of all levels. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg 21 DECEMBER PHIL CUNNINGHAM’S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK including EDDI READER, KAREN MATHESON, JOHN MCCUSKER, KRIS DREVER, IAN CARR, KEVIN MCGUIRE + special guest brass band: At Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. Following the huge success of Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook over 11 years they will be returning once again and this time taking to the road for 6 shows in Aberdeen, Perth, Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Teemed with jovial anecdotes, modern and traditional Christmas music and exquisite musicianship that will tug at ones heartstrings. Phil will be joined by some of the finest musicians on the Scottish folk scene. Tickets @ www.thequeenshall.net www.facebook.com/ philschristmassongbook 22 DECEMBER PHIL CUNNINGHAM’S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK including EDDI READER, KAREN MATHESON, JOHN MCCUSKER, KRIS DREVER, IAN CARR, KEVIN MCGUIRE + special guest brass band:
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ALT), writing with Peter Gabriel, recording with Sinead O’Connor and touring with Van Morrison, Andy has had a stellar career in music while still keeping a firm grip on his “have guitar, will travel” folksinger ethos. ‘The Guilty & The Innocent’ is available through Proper, along with latest CD release ‘Imaginary Lovers’. www.andywhite.com/tour 20 NOVEMBER RESTLESS LOVE featuring MEOW MEOW: At Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. 7.45pm. Reinbert de Leeuw: Im wunderschönen Monat Mai. An evocative and intimate reimagining of Schubert and Schumann’s best-loved songs, Restless Love shuns beautiful, melodic singing and, instead, embraces the raw, guttural emotions of love, anger and loss. Arranged and orchestrated by renowned Dutch composer and pianist Reinbert de Leeuw, this powerful work is performed by Hebrides Ensemble led by cabaret diva Meow Meow, who hypnotises, inspires, and terrifies audiences in equal measure. A darkly captivating and entertaining production. www.hebridesensemble.com 24 NOVEMBER
A celebration of the legendary radio producer Stewart Cruickshank with THE PASTELS + KARINE POLWART + JUSTIN CURRIE + EMMA POLLOCK + RAB NOAKES + THE PRIMEVALS + DUGLAS T STEWART & DAVID SCOTT + KIM EDGAR + THE THANES featuring Fraser Watson play the music of The Poets + The Crunchies (featuring members of Teenage Fanclub, Belle and Sebastian and VTwin) + MOWGLI & THE DONUTS: At Saint Luke's, 17 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2JZ. Doors 7:30pm. Tickets £20 from Tickets Scotland. All proceeds raised will go to the charity - Drake Music Scotland. Stewart Cruickshank was a one off, who lived for music and for people. Over many years he made music programmes for the BBC in Scotland. With Rock on Scotland and Beat Patrol on BBC Radio Scotland, he gave so many musicians their first exposure, from The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Soup Dragons in the 1980s to Mogwai and The Delgados in the 1990s. Stewart also produced a number of significant documentaries for BBC Radio 2, spending time with Jackson Browne, Jimmy Webb, Iggy Pop and EDDI READER plus special guest DAN many more. Famously he won over the WHITEHOUSE: At Milngavie Town Hall, notoriously frosty Lou Reed, and the two for Milngavie Folk Club. spent several hours together in the www.eddireader.co.uk studio before parting with a hug. Latterly Stewart (or The Professor as became ANDY WHITE: At The Doublet, Glasgow. known) launched the evening-time Iain Andy White is a 21st Century Anderson show on BBC Radio Scotland, Troubadour. From the “electrifying which has become a much loved urgency” (FRoots) of first single institution. Stewart was also a talented ‘Religious Persuasion’ to his latest LP guitarist, who put aside his band ‘The Guilty & The Innocent’. In concert, MOWGLI AND THE DONUTS when his Andy’s a vital and engaging performer radio career took off. Late in his life and his rare appearances in the UK are though, the band got back together. not to be missed. Collaborating with the Stewart died suddenly in November likes of Tim Finn and Liam O Maonlai (as 2015, and all who knew him miss his
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Fyne Fiddles :: Book, CD + Tour Book & CD launch events ..... Sunday 19 November Scots Fiddle Festival, Edinburgh Saturday 25 November Old Bank Bookshop, Wigtown Sunday 26 November Riddell Fiddles, Selkirk Saturday 2 December Ardkinglas House, Argyll Residency ..... Friday 1-Sunday 3 December Fyne Fiddles Workshop Weekend Ardkinglas House, Argyll
