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DAVE ARCARI (pictured) releases his new single MacPherson's Lament today (25th) in honour of Rabbie Burns and plays a hometown gig near Drymen on 6 February along with MNS founding editor Lee Patterson - see page 15 www.davearcari.com : photo by Eric Varenne
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Glasgow area mid west coast
Trusadh – New Songs – The Calling: 9pm on BBC Alba. What is the future of Gaelic music when little original material is being written? www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Port - Donegal: 9.55pm on BBC ALBA. New series. Musical documentary presented by Julie Fowlis and Muireann NicAmhlaoibh as they explore their musical roots in Donegal. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Burns and the Nashville Lassies: 11pm on BBC ALBA. With CATHY ANN MACPHEE, BETH NIELSON CHAPMAN, SUZY BOGGUSS and LAURA MCGHEE. www.bbcalba.co.uk 26 JANUARY
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Trusadh – New Songs – The Calling: 10pm on BBC Alba. What is the future of Gaelic music when little original material is being written? www.bbcalba.co.uk
Aberdeen + North East
Piping Live Shorts: 11.25pm on BBC ALBA. INVERARY & DISTRICT PIPE BAND performing at the 2011 Piping Live! festival in Glasgow. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Highlands + Islands
Port - Donegal: 10.30pm on BBC ALBA. New series. Musical documentary presented by Julie Fowlis and Muireann NicAmhlaoibh as they explore their musical roots in Donegal. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Torcuil’s Guide To Being A Gael: 11.45pm on BBC ALBA. Torcuil meets a trophy winning Mod singer and asks what makes a great ceilidh. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Ayrshire Dumfriesshire South West
28 JANUARY
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Piping Live Shorts: 11.25pm on BBC ALBA. INVERARY & DISTRICT PIPE BAND performing at the 2011 Piping Live! festival in Glasgow. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Scottish Borders
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Scottish Music Festivals Guide pages 28 - 31
Air an Urlar: 8pm on BBC ALBA. A musical showcase from 2005, The ANNA MASSIE BAND step into the spotlight. www.bbcalba.co.uk Cuirm @ Celtic: 8.55pm on BBC ALBA. A series of music programmes from Celtic Connections 2016, presented by Mary Ann Kennedy. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Belladrum: 11.55am on BBC ALBA. Unseen festival highlights from MARTIN STEPHENSON AND THE DAINTEES. www.bbcalba.co.uk Belladrum: 12.35am on BBC ALBA. Unseen festival highlights from THE STRANGLERS. www.bbcalba.co.uk 1 FEBRUARY Trusadh – The Music House: 9pm on BBC Alba. A group of young musicians gather with some of Scotland’s finest traditional musicians. www.bbcalba.co.uk Port - Connemara: 9.55pm on BBC ALBA. New series. Musical documentary presented by Julie Fowlis and Muireann NicAmhlaoibh as they explore their musical roots in Connemara. www.bbcalba.co.uk -----------------------------------------------------
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EDINBURGH + Mid - East - West Lothian Send us all your gig dates for Edinburgh and Lothians area. Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 25 JANUARY Soundhouse presents ….. NUALA KENNEDY BAND: At The Traverse Bar, Edinburgh, 8pm, £11. World renowned traditional Irish flautist and singer Nuala Kennedy has made Edinburgh her home since 1995. She makes a rare hometown appearance to celebrate the launch of her fourth solo recording Behave the Bravest. Come join the party as the Nuala Kennedy Band celebrate the rich heritage of Irish and Scottish traditional songs, live at the Traverse. Info and Tickets @ www.soundhouse.org.uk 29 JANUARY Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. OPTIMO ESPACIO with guests NEIL LANDSTRUMM and MR TC: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. MELNICKS and RAMONE A MANIA: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com THE SPRINGSTEEN SESSIONS: At Teviot Debating Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ. 7.30pm. The live shows continue to produce ecstatic responses
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opportunity to see the band live in Edinburgh, you can be assured of hearing about the concert 30 JANUARY for a long time afterwards from those who were lucky enough to get tickets in time @ DEAN OWENS as part of Sister Cities: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2463827 Tartan Ties: At The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, www.facebook.com/andaunion 7pm. Dean is also part of the Sister Cities Tartan Ties project which links musicians and artists Noisy Nights: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. Free, from sister cities Dunedin (New Zealand) and 8pm. Noisy Nights are the place to hear Edinburgh, a project, Craig Lithgow (Emelle), emerging new musical ideas and voices: they’re Hailey Beavis and Neu Reekie’s Kevin Williamson a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, 30 JANUARY (from Scotland) and Robert Scott and Jay musicians, composers and artists in an informal CARA: At Queens Hall, Edinburgh. Cara are a Clarkson from New Zealand’s indie music space and hear some of the best examples of German based trad/contemporary folk band capital. Supported by the British Council, Sister brand new music while having a beer. They’re which includes Edinburgh’s Kim Edgar on piano Cities Tartan Ties will open at Celtic Connections fun, free and your chance to listen to, and and lead vocals. on 27 Jan, before embarking on a short tour of compose for, the musicians of Red Note www.kimedgar.com Helensburgh, Paisley and Edinburgh, and aims Ensemble. Red Note Ensemble Performers: Flute www.facebook.com/caramusic to connect with New Zealand expats in Scotland Ruth Morley, Violin Jackie Shave, Trombone and the families of those who emigrated from John Kenny. Tickets @ Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. DE Scotland. www.eventbrite.co.uk ROSA (album launch) with KID www.deanowens.com www.rednoteensemble.com CANAVERAL: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8late. Tickets online. 1 FEBRUARY 3 FEBRUARY www.Summerhall.co.uk Stoneyport Associates presents ….. ANDA GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON UNION: At St Bride's Centre, Edinburgh. The Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. HALDANE: At Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh brilliant 9-piece band Anda Union from Inner RHYTHM MACHINE: At Summerhall, Folk Club. Yukon-based Canadian troubadour Mongolia first toured the UK in 2013 and stole Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. Gordie Tentrees with multi-instrumentalist Jaxon the show everywhere. The band members all www.Summerhall.co.uk Haldane. Deeply personal and moving, melodic grew up in families 'with the music', several of and uplifting and lyrically rich - these are the whom still live in the traditional Mongolian way, songs that will tear your heart out, one note at a Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. TANTRUM and came together at music college in Hohhot, and MANIFOLD: At Dreadnoughtrock, King time. In this case brilliant Canadian singertheir capital city. There they were able to Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – songwriter Gordie Tentrees offers the perfect integrate traditional forms - like the now-famous example with his sixth album, Less is More. only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over throat singing - into creating a sound uniquely Haldane comes into his own, as a solo artist with and mysteriously Mongolian but with a strong Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, the ability to combine the visceral intensity of appeal to a western sensibility. If you miss this with live rock music every weekend. punk rock or Dixieland, with the soul stirring
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support and praise from a plethora of blogs and music pundits, and has also been compared with the iconic style of piano front-man Ben Folds. www.facebook.com/josephinesillarsmusic Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. CARNIVALE, ORKESTRA DEL SOL and THE BADWILLS: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk USED BLUES: At Whistlebinkies, Edinburgh, Free. www.facebook.com/usedbluesglasgow Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. PREACHER: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! £5. Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com
Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. RIFF RAFF REBEL: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over 9 FEBRUARY Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At www.dreadnoughtrock.com Howden Park Centre, Livingston, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera embarks on an 18-date tour of DHM Concerts presents ..... SNOWGOOSE Scotland this February and March. A great and MO KENNEY: At Edinburgh Queen’s Hall. evening for those new to opera, seasoned fans Glasgow based Snowgoose make a welcome and everyone in-between, Opera Highlights return to The Queens Hall and will be flying in features music from some of the world’s most full electric formation, showcasing songs from popular operas, as well as some lesser-known their soon to be released new album, 'The treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be Making of You'. Mo Kenney never had that loaded up with a piano, a handful of props and 4 archetypal I-want-to-be-famous moment. But singers to perform at some of the smaller or somehow she was always going to make more remote venues the length and breadth of albums, play live and get noticed in her native Scotland. The annual tour has been taking to the Canada and way beyond. road since 1994. www.facebook.com/DHM-Concerts-285713951447098 www.scottishopera.org.uk 6 FEBRUARY
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JOSEPHINE SILLARS: At The Skylark in Edinburgh. Josephine has just launched her new single to a sell-out King Tuts audience. ‘Vincent’ was written after Josephine discovered that Vincent Van Gogh ‘used to eat yellow paint to make his insides happy’. An upbeat song about beating hearts, serotonin highs and yellow walls, played on piano, xylophone and drums. The new single follows on from an extremely successful year for the young singer, from Inverness whose debut EP ‘Ripped from the Wire’ was released as recently as March this year, and followed shortly by her first headline tour. With her quirky voice and style, Josephine has been quickly gathering
Fortune Promotions presents ….. BILLY BIBBY (ex Catfish & The Bottlemen), support from UNIVERSAL THEE and AARON WRIGHT: At Sneaky Pete's, 73 Cowgate, Edinburgh. Billy Bibby embarks on his first full band tour since leaving the Catfish & The Bottlemen. Taking on a new direction and testing the new material with an acoustic tour, Billy is taking a new direction as he seeks to forge his way in the industry as a frontman of a project showcasing his own songwriting. www.fortunepromotions.co.uk The Edinburgh Blues Club presents …..
