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ANDA UNION (pictured) from Mongolia are on a UK tour just now and their remaining Scottish dates are 30 Jan Dumfries : 31 Jan Inverness : 1 Feb Edinburgh (see page 4). More details @ www.andaunion.com/tour.php
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Air an Urlar: 8pm on BBC ALBA. A musical showcase from 2005, The ANNA MASSIE BAND step into the spotlight. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Cuirm @ Celtic with ….. THE CHIEFTAINS, DECLAN O’ROURKE & KRIS KRISTOFFERSON: 8.55pm on BBC ALBA. Opening the a four week run of the series Cuirm@ Celtic is one of the biggest and most lauded events of the festival, as Irish legends The Chieftains took to the stage at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall. The event, curated by the irrepressible Paddy Moloney, brought together a cast of outstanding performers, and the concert hall audience responded with three standing ovations. Moloney brought together singers from Ireland, Scotland and North America to celebrate Ireland’s cultural impact and legacy over the last 100 years. Special guest was none other than country music legend Mr Kris Kristofferson, with a rendition of his classic hit For the Good Times. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Dundee Perth Fife Stirling Falkirk page 16-20
Aberdeen + North East
Belladrum: 11.55am on BBC ALBA. Unseen festival highlights from MARTIN STEPHENSON AND THE DAINTEES. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Belladrum: 12.35am on BBC ALBA. Unseen festival highlights from THE STRANGLERS. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Highlands + Islands
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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
Ayrshire Dumfriesshire South West
Belladrum: 9.40pm on BBC ALBA. Festival highlights from HAVE MERCY LAS VEGAS. www.bbcalba.co.uk Port - Connemara: 10.30pm 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 5 FEBRUARY Belladrum: 8pm on BBC ALBA. After 35 years legendary Gaelic group NA H-OGANAICH are back in the recording studio. www.bbcalba.co.uk Port - Connemara: 9pm 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 Cuirm @ Celtic: 10pm on BBC ALBA. THE CHIEFTAINS onstage at Celtic Connections. 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 30 JANUARY CARA: At Queens Hall, Edinburgh. 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 Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. DE ROSA (album launch) with KID CANAVERAL: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk
Port - Connemara: 9.55pm on BBC ALBA. New series. Musical documentary presented by Julie Fowlis and Muireann NicAmhlaoibh as they explore Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. their musical roots in Connemara. RHYTHM MACHINE: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8www.bbcalba.co.uk late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk 2 FEBRUARY
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Trusadh – The Music House: 10pm on BBC Alba. A group of young musicians gather with some of Scotland’s finest traditional musicians. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Scottish Music Festivals Guide pages 28 - 31
Piping Live Shorts: 11.25pm on BBC ALBA. ANDY LAMB and WILL WOODSON performing at the 2011 Piping Live! festival in Glasgow. www.bbcalba.co.uk 3 FEBRUARY
Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. TANTRUM and MANIFOLD: 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 30 JANUARY DEAN OWENS as part of Sister Cities: Tartan
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page 3: edinburgh + mid - east - west lothian Ties: At The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 7pm. 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, 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 1 FEBRUARY Stoneyport Associates presents ….. ANDA UNION: At St Bride's Centre, Edinburgh. 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.brownpapertickets.com/event/2463827
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BOREAS: At Edinburgh House Concert Amazing venue!. 8pm (doors 7.30pm). Noisy Nights: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. Free, Ahoy Hoy, is the eagerly awaited debut album 8pm. Noisy Nights are the place to hear from Boreas, shaped by spanning the expanses emerging new musical ideas and voices: they’re of the North Sea. In this recording the band a place to meet music-lovers, curious minds, have created something both warm and sparse, musicians, composers and artists in an informal shadowy and glistening, simple and intricate, it space and hear some of the best examples of is indeed a glorious debut. Email for an brand new music while having a beer. They’re invitation – fun, free and your chance to listen to, and info@boreasband.com compose for, the musicians of Red Note www.facebook.com/boreasband Ensemble. Red Note Ensemble Performers: Flute Ruth Morley, Violin Jackie Shave, Trombone Born To Be Wide presents …..Self-Help John Kenny. Tickets @ Seminar: At The Electric Circus, Edinburgh, EH6 www.eventbrite.co.uk 5BJ. £5.50 / £4 Musicians’ Union Members. www.rednoteensemble.com 19.00 – Doors Open, 19.30-21.15 – Self-Help Seminar, 21.15-late – Guest DJ sets & 3 FEBRUARY socialising. Born To Be Wide is set to celebrate its twelfth birthday on 4 February, with a selfGORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON help seminar specially for managers, artists and HALDANE: At Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh labels. “This seminar will help unlock the many Folk Club. Yukon-based Canadian troubadour techniques within everyone’s grasp,” explains Gordie Tentrees with multi-instrumentalist Jaxon Born To Be Wide founder Olaf Furniss. The Haldane. Deeply personal and moving, melodic seminar will cover themes including online and uplifting and lyrically rich - these are the promotion, social media, deadlines, creating an songs that will tear your heart out, one note at a effective biography and how to get useable time. In this case brilliant Canadian singerpress photographs. Confirmed speakers include songwriter Gordie Tentrees offers the perfect BBC Radio Scotland producer, Amy Ferguson, example with his sixth album, Less is More. photographer Jannica Honey, concert promoter Haldane comes into his own, as a solo artist with James Bruce and owner of Song, By Toad the ability to combine the visceral intensity of records Matthew Young. Tickets available from: punk rock or Dixieland, with the soul stirring www.borntobewide.co.uk emotion of vintage country and blues emboldened in his songwriting 5 FEBRUARY www.tentrees.ca Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. RIFF RAFF 4 FEBRUARY REBEL: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street,
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Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Howden Park Centre, Livingston, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland this February and March. A great DHM Concerts presents ..... SNOWGOOSE evening for those new to opera, seasoned fans and MO KENNEY: At Edinburgh Queen’s Hall. and everyone in-between, Opera Highlights Glasgow based Snowgoose make a welcome features music from some of the world’s most return to The Queens Hall and will be flying in popular operas, as well as some lesser-known full electric formation, showcasing songs from treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be their soon to be released new album, 'The loaded up with a piano, a handful of props and 4 Making of You'. Mo Kenney never had that singers to perform at some of the smaller or archetypal I-want-to-be-famous moment. But more remote venues the length and breadth of somehow she was always going to make Scotland. The annual tour has been taking to the albums, play live and get noticed in her native road since 1994. Canada and way beyond. 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 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
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
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.