www.celticmusicradio.net Scottish Music Centre presents ..... REWIND: a unique collection celebrating / recalling the Scottish Music Scene: 19701990s. Join former A&R man and music consultant Ronnie Gurr in conversation with radio broadcaster Billy Sloan at Scottish Music Centre, Glasgow. The pair celebrate, reminisce and share anecdotes from this special collection on loan to Scottish Music Centre from Ronnie. The archive contains: rare demo tapes, radio broadcasts, live performances and photographs providing an insightful, entertaining and unique snapshot of the Scottish Music scene throughout the 1970s-1990s. The event is by DONATION (towards Scottish Music Centre's archive digitisation programme) with a complimentary dram on arrival from 18:00pm SUGGESTED minimum donation £2.50 http://bit.ly/RonnieGurr-Collection-SMC www.scottishmusiccentre.com BROOKE BENTHAM: At The Poetry Club, Glasgow. Despite only just graduating this summer, Brooke’s irresistible pop has already stacked up over 2.6 million streams on Spotify plus picked up support from Radio 1, 6 Music and Radio X. Brooke is currently readying her ethereal new EP ’This Rapture’ (out this week) which she’ll be performing tracks from at this gig. Aged just twenty one, Brooke Bentham's music nonetheless carries the weight of someone who's lived a hundred lives already. She was born and raised – in large, part, fending for herself with three older brothers - in Southshields (just outside Newcastle), before relocating to New Cross to study at Goldsmith's. Here she at last felt part of a wider arts community, forming her live band and finding a mutual sense of camaraderie among a new generation of South London creatives. Brooke graduated only this summer, with debut EP ‘The Room Swayed’ – an at-times brutally honest dissection of those static, unfulfilling relationships – forming the backdrop to her final year. www.facebook.com/brookebentham
Fyne Fiddles Volume 1 the Book/CD is a suite of lessons for a range of abilities, from improving beginner to advanced learners. A treasure chest of information and advice on the technical and creative aspects of both playing and understanding traditional music. The book brings a thoughtful, detailed and supportive approach to learning, and is accompanied by a vast selection of examples, exercises, harmonies and backing tracks on three accompanying CDs. Each of the nine lessons focuses on a specific tune, painting a broad picture of the music and bringing out the important details and techniques within the notes. The choice of tunes (some new, some old) represents the continuing evolution of traditional music, and this is complemented by guitarist Donald Knox's varied and rhythmical arrangements. As well as providing step-by-step Fyne Fiddles :: Amy Geddes and Donald Knox exercises to help with bowing, intonation and all kinds of technique and theory, the CDs bring you a fabulous backing band in your own living room! The book is laid out in an easy to follow, accessible style, with fun illustrations by Sarah Roberts. Publication date is 15 Mar 2018. It will also be available as online video lessons from mid 2018. I believe Amy to be in contention for being the most talented teacher of traditional fiddle in Scotland today… Linda Morpurgo (Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop) Fyne Fiddles is the brainchild of talented performer and teacher (nominated Tutor of the Year at the MG Alba Trad Awards 2015), Amy Geddes, who plays fiddle, viola and sings. A regular live performer - solo, and as one half of transatlantic folk duo Redwood Mountain (with singer/ songwriter Dean Owens (as well as being a regular in his Whisky Hearts band)), Amy also writes & records music and trains teachers across Scotland (with ABC Creative Music) how to deliver creative music classes in schools. Her musical partner in the venture – which was founded as an annual workshop event in 2014 - is guitarist Donald Knox, an experienced music teacher and performer, with bands including The Matt Seattle Band and Carlenjig. …the happiest workshop I have ever attended… inspired even the most timid to participate fully… inspirational … workshop student Fyne Fiddles Volume 1 will be previewed in November, with a series of workshops, sessions, recital and previews, including at the Scots Fiddle Festival (Edinburgh), Wigtown, Selkirk and a weekend residency in December, in the stunning setting of Ardkinglas House, with Loch Fyne as the backdrop.