DANNY BRYANT with support from RED BUTLER: At The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AA. Doors open at 7.15pm. From the downhome sound of the Delta to contemporary blues rock riffage, the Edinburgh Blues Club showcases every shade of blues with its eagerly anticipated new programme. The Edinburgh Blues Club is a Social Enterprise established to harness popular support for regular blues events in Edinburgh. http://edinburgh-blues.uk BREABACH: At The Brunton, Musselburgh. Voted ‘Best Live Act 2013’ & ’Best Folk Band 2012‘ at the Scots Trad Music Awards and twice nominated ‘Best Band’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards; Scottish five-piece Breabach deliver a thrilling and unique brand of contemporary folk music that has earned them international recognition on the world and roots music scene as one of the UK’s most dynamic and exciting bands. Breabach are delighted to announce their forthcoming fifth studio album Astar (translating from Scottish Gaelic as distance or journey) and extensive UK Tour. The album will be released on the 4 March. www.facebook.com/Breabach Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. THE KING LOT plus support from MASON HILL and SAINTS OF ARCADIA: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Tickets £5. Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com 13 FEBRUARY Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. Radio Grapevine Roadshow Day: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! From 2pm, tickets £5. Roadshow from 2-11pm Rock Club as normal Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com 19 FEBRUARY Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. RHYTHM MACHINE: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk
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page 7:edinburgh + mid - east - west lothian Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. JOJO COKE: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com 20 FEBRUARY Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. JULIA HOLTER: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk SHUGGIE OTIS: At Liquid Room, Edinburgh. R&B guitar legend Shuggie Otis is preparing a massive comeback that is sure to make the music world sit up and listen. 2016 will see the release of a brand new solo album from this much revered singer-songwriter-guitarist, his first since the 1974 all-time classic Inspiration/ Information. Now, Shuggie is about to embark on the comeback of a lifetime, and his adoring fans stand ready to re-embrace him! www.shuggieotismusic.com Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. GALLUS COOPER (Alice Cooper Tribute): At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Tickets £5. Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com
Travelling a distance to play or watch a gig? Check the winter roads conditions @ http://trafficscotland.org/ https://twitter.com/trafficscotland band's enchanting indie brilliance all in one place. www.facebook.com/ReallyTuffLove EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At The Outhouse, 12A Broughton St Lane, Edinburgh EH1 3LY. 7.30pm, £6 on the door. Eilidh Steel and Mark Neal are a Scottish duo who are in great demand in the UK and abroad. Their performances combine many of their own tunes and songs along with old traditional music on fiddle, guitar and vocals. With many influences from Argyll and the west coast of Scotland. www.fiddleguitar.com 25 FEBRUARY Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. HECTOR BIZERK: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk
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AMY DUNCAN (album launch party): At The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 7.30pm, £6 on door DHM Concerts presents ..... GRETCHEN or see below for album/ticket deal. Amy Duncan PETERS: At Edinburgh Queen’s Hall. will be performing songs from the new album www.facebook.com/DHM-Concerts-285713951447098 with band, including harpist Fiona Rutherford and Lawrie Macmillan on bass, with sound by 22 FEBRUARY Alex Fiennes. Live music will be followed by DJs Woopee playing vinyl; from eclectic into good Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. house music for your dancing pleasure. PreTUFF LOVE and THE PRETTIOTS: At order Undercurrents through Pledge Music to Summerhall, Edinburgh. Tuff Love are Julie gain free access to the party and an instant Eisenstein (guitar, vocals) and Suse Bear (bass, download of 2 songs from the album @ vocals) plus live drummer Iain Stewart (also a www.pledgemusic.com/projects/amy-duncan member of The Phantom Band). They come from http://amyduncan.co.uk/ Glasgow and they write dazzling, sun-streaked guitar pop songs with mesmerising lyrics, heart- 26 FEBRUARY wrenching vocals and dreamy melodies like the sound of pure summer. They make all their Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. music in Suse’s flat, self-engineering and selfMICHAEL MCGOLDRICK, JOHN MCCUSKER producing everything. Tuff Love are steadily and JOHN DOYLE: At Edinburgh, Summerhall. making a name for themselves and 'Resort' Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John gives those who haven't yet caught onto the Doyle are three members of the BBC acclaimed buzz the perfect opportunity to experience the Transatlantic Sessions playing as part of a
unique European tour. With both Mike McGoldrick and John McCusker also having toured for the past year with Mark Knopfler, this is a rare chance to see three of the world’s finest musicians share a stage together. SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA presents ….. MIKE STERN: At Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall. One of the great guitar players of all time, Mike Stern is a multifaceted electric guitarist who moves comfortably between jazzinformed rock, fiery fusion and rocked-out jazz. His career began with the mighty Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1976, and later he worked with jazz legends Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Billy Cobham and The Brecker Brothers. Among Downbeat magazine’s ‘Top 75 Guitarists of All Time’ and a six-time GRAMMY nominee, Mike Stern will join the SNJO in an all-out celebration of incredible music, as his astonishing guitar creativity meets the combustible mix of fabulous orchestral jazz-head-on. For tickets call 0131 668 2019 or go to http://snjo.co.uk/concerts/ Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. COHOLIC / SPECACTUALR PRIMATE DISASTER / EMPIRE DECLINED: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com 27 FEBRUARY Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. GIRL BAND and JETSETTER: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. STEELER: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train
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Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. ADAM STAFFORD (album launch) with ROBBIE LESIUK & special guests: At The Dissection Room, Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8Brookfield Knights presents ….. WOODY late. Tickets online. Stafford is known for his PINES: At Traverse, Edinburgh. If you’re intense and energetic live performances which wondering where the music of Nashville troubadour Woody Pines comes from, look to the incorporate soul-pop, post-punk and a capela experimentalism to dizzying effect. LP `Taser streets. Ragtime, Boogie, Viper Jazz, Lighting Revelations’ released on white Vinyl, CD and Speed Folk. Full of stomp and swing, and jump and jive. It's old-time feel-good music done by a Download on Song, by Toad Records on 21 young master who clearly understands that this March. http://adam-stafford.tumblr.com/ kind of music was always about having a great www.Summerhall.co.uk time. www.facebook.com/woodypines MIKE VASS and MAIRI CAMPBELL 'Dead www.brookfield-knights.com Stations' tour also featuring YOANN MYLONAKIS: At Edinburgh @ Queens Hall. The 8 MARCH Dead Stations combines live music, recorded HEBRIDES ENSEMBLE - Impressions of the audio drama and animation to tell the thrilling Sea: At Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, EH1 2QQ. tale of what happens after a passenger alights at 6.30pm. Tickets: £14.00 (£10.00 conc. £5.00 a deserted train station in a forest. Awardstudents). Sally Beamish’s audacious reworking winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Vass of Debussy’s La Mer is the centrepiece of these has composed the music for the project, concerts. It’s an astounding piece of Campbell, who has just won Instrumentalist of transcription that brings all the colours and the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards, gives textures of a full symphony orchestra to the voice to Vass’s epic songs. The Dead Stations is intimacy of a piano trio. Live Streaming - why written and directed by Charlotte Hathaway not join us online, we will be live streaming our www.charlottehathaway.com piano trio programme from Perth Concert Hall on 7 March at 7.30pm, and we are inviting you to Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. COLOUR join us through #HebridesatHome. Invite your TRAP & GORDONS ALIVE: At friends round and enjoy hearing Hebrides from Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West 7 MARCH
Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. CLASH LIVI ROCKERS / E-X: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com The Queen’s Hall Presents ….. TORD GUSTAVSEN with SIMIN TANDER and JARLE VESPESTAD: At The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. 8pm, £18.50. Tord Gustavsen’s new trio project builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle Vespestad, introduces the entrancing GermanAfghan vocalist Simin Tander, and, alongside new compositions and improvisations, explores the tradition of Norwegian church music in an untraditional manner. www.thequeenshall.net 5 MARCH Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. ERIC BELL BAND (Founding member and guitarist of Thin Lizzy): At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Tickets £10 adv
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25 JANUARY SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA presents ….. ALBA: Songs of Scotland featuring EDDI READER: At Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Join the internationally acclaimed Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, director TOMMY SMITH, and special guest, the inimitable Eddi Reader, as together, they richly re-imagine Scotland through uplifting music, beautiful new arrangements, and a truly unmistakable Scottish voice. Eddi Reader has the ability to embed emotion deep within her songs while the SNJO are renowned for their quality of sound: together they are perfect partners to perform Alba: Songs of Scotland. Taking evocative melodies from across Scotland, they weave words, music and colourful arrangements together in a rich musical tapestry to produce a concert to remember. From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi Reader brings joyous life to all forms of song. Her taste in co-writers, writers, songs and players is impeccable and anything with her name on it is guaranteed musical treasure. Whilst the perfection of her technique is widely acknowledged, what sets Eddi Reader apart is the depth and quality of the emotional performance; her ability not only to move the listener but to connect her experience to that of her audience. Her passion and instinct move people in a way reminiscent of those who have influenced her work. Her rare blend of meltingly true vocals and towering romanticism combine with an astute and pragmatic nature to make her a unique and powerful figure in contemporary British music. She has effortlessly developed into one of popular music’s most thrilling and affecting performers. For tickets call 0141 353 8000 or go to http://snjo.co.uk/concerts/ 27 JANUARY DEAN OWENS as part of Sister Cities: Tartan Ties: At Celtic Connections,The National Piping Centre, Glasgow, 7.30pm. Dean is also part of the Sister Cities Tartan Ties project which links musicians and artists from sister cities Dunedin (New Zealand) and Edinburgh, a project which also includes indie folk balladeer Dan Wilson (Withered Hand), Craig Lithgow (Emelle), Hailey Beavis and Neu Reekie’s Kevin Williamson (from Scotland) and Robert Scott and Jay Clarkson from New Zealand’s indie music capital. Supported by the British Council,