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 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
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page 7:edinburgh + mid - east - west lothian 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
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creativity meets the combustible mix of fabulous AMY DUNCAN (album launch party): At The orchestral jazz-head-on. For tickets call 0131 DHM Concerts presents ..... GRETCHEN Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh, 7.30pm, £6 on door 668 2019 or go to PETERS: At Edinburgh Queen’s Hall. or see below for album/ticket deal. Amy Duncan http://snjo.co.uk/concerts/ www.facebook.com/DHM-Concerts-285713951447098 will be performing songs from the new album with band, including harpist Fiona Rutherford Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. COHOLIC / 22 FEBRUARY and Lawrie Macmillan on bass, with sound by SPECACTUALR PRIMATE DISASTER / Alex Fiennes. Live music will be followed by DJs EMPIRE DECLINED: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. Woopee playing vinyl; from eclectic into good Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – TUFF LOVE and THE PRETTIOTS: At house music for your dancing pleasure. Preonly a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Summerhall, Edinburgh. Tuff Love are Julie order Undercurrents through Pledge Music to Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over Eisenstein (guitar, vocals) and Suse Bear (bass, gain free access to the party and an instant Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, vocals) plus live drummer Iain Stewart (also a download of 2 songs from the album @ with live rock music every weekend. member of The Phantom Band). They come from www.pledgemusic.com/projects/amy-duncan www.dreadnoughtrock.com Glasgow and they write dazzling, sun-streaked http://amyduncan.co.uk/ guitar pop songs with mesmerising lyrics, heart27 FEBRUARY wrenching vocals and dreamy melodies like the 26 FEBRUARY sound of pure summer. They make all their Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. music in Suse’s flat, self-engineering and selfNothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. GIRL BAND and JETSETTER: At Summerhall, producing everything. Tuff Love are steadily MICHAEL MCGOLDRICK, JOHN MCCUSKER Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. making a name for themselves and 'Resort' and JOHN DOYLE: At Edinburgh, Summerhall. www.Summerhall.co.uk gives those who haven't yet caught onto the Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John buzz the perfect opportunity to experience the Doyle are three members of the BBC acclaimed Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. STEELER: At band's enchanting indie brilliance all in one Transatlantic Sessions playing as part of a Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West place. unique European tour. With both Mike Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train www.facebook.com/ReallyTuffLove McGoldrick and John McCusker also having ride from Edinburgh! Dreadnought's rock nights www.Summerhall.co.uk toured for the past year with Mark Knopfler, this are renowned all over Scotland and can trace its is a rare chance to see three of the world’s finest roots back to 1972, with live rock music every EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At The musicians share a stage together. weekend. Outhouse, 12A Broughton St Lane, Edinburgh www.Summerhall.co.uk www.dreadnoughtrock.com EH1 3LY. 7.30pm, £6 on the door. Eilidh Steel and Mark Neal are a Scottish duo who are in SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA 4 MARCH great demand in the UK and abroad. Their presents ….. MIKE STERN: At Edinburgh’s performances combine many of their own tunes Queen’s Hall. One of the great guitar players of Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. CLASH LIVI and songs along with old traditional music on ROCKERS / E-X: At Dreadnoughtrock, King all time, Mike Stern is a multifaceted electric fiddle, guitar and vocals. With many influences guitarist who moves comfortably between jazz- Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – from Argyll and the west coast of Scotland. informed rock, fiery fusion and rocked-out jazz. only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! www.fiddleguitar.com Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over His career began with the mighty Blood, Sweat Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, & Tears in 1976, and later he worked with jazz 25 FEBRUARY with live rock music every weekend. legends Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Billy www.dreadnoughtrock.com Cobham and The Brecker Brothers. Among Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. Downbeat magazine’s ‘Top 75 Guitarists of All HECTOR BIZERK: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. The Queen’s Hall Presents ….. TORD Time’ and a six-time GRAMMY nominee, Mike 8-late. Tickets online. Stern will join the SNJO in an all-out celebration GUSTAVSEN with SIMIN TANDER and JARLE www.Summerhall.co.uk VESPESTAD: At The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. of incredible music, as his astonishing guitar
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HEBRIDES ENSEMBLE - Impressions of the Sea: At Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, EH1 2QQ. 6.30pm. Tickets: £14.00 (£10.00 conc. £5.00 students). 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 5 MARCH intimacy of a piano trio. Live Streaming - why Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. ERIC BELL not join us online, we will be live streaming our BAND (Founding member and guitarist of Thin piano trio programme from Perth Concert Hall on Lizzy): At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, 7 March at 7.30pm, and we are inviting you to Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short join us through #HebridesatHome. Invite your direct train ride from Edinburgh! Tickets £10 adv friends round and enjoy hearing Hebrides from (£15 otd). Dreadnought's rock nights are the comfort of your own sofa. renowned all over Scotland and can trace its www.hebridesensemble.com roots back to 1972, with live rock music every weekend. 11 MARCH www.dreadnoughtrock.com Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. ADAM STAFFORD (album launch) with 7 MARCH 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
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Stations' tour also featuring YOANN MYLONAKIS: At Edinburgh @ Queens 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. Awardwinning 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 Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. COLOUR TRAP & GORDONS ALIVE: 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 DHM Concerts presents ..... MAIRI CAMPBELL and MIKE VASS: At Edinburgh Queen’s Hall.
