Festivals! Scotland's Music
the Scottish music festival supplement from MUSIC NEWS Scotland
Paisley’s homegrown musical megastar Paolo Nutini played a triumphant homecoming charity gig (pictured) in the stunning setting of the town’s 850year-old Abbey as part of the Spree Festival - see page 11 www.thespree.co.uk
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Oban Live 2018 Early Birds! Oban :: 8-9 June 2018 :: www.obanlive.com Early Bird Tickets on sale at 12pm Saturday 4 November @ www.obanlive.com/tickets
Argyll’s biggest live music concert, Oban Live, has announced early bird tickets to their 2018 event will go on sale online at 12pm on Saturday 4 November.
shortlisted for Best Cultural Event / Festival at this year’s Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards 2017. The winners will be announced in Inverness on 3 November. Naomi Hoolahan, Event Director for Oban Live said: “We are incredibly excited to put our first tickets on sale for Oban Live 2018, its third year running. Last year’s audience brought so much energy to the event and we can’t wait to
welcome our 2018 audience to Oban’s Mossfield Stadium next year. It’s sure to be another cracker!” Oban Live takes place on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 June 2018. For more details on Early Bird tickets visit www.obanlive.com/tickets
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The discounted tickets will be available to purchase via their website www.obanlive.com for a limited time only or until early bird tickets last. Oban Live has entertained almost 8,000 attendees each year (7,770 in 2016, 7,837 in 2017) with a mix of traditional Scottish and Celticrock artists and international superstars such as KT Tunstall and Toploader. It’s impact over the weekend brings £1.1million to the local economy. Oban Live is also
Oban Live 2017 - The mighty Skerryvore and Oban High School Pipe Band :: photo by Ronnie Cairns
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Hebridean Talent On Show At Celtic Connections 2018 Glasgow :: 3 February :: www.celticconnections.com Buy tickets @ www.celticconnections.com
A show celebrating Hebridean summer is being reprised for the music and culture that wowed an 25th anniversary Celtic international audience this Connections festival next year. ‘Blasta’ (Gaelic for tasty or delicious) was specially commissioned by the Hebridean Celtic Festival for this year’s Interceltique de Lorient, Europe’s largest Celtic Festival, which was held in August. HebCelt curated the sell-out opening concert at Lorient, when Scotland was this year’s Country of Focus, and helped kick start a number of events featuring Scottish artists during the ten-day festival. Blasta will take to the Celtic Connections stage on Saturday, 3 February in the Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow. It features some of the leading Lewis singers and musicians in the modern era, including Anna Murray, Mischa Macpherson, Ceitlin Smith and Josie Duncan. They will be joined by singer and piper Calum Alex Macmillan, who had to withdraw from the Lorient show after breaking his ankle. HebCelt director Caroline Maclennan said: “Blasta was one of the stand-out shows at our hugely-successful Lorient concert and showcased the musical talent of the Outer Hebrides and the culture of Gaeldom on an international platform. We are delighted these incredible singers and musicians are being brought back together for Celtic Connections and that once again we will be bringing a taste of HebCelt to Glasgow.” This year HebCelt picked up both the Festival of the Year award and the Grand Prix prize at the Scottish Event Awards. It is also shortlisted in the Best Cultural Event or Festival category in the Highlands and Islands Tourism Awards, a title it won in 2014, and is one of only two Scottish festivals among the ten finalists for a UK Greener Festival Award.
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Bozzini, bassoons and Out of the Box – soundfestival is underway Aberdeen :: 26 October - 11 November :: www.sound-scotland.co.uk Buy tickets @ www.sound-scotland.co.uk/festival/whats-on bassoonists such as Pascal Gallois, Peter Whelan, Laurence Perkins and Lesley Wilson, who will guide us through established and new music repertoire for bassoon including brand new works to be premiered at the festival.” “Our ‘Out of the Box’ opera project in 2012 proved hugely popular, so we are delighted this year to be presenting another weekend of events under this banner. Over the final weekend of 2017 soundfestival we will take opera out of the traditional concert hall. The weekend will open with the second performance of Belongings, our co-commission with Tête à Tête, this time staged on the sleeper service from London to Aberdeen. There will then be three days of staged and pop up events.”