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CARA: At Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Celtic Connections. Cara are a German based trad/contemporary folk band which includes Edinburgh’s Kim Edgar on piano and lead vocals. www.kimedgar.com www.facebook.com/caramusic
BOREAS with special guests ELLEN BREKKEN (double bass) and RUTH BARRIE (video projections): At St Andrews in the Square, Glasgow for Celtic Connections. 7.30pm (doors 7pm), £14. Ahoy Hoy, is the eagerly awaited debut album from Boreas, shaped by spanning the expanses of the North Sea. In this recording the band have created something both warm and sparse, shadowy and glistening, simple and intricate, it is indeed a glorious debut. www.facebook.com/boreasband www.celticconnections.com
28 JANUARY NUALA KENNEDY BAND with HIMMERLAND: At Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for Celtic Connections. 8pm. Info and Tickets www.celticconnections.com
ADMIRAL FALLOW with support from HANNAH LOU CLARK: At The Old 29 JANUARY Fruitmarket, Glasgow as part of Celtic Connections. £16, +14s. Having established Transatlantic Sessions: At Celtic themselves among Glasgow's finest indie acts Connections in Glasgow. Folk musicians come with their first two albums, Admiral Fallow together in what have been called 'the bravely opted for the opposite of resting on greatest backporch shows ever' their laurels when it came to recording their www.celticconnections.com third, 2015's Tiny Rewards. A newly www.facebook.com/Transatlantic-Sessions-125763630806900 collaborative songwriting method, together with artfully reconfigured instrumentation, ANDA UNION: At The Mackintosh Church, created a fresh array of sonically audacious Glasgow as part of Celtic Connections, textures and sophisticated song structures, 7.30pm. The brilliant 9-piece band Anda albeit retaining the band's gorgeous melodic Union from Inner Mongolia first toured the allure and powerful emotional impact, on UK in 2013 and stole the show everywhere. their most complete, assured document to The band members all grew up in families date (Clash Music). Highlighting the breadth 'with the music', several of whom still live in of their appeal, last summer saw them the traditional Mongolian way, and came playing everywhere from T in the Park to together at music college in Hohhot, their Iona's Village Hall Festival, and tonight's capital city. There they were able to integrate show promises an unforgettable traditional forms - like the now-famous homecoming. Following the demise of her throat singing - into creating a sound former band, Hampshire art-rockers Foe, uniquely and mysteriously Mongolian but Hannah Lou Clark has won such influential with a strong appeal to a western sensibility. industry supporters as Guy Garvey and Steve If you miss this opportunity to see the band Lamacq. Her 2014 debut EP, Silent Type, live in Edinburgh, you can be assured of splices digital and analogue technology with hearing about the concert for a long time edgy, unsettling lyrics. afterwards from those who were lucky Haunted, atmospheric pop for the disaffected enough to get tickets in time! (Crack Magazine). www.facebook.com/andaunion www.admiralfallow.com DEAN OWENS as part of Sister Cities: Tartan Ties: At The Tower, Helensburgh, 7.30pm. Dean is also part of the Sister Cities Tartan Ties project which links musicians and artists from sister cities Dunedin (New Zealand) and Edinburgh, a project which also includes Craig Lithgow (Emelle), Hailey Beavis and Neu Reekie’s Kevin Williamson (from Scotland) and Robert Scott and Jay Clarkson from New Zealand’s indie music capital. Supported by the British Council, Sister Cities Tartan Ties will open at Celtic Connections on 27 Jan, before embarking on a short tour of Helensburgh, Paisley and Edinburgh, and aims to connect with New Zealand expats in Scotland and the families of those who emigrated from Scotland. www.deanowens.com
THE ALT (Nuala Kennedy, John Doyle, Eamon O' Leary) with BOREAS: At St. Andrews in the Square for Celtic Connections. 7.30pm. Info and Tickets www.celticconnections.com 31 JANUARY Transatlantic Sessions: At Celtic Connections in Glasgow. Folk musicians come together in what have been called 'the greatest backporch shows ever' www.celticconnections.com www.facebook.com/Transatlantic-Sessions-125763630806900
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: At Celtic Connections Festival (2 shows). US cult heroes They Might Be Giants coming to the UK for their first full band tour here in 3 30 JANUARY years. The ‘Birdhouse In Your Soul’ singing twice grammy winners have had a massive DEAN OWENS as part of Sister Cities: resurgence recently with two critically Tartan Ties: At Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley, acclaimed albums last year off the back of 7.30pm. Dean is also part of the Sister Cities their weekly ‘dial-a-song’ project (www. Tartan Ties project which links musicians and dialasong.com) including a new kids album artists from sister cities Dunedin (New ‘Why?’ (one of their shows at the festival will Zealand) and Edinburgh, a project which also be for children). includes Craig Lithgow (Emelle), Hailey www.facebook.com/theymightbegiants Beavis and Neu Reekie’s Kevin Williamson (from Scotland) and Robert Scott and Jay GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON Clarkson from New Zealand’s indie music HALDANE: At The Glasgow Art Club for capital. Supported by the British Council, Celtic Connections. Yukon-based Canadian
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 15: glasgow + surrounding area troubadour Gordie Tentrees with multiinstrumentalist Jaxon Haldane. Deeply personal and moving, melodic and uplifting and lyrically rich - these are the songs that will tear your heart out, one note at a time. In this case brilliant Canadian singer-songwriter Gordie Tentrees offers the perfect example with his sixth album, Less is More. Haldane comes into his own, as a solo artist with the ability to combine the visceral intensity of punk rock or Dixieland, with the soul stirring emotion of vintage country and blues emboldened in his songwriting www.tentrees.ca 5 FEBRUARY USED BLUES: At Crossroads Roadhouse, Smiths Hotel, Kirkintilloch, 9:30 pm, Free. www.facebook.com/usedbluesglasgow TUFF LOVE: Stereo, Glasgow. Tuff Love are Julie Eisenstein (guitar, vocals) and Suse Bear (bass, vocals) plus live drummer Iain Stewart (also a member of The Phantom Band). They come from Glasgow and they write dazzling, sun-streaked guitar pop songs with mesmerising lyrics, heart-wrenching vocals and dreamy melodies like the sound of pure summer. They make all their music in Suse’s flat, selfengineering and self-producing everything. Tuff Love are steadily making a name for themselves and 'Resort' gives those who haven't yet caught onto the buzz the perfect opportunity to experience the band's enchanting indie brilliance all in one place. www.facebook.com/ReallyTuffLove
BASEMENT with TIGERS JAW and ALEX G: At King Tuts Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow. Following their recent dates supporting Brand New across Europe, this is their first headline tour since late 2014. New album promise everything, out 29th January via Run For Cover Records. Promise Everything is the band’s return to full-length writing and recording since they took a break. Sonically, the record breaks progressive new ground for Basement despite the creative process sharing much in common with previous endeavors. Challenged by the spacing out of members not only across the country, but across the globe, Promise Everything was written by piecing together songs from different members, sent back and forth over a short period of time. Without the luxury of a shared space or even a convenient time zone, the songs were only ever played by the full band while in the studio. Perhaps this is why on listening, Promise Everything feels like a conversation between different people, revealing different moods and feelings throughout. www.facebook.com/basementuk 13 FEBRUARY USED BLUES: At College Bar, High St, Paisley, 9pm. Free. www.facebook.com/usedbluesglasgow
Centre, 12 Maxwell Drive, East Mains, East Kilbride G74 4HG. 8pm, £6 on the door. Eilidh Steel and Mark Neal are a Scottish duo who are in great demand in the UK and abroad. Their performances combine many of their own tunes and songs along with old traditional music on fiddle, guitar and vocals. With many influences from Argyll and the west coast of Scotland. www.fiddleguitar.com 28 FEBUARY SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA presents ….. MIKE STERN: At Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow. One of the great guitar players of all time, Mike Stern is a multifaceted electric guitarist who moves comfortably between jazz-informed rock, fiery fusion and rocked-out jazz. His career began with the mighty Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1976, and later he worked with jazz legends Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Billy Cobham and The Brecker Brothers. Among Downbeat magazine’s ‘Top 75 Guitarists of All Time’ and a six-time GRAMMY nominee, Mike Stern will join the SNJO in an all-out celebration of incredible music, as his astonishing guitar creativity meets the combustible mix of fabulous orchestral jazzhead-on. For tickets call 0141 332 5057 or go to http://snjo.co.uk/concerts/