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 11: edinburgh + mid - east - west lothian : glasgow + surrounding area with live rock music every weekend. www.dreadnoughtrock.com 13 MARCH Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. ULRICH SCHNAUSS: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. www.Summerhall.co.uk 18 MARCH The Edinburgh Blues Club presents ….. DANI WILDE with support from LINDA JACKSON: 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
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 25 MARCH Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. YER NANA (Nirvana Tribute): At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Tickets £5.00. 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
www.deanowens.com 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
ADMIRAL FALLOW with support from HANNAH LOU CLARK: At The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow as part of Celtic Connections. £16, +14s. Having established themselves among Glasgow's finest indie acts with their first two 26 MARCH albums, Admiral Fallow bravely opted for the opposite of resting on their laurels when it came Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. ECHOES of to recording their third, 2015's Tiny Rewards. A ROCK: At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, newly collaborative songwriting method, Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. THE LEWIS Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a together with artfully reconfigured HAMILTON BAND: At Dreadnoughtrock, King short direct train ride from Edinburgh! instrumentation, created a fresh array of Street, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over sonically audacious textures and sophisticated only a short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, song structures, albeit retaining the band's Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned all over with live rock music every weekend. gorgeous melodic allure and powerful emotional Scotland and can trace its roots back to 1972, www.dreadnoughtrock.com impact, on their most complete, assured with live rock music every weekend. document to date (Clash Music). Highlighting the www.dreadnoughtrock.com breadth of their appeal, last summer saw them playing everywhere from T in the Park to Iona's 19 MARCH Village Hall Festival, and tonight's show Send us all your gig dates for promises an unforgettable homecoming. Glasgow and West Coast area Nothing Ever Happens Here presents ….. Following the demise of her former band, RHYTHM MACHINE: At Summerhall, Hampshire art-rockers Foe, Hannah Lou Clark Email them to Carol Edinburgh. 8-late. Tickets online. has won such influential industry supporters as carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com www.Summerhall.co.uk Guy Garvey and Steve Lamacq. Her 2014 debut EP, Silent Type, splices digital and analogue Dreadnoughtrock presents ….. HYSTERIA & 30 JANUARY technology with edgy, unsettling lyrics. TALK of THE DEVIL (Def Leppard & Ozzy Haunted, atmospheric pop for the disaffected DEAN OWENS as part of Sister Cities: Tribute): At Dreadnoughtrock, King Street, (Crack Magazine). Tartan Ties: At Paisley Arts Centre, Paisley, Bathgate, West Lothian. EH48 1AX – only a www.admiralfallow.com 7.30pm. Dean is also part of the Sister Cities short direct train ride from Edinburgh! Tickets £8.00. Dreadnought's rock nights are renowned Tartan Ties project which links musicians and THE ALT (Nuala Kennedy, John Doyle, all over Scotland and can trace its roots back to artists from sister cities Dunedin (New Zealand) Eamon O' Leary) with BOREAS: At St. and Edinburgh, a project which also includes 1972, with live rock music every weekend. Andrews in the Square for Celtic Connections. Craig Lithgow (Emelle), Hailey Beavis and Neu www.dreadnoughtrock.com 7.30pm. Info and Tickets Reekie’s Kevin Williamson (from Scotland) and www.celticconnections.com Robert Scott and Jay Clarkson from New 24 MARCH Zealand’s indie music capital. Supported by the 31 JANUARY British Council, Sister Cities Tartan Ties will open The Edinburgh Blues Club presents ….. at Celtic Connections on 27 Jan, before MARTIN HARLEY & DANIEL KIMBRO with Transatlantic Sessions: At Celtic Connections support from NEIL WARDEN & GUS MUNRO: embarking on a short tour of Helensburgh, in Glasgow. Folk musicians come together in Paisley and Edinburgh, and aims to connect with what have been called 'the greatest backporch At The Voodoo Rooms, 19a West Register New Zealand expats in Scotland and the families shows ever' Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AA. Doors open at of those who emigrated from Scotland.
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GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON HALDANE: At The Wee Gig @ Abington Village Hall, S. Lanarkshire. Yukon-based Canadian troubadour Gordie Tentrees with multi-instrumentalist 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 singersongwriter 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 8 FEBRUARY 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 20 FEBRUARY SINGLE BY SUNDAY: At The Bungalow, Paisley. Debut EP ‘Get Up Get Out’ is now available on all download platforms. Capital FM’s ‘One To Watch’ winner at SSE Scottish Music Awards. www.facebook.com/singlebysunday #Stayordinary presents ….. NEVILLE STAPLE , BOMBSKARE, THE BACK BEATS and DJ Dougie Tremble: At The Admiral Bar, Glasgow. Another great night of ska, indie and northern soul with the original rude boy himself Neville Staple spinning tunes, Scotlands very own 9 piece Ska Juggernaut Bombskare, The Back Beats and our house DJ Dougie Tremble. Tickets are £12 available from Tickets Scotland. Doors 8pm www.facebook.com/mfmpromos 25 FEBRUARY The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. DAN STUART (Green On Red) plus FERNANDO: At Stereo, Glasgow, 7.30pm, £13.00. Our first promotion of 2016 will be a special one, the gloriously inimitable Dan Stuart is returning to Glasgow, scene of two memorable gigs by the Mexico-based, Green On Red frontman in recent years. With new album, Marlowe’s Revenge out now, Dan’s gig at Stereo will offer a close up of his latest