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The 19 SSE Scottish Music Awards: At Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. Leading energy company SSE return to sponsor the 19th Scottish Music Awards, which simultaneously celebrates Scotland’s worldrenowned music scene and provides muchneeded fundraising for vulnerable children and adults across the country. The SSE Scottish Music Awards are a vital part of the charity’s ability to provide music therapists and sessions to those who need it most, and has been the main fundraising event for Nordoff Robbins Scotland since 1996. 2016’s winners and attendees included Travis, Amy MacDonald, The Lapelles, Twin Atlantic and KT Tunstall, while previous years have seen performances from Wet Wet Wet, Annie Lennox and Paolo Nutini. www.nordoffrobbinsscotland.org.uk GUN: At Glasgow Barrowland (Headline Show). GUN’s seventh studio album, ‘Favourite Pleasures‘ – came out on 15 September – stands proudly alongside the very best of their work. The band will be showcasing tracks from the album in 3 live dates in December. Informed by a back-tobasics approach tempered by an innate sense for melody, the record was made in the band’s own Morse Code studios in Paisley. It’s an album that dances on a knife-edge, one that can turn on a single note from the raw pain of emotions hitting the rocks, to an unbridled celebration of hedonism. www.gunofficial.co.uk 9 DECEMBER
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north east of Scotland, five-piece indie/pop band THE 101 have achieved a lot in their short time together. Formed in 2016, the band have clocked up over 100,000 plays via Spotify, gained radio play via BBC Introducing, Amazing Radio and CamGlen Radio, performed on STV and been championed by industry tastemaker Jim Gellatly in The Sun. LAST LIGHT are an indie rock trio from Glasgow, who are relative The Stripped Sessions Christmas Show newcomers to the live scene. They’ve performed at Music For Youth showcase - Exchange at presents ….. BRIAN (NASHER) NASH SWG3 with Behind The Noise and supported New EX-FGTH with special guest KATIE Zealand band The Bats. Last Light release their KROSS: At The Glad Cafe, Glasgow. 7pm. debut EP in December. Edinburgh quartet After a storming Stripped Sessions earlier in BELLAROSE toured in Germany and released the year for Nasher's new album 432-1: their debut EP ‘Out On The Water’ earlier this Open the Vein, Nasher is back for The year. They’ve been featured by Canadian blog, A Stripped Sessions Xmas Show, performing Music Blog, Yea? as well as local newspaper The from his Solo back catalogue and even Midlothian Advertiser and airplay via Black maybe a bit of Frankie. This will be a seated Diamond FM. Watch Hit The Road videos @ http://bit.ly/HitTheRoad-Video show. Tickets £10. www.facebook.com/hittheroadscotland www.facebook.com/StgPromotions
10 DECEMBER Roots in the Round with DEAN OWENS, ROBERT VINCENT + special guest WORRY DOLLS: At Glad Cafe, Glasgow. A Nashville style 'Songwriters Circle'. More info @ www.scarybiscuits.com 15 DECEMBER THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA presents 'Spirit of Light' featuring KURT ELLING and CAPPELLA NOVA: At Glasgow Cathederal, Castle Street, Glasgow. Composed by Tommy Smith. 7.30pm. Tickets @ www.snjo.co.uk/light Hit The Road presents ..... THE 101 + LAST LIGHT + BELLAROSE: At The Garage (the Attic), Glasgow. National youth music touring project, Hit The Road visits Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh from 1517 December, featuring The 101 , Last Light and Bellarose. Run by Scottish Music Centre; the project provides young musicians living in Scotland, age 14-19 years old, the opportunity to learn about the live industry before embarking on a
Brookfield Knights presents ….. THE WAY DOWN WANDERERS: At Performing Arts Centre, Kilbarchan. They’re hotter than a mink in Malta and after taking America by storm, The Way Down Wanderers make their long-awaited UK debut to give us all a taste of what it is that projected them to the top of the American roots music tree with their blistering brand of pop-laden bluegrass that has kept the diehard traditionalists happy while attracting a young crowd of professionally managed tour. Hailing from the
19 DECEMBER PHIL CUNNINGHAM’S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK including EDDI READER, KAREN MATHESON, JOHN MCCUSKER, KRIS DREVER, IAN CARR, KEVIN MCGUIRE + special guest brass band: At Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. Following the huge success of Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook over 11 years they will be returning once again and this time taking to the road for 6 shows in Aberdeen, Perth, Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Teemed with jovial anecdotes, modern and traditional Christmas music and exquisite musicianship that will tug at ones heartstrings. Phil will be joined by some of the finest musicians on the Scottish folk scene. Tickets @ www.glasgowconcerthalls.com www.facebook.com/philschristmassongbook 20 JANUARY Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Celtic Connections Showcase: At Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2pm. As Scotland's national conservatoire, our BMus Traditional Music students are thrilled to bring you an afternoon of newly composed and arranged music, as part of the largest annual winter music festival of its kind. The 40 strong collective, led by Artistic Director Phil Cunningham and awardwinning tutor Jenn Butterworth, will form a huge folk band to showcase some of the great work