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FINN ANDERSON and CAT LOUD: At The Project Cafe, Glasgow. Finn spent his early teens SINGLE BY SUNDAY: At The Bungalow, directing self-penned theatre productions in local Paisley. Debut EP ‘Get Up Get Out’ is now venue, The Byre Theatre, using the profits to available on all download platforms. Capital FM’s build his first home recording studio where he ‘One To Watch’ winner at SSE Scottish Music began writing and producing solo material age Awards. 14. He had released two EPs and started his first www.facebook.com/singlebysunday theatre company before leaving school age 16 to 6 FEBRUARY study Music at the University of Highlands and DAVE ARCARI + LEE PATTERSON: At 25 FEBRUARY Islands. Finn is spending the winter touring Buchanan Memorial Hall, Milton of Buchanan, by living rooms across the UK before releasing his Drymen. alt.blues troubadour Dave Arcari after The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. DAN new solo EP Uncharted Lands on 12th February STUART (Green On Red) plus FERNANDO: At a busy year including an American tour returns 2016. to his home on the banks of Loch Lomond for a Stereo, Glasgow, 7.30pm, £13.00. Our first www.finnanderson.co.uk promotion of 2016 will be a special one, the local gig. Dave said: “there’s a bunch of new songs that I’m keen to play for all our local pals gloriously inimitable Dan Stuart is returning to 3 MARCH Glasgow, scene of two memorable gigs by the and the old-school village hall at Milton of Buchanan is one of my favourite places to play.” Mexico-based, Green On Red frontman in recent Vive Le Différence: At Royal Conservatoire of years. With new album, Marlowe’s Revenge out Scotland, Glasgow. 7.30pm, Tickets: £10, Edinburgh singer/songwriter and pal Lee Patterson will open the show. In between tours now, Dan’s gig at Stereo will offer a close up of £7.50. Another exciting side-by-side project with his latest material, buoyed by a superb back new music ensemble MusicLab under the and festival appearances Arcari has been busy direction of the talented Leverhulme Conducting at Chem19 studios with engineer/produced Paul catalogue delivered with fervour and Fellows. The concert will explore great works Savage (Delgados) recording tracks for a series commitment. His forays into the musical spotlight always make an impact with his edgy from the last 50 years, alongside a new student of new releases scheduled for early 2016. mix of humour and passion and intensely great commission. Conducting Fellows Andrey Rubtsov Advance tickets £8 + b/f, entry on door £10 if songs. Tickets @ and Jiří Rožeň. RCS MusicLab, Andrey Rubtsov / available. Doors: 8pm, showtime: 8.30pm. No Jiří Rožeň Leverhulme Conducting Fellows. Taner bar – Bring Your Own Bottle! The Oak Tree Inn, http://tickets-scotland.com/ www.fallenangelsclub.com Kemirtlek New Work, Sawer Cat’s Eye, Berio Balmaha (1mile + shuttle bus service after Différences Box Office 0141 332 5057 or show!) ½ price offer, call 01360 870 357. Gig 26 FEBRUARY www.rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice tickets @ www.rcs.ac.uk www.wegottickets.com/event/343224 DEADLY INSCRIPTION (EP launch): At King Tuts, Glasgow. The Paisley based 5-piece Metal- 4 MARCH 7 FEBRUARY core..ish outfit release "A Testament To Sin", the E.P was recorded with Ajeet Gill at Hellfire The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. THE GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON HALDANE: At The Wee Gig @ Abington Village Studios, Birmingham. In 2015 the band hit new DREAMING SPIRES + support: At Hug & Pint, milestones by completing their first full Scottish Glasgow, 7.30pm, £12.00. The Dreaming Spires Hall, S. Lanarkshire. Yukon-based Canadian headline tour and released their first full length will bring their cosmic mix of slow country troubadour Gordie Tentrees with multiburners and intriguing jangling guitars to instrumentalist Jaxon Haldane. Deeply personal documentary film (Exordium, 2015) then with no hesitation head back to the studio. The bands Glasgow. Rated by BBC Radio Ulster’s, Ralph and moving, melodic and uplifting and lyrically EP sets a decade of work and the pace for what McLean as “one of the finest bands in Britain rich - these are the songs that will tear your looks to be their busiest year yet. today,” singing brothers, Robin and Joe Bennett heart out, one note at a time. In this case www.deadlyinscription.com have built quite a reputation and following in brilliant Canadian singer-songwriter Gordie recent times. Current release Searching for the Tentrees offers the perfect example with his 27 FEBRUARY Supertruth emphasises how the duo effortlessly sixth album, Less is More. Haldane comes into straddle a line between the influence of roots his own, as a solo artist with the ability to Indievous Presents ….. DUKES AND POETS music, classic 60s pop and their youthful love of combine the visceral intensity of punk rock or + RIVERS RUN RED + SONS OF PEACHES + indie rock from both sides of the Atlantic. Their Dixieland, with the soul stirring emotion of HOLLOW ROOM + HORIZONS: At The Record fondness for the distinctive harmonies in the vintage country and blues emboldened in his Factory, 17 Byers Road, Glasgow, 7.30pm, £5/ tradition of The Everly Brothers and The Byrds is songwriting £4 (students) on door. never far from the surface, either. Tickets @ www.tentrees.ca www.facebook.com/indievous http://tickets-scotland.com/ www.fallenangelsclub.com 8 FEBRUARY EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At The Village
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 16: glasgow + area : fife + central + perth + tayside EXCHANGE: At Platform, Glasgow. EXCHANGE: the not-to-be-missed event for young Scottish musicians. Aspiring young Scotland based musicians are being urged to sign up for Exchange 2016 which returns to Platform, Glasgow in March - giving young people the opportunity to perform and gain a unique insight into how to get ahead in the music industry. Enthusiastic musicians aged 21 and under will have the chance to perform their chosen genre of music on a live stage and receive feedback from industry professionals. Individuals and groups wishing to perform or attend Exchange should register their interest now at www.mfy.org.uk/exchange.
those new to opera, seasoned fans and everyone in-between, Opera Highlights features music from some of the world’s most popular operas, as well as some lesser-known treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up with a piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to perform at some of the smaller or more remote venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The annual tour has been taking to the road since 1994. www.scottishopera.org.uk 20 MARCH
ADAM STAFFORD with ROBBIE LESIUK & special guests: At The Hug & Pint, Glasgow. Stafford is known for his intense and energetic 5 MARCH live performances which incorporate soul-pop, post-punk and a capela experimentalism to SINGLE BY SUNDAY: At The Classic Grand, dizzying effect. LP `Taser Revelations’ released Glasgow. Debut EP ‘Get Up Get Out’ is now available on all download platforms. Capital FM’s on white Vinyl, CD and Download on Song, by Toad Records on 21 March. ‘One To Watch’ winner at SSE Scottish Music http://adam-stafford.tumblr.com/ Awards. www.facebook.com/singlebysunday 22 MARCH EXCHANGE: At Platform, Glasgow. EXCHANGE: The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. the not-to-be-missed event for young Scottish ANTHONY TONER+ support: At Admiral Bar, musicians. Aspiring young Scotland based Glasgow, 7.30pm, £9.00. Tickets @ musicians are being urged to sign up for http://tickets-scotland.com/ Exchange 2016 which returns to Platform, www.fallenangelsclub.com Glasgow in March - giving young people the opportunity to perform and gain a unique insight into how to get ahead in the music industry. REFUSED: At Glasgow’s Garage. Refused are an Enthusiastic musicians aged 21 and under will iconic Swedish avant-punk rock band. Expect have the chance to perform their chosen genre throat-shredding tracks from the criticallyof music on a live stage and receive feedback acclaimed album Freedom, the band’s first from industry professionals. Individuals and release in seventeen years following on from groups wishing to perform or attend Exchange iconic The Shape of Punk to Come. should register their interest now at www.facebook.com/refusedband www.mfy.org.uk/exchange. 6 MARCH
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MICHAEL GRUBBS aka WAKEY WAKEY: At Stereo, Glasgow. The first night of only 4 UK shows, Michael returns with a sublime new album titled Overreactivist. “Grubbs combines some beautifully played piano with a voice so striking it resonates around the room, galvanizing everybody within earshot” (NME) www.facebook.com/wakeywakeyband
BREABACH: At Bishopton Folk Night, Renfrewshire. Voted ‘Best Live Act 2013’ & ’Best Folk Band 2012‘ at the Scots Trad Music Awards and twice nominated ‘Best Band’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards; Scottish five-piece Breabach deliver a thrilling and unique brand of contemporary folk music that has earned them international recognition on the world and roots music scene as one of the UK’s most dynamic and exciting bands. Breabach are delighted to announce their forthcoming fifth studio album Astar (translating from Scottish Gaelic as distance or journey) and extensive UK Tour. The album will be released on the 4 March. www.facebook.com/Breabach
19 MARCH The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. FRED EAGLESMITH + support: At Admiral Bar, Glasgow, 7.30pm, £13.00 from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151. Rootsy rocker Fred Eaglesmith is heading to Glasgow early in 2016 for his first show in the city for three years. The Canadian singer/songwriter, who clocks up around 180 gigs a year on the road, will play The Admiral Bar on March 19. He delivers his dazzling lyrics in a distinctive gravel voice, often wearing outlandish headgear: but he never fails to thrill his fans, known everywhere as “Fredheads”. Bigger name stars such as Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, Dar Williams and The Cowboy Junkies are among those who have recorded covers of his meaningful and well-crafted songs over the years. “There is never a dull moment at a Fred Eaglesmith show, Fred is one of Mary Gauthier's favourite song writers, so that says it all really,” said Kevin Morris, Fallen Angels Club director. Tickets @ http://tickets-scotland.com/ www.fallenangelsclub.com USED BLUES: At The DogHouse Bar, Balloch, 9:30pm, Free. www.facebook.com/usedbluesglasgow Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Village Theatre, East Kilbride, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland this February and March. A great evening for
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FIFE / CENTRAL / PERTHSHIRE / TAYSIDE Send us all your gig dates for Tayside, Perthshire, Fife and Central areas . Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 28 JANUARY BREABACH and ANDA UNION: At Perth Concert Hall, Perth, 7.30pm. Breabach - voted ‘Best Live Act 2013’ & ’Best Folk Band 2012‘ at the Scots Trad Music Awards and twice nominated ‘Best Band’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards; Scottish five-piece Breabach deliver a thrilling and unique brand of contemporary folk music that has earned them international recognition on the world and roots music scene as one of the UK’s most dynamic and exciting bands. Breabach are delighted to announce their forthcoming fifth studio album Astar (translating from Scottish Gaelic as distance or journey) and extensive UK Tour. The album will be released on the 4 March. Anda Union - the brilliant 9piece band Anda Union from Inner Mongolia first toured the UK in 2013 and stole the show everywhere. The band members all grew up in families 'with the music', several of whom still live in the traditional Mongolian way, and came together at music college in Hohhot, their capital city. There they were able to integrate traditional forms - like the now-famous throat singing - into creating a sound uniquely and mysteriously Mongolian but with a strong appeal to a western sensibility. If you miss this opportunity to see the band live in Edinburgh, you can be assured of hearing about the concert for a long time afterwards from those who were lucky enough to get tickets in time! www.facebook.com/andaunion www.facebook.com/Breabach Crail Folk Club: Burns Night in Golf Hotel, £4 inc. Haggis, Neeps & Tatties. Crail Folk Club offers a wide range of musical styles to suit all tastes, they welcome seasoned musicians, beginners and those that just want to come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. During Singers' nights they feature local singers and musicians. All are welcome. If you don’t want to make music then just come along and tap your feet. For all gigs tickets are sold at the door. www.facebook.com/crailfolkclub