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 15: glasgow + surrounding area material, buoyed by a superb back catalogue delivered with fervour and commitment. His forays into the musical spotlight always make an impact with his edgy mix of humour and passion and intensely great songs. Tickets @ http://tickets-scotland.com/ www.fallenangelsclub.com 26 FEBRUARY DEADLY INSCRIPTION (EP launch): At King Tuts, Glasgow. The Paisley based 5-piece Metalcore..ish outfit release "A Testament To Sin", the E.P was recorded with Ajeet Gill at Hellfire Studios, Birmingham. In 2015 the band hit new milestones by completing their first full Scottish headline tour and released their first full length documentary film (Exordium, 2015) then with no hesitation head back to the studio. The bands EP sets a decade of work and the pace for what looks to be their busiest year yet. www.deadlyinscription.com 27 FEBRUARY Indievous Presents ….. DUKES AND POETS + RIVERS RUN RED + SONS OF PEACHES + HOLLOW ROOM + HORIZONS: At The Record Factory, 17 Byers Road, Glasgow, 7.30pm, £5/ £4 (students) on door. www.facebook.com/indievous EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At The Village 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 NEVILLE STAPLE BAND: At Audio Glasgow. 14 Midland Street, G1 4PP, doors at 7.30pm. Tickets:£17.60 (inc. bf). The original rudeboy and former member of The Specials, Neville Staple now tours with his own band. Neville Staple is credited with changing the face of pop music not only once but twice. Neville Staple’s thirty-five year career in the music business is well documented. From the early days with The Coventry Automatics, The Specials, & FunBoy3 in the late ‘70s and 80’s, to The Special Beat and various other collaborations during his solo career from the 90’s up to the present day. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.musicglue.com/audioglasgow/ 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/ FINN ANDERSON and CAT LOUD: At The Project Cafe, Glasgow. 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
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Taner seen stints of living in the Netherlands, the French Alps and the West Coast of Ireland where Kemirtlek New Work, Sawer Cat’s Eye, Berio the inspiration for his current single comes from. Différences Box Office 0141 332 5057 or As well as living life on the road around Europe, www.rcs.ac.uk/boxoffice Conor has also performed in the old folk cafes in www.rcs.ac.uk New York's Greenwhich Village and South Africa's buzzing creative scene in Grahamstown. 4 MARCH Now residing in the North East of England, The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. THE Conor is set to release his debut single 'My Heart DREAMING SPIRES + support: At Hug & Pint, Belongs To Ireland' as he reflects on the Glasgow, 7.30pm, £12.00. The Dreaming Spires adventures of a truly spirited life. will bring their cosmic mix of slow country www.renofficialmusic.com burners and intriguing jangling guitars to Glasgow. Rated by BBC Radio Ulster’s, Ralph 19 MARCH McLean as “one of the finest bands in Britain today,” singing brothers, Robin and Joe Bennett The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. FRED EAGLESMITH + support: At Admiral Bar, have built quite a reputation and following in recent times. Current release Searching for the Glasgow, 7.30pm, £13.00 from Tickets Scotland Supertruth emphasises how the duo effortlessly 0141 204 5151. Rootsy rocker Fred Eaglesmith is heading to Glasgow early in 2016 for his first straddle a line between the influence of roots music, classic 60s pop and their youthful love of show in the city for three years. The Canadian singer/songwriter, who clocks up around 180 indie rock from both sides of the Atlantic. Their gigs a year on the road, will play The Admiral fondness for the distinctive harmonies in the tradition of The Everly Brothers and The Byrds is Bar on March 19. He delivers his dazzling lyrics in a distinctive gravel voice, often wearing never far from the surface, either. Tickets @ outlandish headgear: but he never fails to thrill http://tickets-scotland.com/ his fans, known everywhere as “Fredheads”. www.fallenangelsclub.com Bigger name stars such as Toby Keith, Alan EXCHANGE: At Platform, Glasgow. EXCHANGE: Jackson, Dar Williams and The Cowboy Junkies are among those who have recorded covers of the not-to-be-missed event for young Scottish his meaningful and well-crafted songs over the musicians. Aspiring young Scotland based years. “There is never a dull moment at a Fred musicians are being urged to sign up for Eaglesmith show, Fred is one of Mary Gauthier's Exchange 2016 which returns to Platform, favourite song writers, so that says it all really,” Glasgow in March - giving young people the opportunity to perform and gain a unique insight said Kevin Morris, Fallen Angels Club director. Tickets @ into how to get ahead in the music industry. http://tickets-scotland.com/ Enthusiastic musicians aged 21 and under will www.fallenangelsclub.com have the chance to perform their chosen genre of music on a live stage and receive feedback USED BLUES: At The DogHouse Bar, Balloch, from industry professionals. Individuals and 9:30pm, Free. groups wishing to perform or attend Exchange www.facebook.com/usedbluesglasgow should register their interest now at www.mfy.org.uk/exchange. Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Village Theatre, East Kilbride, 7.30pm. Scottish 5 MARCH Opera embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland this February and March. A great evening for SINGLE BY SUNDAY: At The Classic Grand, those new to opera, seasoned fans and Glasgow. Debut EP ‘Get Up Get Out’ is now available on all download platforms. Capital FM’s everyone in-between, Opera Highlights features music from some of the world’s most popular ‘One To Watch’ winner at SSE Scottish Music operas, as well as some lesser-known treats. Awards. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up www.facebook.com/singlebysunday with a piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to EXCHANGE: At Platform, Glasgow. EXCHANGE: perform at some of the smaller or more remote venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The the not-to-be-missed event for young Scottish annual tour has been taking to the road since musicians. Aspiring young Scotland based 1994. musicians are being urged to sign up for www.scottishopera.org.uk Exchange 2016 which returns to Platform, Glasgow in March - giving young people the opportunity to perform and gain a unique insight 20 MARCH into how to get ahead in the music industry. 