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 19: glasgow + surrounding area :: fife + central + perthshire + tayside ELEMENTS / TRIPTYCH: At Tolbooth, Stirling. The Tolbooth’s monthly indie/alt/ night Strange Behaviours is back with part 2 of this year’s reinvented ‘Strange Behaviours Festival’. Sat 18 Nov sees the 23 JANUARY inaugural ‘Strange Behaviours Winter Party’, DANTE: At Broadcast, Glasgow as part of Celtic following on from June’s spectacular ‘Summer Party’ with 9 acts on 3 quirky and Connections. Dante are on the road following the release of Rose - the first song in 4 years intimate stages spread throughout the from the Scottish sextet and as produced by Tolbooth, a chance to see the widely Andy Monaghan of Frightened Rabbit, and revered and the quietly talented from across mastered by the legendary Howie Weinberg Scotland and Stirling up-close-and(Nirvana’s Nevermind). The track is the first cut incredible. Tickets available on 01786 274 from their follow up album 'I Wear your Weight with Mine’ expected in 2018. The track sees the 000 or @ Scottish indie band burst back on the scene with www.culturestirling.org/tolbooth www.facebook.com/ a dark, high-energy track, that has echoes of The National and Interpol, whilst further strangebehavioursstirling created at the Royal Conservatoire this year. Tickets: Available from Celtic Connections Box Office. www.rcs.ac.uk
showcasing the band’s talent for songwriting and depth of lyrical content. Recorded in Slate Room Studios in Pencaitland, Scotland, frontman McLaughlin states: “This record also saw a shift in how we write, whereas our first LP, Wake, was essentially all my own creative output, there was a lot more collaboration on the new tracks Rose in particular grew out of a great jangly hook that Steve (Stephen Thom - Mandolin/ Guitar) came up with on the electric mandolin and it just blossomed organically from there - if you excuse the puns! The band has been together in the current lineup for a few years now, since we toured the first record, and consequently feels a lot more democratic, in terms of creative process.” www.facebook.com/wearedante
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Brookfield Knights presents ….. THE WAY DOWN WANDERERS: At Birnam Arts, Perthshire. They’re hotter than a mink Send us all your gig dates for in Malta and after taking America by storm, Tayside, Perthshire, The Way Down Wanderers make their longFife and Central areas awaited UK debut to give us all a taste of what it is that projected them to the top of . Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com the American roots music tree with their blistering brand of pop-laden bluegrass that has kept the diehard traditionalists happy 18 NOVEMBER while attracting a young crowd of followers Strange Behaviours: Winter Party with to fall into their infectious groove. "A welcome breath of fresh air in roots music PICTISH TRAIL / THE LOCHBACKS / a young band that could be destined for SHOGUN / BEERJACKET / SCOTT WILLIAM URQUHART / EMME WOODS / great things" – Mike Morrison, JASON RIDDELL / FAIRWEATHER & THE (AmericanRootsUK) www.facebook.com/waydownwanderers
3 DECEMBER GRACE BLACK and RAY MARTINE Remembering Acker at Christmas: At Adam Smith Theatre Beveridge Suite, Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy. Grace Black and Ray Martine will open the show with a selection of Christmas tunes then Hamish McGregor will lead a band of Scottish musicians in a programme celebrating the music of Acker Bilk. Tickets on sale at Adam Smith Box Office on 01592 583302 or @ www.onfife.com www.facebook.com/GraceBlackVocalist 7 DECEMBER
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West North Street, Aberdeen, at 7pm. SHOWADDYWADDY have long been established as Europe's most successful ever exponents of retro-inspired rock & roll, and promise to put on an incredible live show. Tickets £22 from 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 19 NOVEMBER SHOWADDYWADDY: At The Lemon Tree, West North Street, Aberdeen, at 7.30pm. The Alice Marra Quartet come to Aberdeen for a stripped back version of the big band arrangements on the album by Alice’s late father, Michael Marra, with solo support from Riley Briggs of Aberfeldy. Tickets £13.20 from 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
26 NOVEMBER BDY_PRTS: At His Majesty’s Theatre at 2pm with approx. 3.40pm finish. BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra re-visits Aberdeen with Elgar’s Enigma Variations, with conductor John Wilson who brings each piece to life with his unique touch. Tickets £24-£16 from 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com ALASDAIR ROBERTS: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen. Doors 7.30pm. Join Alasdair Roberts for an evening of calming, beautiful singing and guitar playing. Tickets £11 from 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
16 DECEMBER PHIL CUNNINGHAM’S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK including EDDI READER, KAREN MATHESON, JOHN MCCUSKER, KRIS DREVER, IAN CARR, KEVIN MCGUIRE + special guest brass band: At The Albert Halls, Stirling. Following the huge success of Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook over 11 years they will be returning once again and this time taking to the road for 6 shows in Aberdeen, Perth, Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Teemed with jovial anecdotes, modern and traditional Christmas music and exquisite musicianship that will tug at ones heartstrings. Phil will be joined by some of the finest musicians on the Scottish folk scene. Tickets @ www.culturestirling.org www.facebook.com/philschristmassongbook