soundfestival is now well underway in Aberdeenshire 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. The opening weekend of 2017 soundfestival saw the return of the acclaimed Quatuor Bozzini as part of a programme of events entitled “Sounding the North” which is presented in partnership with the University of Aberdeen. The final weekend, meanwhile, sees the return of the popular “Out of the Box” opera initiative in which operas are staged in unusual places and spaces. Throughout the festival sound will stage the first in a number of showcases for “endangered musical instruments”. This year the festival focuses on the bassoon
“Commissions of new work are central to soundfestival and this a fascinating variety of specially commissioned work will be premiered at the festival,” says Robertson. “As well as Belongings we have specially co-commissioned with Red Note Ensemble a new work for bassoonist Pascal Gallois from one of the UK’s leading composers, Benedict Mason; we have continued our ongoing collaboration with Musiques Démesurées in the co-commissioning of two new works one by Scottish composer John de Simone and the other by French composer Stéphane Magnin; and thanks to the PRS for Music Foundation we have been able to commission a very special piece from Colin Riley who has collaborated with writers for whom Place is a recurring theme. The outcome of this collaboration is ‘In Place’ a set of songs for vocalist and ensemble.” On the evening of 3 November (Salmon Bothy, Portsy) there will be a performance of Clyde’s Water by young local composer Rory Comerford which has been reworked for seven bassoons and electronics. Also on the evening of 3 November the public is invited to an open rehearsal and discussion (Phoenix Centre. Newton Dee) for the lunchtime concert the following day which will see eight leading bassoon players will come together to perform new pieces written specially for the instrument.
the afternoon of Sunday 5November (Monymusk Art Centre) Laurence Perkins presents Bassoon Voyager, a multimedia live concert performance featuring solo bassoon with projected video and still images. The programme is a musical journey to Switzerland, France, a Shakespearian island, the Pyrenees, England (including the Lake District) and the Scottish Hebrides. The focus on the bassoon culminates in concerts featuring the renowned French bassoonist, Pascal Gallois, (9 November, The Anatomy Rooms). Gallois joins soundfestival’s Associate Ensemble, Red Note in the world premiere of a sound-Red Note co-commission from Benedict Mason. Gallois will also give a solo performance on Saturday 10 November (The Anatomy Rooms). The following Friday sound’s annual Composers Day (The Anatomy Rooms) will feature writing for the bassoon and for smallscale opera. Featured composers on the day will be Benedict Mason and Errollyn Wallen The second Out of the Box opera weekend begins on Thursday 9 November with a restaging of Belongingssoundfestival co-commission with London’s Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival which was premiered on the sleeper from Aberdeen to London earlier in the summer. This time it will be staged on the journey from London to Aberdeen. The piece will then be restaged on the heritage railway in Deeside on the following afternoon. 2017 soundfestival culminates in Créations sans frontiere (The Anatomy Rooms). This crossborder residency project developed by sound and Musiques Démesurées has given French and Scottish musicians the opportunity to work collaboratively with composers Stéphane Magnin (France) and John De Simone (Scotland) and contemporary musical experts Juliet Fraser and Maxime Echardour to develop new works for this unusual combination of instruments. The concert features works by de Simone and Magnin specially commissioned by sound and Musiques Démesurées Tickets for soundfestival including a range of special offers and concessions are available through Aberdeen Box Office on 01224 641122 or via the link above.
On the evening of 4 November (Woodend Barn, Banchory) Mr McFall’s Chamber will be joined by “I am pleased to unveil the programme for the www.sound-scotland.co.uk 13th soundfestival, Scotland’s annual celebration Pete Whelan (bassoon) in a programme that features works for bassoon by Edward McGuire, www.facebook.com/soundscotland of new music,” says festival director, Fiona Denisov, Jeremy Thurlow and John Hearne. On Robertson. “With over 40 performances, pop up www.twitter.com/soundscotland events, world premieres, special commissions and a wide range of family events it is one of our most ambitious festivals to date.” “We were delighted to welcome back the fabulous Quatuor Bozzini to soundfestival as part of our opening weekend,” she added. “They will be one of a number of leading international groups and performers exploring whether there is such a thing as a northern sound in classical, folk, jazz and electroacoustic music. “Also returning to soundfestival as part of this programme are pianist James Clapperton, Edinburgh Quartet, invisiblEARts and Song Circus, and we are pleased to welcome Arild Andersen and Erik Mikael Karlsson who make their soundfestival debut this year.” “2017 sees the beginning of our five-year project around endangered musical instruments, and we are starting the ball rolling with the bassoon,” says Fiona Robertson. “We are really pleased to be working with internationally acclaimed
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Glasgow :: 26 October - 5 November :: www.sonic-a.co.uk Buy tickets @ www.sonic-a.co.uk/sonica-2017/
Sonica takes place in venues across Glasgow and in total the programme boasts over forty international artists from twelve countries across five continents, with 13 UK premieres, four world premieres, eight new Cryptic commissions, installations and family friendly events. The festival opened in spectacular style with the UK premiere of the unique underwater concert AquaSonic at Tramway. Nine years in the making, Denmark’s Between Music have worked with deep sea divers, scientists and instrument-makers to create compositions for five musicians submerged in vast tanks of water that glow in the darkened space. With performers both singing beneath the surface using specially developed vocal techniques and playing instruments custom-designed for use underwater – including adapted strings and percussion – AquaSonic melds whale song and chamber music to produce an unmissable, otherworldly event that promises to be one of the highlights of the Autumn cultural calendar.