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FINN ANDERSON and CAT LOUD: At The Steeple, Fife. Finn spent his early teens directing self-penned theatre productions in local venue, The Byre Theatre, using the profits to build his 22 MARCH first home recording studio where he began 4 FEBRUARY The Fallen Angels Club presents ….. writing and producing solo material age 14. He ANTHONY TONER+ support: At Admiral Bar, Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club presents ….. had released two EPs and started his first Glasgow, 7.30pm, £9.00. Tickets @ GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON theatre company before leaving school age 16 to http://tickets-scotland.com/ HALDANE: At Polish Ex-servicemen's Club, study Music at the University of Highlands and www.fallenangelsclub.com Bennochy House, Forth Park Drive, Kirkcaldy, Islands. Finn is spending the winter touring living KY2 5TA. Entry £8 members, £10 non-members. rooms across the UK before releasing his new REFUSED: At Glasgow’s Garage. Refused are an Starting at 7.30 till about 10.30. Yukon-based solo EP Uncharted Lands on 12th February 2016. iconic Swedish avant-punk rock band. Expect Canadian troubadour Gordie Tentrees with multi- www.finnanderson.co.uk throat-shredding tracks from the criticallyinstrumentalist Jaxon Haldane. Deeply personal acclaimed album Freedom, the band’s first and moving, melodic and uplifting and lyrically 16 FEBRUARY release in seventeen years following on from rich - these are the songs that will tear your FINN ANDERSON and CAT LOUD: At The Byre iconic The Shape of Punk to Come. heart out, one note at a time. In this case Theatre, St. Andrews. Finn spent his early teens www.facebook.com/refusedband brilliant Canadian singer-songwriter Gordie directing self-penned theatre productions in local Tentrees offers the perfect example with his venue, The Byre Theatre, using the profits to 25 MARCH sixth album, Less is More. Haldane comes into build his first home recording studio where he his own, as a solo artist with the ability to BREABACH: At Bishopton Folk Night, began writing and producing solo material age combine the visceral intensity of punk rock or Renfrewshire. Voted ‘Best Live Act 2013’ & ’Best Dixieland, with the soul stirring emotion of 14. He had released two EPs and started his first Folk Band 2012‘ at the Scots Trad Music Awards vintage country and blues emboldened in his theatre company before leaving school age 16 to and twice nominated ‘Best Band’ at the BBC study Music at the University of Highlands and songwriting Radio 2 Folk Awards; Scottish five-piece Islands. Finn is spending the winter touring living www.tentrees.ca Breabach deliver a thrilling and unique brand of www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk rooms across the UK before releasing his new contemporary folk music that has earned them solo EP Uncharted Lands on 12th February 2016. international recognition on the world and roots 6 FEBRUARY www.finnanderson.co.uk music scene as one of the UK’s most dynamic and exciting bands. Breabach are delighted to ‘Think Thoughts’ presents ….. JR GREEN 17 FEBRUARY announce their forthcoming fifth studio album with support ALAN CARBERRY + RICHARD EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At Dunfermline Astar (translating from Scottish Gaelic as SHARMAN: At Tolbooth, Stirling. Doors Folk Club 8pm, The Thistle Tavern, distance or journey) and extensive UK Tour. The 7.30pm / Tickets £5 advance, £7 on the door / album will be released on the 4 March. Ages 14+. from Box Office 01786 274 000 or via Baldridgeburn, Dunfermline. Eilidh Steel and Mark Neal are a Scottish duo who are in great www.facebook.com/Breabach the Tolbooth website. ‘Think Thoughts’ is a demand in the UK and abroad. Their monthly live music night geared up to feed and performances combine many of their own tunes 26 MARCH develop Stirling’s burgeoning singer-songwriter and songs along with old traditional music on community. First up are fresh-faced Scottish SINGLE BY SUNDAY: At The Record Factory, folk/indie duo JR Green. Brothers Jacob and Rory fiddle, guitar and vocals. With many influences from Argyll and the west coast of Scotland. Glasgow. Debut EP ‘Get Up Get Out’ is now Green merge traditional and contemporary www.fiddleguitar.com available on all download platforms. Capital FM’s flavours into personal anecdotes peppered with ‘One To Watch’ winner at SSE Scottish Music angst and social commentary. 18 FEBRUARY Awards. www.tollbooth.stirling.gov.uk www.facebook.com/singlebysunday Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club presents ….. 11 FEBRUARY TANNARA: At Polish Ex-servicemen's Club, 28 MARCH Bennochy House, Forth Park Drive, Kirkcaldy, Crail Folk Club presents ..... CLAIRE KY2 5TA. Entry £8 members, £10 non-members. HASTINGS & ROBYN STAPLETON: At Town BIG UPS: At Broadcast, Glasgow. Almost two Hall in Crail, Fife. £7. After her hugely successful Starting at 7.30 till about 10.30. Tannara years since Big Ups graced UK shores, the New Teuchters at heart, our music stems from a show, with her trio, at the Crail Festival Robyn York band are back on British soil. With high praises from the likes of The Guardian and a BBC Stapleton returns to the Far East, as Flossie calls collective love of playing trad music. What we us, with Claire Hastings. As consecutive winners play is a collection of tunes and songs. Most Maida Vale session under their belt, this from Scotland, some self-penned and of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Brooklyn four-piece are returning to bigger occasionally drawing from traditions across the Musician of the Year Award the duo make a audiences as well as bigger expectations with globe. Our intricate arrangements are delivered the announcement of brand new album Before a formidable start to our guest programme. Crail Folk Club offers a wide range of musical styles to with a complete focus on collective sound and Million Universes to be released 4 March. The total joy. album draws its title from a Walt Whitman quote suit all tastes, they welcome seasoned (""let your soul stand cool and composed before musicians, beginners and those that just want to www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. a million universes") and serves as a fist in the During Singers' nights they feature local singers 23 FEBRUARY face of complacency, which is, equally, an apt and musicians. All are welcome. If you don’t summary of the band's fiery live show MICHAEL MCGOLDRICK, JOHN MCCUSKER want to make music then just come along and returning to European shores in spring 2016. tap your feet. For all gigs tickets are sold at the and JOHN DOYLE: At Perth, Concert Hall. Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John door. Doyle are three members of the BBC acclaimed www.clairehastings.com Transatlantic Sessions playing as part of a www.robynstapleton.com unique European tour. With both Mike www.facebook.com/crailfolkclub McGoldrick and John McCusker also having Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club presents ….. toured for the past year with Mark Knopfler, this Send us all your gig dates for IVAN DREVER: At Polish Ex-servicemen's Club, is a rare chance to see three of the world’s finest musicians share a stage together. Bennochy House, Forth Park Drive, Kirkcaldy, Tayside, Perthshire, KY2 5TA. Entry £8 members, £10 non-members. www.johnmccusker.co.uk Fife and Central areas Starting at 7.30 till about 10.30. Ivan Drever hails from Orkney in Scotland, he has recorded a 25 FEBRUARY . Email them to Carol host of albums both solo and with other carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com Crail Folk Club presents ..... Singers Night: performers. Ivan’s latest album is “Revisited At Town Hall in Crail, Fife. £1. 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GORDIE TENTREES with support JAXON HALDANE: At Birnam Arts Centre. 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 3 MARCH
Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Lossiemouth Town Hall, 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 10 MARCH
Crail Folk Club presents ..... JENNY BIDDLE: At Town Hall in Crail, Fife. £7. With five albums under her belt, Australian songsmith and "Melbourne's Best Busker 2010-2012" Jenny Biddle will capture your heart with her intuitive lyrics, dirty blues harmonica, impressive guitar licks coupled with weird facial expressions, endearing stage banter, and a voice to melt your core. Over 20 years guitar experience, guitar players will delight in her explorations of alternate tunings. 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 4 MARCH they feature local singers and musicians. All are welcome. If you don’t want to make music then Brookfield Knights presents ….. WOODY just come along and tap your feet. For all gigs PINES: At Birnam Arts Centre, Perthshire. If tickets are sold at the door. you’re wondering where the music of Nashville troubadour Woody Pines comes from, look to the www.jennybiddle.com www.facebook.com/crailfolkclub streets. Ragtime, Boogie, Viper Jazz, Lighting Speed Folk. Full of stomp and swing, and jump and jive. It's old-time feel-good music done by a 17 MARCH young master who clearly understands that this Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At kind of music was always about having a great Victoria Hall, Dunblane, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera time. embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland this www.facebook.com/woodypines February and March. A great evening for those www.brookfield-knights.com new to opera, seasoned fans and everyone inbetween, Opera Highlights features music from 5 MARCH some of the world’s most popular operas, as well as some lesser-known treats. The Scottish Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up with a Markinch Town Hall, 7.30pm. Scottish Opera piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland this perform at some of the smaller or more remote February and March. A great evening for those venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The new to opera, seasoned fans and everyone inannual tour has been taking to the road since between, Opera Highlights features music from some of the world’s most popular operas, as well 1994. www.scottishopera.org.uk as some lesser-known treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up with a 24 MARCH 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 Crail Folk Club presents ..... SINGERS NIGHT: At Town Hall in Crail, Fife. £1. Crail Folk annual tour has been taking to the road since Club offers a wide range of musical styles to suit 1994. all tastes, they welcome seasoned musicians, www.scottishopera.org.uk beginners and those that just want to come along and listen in a friendly atmosphere. During 7 MARCH Singers' nights they feature local singers and musicians. All are welcome. If you don’t want to HEBRIDES ENSEMBLE - Impressions of the Sea: At Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, PH1 5HZ. make music then just come along and tap your 1.00pm & 7.30pm. Tickets: £7.00 (£6.00 conc.). feet. For all gigs tickets are sold at the door. www.facebook.com/crailfolkclub Sally Beamish’s audacious reworking of Debussy’s La Mer is the centrepiece of these 25 MARCH concerts. It’s an astounding piece of transcription that brings all the colours and Knock Castle Jazz Nights with IAN MILLER textures of a full symphony orchestra to the AND DOMINIC SPENCER: At Knock Castle intimacy of a piano trio. Live Streaming - why Hotel, Drummond Terrace, Crieff, PH7 4AN. not join us online, we will be live streaming our piano trio programme from Perth Concert Hall on 8pm, £10 on 01764 650088. Knock Castle Hotel in Crieff is launching a new musical night that 7 March at 7.30pm, and we are inviting you to starts this month. Saxophone and piano jazz join us through #HebridesatHome. Invite your duo, Ian Miller and Dominic Spencer will perform friends round and enjoy hearing Hebrides from an evening of live melodic jazz in the hotel’s the comfort of your own sofa. relaxing atmosphere. The monthly concerts will www.hebridesensemble.com consist of a new repertoire of jazz standards from The Great American Songbook as well as 8 MARCH original compositions
Brookfield Knights presents ….. WOODY PINES: At Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy. If you’re wondering where the music of Nashville troubadour Woody Pines comes from, look to the streets. Ragtime, Boogie, Viper Jazz, Lighting Speed Folk. Full of stomp and swing, and jump and jive. It's old-time feel-good music done by a young master who clearly understands that this kind of music was always about having a great time. www.facebook.com/woodypines www.brookfield-knights.com
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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 DAVID O’DOHERTY: At The Lemon Tree Lounge (seated), West North Street, Aberdeen, doors at 8pm. Presenting a show of talking and songs played on a stupid keyboard from 1986, David O’Doherty with We Are All in the Gutter, But Some of us Are Looking at David O’Doherty. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com
Back together, refreshed and invigorated and having recently celebrated 40 remarkable years in the music business, Runrig are back touring their latest album The Story, plus special guests. Tickets on 01224 641122 or www.aberdeenperformingarts.com 11 FEBRUARY TOMMY SMITH and BRIAN KELLOCK: At The Lemon Tree Lounge, West North Street, Aberdeen, doors at 7.30pm. In association with Jazz at the Blue Lamp, Aberdeen performing Arts presents Scotland’s foremost jazz musicians Tommy Smith and Brian Kellock. Tickets 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
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
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Voted ‘Best Live Act 2013’ & ’Best Folk Band www.scottishopera.org.uk 2012‘ at the Scots Trad Music Awards and twice nominated ‘Best Band’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk 5 MARCH Awards; Scottish five-piece Breabach deliver a thrilling and unique brand of contemporary folk Brookfield Knights presents ….. WOODY music that has earned them international PINES: At Glenbuchat Hall, Strathdon, recognition on the world and roots music scene Aberdeenshire. If you’re wondering where the as one of the UK’s most dynamic and exciting music of Nashville troubadour Woody Pines bands. Breabach are delighted to announce their comes from, look to the streets. Ragtime, forthcoming fifth studio album Astar (translating Boogie, Viper Jazz, Lighting Speed Folk. Full of from Scottish Gaelic as distance or journey) and stomp and swing, and jump and jive. It's oldextensive UK Tour. 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is a rare chance to see three of the world’s finest musicians share a stage together. www.johnmccusker.co.uk 25 FEBRUARY Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Ross Institute, Halkirk, 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 27 FEBRUARY MIKE VASS and MAIRI CAMPBELL 'Dead Stations' tour: At Inverie @ Knoydart. 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. Awardwinning 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
Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At Strathpeffer Pavilion, 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 24 FEBRUARY perform at some of the smaller or more remote venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The MICHAEL MCGOLDRICK, JOHN MCCUSKER annual tour has been taking to the road since and JOHN DOYLE: At Inverness, Eden Court 1994. Theatre. Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and www.scottishopera.org.uk 16 FEBRUARY John Doyle are three members of the BBC Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At acclaimed Transatlantic Sessions playing as part 28 FEBRUARY Craignish Village Hall, Ardfern, 7.30pm. Scottish of a unique European tour. With both Mike McGoldrick and John McCusker also having MIKE VASS and MAIRI CAMPBELL 'Dead Opera embarks on an 18-date tour of Scotland toured for the past year with Mark Knopfler, this Stations' tour: At Ardfern @ Craignish Village this February and March. A great evening for
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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
Transclyde Music Presents ….. GORDIE TENTREES with special guest JAXON HALDANE: At Craigmore Bowling Club, Rothesay, Isle of Bute. £10 from Musicker 01700 502287, 7pm. 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 http://transclydemusic.co.uk/events/
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
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BENNY GALLAGHER Annual Homecoming Concert with guests THE MERMAIDS: At 13 FEBRUARY Lounge @ Largs, 33-43 Main St. Largs KA30 8AE. 6pm for 6:30pm, tickets £29.95 Concert FINN ANDERSON and CAT LOUD: At An incl. 2 Course Meal. Benny Gallagher makes a Tobar, Tobermory, Mull. Finn spent his early welcome return to his hometown of Largs for two teens directing self-penned theatre productions intimate evenings of songs and stories about his in local venue, The Byre Theatre, using the days as a staff writer with The Beatles Publishing profits to build his first home recording studio Co. - Apple.. performing a selection of the hits where he began writing and producing solo 8 MARCH he penned for McGuinness Flint - Gallagher & material age 14. He had released two EPs and Lyle - Art Garfunkel - Bryan Ferry - Colin Netsounds Presents ….. MICHAEL CASSIDY started his first theatre company before leaving Blunstone - Don Williams - Elkie Brooks - Garth and DR. WOOK: At The Market Bar, Inverness. school age 16 to study Music at the University of Brooks - Judith Durham - Mary Hopkin - Phil Free entry and the music starts at 10pm. Michael Highlands and Islands. Finn is spending the Everly - Ricky Nelson - Ringo Starr - Rita will be performing with his full band in Inverness winter touring living rooms across the UK before Coolidge - Status Quo - Simon & Garfunkel - The (a long overdue treat!) and opening up the night releasing his new solo EP Uncharted Lands on Fureys - Lemon Jelly - sprinkled with the will be Dr. Wook who may well be treating us to 12th February 2016. occasional tale, or, two from a 50 year career in www.finnanderson.co.uk new songs from his anticipated debut album. music working with blues legends Arthur “Big www.facebook.com/netsounds Boy” Crudup - “Champion” Jack Dupree - Eric 20 FEBRUARY Clapton - Pete Townsend - Ronnie Wood - Mary 17 MARCH Hopkin - Ralph McTell, and as a member of Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tour: At McGuinness Flint - Gallagher and Lyle - Ronnie Tarbert Community Centre, Isle of Harris, ADAM STAFFORD with ROBBIE LESIUK & Lane and the Slim Chance Band and The 7.30pm. Scottish Opera embarks on an 18-date special guests: At Mad Hatters, Inverness. Manfreds, so, it’s time get out your Fisherman’s tour of Scotland this February and March. A Stafford is known for his intense and energetic Friends, tune up those tonsils, indulge in a little great evening for those new to opera, seasoned live performances which incorporate soul-pop, light banter, and, some serious harmony backing fans and everyone in-between, Opera Highlights post-punk and a capela experimentalism to vocals.."! For tickets call 01475 689968, email: features music from some of the world’s most dizzying effect. LP `Taser Revelations’ released info@loungeatlargs.com popular operas, as well as some lesser-known on white Vinyl, CD and Download on Song, by www.loungeatlargs.com treats. The Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be Toad Records on 21 March. www.bennygallagher.com loaded up with a piano, a handful of props and 4 http://adam-stafford.tumblr.com/ singers to perform at some of the smaller or 8 FEBRUARY more remote venues the length and breadth of 18 MARCH Scotland. The annual tour has been taking to the BENNY GALLAGHER Annual Homecoming road since 1994. ADAM STAFFORD with ROBBIE LESIUK & Concert with guests THE MERMAIDS: At www.scottishopera.org.uk special guests: At The Old Bridge Inn, Lounge @ Largs, 33-43 Main St. Largs KA30 Aviemore. Stafford is known for his intense and 8AE. 6pm for 6:30pm, tickets £29.95 Concert 26 FEBRUARY energetic live performances which incorporate incl. 2 Course Meal. Benny Gallagher makes a soul-pop, post-punk and a capela welcome return to his hometown of Largs for two MIKE VASS and MAIRI CAMPBELL 'Dead experimentalism to dizzying effect. LP `Taser intimate evenings of songs and stories about his Stations' tour: At Skye @ SEALL Sabhal Mor Revelations’ released on white Vinyl, CD and days as a staff writer with The Beatles Publishing Ostaig. The Dead Stations combines live music, Download on Song, by Toad Records on 21 Co. - Apple.. performing a selection of the hits recorded audio drama and animation to tell the March. he penned for McGuinness Flint - Gallagher & thrilling tale of what happens after a passenger http://adam-stafford.tumblr.com/ Lyle - Art Garfunkel - Bryan Ferry - Colin alights at a deserted train station in a forest. 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Festival hosts a fundraising night in aid of UNICEF. 7pm-late. Adults £8, U18 and conc £6. Brookfield Knights presents ….. WOODY Info from 07818 284922 or email PINES: At Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine. If you’re info@soundout.org.uk Tickets from Brown Paper wondering where the music of Nashville Tickets @ troubadour Woody Pines comes from, look to the www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2484514 streets. Ragtime, Boogie, Viper Jazz, Lighting Speed Folk. Full of stomp and swing, and jump 5 FEBRUARY and jive. It's old-time feel-good music done by a young master who clearly understands that this BOREAS: At The Cumberland Arms, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £8. Ahoy Hoy, kind of music was always about having a great is the eagerly awaited debut album from Boreas, time. shaped by spanning the expanses of the North 11 FEBRUARY www.facebook.com/woodypines Sea. 