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THE SPRINGSTEEN SESSIONS: At The Lemon Tree, West North Street, Aberdeen, at 8.30pm. The Springsteen Sessions pay homage to the music of one of the most iconic performers of the last 40 years, featuring music from the from earliest period of Springsteen’s career right through to his most recent recordings. Tickets £8.30 from 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
MODEL AEROPLANES: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £9.90. Model Aeroplanes are a Dundee-based rock band, formed in late 2012. They already have a set of professional demos and these four members, although young, have years of performing experience and have the potential to become one of Scotland's most exciting live acts. Tickets on 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
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Independent Record Label Market: At The Lemon Tree, 5 West North Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5AT. 11.30am—4.30pm. Free entry. Aberdeen's Independent Record Label Market will be taking place again! There were over 30 records labels from 17 DECEMBER across Scotland at last years event and this one is going to be just as good, if not PHIL CUNNINGHAM’S CHRISTMAS better! With Christmas not too far away at SONGBOOK including EDDI READER, all (scary!) this is a perfect day to hunt out KAREN MATHESON, JOHN MCCUSKER, some of those special presents, limited KRIS DREVER, IAN CARR, KEVIN edition vinyl? niche cassette tapes? There MCGUIRE + special guest brass band: At will also be some cool DJ sets and even a Perth Concert Hall, Perth. Following the bar for refreshments! (There may be a huge success of Phil Cunningham’s limited number of stalls still available, if Christmas Songbook over 11 years they will you've got a label and we haven't been in be returning once again and this time taking touch already, please email info@57north. to the road for 6 shows in Aberdeen, Perth, org for more details). Confirm your Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Teemed attendance on the Independent Record with jovial anecdotes, modern and Label Market: Aberdeen Facebook event traditional Christmas music and exquisite page, with more event details to be musicianship that will tug at ones announced in the coming weeks. heartstrings. Phil will be joined by some of www.facebook.com/AberdeenLabelMarket the finest musicians on the Scottish folk scene. Tickets @ THE SPRINGSTEEN SESSIONS: At The www.horsecross.co.uk Lemon Tree, West North Street, Aberdeen, www.facebook.com/philschristmassongbook at 11.30am-4.30pm, free entry. 57° North and the Scottish Music Industry Association, alongside All in Ideas and Aberdeen Performing Arts present the fourth annual Independent Record Label Market event in Aberdeen. The market will once again see some of Scotland’s best independent record Send us all your gig dates for labels gathering to sell their wares, all under Aberdeenshire and the north east one roof. area www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
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2 DECEMBER MacFLOYD: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £18.70. MacFloyd return to The Lemon Tree with their new show for 2017, the show will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Pink Floyd's "Animals" album. The band will perform this classic album in its entirety as well as favourites from "The Dark Side Of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here", "The Wall" and many more. Tickets on 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 7 DECEMBER SKIPINNISH: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £19.80. Skipinnish have rocketed to the top of the Scottish music scene recently and their ascent is accelerating! Being named Live Act of the Year at the Scots Trad Awards, releasing four consecutive chart topping self-penned singles, a 3000 seat sell-out concert in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall that finished with a standing ovation, and a string of headline appearances at some of Britain’s biggest music festivals have been just some of the Highland band’s recent highlights. Tickets on 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 9 DECEMBER SKERRYVORE: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen. Doors 8pm. Tickets £16.50. With blazing bagpipes, fiddle and accordions, electrically fused with funky rhythms and soul-gripping songs, Skerryvore is an award-winning Scottish band creating a ‘Trad-rock’ fusion for the
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back at with their ever popular Christmas 'outing'. All the usual risqué nonsense and classic tunes delivered in a way only this transvestite trio can get away with. Tickets on 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
to the road for 6 shows in Aberdeen, Perth, Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Teemed with jovial anecdotes, modern and traditional Christmas music and exquisite musicianship that will tug at ones heartstrings. Phil will be joined by some of the finest musicians on the Scottish folk scene. www.facebook.com/philschristmassongbook 22 DECEMBER BIG COUNTRY: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £27.50. Big Country perform classic hits and live favourites including Harvest Home, Fields of Fire, In A Big Country, Chance, Wonderland, Look Away, The Teacher, plus many more. Tickets on 01224 641122 or @ www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 29 DECEMBER