USED BLUES: At Falkirk Blues Club, Baristas SINGLE BY SUNDAY: At The Record Factory, Coffeehouse, Falkirk, 8pm, £5 Glasgow. Debut EP ‘Get Up Get Out’ is now www.facebook.com/usedbluesglasgow available on all download platforms. Capital FM’s ‘One To Watch’ winner at SSE Scottish Music 29 JANUARY Awards. www.facebook.com/singlebysunday Knock Castle Jazz Nights with IAN MILLER AND DOMINIC SPENCER: At Knock Castle 28 MARCH Hotel, Drummond Terrace, Crieff, PH7 4AN. 8pm, £10 on 01764 650088. Knock Castle Hotel BIG UPS: At Broadcast, Glasgow. Almost two in Crieff is launching a new musical night that years since Big Ups graced UK shores, the New starts this month. Saxophone and piano jazz York band are back on British soil. With high duo, Ian Miller and Dominic Spencer will perform praises from the likes of The Guardian and a BBC an evening of live melodic jazz in the hotel’s Maida Vale session under their belt, this relaxing atmosphere. The monthly concerts will Brooklyn four-piece are returning to bigger consist of a new repertoire of jazz standards audiences as well as bigger expectations with from The Great American Songbook as well as the announcement of brand new album Before a original compositions Million Universes to be released 4 March. The www.knockcastle.com album draws its title from a Walt Whitman quote (""let your soul stand cool and composed before 31 JANUARY a million universes") and serves as a fist in the face of complacency, which is, equally, an apt Mundell Music presents ..... MICK RALPHS summary of the band's fiery live show BLUES BAND: At Backstage at the Green Hotel, returning to European shores in spring 2016. Kinross. Mick Ralphs is one of Britain's finest and probably most understated blues/rock
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FINN ANDERSON and CAT LOUD: At The Byre Theatre, St. Andrews. Finn spent his early teens directing self-penned theatre productions in local venue, The Byre Theatre, using the profits to build his first home recording studio where he began writing and producing solo material age 14. He had released two EPs and started his first 4 FEBRUARY theatre company before leaving school age 16 to study Music at the University of Highlands and GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON Islands. Finn is spending the winter touring living HALDANE: At Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club, rooms across the UK before releasing his new Polish Ex-servicemen's Club. Yukon-based solo EP Uncharted Lands on 12th February 2016. Canadian troubadour Gordie Tentrees with multi- www.finnanderson.co.uk instrumentalist Jaxon Haldane. Deeply personal and moving, melodic and uplifting and lyrically 17 FEBRUARY rich - these are the songs that will tear your heart out, one note at a time. In this case EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At Dunfermline brilliant Canadian singer-songwriter Gordie Folk Club 8pm, The Thistle Tavern, Tentrees offers the perfect example with his Baldridgeburn, Dunfermline. Eilidh Steel and sixth album, Less is More. Haldane comes into Mark Neal are a Scottish duo who are in great his own, as a solo artist with the ability to demand in the UK and abroad. Their combine the visceral intensity of punk rock or performances combine many of their own tunes Dixieland, with the soul stirring emotion of and songs along with old traditional music on vintage country and blues emboldened in his fiddle, guitar and vocals. With many influences songwriting from Argyll and the west coast of Scotland. www.tentrees.ca www.fiddleguitar.com
27 FEBUARY SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA presents ….. MIKE STERN: At Gardyne Theatre, Dundee. One of the great guitar players of all time, Mike Stern is a multifaceted electric guitarist who moves comfortably between jazzinformed rock, fiery fusion and rocked-out jazz. His career began with the mighty Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1976, and later he worked with jazz legends Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Billy Cobham and The Brecker Brothers. Among Downbeat magazine’s ‘Top 75 Guitarists of All Time’ and a six-time GRAMMY nominee, Mike Stern will join the SNJO in an all-out celebration of incredible music, as his astonishing guitar creativity meets the combustible mix of fabulous orchestral jazz-head-on. For tickets call 01382 434940 or go to http://snjo.co.uk/concerts/ 1 MARCH
Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Birnam Arts Centre, Dunkeld, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland this February and March. A great evening for those new to opera, seasoned fans and everyone 6 FEBRUARY 23 FEBRUARY in-between, Opera Highlights features music ‘Think Thoughts’ presents ….. JR GREEN MICHAEL MCGOLDRICK, JOHN MCCUSKER from some of the world’s most popular operas, with support ALAN CARBERRY + RICHARD and JOHN DOYLE: At Perth, Concert Hall. as well as some lesser-known treats. The SHARMAN: At Tolbooth, Stirling. Doors Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up 7.30pm / Tickets £5 advance, £7 on the door / Doyle are three members of the BBC acclaimed with a piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to Ages 14+. from Box Office 01786 274 000 or via Transatlantic Sessions playing as part of a perform at some of the smaller or more remote the Tolbooth website. ‘Think Thoughts’ is a unique European tour. With both Mike venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The monthly live music night geared up to feed and McGoldrick and John McCusker also having annual tour has been taking to the road since develop Stirling’s burgeoning singer-songwriter toured for the past year with Mark Knopfler, this 1994. community. First up are fresh-faced Scottish is a rare chance to see three of the world’s finest www.scottishopera.org.uk folk/indie duo JR Green. Brothers Jacob and Rory musicians share a stage together. Green merge traditional and contemporary www.johnmccusker.co.uk 2 FEBRUARY flavours into personal anecdotes peppered with GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON angst and social commentary. 25 FEBRUARY HALDANE: At Birnam Arts Centre. Yukon-based www.tollbooth.stirling.gov.uk Crail Folk Club presents ..... Singers Night: Canadian troubadour Gordie Tentrees with multiAt Town Hall in Crail, Fife. £1. Crail Folk Club instrumentalist Jaxon Haldane. Deeply personal 11 FEBRUARY offers a wide range of musical styles to suit all and moving, melodic and uplifting and lyrically Crail Folk Club presents ..... CLAIRE tastes, they welcome seasoned musicians, rich - these are the songs that will tear your HASTINGS & ROBYN STAPLETON: At Town beginners and those that just want to come heart out, one note at a time. In this case Hall in Crail, Fife. £7. After her hugely successful along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. During brilliant Canadian singer-songwriter Gordie show, with her trio, at the Crail Festival Robyn Singers' nights they feature local singers and Tentrees offers the perfect example with his Stapleton returns to the Far East, as Flossie calls musicians. All are welcome. If you don’t want to sixth album, Less is More. Haldane comes into us, with Claire Hastings. As consecutive winners make music then just come along and tap your his own, as a solo artist with the ability to of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional feet. For all gigs tickets are sold at the door. combine the visceral intensity of punk rock or Musician of the Year Award the duo make a www.facebook.com/crailfolkclub Dixieland, with the soul stirring emotion of formidable start to our guest programme. Crail vintage country and blues emboldened in his Folk Club offers a wide range of musical styles to 26 FEBRUARY songwriting suit all tastes, they welcome seasoned www.tentrees.ca musicians, beginners and those that just want to Noisy Nights: At Byre Bar, St Andrews. Free, come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. 10.30pm. Noisy Nights are the place to hear 3 MARCH During Singers' nights they feature local singers emerging new musical ideas and voices: they’re a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, and musicians. All are welcome. If you don’t Brookfield Knights presents ….. WOODY musicians, composers and artists in an informal PINES: At Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy. If want to make music then just come along and tap your feet. For all gigs tickets are sold at the space and hear some of the best examples of you’re wondering where the music of Nashville brand new music while having a beer. 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Crail Folk Club presents ..... JENNY BIDDLE: At Town Hall in Crail, Fife. £7. With five albums 5 MARCH under her belt, Australian songsmith and "Melbourne's Best Busker 2010-2012" Jenny Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Biddle will capture your heart with her intuitive Markinch Town Hall, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera lyrics, dirty blues harmonica, impressive guitar embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland this licks coupled with weird facial expressions, February and March. A great evening for those endearing stage banter, and a voice to melt your new to opera, seasoned fans and everyone incore. Over 20 years guitar experience, guitar between, Opera Highlights features music from players will delight in her explorations of some of the world’s most popular operas, as well alternate tunings. Crail Folk Club offers a wide as some lesser-known treats. The Scottish range of musical styles to suit all tastes, they Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up with a welcome seasoned musicians, beginners and piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to those that just want to come along and listen in perform at some of the smaller or more remote a friendly atmosphere. During Singers' nights venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The they feature local singers and musicians. All are annual tour has been taking to the road since welcome. If you don’t want to make music then 1994. just come along and tap your feet. For all gigs www.scottishopera.org.uk tickets are sold at the door. www.jennybiddle.com 7 MARCH www.facebook.com/crailfolkclub HEBRIDES ENSEMBLE - Impressions of the Sea: At Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, PH1 5HZ. 1.00pm & 7.30pm. Tickets: £7.00 (£6.00 conc.). Sally Beamish’s audacious reworking of Debussy’s La Mer is the centrepiece of these concerts. It’s an astounding piece of transcription that brings all the colours and textures of a full symphony orchestra to the intimacy of a piano trio. Live Streaming - why not join us online, we will be live streaming our piano trio programme from Perth Concert Hall on 7 March at 7.30pm, and we are inviting you to join us through #HebridesatHome. Invite your friends round and enjoy hearing Hebrides from the comfort of your own sofa. www.hebridesensemble.com