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The 6 FEBRUARY Scottish Opera’s trusty van will be loaded up BOREAS: At The Hippodrome, Eyemouth, with a piano, a handful of props and 4 singers to Scottish Borders, 8pm (doors 7.30pm), £12 (£10 perform at some of the smaller or more remote advance). Ahoy Hoy, is the eagerly awaited venues the length and breadth of Scotland. The debut album from Boreas, shaped by spanning annual tour has been taking to the road since the expanses of the North Sea. In this recording 1994. the band have created something both warm www.scottishopera.org.uk Send us all your gig dates for and sparse, shadowy and glistening, simple and Scottish Borders and intricate, it is indeed a glorious debut. 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Doors 7.30pm, show at a varied programme of piano solos and other EILIDH STEEL & MARK NEAL: At Glenafton chamber music before travelling on to New 8pm. The Borders own tOrino play a unique Folk Club, Campbell Hall, 115 Castle, New style of home grown, Scottish rock with a touch Lanark, Edinburgh and Blair Atholl. Cumnock KA18 4AE. 1pm. Eilidh Steel and Mark of pub rawness that demonstrates their musical www.maltingsberwick.co.uk Neal are a Scottish duo who are in great demand talents in a way that audiences can’t seem to get in the UK and abroad. Their performances enough of. Formed in 2009, the four-piece band 13 FEBRUARY combine many of their own tunes and songs is a mix between Biffy Clyro and Frightened String Jam Club presents ..... TONY along with old traditional music on fiddle, guitar Rabbit with elements of progressive rock riffs McMANUS: At County Hotel in Selkirk, Scottish and vocals. With many influences from Argyll thrown in. Sunjay’s style has that natural drift Borders. 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'Northumberland nominated ‘Best Band’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk textures of a full symphony orchestra to the Business Award 2015 for Creative Industries Awards; Scottish five-piece Breabach deliver a intimacy of a piano trio. Live Streaming - why winner'. For details email Brian at thrilling and unique brand of contemporary folk not join us online, we will be live streaming our brian@themusicgallery.com music that has earned them international piano trio programme from Perth Concert Hall on www.facebook.com/cafekazmirandaberwickontweed recognition on the world and roots music scene 7 March at 7.30pm, and we are inviting you to www.facebook.com/TheMusicGalleryUK as one of the UK’s most dynamic and exciting join us through #HebridesatHome. Invite your bands. Breabach are delighted to announce their friends round and enjoy hearing Hebrides from Stowed Out’s ‘Big Syria’ UNICEF Gig with forthcoming fifth studio album Astar (translating the comfort of your own sofa. 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JANUARY 2016 Celtic Connections
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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Dumfries and Galloway 20-29 May
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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SCOTTISH MUSIC FESTIVALS Read our full festival listings @ http://musicnewsscotland.wordpress.com/festivals/ quite simply, it’s what everyday life should be like, if only everyday life didn't get in the Crail Festival way.'' - Clare Damdoaran, eFestivals. Belladrum Fife Tartan Heart Festival takes place in the beautiful 20-30 July 2016 Highland surroundings of Belladrum Estate, near Beauly in Inverness-shire. The independent fes"Crail Festival- 20th - 30th July 2016- now in its tival has built a reputation for its eclectic line4th decade , will ,once again ,offer a wonderful T in the Park ups, its offbeat non-musical entertainments and programme of music. It will include: the amazits all-ages approach. Strathallan Castle, Perthshire ing Jimmi Shandrix Experience Ceilidh Band : 8-10 July Opera Bohemia ' I Pagliacci': the incomparable www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk Richard Digance will be conducting a SongwritWhat more can we say! Scotland’s most widely known and respected festival, which always at- ing Children's Workshop in addition to his keenly Party at The Palace anticipated performance: Gaelic folk from the tracts the biggest names. Check out tickets talented Mischa Macpherson Trio: Matthew Linlithgow availability at www.tinthepark.com/tickets McAllister , a 'local' classical guitarist, is rapidly 13-14 August 2016 gaining world wide recognition: the legendary www.tinthepark.com Jimmie McGregor will be performing his acMcEwan’s Party at The Palace is back for its third claimed 'Gathering of Songs, Stories and Fayear following the fantastic event last summer. Hebridean Celtic Festival mous Folk': the hugely popular, irrepressible The 2 day party will take place on Saturday 13th Christine Bovill will capture her audience with and Sunday 14th August in Linlithgow. It’s only Hebrides her interpretation of songs about 'Paris': and 20 mins from Edinburgh and 35mins from Glas13-16 July 2016 Buddy Holly and the Cricketers , our headline gow, making it one of the most easily accessible act, will bring the Festival to a rousing close. music festivals in Scotland. We have some excitFantastic four-day festival set against the rich cultural backdrop of the Outer Hebrides, featur- Truly something for everyone! Tickets will be on ing additions to the 2016 event including a second stage for the first time, new street food outing top quality music from around the Celtic na- sale from the Byre Theatre Box Office starting 30 May 2016. Follow the build up to the Festival lets and a larger kids zone to keep the children tions and beyond. Stornoway and throughout entertained. A limited number of Tier One Early Lewis and Harris. The cream of international folk on www.crailfestival.com, www.facebook.com/ CrailFestival, and ‘Crail Festival’ on Pinterest." Bird tickets are on sale from 1 January. and Celtic music have heaped praise on HebCeltl as it celebrated its 20th year in 2015 by hosting www.crailfestival.com www.partyatthepalace.co.uk its biggest number of live performances ever. Award-winning artists who took part in this year's Hebridean Celtic Festival hailed it a huge Wickerman Festival Innerleithen Music Festival success after bosses laid on new venues and reDumfries & Galloway Scottish Borders turned to its roots for the showpiece event. 22-23 July 19-21 August 2016 www.riversiderock.co.uk
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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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