Messier’s (Québec) FIELD (UK Premiere), which use electromagnetic transducer microphones to create a soundscape from the previously inaudible and invisible. Inspired by the idea of the African talking drum, Nicola L. Hein (Germany) & Lukas Truniger’s (Switzerland) Membranes will have its World Premiere at Sonica 2017 (Performance & Installation, Tramway, 3 & 4 November). Exploring the boundaries where music and language overlap, Hein and Truniger use hybrid instruments – constructed from drumskins and electronic components – as devices to turn written texts into pulses of light and percussive sound.
Sonica 2017 steps out of the art gallery confines to present quirky works in a range of unexpected venues across the city. Mathis Nitschke’s short opera Viola will place its audience into a St Enoch's Centre shop window (4 & 5 November), turning the whole of the outside world into a stage, whilst The Megaphone Project, by Australian-based Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, will fill the Kelvingrove Bandstand (28 29 October & 3 – 5 November) with bright red megaphones of different shapes and sizes, to create a thrilling chorus of disembodied voices as part of Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. Home to the world's longest echo in a man-made structure, Hamilton Mausoleum will house the UK premiere of a stereo Sonica will also host the UK premiere of Cryptic’s reimagined as a gyroscope, transmitting a recording Shorelines at Tramway on 1 and 2 November, a collaboration of rich talents including composer Oliver by experimental poet and creator of the ‘cut-up' method Brion Gysin, in Robert Pravda’s Monoid mk II Coates (UK), the all-female Ragazze Quartet (the (27 – 29 October) and the soon-to-be-announced Netherlands), renowned artist and designer winner of a Sonica open commission will create a siteChristophe Coppens (Belgium) and young Glasgow specific piece for the Titan Crane. director Josh Armstrong (UK). Fresh from its world premiere at the prestigious Operadagen festival in Mexico's ‘Godfather of Sonic Art’ Manuel Rocha Rotterdam, Shorelines is inspired by the North Sea Iturbide also presents a double-bill for Sonica 2017. Flood of 1953, which left the Netherlands devastated Extended Tension is a suspended electric guitar that and also took many lives in the UK and Belgium, and confronts the dichotomy between silence and sound explores the beauty and catastrophic power of the and invites visitors to break the tension by plucking sea at a time of increased risk from climate change. its strings. A triple bill of AV work (Tramway, 4 November) from France, Québec, the Netherlands and UK will see experimental electronic musician Paul Jebanasam’s (UK) 2016 album Continuum turned into a mesmerising performance with dazzling live visuals by Tarik Barri (the Netherlands), taking the viewer on a thrilling, galactic-scale journey; Alex Augier's (France) slick and macabre _nybble_ (UK Premiere) taking place across four giant screens and Martin
Cryptic’s Artistic Director Cathie Boyd said “We're delighted with the Sonica 2017 programme. It’s a testament to the profile of the festival that it's been chosen to host the opening of AquaSonic's world tour and Dear Esther Live's UK tour.”