17 MARCH Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Victoria Hall, Dunblane, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland this February and March. A great evening for those new to opera, seasoned fans and everyone inbetween, Opera Highlights features music from some of the world’s most popular operas, as well as some lesser-known treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up with a piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to perform at some of the smaller or more remote venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The annual tour has been taking to the road since 1994. www.scottishopera.org.uk
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 22: aberdeen + north east The Lemon Tree Lounge (seated), West North Street, Aberdeen, doors at 7.30pm. As part of Aberdeen Performing Arts’ Freshly Squeezed series, one of Canada’s freshest and most inventive talents Mo Kenny, plus support from the 101. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 3 FEBRUARY GAVIN JAMES: At The Lemon Tree Lounge (seated), West North Street, Aberdeen, doors at 7pm. With his first piece of recorded material reaching No1 in Ireland and going top 10 on iTunes in the US, Canada and Holland, singersongwriter Gavin James looks poised to become the next great voice to shine a light back on Dublin. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com BOZZINI QUARTET: At Music Hall, Aberdeen, at 1pm. As part of Aberdeen Performing Arts’ Culture Café series, in association with sound, a lunchtime performance by the Bozzini Quartet, with a programme which includes works by Linda Catlin Smith, JS Bach and Robert Schuman. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 5 FEBRUARY Almost Blue Promotions presents ….. GORDIE TENTREES: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen. 8pm. Deeply personal and moving, melodic and uplifting and lyrically rich – these are the songs that will tear your heart out, one note at a time, master storyteller and multiinstrumental performer Gordie Tentrees has arrived. Yukon based, Ontario raised, farm boy, golden glove boxer, school teacher, youth counsellor turned folk artist Tentrees has released 6 records touring North America, UK, Australia and Europe up to 200 concerts each year, nominated for Western Canadian Music Awards, International Song Competitions and toured with Kelly Joe Phelps, Fred Eaglesmith, Steve Poltz and Mary Gauthier. www.almostbluepromotions.com
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ABERDEEN SINFONIETTA: At Music Hall, Aberdeen, at 7.30pm. With conductor Garry Walker and violinist Gina McCormack, Aberdeen Sinfonietta perform a programme including works by Malcolm Arnold, Tchaikovsky and Borodin. Tickets (U16s free) on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
12 FEBRUARY BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: At Music Hall, Aberdeen, at 7.30pm. With violinist Boris Brovtsyn and conductor Alexander Vedernikov, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra present Pictures from an Exhibition, with a programme of works by Glinka, Shostakovich, and Mussorgsky. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 13 FEBRUARY Brookfield Knights presents ….. LINDSAY LOU & THE FLATBELLYS with DUNCAN CHISHOLM: At The Music Hall, Aberdeen. Blazing hot Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys rest on the cusp of change, poised at that moment where everything shifts into high gear and time rushes forward. The instruments and the bedrock of the band may come from bluegrass and Appalachian old-time, but this is music that’s caught between the pull of the past and the push of the beckoning future, ready to leap forward brimming with new ideas and bursting with crisp, fresh and appealing energy. www.brookfield-knights.com
24 FEBRUARY RUMOURS OF FLEETWOOD MAC: At Music Hall, Aberdeen, at 7.30pm. The ultimate tribute to one of rock and roll’s most remarkable groups, Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, world tour. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 25 FEBRUARY MICHAEL MCGOLDRICK, JOHN MCCUSKER and JOHN DOYLE: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen, doors at 7.30pm. Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle are three members of the BBC acclaimed Transatlantic Sessions playing as part of a unique European tour. With both Mike McGoldrick and John McCusker also having toured for the past year with Mark Knopfler, this is a rare chance to see three of the world’s finest musicians share a stage together. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com www.johnmccusker.co.uk
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HIGHLANDS + WEST COAST / ARGYLL Send us all your gig dates for the Highlands Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 28 JANUARY CARA: At Eden Court, Inverness. Cara are a German based trad/contemporary folk band which includes Edinburgh’s Kim Edgar on piano and lead vocals. www.kimedgar.com www.facebook.com/caramusic 31 JANUARY ANDA UNION: At Empire Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 8pm. The brilliant 9-piece band Anda Union from Inner Mongolia first toured the UK in 2013 and stole the show everywhere. The band members all grew up in families 'with the music', several of whom still live in the traditional Mongolian way, and came together at music college in Hohhot, their capital city. There they were able to integrate traditional forms - like the now-famous throat singing - into creating a sound uniquely and mysteriously Mongolian but with a strong appeal to a western sensibility. If you miss this opportunity to see the band live in Edinburgh, you can be assured of hearing about the concert for a long time afterwards from those who were lucky enough to get tickets in time! www.facebook.com/andaunion 6 FEBRUARY DAVE ARCARI + LEE PATTERSON: At Buchanan Memorial Hall, Milton of Buchanan, by Drymen. alt.blues troubadour Dave Arcari after a busy year including an American tour returns to his home on the banks of Loch Lomond for a local gig. Dave said: “there’s a bunch of new songs that I’m keen to play for all our local pals and the old-school village hall at Milton of Buchanan is one of my favourite places to play.” Edinburgh singer/songwriter and pal Lee Patterson will open the show. In between tours and festival appearances Arcari has been busy at Chem19 studios with engineer/produced Paul Savage (Delgados) recording tracks for a series
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 24: highlands + west coast + argyll : islands : ayrshire + dumfriesshire between, Opera Highlights features music from some of the world’s most popular operas, as well as some lesser-known treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up with a piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to perform at some of the smaller or more remote venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The annual tour has been taking to the road since 1994. www.scottishopera.org.uk 28 FEBRUARY MIKE VASS and MAIRI CAMPBELL 'Dead Stations' tour: At Ardfern @ Craignish Village Hall. The Dead Stations combines live music, recorded audio drama and animation to tell the thrilling tale of what happens after a passenger alights at a deserted train station in a forest. Award-winning composer and multiinstrumentalist Vass has composed the music for the project, Campbell, who has just won Instrumentalist of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards, gives voice to Vass’s epic songs. The Dead Stations is written and directed by Charlotte Hathaway www.charlottehathaway.com 29 FEBRUARY EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At The Tower, 77-81 Sinclair St, Helensburgh G84 8TR. Tickets £10 / £8 concessions. 7.30pm. Eilidh Steel and Mark Neal are a Scottish duo who are in great demand in the UK and abroad. Their performances combine many of their own tunes and songs along with old traditional music on fiddle, guitar and vocals. With many influences from Argyll and the west coast of Scotland. www.fiddleguitar.com 6 MARCH MIKE VASS and MAIRI CAMPBELL 'Dead Stations' tour: At Drumnadrochit @ Glenurqhart Public Hall. The Dead Stations combines live music, recorded audio drama and animation to tell the thrilling tale of what happens after a passenger alights at a deserted train station in a forest. Award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Vass has composed the music for the project, Campbell, who has just won Instrumentalist of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards, gives voice to Vass’s epic songs. The Dead Stations is written and directed by Charlotte Hathaway www.charlottehathaway.com 17 MARCH ADAM STAFFORD with ROBBIE LESIUK & special guests: At Mad Hatters, Inverness. Stafford is known for his intense and energetic live performances which incorporate soul-pop, post-punk and a capela experimentalism to dizzying effect. LP `Taser Revelations’ released on white Vinyl, CD and Download on Song, by Toad Records on 21 March. http://adam-stafford.tumblr.com/ 18 MARCH ADAM STAFFORD with ROBBIE LESIUK & special guests: At The Old Bridge Inn, Aviemore. Stafford is known for his intense and energetic live performances which incorporate soul-pop, post-punk and a capela experimentalism to dizzying effect. LP `Taser Revelations’ released on white Vinyl, CD and Download on Song, by Toad Records on 21 March. http://adam-stafford.tumblr.com/
WEST COAST ISLANDS / SHETLAND / ORKNEY Send us all your gig dates for all of the Scottish islands Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com Isle of Bute …. Transclyde Music is a group of like minded people on the Isle of Bute whose aims are to promote live music on the island. For their latest gig news go to …. www.facebook.com/Transclydemusic 6 FEBRUARY GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON HALDANE: At Craigmore Bowling Club, Rothesay, Isle of Bute. Yukon-based Canadian troubadour Gordie Tentrees with multiinstrumentalist Jaxon Haldane. Deeply personal and moving, melodic and uplifting and lyrically rich - these are the songs that will tear your heart out, one note at a time. In this case brilliant Canadian singer-songwriter Gordie Tentrees offers the perfect example with his sixth album, Less is More. Haldane comes into his own, as a solo artist with the ability to combine the visceral intensity of punk rock or Dixieland, with the soul stirring emotion of vintage country and blues emboldened in his songwriting www.tentrees.ca 13 FEBRUARY FINN ANDERSON and CAT LOUD: At An Tobar, Tobermory, Mull. Finn spent his early teens directing self-penned theatre productions in local venue, The Byre Theatre, using the profits to build his first home recording studio where he began writing and producing solo material age 14. He had released two EPs and started his first theatre company before leaving school age 16 to study Music at the University of Highlands and Islands. Finn is spending the winter touring living rooms across the UK before releasing his new solo EP Uncharted Lands on 12th February 2016. www.finnanderson.co.uk
