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Roddy Hart :: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Roddy shines a spotlight on great songwriting, both contemporary and classic. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Togaidh Sinn Fonn :: 11.05pm on BBC ALBA. A selection of Scotland's best musicians and singers. www.bbcalba.co.uk WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: 6pm on BBC Radio Scotland. With essential music chosen by listeners. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland The Quay Sessions :: 8pm on BBC Radio Scotland. A night of bold psychedelia with PICTISH TRAIL and acoustic folk-rock from SNOWGOOSE. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Classic Scottish Albums - TEXAS :: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Davie Scott hears the stories behind the making of the TEXAS album 'White on Blonde'. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland THURSDAY 5 MARCH
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The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture MONDAY 2 MARCH from across Scotland. The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: 6pm on BBC from across Scotland. Radio Scotland. With essential music chosen by www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland listeners. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: 6pm on BBC Radio Scotland. With essential music chosen by Travelling Folk :: 8pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bruce listeners. McGregor brings you the very best of folk and roots www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland music from around the world. Vic Galloway :: 8pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Vic is in www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland conversation with BIFFY CLYRO and hasn interview Natasha Raskin Sharp :: 10pm on BBC Radio with CARIBOU. Scotland. An eclectic mix of music from Natasha. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Port :: 10pm on BBC ALBA. Julie Fowlis and Muireann Fonn Fonn Fonn :: 11.30pm on BBC ALBA. An offNicAmhlaoibh with highlights from the series. beat music quiz show. www.bbcalba.co.uk www.bbcalba.co.uk Iain Anderson :: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. End the day in the company of the songwriting masters of FRIDAY 6 MARCH country, folk, blues and soul. Togaidh Sinn Fonn :: 11.05pm on BBC ALBA. A www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland selection of Scotland's best musicians and singers. www.bbcalba.co.uk TUESDAY 3 MARCH
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The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Ashley Storrie :: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. New and classic Scottish music, soul rockabilly, pop and indie from around the world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: 6pm on BBC Radio Scotland. With essential music chosen by listeners. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Seirm - Celtic Connections :: 11pm on BBC ALBA. Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy, with music from Celtic Connections 2020. www.bbcalba.co.uk
Another Country with Ricky Ross :: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Country to Country Preview. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
SATURDAY 7 MARCH Na Trads :: 6.55pm on BBC ALBA. TIDELINES perform at the 2017 Trad Awards.
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Take The Floor :: 5pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Take The Floor :: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. For the very best in traditional music and song, For the very best in traditional music and song, join Gary Innes for Take The Floor. join Gary Innes for Take The Floor. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Jazz Nights :: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Pipeline :: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Gary Seonaid Aitken with a special edition celebrating West presents the definitive pipe music International Women's Day. programme, featuring news and recordings from www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland the piping world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Classics Unwrapped :: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Stephen Broad presents the best in Na Trads :: 9.40pm on BBC ALBA. FIDDLERS' classical music. BID perform tunes at the Trad Awards. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbcalba.co.uk Seirm - Celtic Connections :: 10pm on BBC Seirm - Celtic Connections :: 10pm on BBC ALBA. Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy, with ALBA. Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy, with music from Celtic Connections 2020. music from Celtic Connections 2020. www.bbcalba.co.uk www.bbcalba.co.uk Iain Anderson :: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Billy Sloan :: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Hot End the day in the company of the songwriting releases plus rock and pop music from Scotland masters of country, folk, blues and soul. and around the world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland MONDAY 9 MARCH TUNE :: 11.55pm on BBC Scotland. Mark Mackenzie discusses Inverness's challenging and The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC Radio exciting dance music scene. Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, www.bbc.co.uk/scotland arts and culture from across Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Belladrum :: Midnight on BBC ALBA. Belladrum highlights from 2019 with JOHNNY MARR. Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: 6pm on www.bbcalba.co.uk BBC Radio Scotland. With essential music chosen by listeners. SUNDAY 8 MARCH www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Vic Galloway :: 8pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Vic with live sessions and new material from the best alternative artists. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Tiree Music Festival :: 10pm on BBC Alba. An exhilarating set from SKERRYVORE, as the band headline Saturday night at the festival. www.bbcalba.co.uk Iain Anderson :: 11pm on BBC Radio Scotland. End the day in the company of the songwriting masters of country, folk, blues and soul. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 24 MARCH DEAN OWENS & THE SOUTHERNERS :: At Green Note London. 2020 will kick off in hectic fashion for Dean Owens - A new album, The Man From Leith: The Best of Dean Owens - will be released on London’s Eel Pie Records in March 2020, launching at Leith Dockers Club on 13 March, as Dean and the Southerners (and some special guests) before hitting the road in March, and throughout summer 2020 to promote it. www.facebook.com/deanowensmusic 24 APRIL
BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL & AIDAN O’ROURKE :: At Kings Place, London. Winner of the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019 – Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of Scotland’s fastest rising stars. A native Gaelic speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous language and culture, but draws inspiration from 7-22 MARCH a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape SKERRYVORE :: USA Tour. Back on the remote Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut album ‘The Reeling’ has had an extraordinary Scottish island of Tiree in 2005, the raw but response since it’s launch at a sold out Celtic contemporary trad quartet that formed Connections show at the start of 2019. She was Skerryvore could have only dreamed that over joined on the recording by violinist Aidan the next decade they would become a multiO’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who award winning act that was performing in over also produced the album. Working closely with 25 countries worldwide and featured as Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a ambassadors for their country in an completely new way of arranging for pipe music International advertising campaign for Visit Scotland. From those traditional roots the band that emphasises the rich textural drones of the have developed both in size and sound to create smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the tunes. She has a unique fusion of their traditional music and collaborated with many established artists over songs with the urban sounds of rock, pop and the years, including Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, funk. The band’s ability to fuse traditional Paul Meehan, Aidan O’Rourke, Carlos Nunez, Scottish music and rhythms with a range of other genres is a trademark of their distinctive, Martin Green, Allan MacDonald. www.aidanorourke.net high energy sound. Tour details @ www.brichaimbeul.com www.skerryvore.com
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6 MAY RODDY WOOMBLE :: At Moth Club, London. Minimal and hypnotic, it's neither song nor poem, and serves as the perfect taster for the rest of Roddy Woomble's new EP and forthcoming UK tour with Andrew Mitchell. "Spontaneous and creative" is how he describes their collaboration - qualities now applied to the latest chapter of one of Scotland's most acclaimed artists. "Everyday Sun" is a new single from Roddy Woomble, and the first taken from his forthcoming EP. The song is a hazy rumination, where observations on
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www.facebook.com/kingcreosote 12 MARCH SPINNING COIN :: At Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh. Glasgow’s Spinning Coin have determinedly, and with single-minded purpose, made their music heard: beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in frustration, escapism, but also gracefulness and splendor, in equal measure. The band take their new album Hyacinth on the road this March. www.facebook.com/spinningcoin ALI WHITWELL :: At Captain's Bar, South College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday 2.30pm. Americana and other stuff! www.facebook.com/ali.whitwell.5 www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh 13 MARCH DEAN OWENS & THE SOUTHERNERS (sold out!) :: At Leith Dockers Club, Leith. 2020 will kick off in hectic fashion for Dean Owens - A new album, The Man From Leith: The Best of Dean Owens - will be released on London’s Eel Pie Records in March 2020, launching at Leith Dockers Club on 13 March, as Dean and the Southerners (and some special guests) before hitting the road in March, and throughout summer 2020 to promote it. www.facebook.com/deanowensmusic
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KING CREOSOTE :: At Usher Hall, Edinburgh. For the first time in over five years the stunning Scottish archive film From Scotland With Love, by director Virginia Heath with musical score by King Creosote, will be performed live in March 2020. From Scotland With Love was last performed to both critical and audience acclaim at the end of 2015. Folk singer and songwriter King Creosote aka Kenneth Anderson from Fife, Scotland (born 1967) in his lengthy career has released over 40 studio albums and also been an integral member of the Scottish-Canadian band The Burns Unit. In the early stages of his career, Anderson played in many local Scottish bands such as Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khatoum Heroes and in 1995 he launched the record label Fence Collective with Johnny Lynch where he began producing and releasing material under the moniker King Creosote.
SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL. 7.30pm, tickets: £12, 0131 560 1581 or online. Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti unites India, Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali Baul folk tradition. March will see the quartet makes its UK debut on tour. Scottish classical guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s innate gift for reinvention and expansion comes together with one of the subcontinent's spiritually and musically richest cultures. The group features Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida Yesmin, singer and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the Indian Baul heartland of Santiniketan, and Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh, one of a growing number of exceptional female tabla exponents. Ticket links @ www.simonthacker.com
16 MARCH Brookfield Knights presents ..... BRONWYNNE BRENT :: At Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Mississippi Delta songbird Bronwynne Brent returns to these shores with a brand new album to promote, and those who have enjoyed privileged access to finished tracks pre-release are saying it's a stunner. Bronwynne will once again be joined by other musicians to complete these dates in trio format. The much-anticipated new album is sure to attract a lot of media attention. BBC's Bob Harris and other nationwide radio presenters have continued to feature her music on a regular basis. www.facebook.com/BronwynneBrentMusic www.brookfield-knights.com 19 MARCH ALI WHITWELL :: At Captain's Bar, South College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday 2.30pm. Americana and other stuff! www.facebook.com/ali.whitwell.5 www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh 22 MARCH YORKSTON/THORNE/KHAN :: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. Yorkston / Thorne / Khan are set to play a string of dates accross the UK in support of their most recent album Navarasa: Nine Emotions. The record tackles Robert Burns and Sufi poetry via Dick Gaughan and Amīr Khusrow Dehlavī, traditional Scottish songs, ragas and their own spidery compositions. www.yorkstonthornekhan.com/# 25 MARCH THE SLOW READERS CLUB :: At The Liquid Rooms, Edinburgh. The Slow Readers Club have shared the video for their new single, ‘All I Hear’, the first track to be taken from their upcoming fourth album, The Joy Of The Return, out March 20th via Modern Sky UK. The video was produced in collaboration with Chris from Croftwerk and the band’s lighting designer, Ash, and sees an animated 3D representation of a six-sided parabola, which started life as a paper sculpture by Ruth Pestell. The sculpture was then mapped point-by-point and run through software that emulates origami and projected
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Winner of the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019 – Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of Scotland’s fastest rising stars. A native Gaelic speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous language and culture, but draws inspiration from a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut album ‘The Reeling’ has had an extraordinary response since it’s launch at a sold out Celtic Connections show at the start of 2019. She was joined on the recording by violinist Aidan O’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who also produced the album. Working closely with Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a completely new way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the tunes. She has collaborated with many established artists over the years, including Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, Paul Meehan, Aidan O’Rourke, Carlos Nunez, Martin Green, Allan MacDonald. www.aidanorourke.net www.brichaimbeul.com
Tradfest event. After they took the prestigious Baltimore Fiddle Fair in Cork, by storm, organiser Declan McCarthy said: “In a weekend full of highlights, The Fretless were many people’s favourite. We’d have them back anytime!” www.facebook.com/thefretless www.brookfield-knights.com 6 JUNE
ALI WHITWELL :: At Captain's Bar, South College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday 2.30pm. Americana and other stuff! www.facebook.com/ali.whitwell.5 www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh
FRAZEY FORD :: At La Belle Angele, Edinburgh. Frazey Ford who returns to the Glasgow festival for an unmissable performance inside the ornate St Luke’s Church. Frazey Ford is revered for her soulful voice, captivating live shows, and immersive lyrical storytelling. Her upcoming third album, U kin B the Sun inhabits an entire world of shapeshifting rhythm, elevating every beat and groove with the subtle magnetism of her mesmerizing voice. With its graceful collision of soul and psychedelia and sometimes ’70s funk, it’s a body of work that invites both selfreflection and wildly joyful movement, and ultimately sparks a quiet transcendence. Ecstatic and heavy-hearted, gloriously shambolic and deeply purifying, U kin B the Sun is the outcome of a certain personal transformation that Ford has experienced in recent years. www.facebook.com/frazeyford
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Brookfield Knights presents ..... THE FRETLESS :: At Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Multiple Juno Awards-winning Canadian supergroup, The Fretless, return to exhilarate audiences once again. The buzz they generated at Celtic Connections Festival was amazing, completely confirming all that had been written about them. The same happened after they appeared as one of the main visiting attractions at Shetland Folk Festival and Edinburgh’s annual