THE COMPLETE STONE ROSES: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen. Doors 7pm. Tickets £22. The 17 DECEMBER Complete Stone Roses is now one of the UK’s most well-known, most seen and most Hit The Road presents ..... THE 101 + successful tribute bands. Selling out venues LAST LIGHT + BELLAROSE: At The across the UK and Ireland regularly, they Tunnels, Aberdeen. National youth music have helped to carry on the music of one of touring project, Hit The Road visits the UK’s most influential bands - the Stone Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh from 15- Roses who played a pivotal role in the 17 December, featuring The 101 , Last Light history of the UK’s indie music and Bellarose. Run by Scottish Music scene. Tickets on 01224 641122 or @ Centre; the project provides young www.aberdeenperformingarts.com musicians living in Scotland, age 14-19 years old, the opportunity to learn about the live industry before embarking on a professionally managed tour. Hailing from the north east of Scotland, five-piece indie/ pop band THE 101 have achieved a lot in their short time together. Formed in 2016, Send us all your gig dates the band have clocked up over 100,000 for the Highlands plays via Spotify, gained radio play via BBC Introducing, Amazing Radio and CamGlen Email them to Carol Radio, performed on STV and been carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com championed by industry tastemaker Jim 18 NOVEMBER Gellatly in The Sun. LAST LIGHT are an indie rock trio from Glasgow, who are ELEPHANT SESSIONS: At Universal Hall, relative newcomers to the live scene. Findhorn. Winners of the MG Alba Scots Trad They’ve performed at Music For Youth Awards 'Up and Coming Act of the Year 2014, showcase - Exchange at SWG3 with Behind and nominated as Live Act of the Year in 2016, The Noise and supported New Zealand band the fiery Highland five-piece Elephant Sessions The Bats. Last Light release their debut EP are a musical power house, welding weapons in December. Edinburgh quartet grade grooves and guitar attack with quicksilver fiddle/mandolin melodies. The group fuses rich BELLAROSE toured in Germany and released their debut EP ‘Out On The Water’ folk and trad influences with funk, rock and electronica in an instantly captivating, earlier this year. They’ve been featured by Canadian blog, A Music Blog, Yea? as well as progressive, visceral blend. www.elephantsessions.com local newspaper The Midlothian Advertiser and airplay via Black Diamond FM. Watch 24 NOVEMBER Hit The Road videos @ http://bit.ly/HitTheRoad-Video DANTE: At Hootananny, Inverness. Dante are on the road following the release of Rose - the www.facebook.com/hittheroadscotland
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first song in 4 years from the Scottish sextet and as produced by Andy Monaghan of Frightened 18 DECEMBER Rabbit, and mastered by the legendary Howie Weinberg (Nirvana’s Nevermind). The track is PHIL CUNNINGHAM’S CHRISTMAS the first cut from their follow up album 'I Wear SONGBOOK including EDDI READER, your Weight with Mine’ expected in 2018. The KAREN MATHESON, JOHN MCCUSKER, track sees the Scottish indie band burst back on KRIS DREVER, IAN CARR, KEVIN the scene with a dark, high-energy track, that MCGUIRE + special guest brass band: At has echoes of The National and Interpol, whilst further showcasing the band’s talent for THE BLOODY MARYS: At The Lemon Tree Beach Ballroom, Aberdeen. Following the songwriting and depth of lyrical content. Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen. Doors huge success of Phil Cunningham’s 8pm. Tickets £16.50. Christmas Spirit??.... Christmas Songbook over 11 years they will Recorded in Slate Room Studios in Pencaitland, Scotland, frontman McLaughlin states: “This
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up with on the electric mandolin and it just blossomed organically from there - if you excuse the puns! The band has been together in the current lineup for a few years now, since we toured the first record, and consequently feels a lot more democratic, in terms of creative process.” www.facebook.com/wearedante 1-3 DECEMBER
FYNE FIDDLES WORKSHOP WEEKEND: At Ardkinglas House, Argyll. Fyne Fiddles - Amy Geddes - multi talented, award-nominated, traditional fiddle player and teacher - and 25 NOVEMBER guitarist Donald Knox - launch their new book/ CD (a suite of lessons for a range of abilities, DANTE: At Drouthy Cobbler, Elgin. Dante are on from improving beginner to advanced learners. the road following the release of Rose - the first A treasure chest of information and advice on song in 4 years from the Scottish sextet and as the technical and creative aspects of both produced by Andy Monaghan of Frightened playing and understanding traditional music) Rabbit, and mastered by the legendary Howie with a series of preview events and workshops Weinberg (Nirvana’s Nevermind). The track is (19 Nov - 3 Dec). the first cut from their follow up album 'I Wear www.fynefiddles.scot your Weight with Mine’ expected in 2018. The track sees the Scottish indie band burst back on 2 DECEMBER the scene with a dark, high-energy track, that has echoes of The National and Interpol, whilst FYNE FIDDLES (Book + CD launch): At further showcasing the band’s talent for Ardkinglas House, Argyll. Fyne Fiddles - Amy songwriting and depth of lyrical content. Geddes - multi talented, award-nominated, Recorded in Slate Room Studios in Pencaitland, traditional fiddle player and teacher - and Scotland, frontman McLaughlin states: “This guitarist Donald Knox - launch their new book/ record also saw a shift in how we write, whereas CD (a suite of lessons for a range of our first LP, Wake, was essentially all my own abilities, from improving beginner to creative output, there was a lot more advanced learners. A treasure chest of collaboration on the new tracks - Rose in information and advice on the technical and particular grew out of a great jangly hook that creative aspects of both playing and Steve (Stephen Thom - Mandolin/Guitar) came