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Paolo Nutini wows Paisley's Spree Festival crowd with stunning homecoming show Paisley’s homegrown musical megastar Paolo Nutini played a triumphant homecoming charity gig in the stunning setting of the town’s 850-year-old Abbey as part of the Spree Festival on 20 October. The eagerly-anticipated and exclusive event was rapturously received by the 550 fans lucky enough to be there – after more than 50,000 entered the ballot for tickets. The gig was the headline show of Paisley’s annual Spree Festival – this The gig also saw 100 tickets made available to Renfrewshire community year taking place as the town waits to hear if it will be crowned UK City of groups. Culture 2021 in a few weeks time. Paisley 2021 bid director Jean Cameron said: “Paolo has been a big This was Paolo’s only UK gig this year, with favourites including These supporter of his home town’s ambitions – tonight’s gig was an incredible Streets, Iron Sky and Candy all featuring in the set lasting just over two experience in one of our unique venues and showed the world Paisley hours. knows how to host a party. Speaking about the show Paolo said: “It was scary biscuits! But I “Our bid aims to open up world-class cultural programming to every loved it and it’s so good to be home!" section of our community and tonight Paolo helped us show how great The gig raised in excess of £20,000 for five local charities selected by that could be in 2021.” Paolo himself - the Love Street Singers, Mirren Park School, the Kibble Paisley is bidding to be UK City of Culture 2021 as part of wider plans to Band, the Sunshine Recovery Cafe, and the town’s Syrian refugee transform the town’s future using its unique story as the home of the children. world-renowned Paisley Pattern. All ticket money will be split between the five good causes – topped up by The town is the only Scottish place on the final shortlist announced by the thousands raised after Paolo ran a prize draw for a meet and greet where UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the fans could enter by text message at £1 a ticket. summer – alongside Coventry, Stoke, Sunderland and Swansea. Lucky fan Mima Craig from West Lothian met the star before the gig, and www.thespree.co.uk enjoyed fish and chips from his parents’ takeaway, Castelvecchi, in the town centre. www.twitter.com/SpreeFestival
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Donovan, Badly Drawn Boy, Ocean Wisdom and Eddi Reader to play Big Burns Supper Dumfries :: 18-28 January :: www.bigburnssupper.com Brochure and tickets soon @ www.bigburnssupper.com/download-2017-brochure.php
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, featuring his worldrenowned repertoire. Hip hop rapper Ocean Wisdom has been hailed as the ‘future of UK hip hop and he will play his first ever Spiegeltent show on Monday 22 January, at 9pm. Mercury prize winner Badly Drawn Boy will treat audiences to some indie multi-instrumentalism on Friday 26 of January at 9pm.
year and last year attracted attendances of over 30,000 across 11 days of music, theatre, comedy, cabaret and children’s events. Audiences were left feeling triumphant when the producers, Electric Theatre Workshop announced the return of the Spiegeltent to the centre of Dumfries earlier in the year, and advanced sales of Le Haggis have already beaten previous records. Commenting on the announcement, Donovan said: "I was born in Scotland and my faither Donald read Burns to me throughout my childhood, and after being invited a fair few times I am finally going to be able to play Big Burns Supper and am very impressed with how the Festival has grown into what it is today. I have put a tune to the Burns poem ‘The Banks of Doon’ which will be released as a single in January and the proceeds will go to preserve the river Doon in Ayrshire.”
Donovan will perform as part of the 11 days of music, theatre, dance, comedy and cabaret.’’ Tickets are available from the festival website, or by calling 01387 271820. A box office is scheduled to open in Dumfries from late October.
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Executive Producer, Graham Main said: "We are unashamed about stating that this is going to be our biggest and boldest programme to date which will be a result of some big changes to our festival model. We are not afraid to take risks which we proved last year, but we are quietly buzzing about the return of the tent."
Eddi Reader plays a Burns Night Special, performing the songs of Robert Burns, Le Haggis is also getting a fifth birthday make accompanied by strings on Thursday 25 January. over with the return of some of the stars that appeared in the first five years, as well as Organisers of the Big Burns Supper have announced four of the acts that will be appearing introducing some fresh faces in recognition of as part of the 2018 Festival, two months earlier the special anniversary edition. than usual with the full programme expected earlier than ever.