RAB NOAKES - Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of my first LP ‘Do you see the lights? :: At EFC Pleasance, Edinburgh. Rab “For me, 1969 ended with the preparation well underway for the recording sessions for my first LP. I had signed a deal with a production company called Lynx and their deal was with Decca Records. The studio was the renowned Craighall Studios in Edinburgh. It was recorded live, in the old-fashioned way, three songs a
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Collective with Johnny Lynch where he began producing and releasing material under the moniker King Creosote. www.facebook.com/kingcreosote 15 MARCH
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RODDY WOOMBLE :: At Arts Centre, Paisley. Minimal and hypnotic, it's neither song nor poem, and serves as the perfect taster for the rest of Roddy Woomble's new EP and forthcoming UK tour with Andrew Mitchell. "Spontaneous and creative" is how he describes their collaboration - qualities now applied to the latest chapter of one of Scotland's most acclaimed artists. "Everyday Sun" is a new single from Roddy Woomble, and the first taken from his forthcoming EP. The song is a hazy 18 MARCH rumination, where observations on meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written Brookfield Knights presents ..... alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild BRONWYNNE BRENT :: At Performing Arts bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the Centre, Kilbarchan. Mississippi Delta songbird latter's Dundee studio, it marks a departure Bronwynne Brent returns to these shores with a from Woomble's traditional working methods brand new album to promote, and those who with either piano or guitar. have enjoyed privileged access to finished tracks www.facebook.com/RoddyWoomble pre-release are saying it's a stunner. Bronwynne will once again be joined by other musicians to 9 APRIL complete these dates in trio format. The muchanticipated new album is sure to attract a lot of The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... media attention. BBC's Bob Harris and other SIOBHAN MILLER :: At CCA Glasgow, nationwide radio presenters have continued to Glasgow. 7.30pm for 8pm. The Fallen Angels feature her music on a regular basis. Club bringing you the best Americana music to www.facebook.com/BronwynneBrentMusic Glasgow. One of Scotland’s foremost singers, www.brookfield-knights.com Siobhan Miller is an exceptional talent, renowned for her unique vocal style paired with 20 MARCH her evocative song-writing. Miller creates music with detail and rich melodies that combine the The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... sounds of indie and alternative music with BRONWYNNE BRENT plus support :: At The sounds from her roots in folk music. Growing up Glad Cafe, Glasgow. 8pm. The Fallen Angels in a musical family, she was immersed in Club bringing you the best Americana music to traditional song and learned from many of Glasgow. Scotland’s finest source singers in her early www.fallenangelsclub.com years as a performer. Miller won the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Traditional Track, 20 MARCH whilst also nominated for Folk Singer of the Year, and is the only ever three-time winner of The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... Scots Singer of the Year at the BBC Alba Scots BRONWYNNE BRENT plus support :: At Glad Trad Music Awards. She releases her fourth Café, Glasgow. Doors 7.30pm for 8pm. Tickets album in spring 2020 – following three critically £13 from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151 and acclaimed solo releases – touring with Innes Ticketweb. Mississippi Delta songbird Bronwynne White (guitar/mandolin), Charlie Stewart (fiddle) Brent returns to these shores with a brand new and Euan Burton (double bass). Alongside her album to promote, and those who have enjoyed extensive solo ventures, Miller’s unique vocal privileged access to finished tracks pre-release style has been honed through collaborations are saying it's a stunner. Bronwynne will once with many of Scotland’s top musicians, as well again be joined by other musicians to complete as guest appearances with the National Theatre these dates in trio format. The much-anticipated of Scotland, a season on Broadway, and a role new album is sure to attract a lot of media on US/UK TV drama Outlander. Tickets £15 plus attention. BBC's Bob Harris and other nationwide STBF from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151 and radio presenters have continued to feature her @ music on a regular basis. The Fallen Angels Club www.ticketweb.co.uk bringing you the best Americana music to www.fallenangelsclub.com Glasgow. www.facebook.com/BronwynneBrentMusic 14 APRIL www.brookfield-knights.com www.fallenangelsclub.com The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... AMBER CROSS :: At The Admiral Bar Glasgow (in 22 MARCH association with the Star Folk Club). 7.30pm for 8pm. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the NORTH ATLAS :: At The Bungalow, Paisley. best Americana music to Glasgow. Originally 7pm, £5. North Atlas are back on the road! from Maine, Amber spent her early years Hitting Scottish towns and cities throughout the surrounded by gospel music in a small town country, North Atlas are back on the road ahead church where her father preached and her of the release of new music. The three piece mother played piano. In 2003 Amber left her electro-alternative band of brothers embark on studies at New Mexico State University to pursue their first Scottish tour since heading her love for music. Se moved up and down the Belladrum’s Seedlings Stage last year. Achieving coast of California; the San Francisco Bay Area, national airplay on Planet Rock and the BBC for the Sierra Foothills, the San Joaquin River their latest single South, North Atlas are set to Valley, the coastal range of Sonoma County, and take on 2020 by storm with a swathe of new now San Luis Obispo County. She has opened music and live appearances throughout the UK. for such artists as Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Gurf Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a Morlix, Mary Gauthier and Dave Stamey, as well successful show hosted by Primordial radio as made frequent guest performances with The where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for Wronglers, Warren Hellman’s band, founder of SAMH and Marine Conservation Society San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass charities, the band will also play Dunfermline, Festival. Amber released her debut album You SPINNING COIN :: At Centre For Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Glasgow’s Spinning Coin have determinedly, and with single-minded purpose, made their music heard: beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in frustration, escapism, but also gracefulness and splendor, in equal measure. The band take their new album Hyacinth on the road this March. www.facebook.com/spinningcoin
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The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... Letitia VanSant (duo) :: At Glad Café, Glasgow. 8pm. Baltimore’s Letitia VanSant first came to prominence in 2017 when she won the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Songwriting competition - an honour previously granted to many who went on to become big names, such as Lucinda Williams and Nanci Griffith. Since releasing her debut album in Europe, the powerfully impressive singersong-writer has won a legion of new fans… and many glowing reviews. Last time she toured here with her band’s guitarist who also provided backing vocals -David McKindley-Ward - they made a big impact. It will be the same duo format again. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. www.facebook.com/LetitiaVanSant www.brookfield-knights.com www.fallenangelsclub.com 28 APRIL Brookfield Knights presents ..... Letitia VanSant (duo) :: At Performing Arts Centre, Kilbarchan. Baltimore’s Letitia VanSant first came to prominence in 2017 when she won the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Song-writing competition - an honour previously granted to many who went on to become big names, such as Lucinda Williams and Nanci Griffith. Since releasing her debut album in Europe, the powerfully impressive singer-song-writer has won a legion of new fans…and many glowing reviews. Last time she toured here with her band’s guitarist who also provided backing vocals -David McKindley-Ward - they made a big impact. It will be the same duo format again. www.facebook.com/LetitiaVanSant www.brookfield-knights.com 29 APRIL The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... EILEEN ROSE plus support :: At The Glad Cafe, Glasgow. 8pm. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. www.fallenangelsclub.com
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The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... ARCADE featuring HEIDI TALBOT & ADAM HOLMES :: At La Belle Angele, Edinburgh. Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. For the first time Ireland’s Heidi Talbot and Scotland’s Adam Holmes are joining forces to tour, write and record an album of original material together. Between them they have been nominated for multiple BBC Folk Awards, SAY awards, Irish music awards and played for First Ministers and US Presidents. This new collaboration will see the pair work under the name “Arcade”, with plans to record and release a new album of songs in produced by Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow) Heidi Talbot was born in Ireland became a folk star in the USA as a member of the Irish American band Cherish the Ladies, and now lives in Edinburgh, Edinburgh based singer song writer Adam Holmes with his former band The Embers combine the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of classic artists such as The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals. Tickets £16 from, Tickets Scotland 0131 220 3234 www.Ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com
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8 MAY DAVE ARCARI with BERNARD ALILSON :: At Hard Rock Cafe, Glasgow. Slide guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues and have been showcased via ten internationallyacclaimed solo CD releases. “Dave plays like he got his skin turned inside out and pretty soon my skin was inside out too listening and it was all good. That boy bleeds for you – he a real down deep player and a soul man…” Seasick Steve www.davearcari.com 9 MAY The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... THE HANDSOME FAMILY plus DANIEL KNOX plus support :: At Community Central Halls - CCH, Glasgow. 8pm. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana
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"...moody electro rock with both menacing industrial riffs and pop-laden hooks..." - Team Rock
GIGnotes :: MARCH - 5th, Opium, Edinburgh, 7pm, £8 :: 6th, Madhatters, Inverness, 9pm, Free Entry :: 7th, Monty's Rock Bar, Dunfermline, 7pm, £3 :: 21st, The Vault Arts Centre, Newton Stewart, 7pm, £5 :: 22nd, The Bungalow, Paisley, 7pm, £5 :: APRIL - 3rd, Macarts, Galashiels, 8pm, £6 :: 4th, Church, Dundee, 7pm, £6. Tickets @ www.musicglue.com/northatlas
North Atlas are back on the road! Hitting Scottish towns and cities throughout the country, North Atlas are back on the road ahead of the release of new music.