understanding traditional music) - with a series of preview events and workshops (19 Nov - 3 Dec). www.fynefiddles.scot 2 JANUARY SKERRYVORE & SKIPINNISH: At The Nevis Centre, Fort William. www.skerryvore.com
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Wanderers make their long-awaited UK debut to give us all a taste of what it is that projected them to the top of the American roots music tree with their blistering brand of pop-laden bluegrass that has kept the diehard traditionalists happy while attracting a young crowd of followers to fall into their infectious groove. "A welcome breath of fresh air in roots music - a young band that could be destined for great things" – Mike Morrison, (AmericanRootsUK) 25 NOVEMBER
FYNE FIDDLES (Book + CD launch): At Old Bank Bookshop, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway. Fyne Fiddles - Amy Geddes THE GEORGE LINDSAY BAND: At The multi talented, award-nominated, traditional Pierhead Tavern, Lamlash, Isle of Arran. fiddle player and teacher - and guitarist 4pm. Free. Donald Knox - launch their new book/CD (a www.facebook.com/ThePHTArran suite of lessons for a range of abilities, from improving beginner to advanced learners. A 9 DECEMBER treasure chest of information and advice on the technical and creative aspects of both LAU: At Mareel, Lerwick. An “Evening with playing and understanding traditional Lau” – two sets spanning the first ten years. music) - with a series of preview events and www.lau-music.co.uk workshops (19 Nov - 3 Dec). www.fynefiddles.scot 1 JANUARY 26 NOVEMBER
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MANRAN & SKERRYVORE: At Portree Community Centre. Skye. 8pm. £20. www.manran.co.uk www.skerryvore.com
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for a range of abilities, from improving beginner to advanced learners. A treasure chest of information and advice on the technical and creative aspects of both playing and understanding traditional music) - with a series of preview events and workshops (19 Nov - 3 Dec). www.fynefiddles.scot 1 DECEMBER THE KILLER CATS: At the Auction House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, its £5 entry 8pm start its going to be a mad evening of Rock n Roll. www.facebook.com/AuctionHouseBerwick www.facebook.com/TheMusicGalleryUK 9 DECEMBER Roots in the Round with DEAN OWENS, ROBERT VINCENT + special guests: At Cluny, Newcastle. A Nashville style 'Songwriters Circle'. More info @ www.scarybiscuits.com 16 DECEMBER St Boswell's Live presents ….. PONS AELIUS: At St Boswells Village Hall, Jenny Moore's Road, St Boswells, Roxburghshire TD6 0AL. Doors open 7.30pm for an 8pm start. Pons Aelius are an ambitious young instrumental sextet exploring the traditional and contemporary folk musics of Britain and beyond. With bold arrangements and an arsenal of instruments, the band melds ageold traditions with a fresh and innovative attitude. After forming in mid-2014, Pons Aelius wasted no time making a name for themselves on the live circuit, winning a prestigious Danny Kyle award at Glasgow’s Celtic Connections festival in January. Tickets from St Boswells Post Office, priced £14* (£10 concessions) or @ www.musicglue.com www.stboswellslive.com
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castle backdrop. Edinburgh singer Nina Nesbitt supports Concert in the Gardens headline act Rag'n'Bone Man. While other Scots acts Niteworks, Treacherous Orchestra, Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 and Sacred Paws appear at the Street Party. www.edinburghshogmanay.com
The full programme has been announced for Sonica 2017, Cryptic's biennial festival in Glasgow of the best in visual sonic art from around the world. 40+ international artists from 14 countries across 5 continents will present work from 26 October to 5 November - from opera in shopping mall windows to a chorus of megaphones across Kelvingrove Park, Sonica brings innovative, unmissable art to all corners of Glasgow. The programme boasts 13 UK premieres, 4 Glasgow world premieres and 8 Cryptic commissions 18 January - 4 February
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Celtic Connections
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Killin Music Festival Killin 15-17 June Killin Music Festival delivers a weekend packed from start to finish with top-of-their-game artists, supported by a festival fringe featuring bar sessions, workshops, kids activities, competitions and even a pipe band! Now heading for it’s third year, Killin Music Festival looks to solidify it’s standing in the festival calendar, taking on board feedback from visitors, and by spreading it’s wings a bit further this time. Don't miss out for 2018! Tickets are on sale now via our website www.killinmusicfestival.com and are selling fast!