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BENNY GALLAGHER Annual Homecoming Concert with guests THE MERMAIDS: At Lounge @ Largs, 33-43 Main St. Largs KA30 8AE. 6pm for 6:30pm, tickets £29.95 Concert incl. 2 Course Meal. Benny Gallagher makes a welcome return to his hometown of Largs for two 20 FEBRUARY intimate evenings of songs and stories about his days as a staff writer with The Beatles Publishing Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Co. - Apple.. performing a selection of the hits Tarbert Community Centre, Isle of Harris, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera embarks on an 18-date he penned for McGuinness Flint - Gallagher & Lyle - Art Garfunkel - Bryan Ferry - Colin tour of Scotland this February and March. A great evening for those new to opera, seasoned Blunstone - Don Williams - Elkie Brooks - Garth fans and everyone in-between, Opera Highlights Brooks - Judith Durham - Mary Hopkin - Phil Everly - Ricky Nelson - Ringo Starr - Rita features music from some of the world’s most Coolidge - Status Quo - Simon & Garfunkel - The popular operas, as well as some lesser-known Fureys - Lemon Jelly - sprinkled with the treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up with a piano, a handful of props and 4 occasional tale, or, two from a 50 year career in music working with blues legends Arthur “Big singers to perform at some of the smaller or Boy” Crudup - “Champion” Jack Dupree - Eric more remote venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The annual tour has been taking to the Clapton - Pete Townsend - Ronnie Wood - Mary Hopkin - Ralph McTell, and as a member of road since 1994. McGuinness Flint - Gallagher and Lyle - Ronnie www.scottishopera.org.uk Lane and the Slim Chance Band and The Manfreds, so, it’s time get out your Fisherman’s 26 FEBRUARY Friends, tune up those tonsils, indulge in a little light banter, and, some serious harmony backing MIKE VASS and MAIRI CAMPBELL 'Dead vocals.."! For tickets call 01475 689968, email: Stations' tour: At Skye @ SEALL Sabhal Mor Ostaig. The Dead Stations combines live music, info@loungeatlargs.com www.loungeatlargs.com recorded audio drama and animation to tell the www.bennygallagher.com thrilling tale of what happens after a passenger alights at a deserted train station in a forest. 8 FEBRUARY Award-winning composer and multiinstrumentalist Vass has composed the music for BENNY GALLAGHER Annual Homecoming the project, Campbell, who has just won Concert with guests THE MERMAIDS: At
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 26: ayrshire + dumfriesshire : scottish borders : + just over Lounge @ Largs, 33-43 Main St. Largs KA30 8AE. 6pm for 6:30pm, tickets £29.95 Concert incl. 2 Course Meal. Benny Gallagher makes a welcome return to his hometown of Largs for two intimate evenings of songs and stories about his days as a staff writer with The Beatles Publishing Co. - Apple.. performing a selection of the hits he penned for McGuinness Flint - Gallagher & Lyle - Art Garfunkel - Bryan Ferry - Colin Blunstone - Don Williams - Elkie Brooks - Garth Brooks - Judith Durham - Mary Hopkin - Phil Everly - Ricky Nelson - Ringo Starr - Rita Coolidge - Status Quo - Simon & Garfunkel - The Fureys - Lemon Jelly - sprinkled with the occasional tale, or, two from a 50 year career in music working with blues legends Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup - “Champion” Jack Dupree - Eric Clapton - Pete Townsend - Ronnie Wood - Mary Hopkin - Ralph McTell, and as a member of McGuinness Flint - Gallagher and Lyle - Ronnie Lane and the Slim Chance Band and The Manfreds, so, it’s time get out your Fisherman’s Friends, tune up those tonsils, indulge in a little light banter, and, some serious harmony backing vocals.."! For tickets call 01475 689968, email: info@loungeatlargs.com www.loungeatlargs.com www.bennygallagher.com
Galloway, DG7 3RN, 7.30pm. Tickets: £12.00 (£10.00 conc.). Sally Beamish’s audacious reworking of Debussy’s La Mer is the centrepiece of these concerts. It’s an astounding piece of transcription that brings all the colours and textures of a full symphony orchestra to the intimacy of a piano trio. Live Streaming - why not join us online, we will be live streaming our piano trio programme from Perth Concert Hall on 7 March at 7.30pm, and we are inviting you to join us through #HebridesatHome. Invite your friends round and enjoy hearing Hebrides from the comfort of your own sofa. www.hebridesensemble.com
Beginners Jam @ Kazmiranda ‘Music’ Café in Berwick: 7pm-10pm (doors 6.45pm). £10 which includes drinks and snacks. Our delicious home cooked food is available at all events. Kazmiranda = Live Music! 'Northumberland Business Award 2015 for Creative Industries winner'. For details email Brian at brian@themusicgallery.com www.facebook.com/cafekazmirandaberwickontweed
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BOREAS: At The Cumberland Arms, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £8. Ahoy Hoy, is the eagerly awaited debut album from Boreas, 6 MARCH shaped by spanning the expanses of the North Sea. In this recording the band have created Brookfield Knights presents ….. WOODY PINES: At Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine. If you’re something both warm and sparse, shadowy and glistening, simple and intricate, it is indeed a wondering where the music of Nashville troubadour Woody Pines comes from, look to the glorious debut. Email for an invitation – info@boreasband.com streets. Ragtime, Boogie, Viper Jazz, Lighting www.facebook.com/boreasband Speed Folk. Full of stomp and swing, and jump and jive. It's old-time feel-good music done by a www.musicglue.com/islemusicscotland young master who clearly understands that this 6 FEBRUARY kind of music was always about having a great time. BOREAS: At The Hippodrome, Eyemouth, www.facebook.com/woodypines Scottish Borders, 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £12 (£10 www.brookfield-knights.com advance). Ahoy Hoy, is the eagerly awaited 11 FEBRUARY debut album from Boreas, shaped by spanning 12 MARCH the expanses of the North Sea. In this recording Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At the band have created something both warm The Fullarton, Castle Douglas, 7.30pm. Scottish IAN PROWSE with full AMSTERDAM band Opera embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland show: At The Venue, Dumfries. Merseyside hero and sparse, shadowy and glistening, simple and intricate, it is indeed a glorious debut. Email for this February and March. A great evening for Ian Prowse and his band Amsterdam. an invitation – those new to opera, seasoned fans and everyone http://amsterdam-music.com/live/ info@boreasband.com in-between, Opera Highlights features music www.facebook.com/boreasband from some of the world’s most popular operas, www.eyemouthhippodrome.org as well as some lesser-known treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up 9 FEBRUARY with a piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to perform at some of the smaller or more remote Pupils of The Yehudi Menuhin School: At venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The Maltings, Berwick-upon-Tweed in The Henry annual tour has been taking to the road since Send us all your gig dates for Travers Studio, 7pm, £12.50, (£10 Disability 1994. Scottish Borders and concs, £10 Student concs, £10 Unemployed www.scottishopera.org.uk Northumberland areas concs) £11 Over 60s, Child FREE. 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The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be 30 JANUARY 13 FEBRUARY loaded up with a piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to perform at some of the smaller or Kazmiranda ‘Music’ Café presents ….. Alex String Jam Club presents ..... TONY more remote venues the length and breadth of and Ken from Swing Street: At Kazmiranda, McMANUS: At County Hotel in Selkirk, Scottish Scotland. The annual tour has been taking to the Berwick-upon-Tweed. 1pm. An afternoon of jazz Borders. Guitar virtuosity from the soul from the road since 1994. piano and guitar. Kazmiranda = Live Music! world's leading Celtic fingerstyle guitarist. www.scottishopera.org.uk 'Northumberland Business Award 2015 for Entirely self-taught, this award-winning musician Creative Industries winner'. For details email plays a breathtaking range of genres & will take 28 FEBRUARY Brian at brian@themusicgallery.com you on an unforgettable journey into the magic www.facebook.com/cafekazmirandaberwickontweed world of consummate guitar playing. "This music EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At Glenafton www.facebook.com/TheMusicGalleryUK is beyond beautiful, it’s…..PERFECT!” (Tommy Folk Club, Campbell Hall, 115 Castle, New Emmanuel). Tickets are on sale now (£14) from Cumnock KA18 4AE. 1pm. Eilidh Steel and Mark St Boswell’s Live presents ….. TORINO + the venue and or by phone 01750 721233. Neal are a Scottish duo who are in great demand SUNJAY: At St Boswells Village Hall, Jenny www.facebook.com/stringjamclub in the UK and abroad. Their performances Moore's Road, TD6 0AL. Doors 7.30pm, show at combine many of their own tunes and songs 8pm. The Borders own tOrino play a unique along with old traditional music on fiddle, guitar style of home grown, Scottish rock with a touch 2 MARCH and vocals. With many influences from Argyll of pub rawness that demonstrates their musical BREABACH: At Eastgate Theatre, Peebles. and the west coast of Scotland. talents in a way that audiences can’t seem to get Voted ‘Best Live Act 2013’ & ’Best Folk Band www.fiddleguitar.com enough of. Formed in 2009, the four-piece band 2012‘ at the Scots Trad Music Awards and twice is a mix between Biffy Clyro and Frightened nominated ‘Best Band’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk 4 MARCH Rabbit with elements of progressive rock riffs Awards; Scottish five-piece Breabach deliver a thrown in. Sunjay’s style has that natural drift thrilling and unique brand of contemporary folk USED BLUES: At Bar 51, The Vennel, between folk and blues and both camps have music that has earned them international Stewarton. 8:30pm. Free. recognised his obvious flair. 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The UK is about to find out what all the fuss is about when The Mike + Ruthy Band (pictured) flies in for a headline show at Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket on the opening weekend of the city’s Celtic Connections festival. When Mike Merenda and Ruthy Ungar fronted The Mammals, they appeared before huge festival crowds all over America and were crowned folk royalty. The Old Fruitmarket on 17 January, tickets on 0141 353 8000 www.facebook.com/mikeandruthy www.brookfield-knights.com
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It’s a weekend of comedy, music and snowsport thrills on the hills in and around Aviemore. 2016 tickets will soon be available from www. ukgigsonline.com Proceeds from the festival go to the Children's Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS) and Disability Snowsport UK.