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The three piece electro-alternative band of brothers embark on their first Scottish tour since heading Belladrum’s Seedlings Stage last year. Achieving national airplay on Planet Rock and the BBC for their latest single South, North Atlas are set to take on 2020 by storm with a swathe of new music and live appearances throughout the UK.
After the success of their previous singles and a reputation for thunderous live shows, the trio secured an eclectic mix of festivals last summer, ranging from France’s electronic Chateau Perche to a roaring headlining slot at Belladrum festival - other appearances included Party at the Palace, Kendal Calling, Tenement Trail and XpoNorth.
Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a successful show hosted by Primordial radio where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for SAMH and Marine Conservation Society charities, the band will also play Dunfermline, Dundee, Inverness, Newton Stewart, Galashiels and Paisley. Tickets @ www. musicglue.com/northatlas
The rock trio consists brothers Leon D Hunter (vocals) and Cam Hunter (drums) and childhood friend Liam ‘Rusty’ Russell (guitar). Being brought up by the Solway Firth, North Atlas draw influence from its wild affecting landscape, dominated by monolithic windfarms and radar domes.
2019 was a successful year for North Atlas starting with a sellout show at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow followed by their first moves in London and Europe You can see some footage from the band’s headline set on the Seedlings Stage at Belladrum @
Having previously received support from Kerrang! Radio, Amazing Radio and Team Rock, the band of brothers combine their contrasting influences to defy the traditional sensibilities of a rock n’ roll band. Joining forces with award winning rock producer Dan Weller, ‘South’ is set to be their strongest release to date.
North Atlas are currently booking festivals and dates and are about to embark on a tour in March and April (details above) to promote their upcoming release.
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The Cardney Concerts with DOUGIE MacLEAN :: At The Cardney Concerts, Cardney Steading, Cardney Estate, Butterstone, Dunkeld, KING CREOSOTE :: At Perth Concert Hall, Perthshire, PH8 0EY. We hope you’ll join us for a Perth. For the first time in over five years the new adventure this coming Spring. Years ago we stunning Scottish archive film From Scotland began Easter concerts in Clunie Village Hall and With Love, by director Virginia Heath with in March 2019 we had two great sold-out Clunie musical score by King Creosote, will be Concerts again. Now we are moving to a very performed live in March 2020. From Scotland special new venue …Cardney Steading on the With Love was last performed to both critical and Carney Estate (between Dunkeld and audience acclaim at the end of 2015. Folk singer Butterstone). The steading is beautifully restored and songwriter King Creosote aka Kenneth DEAN OWENS & THE SOUTHERNERS :: At stone and brilliantly adapted as a venue. Set in a The Glad Cafe, Glasgow. 8pm. 2020 will kick off Anderson from Fife, Scotland (born 1967) in his stunning landscape with amazing views and in hectic fashion for Dean Owens - A new album, lengthy career has released over 40 studio wildlife it will we are sure become one of our The Man From Leith: The Best of Dean Owens - albums and also been an integral member of the very special venues. If there is a demand we will Scottish-Canadian band The Burns Unit. In the will be released on London’s Eel Pie Records in hire a shuttle bus, leaving from and returning to March 2020, launching at Leith Dockers Club on early stages of his career, Anderson played in Dunkeld. Please email admin@butterstone.com if 13 March, as Dean and the Southerners (and many local Scottish bands such as Skuobhie you are interested in tickets for this. At Cardney Dubh Orchestra and Khatoum Heroes and in some special guests) before hitting the road in Steading there will be a licensed bar with tea, March, and throughout summer 2020 to promote 1995 he launched the record label Fence coffee and non alcoholic dinks available as well Collective with Johnny Lynch where he began it. as the usual beers, wines and spirits….including producing and releasing material under the www.facebook.com/deanowensmusic The Gael gin and Caledonia whisky! Tickets and moniker King Creosote. more info @ www.facebook.com/kingcreosote 4 JUNE www.dougiemaclean.com The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... RACHEL BAIMAN plus support :: At The Glad Cafe, Glasgow. 8pm. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. www.fallenangelsclub.com
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23 MARCH YORKSTON/THORNE/KHAN :: At Perth Theatre, Perth. Yorkston / Thorne / Khan are set to play a string of dates accross the UK in support of their most recent album Navarasa: Nine Emotions. The record tackles Robert Burns and Sufi poetry via Dick Gaughan and Amīr Khusrow Dehlavī, traditional Scottish songs, ragas and their own spidery compositions. www.yorkstonthornekhan.com/# 28 MARCH