Celtic Connections, the leading festival of world, folk and roots music, will be celebrating its 25th anniversary from Thursday 14 January to Sunday 4 February 2018 with 300 events featuring more than 2,000 artists from across the world in venues throughout Glasgow. www.killinmusicfestival.com
soundfestival is now well underway in Aberdeen- www.celticconnections.com shire and runs until 11 November with over 40 performances presented in venues across the region as well as a number of pop-up events, talks, workshops and open rehearsals. Dumfries 18-28 January www.sound-scotland.co.uk The jam-packed programme is only the start of announcements due every month in the lead up to what has become the biggest Burns Night Celebration on the planet. Donovan will play a special show at 9pm on Saturday 27 January, Kinross-shire featuring his world-renowned repertoire. November-December www.bigburnssupper.com Kinross-shire is looking forward to a very busy end of year with many events being organised throughout November and December as part of Kinross-shire's Winter Festival. To celebrate all the various local events that are happening KLEO (Kinross-shire Local Events Organisation) has produced a Winter Festival Brochure promoting the numerous events organised by local community groups and businesses. Edinburgh 26 Apr – 6 May www.kleo.org.uk Experience Scotland Live with a seasonal feast of living traditions and local cultures. Encounter music, storytelling, dance, craft, song and folk Dundee drama at venues – indoor and outdoor – across 15-19 November Edinburgh and the Lothians. Rooted in the past yet resonating in the present, TradFest showDundee will be host to a stellar line-up, featuring cases dynamic engagement with Scotland’s Hissome of the best musicians from the local and tory and Heritage as well as providing a platform American jazz and blues scene. With concerts for up and coming talent in the world of Trad. presented at the Gardyne Theatre, Dundee Rep, Look out for the Battle of the Folk Band event as The Reading Rooms, Unicorn – plus, the exciting part of the finale performances this year! Jazz in the Ferry on the Sunday afternoon. The programme is very varied, spanning from special www.tracscotland.org/tradfest concerts marking 100 years of Jazz to outstanding shows presenting the freshest music out of New York.
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Oban 8-9 June
Oban Live was created following the open-air concert ‘DECADE’ in 2015 – the 10th anniversary Edinburgh celebration of trad-fusion band Skerryvore that 31 December attracted 6,000 people from all over the world to Oban. From this, Oban Live was formed in 2016 Edinburgh's Hogmanay have unveiled the line-up with the aim of showcasing the very best Scotto see in the New Year in front of the spectacular
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Riverside Rock Jedburgh 23 June Riverside Rock is a musical extravaganza with something for everyone young and old and designed primarily to help raise cash for our chosen charity and other organisations around the Scottish Borders. Children’s Entertainment includes, Laser Quest, Inflatables of all sorts, Climbing Walls, Wrecking Ball, Kids Fun Fair Rides and much more. Kids entertainment is free for under 18’s from 12pm till 6pm. You’ll not find a better value family festival anywhere in Scotland, Riverside Rock is the place to be. www.riversiderock.co.uk
JULY Hebridean Celtic Festival Hebrides 18-21 July Four day festival set against the unique backdrop of the the Hebrides. Organised by the HCF Trust, this first festival was held in 1996 and now regularly attracts attendances of 14,000 over its four day run. Wild, but not a bit woolly, this festival has built up a fabulously loyal audience locally and from across the world, many of whom have Hebridean ties, many of whom just love coming here and joining in the great party. www.hebceltfest.com
AUGUST Lindisfarne Festival Beal Farm, Berwick-upon-Tweed 30 August - 2 September Following a successful Lindisfarne Festival 2017, which saw a 38% increase in attendees from the previous year and a 3500+ strong crowd, organisers have a crowdfunding campaign for the 2018 festival. www.lindisfarnefestival.com
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