The programme will include a new Dumfries Fringe Festival which will feature local talent in venues all over Dumfries, as well as a new comedy strand. Big Burns Supper is now entering its seventh
International Development Minister Alasdair Allan, said: “The festival is adopting a modern, creative twist to celebrate our national bard. Big Burns Supper has created a worldclass programme that will include concerts and outdoor events planned across Dumfries. Musicians such as Mercury prize winner Badly Drawn Boy, Hip hop rapper Ocean Wisdom &
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Sacred Paws, Niteworks and Treacherous Orchestra on the Edinburgh's Hogmanay bill Edinburgh :: 31 December :: www.edinburghshogmanay.com Buy tickets @ www.edinburghshogmanay.com/whats-on/street-party
Edinburgh's Hogmanay have unveiled the line-up to see in the New Year in front of the spectacular castle backdrop. Edinburgh singer Nina Nesbitt and English songwriter Declan McKenna will support Concert in the Gardens headline act Rag'n'Bone Man. While Niteworks, four childhood friends from the Isle of Skye, will use spoken word and Gaelic tunes with electronica and dance music to fill the dancefloor. On the East End Stage, headliners the Treacherous Orchestra will give a modern take on Scottish dance music while opening act Barns Courtney will provide a taste of his debut recording, Attractions of Youth. Colonel Mustard and the Dijon 5 will also be there. And Scottish Album of the Year winners Sacred Paws will give the opening performance on the Waverley Stage, with synth-pop act The Human League headlining that stage. Charlie Wood, of Edinburgh's Hogmanay, said: "We're delighted to have Scottish acts showcased on every stage at Scotland's New Year festival." The Castle Street Stage will have DJs playing and one of the best views
of Edinburgh Castle for the midnight fireworks. Headlining the DJ Stage is BBC Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music DJ Huey Morgan with the Mac Twins hosting the stage. The six-hour street party will be hosted by Sanjeev Kohli of Still Game. For those who prefer a more traditional Hogmanay, Princes Street Gardens will be the place to head for an eightsome reel. Entertainment at Ceilidh Under the Castle offers The Occasionals, Heilan Crew and Kipper Ceilidh. Ringing in the New Year, Edinburgh's Hogmanay promises "the longest, biggest and best fireworks display for years" set to music and launched from Edinburgh Castle. Nina Nesbitt is looking forward to performing at home, Nina said: "I can't wait to return to one of the best New Year celebrations in the world this New Year. It'll be so nice to be back in my home city bringing in 2018 with my friends and family." From the moment the doors open at 7pm, till after the midnight bells have fallen silent, bands and DJs, street performers and dancers, acrobats, disco divas and fire eaters will all combine to make it the party of a lifetime.
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Groove Cairngorm – UK’s Only Snowsports & Music Festival Initial Line-Up Announced Nr Aviemore :: 23-24 February :: www.groovecairngorm.co.uk Buy tickets @ www.skiddle.com/festivals/groove-cairngorm/
Groove Cairngorm returns for it’s third outing over the weekend on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 February spread across the Cairngorm Mountains and Badaguish Outdoor centre on the outskirts of Aviemore. The first line-up up announcement for the apresski party features an eclectic line-up of artists including Pioneering Belgian brothers David & Stephen Dewaele better known under their stage name 2MANYDJS who are set to bring their electrifying performance to the festival, having proved themselves to be firm favourites in clubs and festivals throughout the UK; joining them is unquestionably one of the most respected and popular DJs in the world today Norman Jay MBE. Co-founder of the legendary Good Times Sound System and London dance music station Kiss FM, Jay fostered the ‘Rare Groove’ scene pushing the boundaries of the UK’s emerging club culture and to top it all off was awarded an MBE in 2002 for services to deejaying and music. Start To End take their Daft Punks Discovery (Live!) show to Groove with their amazing 7 piece live interpretation of Daft Punk’s
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sophomore 2001 album ‘Discovery’. Everything Is Live, guitars, drums, keys, everything, with sell out shows and incredible reviews this is set to be a definite highlight of the weekend; firm festival favourites, the Shiny disco ball hat wearing, ultimate genre hopping, twisted festival, live stage machine that puts the emphasis on music, entertaining & laughter Colonel Mustard & The Dijon Five will also be joining us over the weekend.
‘We are delighted that Groove is returning to the Cairngorms in 2018 and look forward to welcoming everyone both to the mountain during the day and to our incredible apres-ski site at Badaguish in the evening to party right through until the early hours of the morning! It is amazing to be bring a complete unique event to the UK festival calendar with world class acts, a breath-taking location, and a great mix of snowsports and music with something for Final act for the moment are Glasgow funksters, everyone to enjoy ’ Dougie Brown - Groove Shaka Loves You, their unique live show Cairngorm effortlessly fuses elements of funk, soul, disco & Alongside snowsports throughout the day, there hip -hop with turntable trickery & tight will be two stages at The Cairngorm Mountain. A percussion; the next wave of line-up is set to be DJ/Electronic stage at the base station and an announced very soon so watch this space….. acoustic stage in the Ptarmagin Restaurant at the top of the mountain. The evening entertainment then moves to a woodland clearing at The Badaguish Outdoor Centre with free shuttle busses being provided to all ticket holders between Cairngorm Mountain, Aviemore and the Arpres-ski party site at Badaguish. For those not wanting to take part in snowsports there are music only/apresski tickets also available. This year’s festival is supported by EventScotland, part of VisitScotland’s Events Directorate. Stuart Turner, Head of EventScotland, said: “Scotland is the perfect stage for events and we are delighted to be supporting Groove Cairngorm, one of Scotland’s most innovative and exciting festivals. Cairngorm Mountain and Badaguish Outdoor Centre will provide the ideal backdrop for all the music and snowsports action, making for a memorable weekend for spectators.” Tickets for Groove Cairngorm 2018 are available now from the link above Apres-ski only tickets are priced at £40day/£70 weekend, 2 day Snowsports & Apres-ski from £120.50
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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.