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Once again we have some big names coming north to join in the fun in May, and from the ceilidh bands to the almost indie strand, we have www.mvfestival.com brought together a broad mix of artists that we Celtic Connections 2016 comprises a wealth of hope appeals to everyone’s interpretation of the concerts, ceilidhs, talks, workshops, free events Groove CairnGorm increasingly expansive folk genre. As ever, our and late night sessions taking place over 18 days Cairngorms local traditions and musicians – both established across various venues in Glasgow. 11-13 March 2016 and emerging – will be centre stage alongside those visiting the festival. You would be hard www.celticconnections.com Groove Loch Ness couldn’t wait until next August pushed to find another festival throughout the for their next party – so building upon the succountry that has such a strong home representaBig Burns Supper cess of the inaugural event at Loch Ness this tion, and it is one that we are hugely proud of. summer, Groove are very excited to be expandDumfries ing, launching a resort based snowsports festival www.orkneyfolkfestival.com 22-30 January in 2016 - Groove CairnGorm! There will be snowWe will present our fifth Festival in 2016 and will sports and entertainment each day up on the include our famous Spiegeltent venue and some mountain, followed by apres ski with live music and world class DJs until the early hours in a big of our award winning production of Le Haggis top in Aviemore! which runs throughout the Festival. Inspired by Brew at the Bog the celebration, rather than the idea that to be at a Burns Supper – you had to have a degree in www.facebook.com/groovecairngorm Inverness Scots Literature – our festival is about coming 3-4 June together to celebrate with your friends, pals and visitors around Burn’s Night. It is the only place Brew at the Bog is one of Scotland's most dyin the World where you can enjoy all that a Winnamic hidden gems, championing new and unter Festival has to offer, soak up all the places signed artists alongside craft beer, gin, cider, that Robert Burn’s used to love – in the way that Isle of Bute Jazz Festival whisky, rum and prosecco bars! A two-day he left him, pay tribute at his burial site and still Isle of Bute camping festival, Brew at the Bog is held at Bogfind time to see cutting edge and contemporary 29 April-2 May 2016 bain Farm in Inverness, which was crowned work one of Scotland’s cosiest, yet confident "Best Unusual Venue" at the 2012 Scottish Event towns. The Isle of Bute Jazz Festival has grown specAwards - the perfect setting for a festival that tacularly from its small beginnings to become prides itself on championing the best of Scotwww.bigburnssupper.com one of Britain's most popular jazz weekends. land’s alternative scene. The lineup for 2016 inTop-class UK and international names feature in cludes a Mercury Music Prize nominee, Best a programme of traditional jazz music in one of Breakthrough Act at the Scottish Music Awards, Scotland's prettiest and friendliest seaside reBest Hip Hop Act AND Best Live Act at the sorts. Some very well known jazz names feaSAMAs, Best Up & Coming at the Scottish Trad tured on the programme over the next few Music Awards, a Radio 2 Awards nominee, and Fife Jazz Festival years – Acker Bilk, Monty Sunshine, Martin Tay- so it goes on! The festival for 2016 also features lor, Tommy Smith, Andy Sheppard, Carol Kidd, a programme of speakers, cinema, alternative Fife The Temperance 7, and The London Community therapies and street food! 6-8 February Gospel Choir amongst others, and the Festival www.brewatthebog.com The Fife Jazz Festival - an annual festival taking continues to attract top class UK and international bands in mainly the Traditional New Orplace all over the kingdom - brings the biggest names and upcoming stars of jazz music to Fife. leans idiom.The Festival is a great supporter of young musicians who feature prominently in the Eden Festival Whether you're a jazz and blues specialist or a Raehills Meadows casual listener, we hope that you're going to find annual programme. 9-12 June 2016 plenty to enjoy. Thanks to all the musicians who www.butejazz.com are going to give us such a great weekend. Set in the stunning Raehill Meadows of Dumfries Eden Festival is boutique festival, with over 250 www.fifejazzfestival.com acts performing across 9 stages, bringing you live music, dance, cabaret, burlesque, circus skills, theatre, a children's area, fun and games and much more. Nominated for three awards in Dumfries & Galloway 2015. Glasgow 14-31 January
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The 2016 edition of Wee Dub Festival features giants of UK dancehall culture, top live bands, and hot upcoming talent. For the artist line-up and programme go to the website below. We look forward to welcoming you to another weekend of roots, culture and good vibes in Edinburgh in March 2016.
Our 9-day festival has taken place since 1979. The founding aim was to bring international performers of the highest quality to a region containing many scattered rural communities since then this region has produced some of its own talent of international standing and we’re proud to also be able to present these artistes from time to time. We offer a wide range of events: music – including classical, jazz and folk, dance, theatre, literary, children’s events, plus the visual arts and films. Events take place in a range of venues throughout the region, from large to small, formal to informal, urban to rural.
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Riverside Rock Jedburgh 18 June Riverside Rock 2016 already have some fantastic bands signed up: The Men They Couldn’t Hang / The Lost Boys / Scocha (Back for a 3rd Year) / Blistered Molly (Back for a 2nd Year) / Greg Anderson (Back too for 2nd year) he rocked the tent at the end last year! Main tent headliner and other bands to be announced. As before Riverside Rock must not be missed, the Scottish Borders very own music festival at Riverside Park, Jedburgh, and 2016 will have more food outlets, more bars and a bigger tent. Tickets on sale soon!
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Tiree Music Festival Isle of Tiree 15-17 July Tiree Music Festival (TMF) was formed in 2010 when Tiree musician Daniel Gillespie (Skerryvore) teamed up with school friend Stewart MacLennan with the radical idea of holding an open-air festival on their local island of Tiree. TMF is more than just attending a music festival – it is an island adventure. From the stunning sail or flight to the island of Tiree, camping next to the white sands of Crossapol Bay or surfing at Balevullin beach, TMF is an experience very few festivals in the world could compete with. Get your tickets quick, the early birds sell out in hours - http://tireemusicfestival.co.uk/ ticket-prices www.tireemusicfestival.co.uk
Pandora Fest Duncarron 16 July Pandorafest will be Scotland's first music festival that supports women musicians. In 2015 the major festivals displayed a massive gender imbalance, of the 87 acts that were announced, 78 were all male, 3 were female and 6 were mixed groups - that was an 89.6% all male line up.* "As far as Scotland is concerned - this is not okay" says Pandora Fest! Pandorafest will be a one day music festival packed full of live music from female singer/songwriters, women musicians and female fronted bands all playing from 12noon-11pm. Pandorafest will be running 3 stages of live music across many genres, all expertly woven into a line-up to keep you entertained from start to finish. www.pandorafest.com
Wickerman is one of the UK’s best-loved independent music festivals which will enter its 15th consecutive year in 2016. With ten stages featuring an eclectic and exciting mix of leading artists, heritage acts and up-and-coming talent, the two day summer party caters for all musical tastes. www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk
Speyfest Moray 29-31 July At the end of July, the playing fields on East Street in the Moray town of Fochabers will be home to the 21st annual Speyfest, three days of the best in traditional and contemporary Celtic music. The tented village hosts a variety of seated and standing events including the Friday and Saturday concerts and stomps, the music marathon that is the Speyfest Family Sunday, a craft and food fair and an ecumenical Celtic Kirk service. The event is fully licensed and offers a wide range of hot foods and a variety of drinks from a number on onsite concessions. www.speyfest.com
AUGUST Tartan Heart ‘Belladrum’ Festival Beauly 4-6 August Get yourself a ticket to Scotland’s all ages wackiest festival of music and performing arts. Bella is back in its beautiful Highland setting with all the crazy variety that makes it Scotland’s premier boutique festival. ''Belladrum -
A hugely enjoyable weekend of traditional music in this small Borders town, beautifully situated amongst rolling hills by the River Tweed. Memorable concerts feature some of the biggest names in Celtic music alongside the best of the local talent and the weekend is rounded off with a concert presenting wonderful singers of traditional song. Complementing the concerts are an open stage, a singaround and the legendary informal music sessions in local hostelries and the Union Club. www.innerleithenmusicfestival.org
Doune The Rabbit Hole Cardross, nr Stirling 19-21 August 2016 A small family-friendly festival with a twist! Doune The Rabbit Hole presents music, comedy, art, spoken word, drama, puppetry and much more! Events across Scotland throughout the year culminating in a 3 day multi arts festival... it's time to go Doune The Rabbit Hole!! We make people happy through music, art, cake and loads of other stuff! After we've done that we teach people who wouldn't ordinarily be able to how to do creative things, like play instruments, write poetry and paint. www.dounetherabbithole.co.uk
Groove Loch Ness Loch Ness 20 August Groove Loch Ness is due to return to the iconic location on the banks of the Loch for it’s 2nd outing. Groove Loch Ness will once again transform the world famous location into Scotland’s biggest nightclub under the stars. www.groovefestival.co.uk
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