Brochure promoting the numerous events organised by local community groups and businesses. The festival starts off with national poet Liz Lochhead and The Hazey Janes in a collaborative concert with new pieces from poet, author and playwright Liz Lochhead combined with indie pop band The Hazey Janes. This is on Friday 3 November at 8pm in Loch Leven Community Campus. Tickets are £10 or £8 for concessions.
Another highlight of the festival is Handel’s famous masterpiece Messiah in a Day, prepared and performed in just one day on Sunday 12 November (2-5pm rehearsal and 7pm concert at To celebrate all the various local events that are Kinross Parish Church). happening KLEO (Kinross-shire Local Events Tickets for all these these events are for sale at Organisation) has produced a Winter Festival Macbeth Currie Estate Agents and Solicitors in
Kinross, Stewart and Smart in Milnathort and on www.kleo.org.uk or through TicketWeb. The hugely successful Festive Street Market is back with live music on 25 November (4pm7pm), giving shoppers the chance to find unusual and unique gifts in time for Christmas. There will be a bustling festive atmosphere with over seventy stalls, hot food and drink, music and street entertainment. The Light Up Kinross event will then take place on the same evening at the conclusion of the Market at 7pm. Visit www.kleo.org.uk for the complete programme and more information about the Festival. Liz Lochhead and The Hazey Janes :: www.facebook.com/thehazeyjanes
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SCOTTISH MUSIC FESTIVALS to be included in our festival listings email details to: musicnewsscotland@gmail.com NOVEMBER Sonica
Glasgow 26 October - 5 November 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 world premieres and 8 Cryptic commissions
Edinburgh's Hogmanay have unveiled the line-up to see in the New Year in front of the spectacular 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
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soundfestival Aberdeen 26 October - 11 November soundfestival is now well underway in Aberdeenshire 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. www.sound-scotland.co.uk
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Big Burns Supper
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Dumfries 18-28 January 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, featuring his world-renowned repertoire.
TradFest Edinburgh Dùn Èideann Edinburgh 26 Apr – 6 May
Experience Scotland Live with a seasonal feast of Dundee living traditions and local cultures. Encounter 15-19 November music, storytelling, dance, craft, song and folk drama at venues – indoor and outdoor – across Dundee will be host to a stellar line-up, featuring Edinburgh and the Lothians. Rooted in the past some of the best musicians from the local and yet resonating in the present, TradFest American jazz and blues scene. With concerts showcases dynamic engagement with Scotland’s presented at the Gardyne Theatre, Dundee Rep, History and Heritage as well as providing a The Reading Rooms, Unicorn – plus, the exciting platform for up and coming talent in the world of Jazz in the Ferry on the Sunday afternoon. The Trad. Look out for the Battle of the Folk Band programme is very varied, spanning from special event as part of the finale performances this concerts marking 100 years of Jazz to year! outstanding shows presenting the freshest music out of New York. www.tracscotland.org/tradfest www.jazzdundee.co.uk
DECEMBER Edinburgh's Hogmanay Edinburgh 31 December
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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.
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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!
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celebration of trad-fusion band Skerryvore that attracted 6,000 people from all over the world to Oban. From this, Oban Live was formed in 2016 with the aim of showcasing the very best Scottish and International artists as part of both the open-air concert and Oban Live Fringe events. Details for early bird Oban Live 2018 tickets will be announced soon on Oban Live’s social media channels.
JUNE 2018 Oban Live Oban 8-9 June Oban Live was created following the open-air concert ‘DECADE’ in 2015 – the 10th anniversary
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 2018 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
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