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Scotland’s fastest rising stars. A native Gaelic speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous language and culture, but draws inspiration from a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut album ‘The Reeling’ has had an extraordinary response since it’s launch at a sold out Celtic Connections show at the start of 2019. She was joined on the recording by violinist Aidan O’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who also produced the album. Working closely with Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a completely new way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the tunes. She has collaborated with many established artists over 4 APRIL the years, including Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, Paul Meehan, Aidan O’Rourke, Carlos Nunez, NORTH ATLAS :: At Church, Dundee. 7pm, £6. Martin Green, Allan MacDonald. North Atlas are back on the road! Hitting www.aidanorourke.net Scottish towns and cities throughout the www.brichaimbeul.com country, North Atlas are back on the road ahead of the release of new music. The three piece 23 APRIL electro-alternative band of brothers embark on their first Scottish tour since heading Brookfield Knights presents ..... Letitia Belladrum’s Seedlings Stage last year. Achieving VanSant (duo) :: At Acoustic Music Club, national airplay on Planet Rock and the BBC for Kirkcaldy. Baltimore’s Letitia VanSant first came their latest single South, North Atlas are set to to prominence in 2017 when she won the take on 2020 by storm with a swathe of new prestigious Kerrville New Folk Song-writing music and live appearances throughout the UK. competition - an honour previously granted to Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a many who went on to become big names, such successful show hosted by Primordial radio as Lucinda Williams and Nanci Griffith. Since where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for releasing her debut album in Europe, the SAMH and Marine Conservation Society powerfully impressive singer-song-writer has charities, the band will also play Dunfermline, won a legion of new fans…and many glowing Dundee, Inverness, Newton Stewart, Galashiels reviews. Last time she toured here with her and Paisley. Tickets @ band’s guitarist who also provided backing www.musicglue.com/northatlas vocals -David McKindley-Ward - they made a big impact. It will be the same duo format again. 17 APRIL www.facebook.com/LetitiaVanSant www.brookfield-knights.com RAB NOAKES - Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of my first LP ‘Do you see the 24 APRIL lights? :: At Backstage at The Green, Kinross. 9pm, £18. Rab - “For me, 1969 ended with the Langtoun Jazz Fundraiser - Jazz Night with preparation well underway for the recording LOCARNO SWING + TIM SAUL QUARTET sessions for my first LP. I had signed a deal with with special guest ANGELA DUNCAN :: At a production company called Lynx and their deal Windsor Hotel. 8pm. £15. was with Decca Records. The studio was the www.facebook.com/langtounjazz renowned Craighall Studios in Edinburgh. It was recorded live, in the old-fashioned way, three 27 MARCH songs a session. The record was released in September of 1970 and I became a featured Langtoun Jazz Fundraiser - Blues Night recording artist. In this show, one set will be with MAIN STREET BLUES + WOLFTRAIN :: devoted to the LP’s 12 songs in sequence. The At Windsor Hotel. 8pm. £15. other set will feature songs from the period, www.facebook.com/langtounjazz many of which appeared on Demos & Rarities Vol One. They include ‘Turn a deaf ear’, ‘(What 21 MAY would have happened) If I’d stayed around?’, ‘November afternoon’, ‘Long time no see’, ‘It LAU 'Unplugged Tour' :: At The Tolbooth, could be you’, ‘Looking up into the sun’, ‘Debts Stirling. 7.30pm. For the first time in over a pile high’, ‘Taking the long way home’, ‘Long decade, Lau present an entirely acoustic tour. way round’ and others.” Tickets @ The pioneering Scottish folk trio have always www.mundellmusic.com experimented with sound and form; the results www.rabnoakes.com have always been complex and thrilling. Already acknowledged as phenomenal live performers 18 APRIL Lau arrived at a new creative peak with 2019's Midnight and Closedown (Reveal Records). Now BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL & AIDAN 2020's Unplugged concert tour sees traditional O’ROURKE :: At Tolbooth, Stirling. Winner of music's most celebrated innovators strip away the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk their banks of electronics, loops and wild effects. Awards 2019 – Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of The trio of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), Martin
Green (accordion) and Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle) feel drawn to a more raw and plain-speaking aesthetic. The approach is subtler, less about spectacle, more about close listening. In brash and polarised political times, here is the poetry of real instruments and considerate music making. www.facebook.com/LAUband 28 MAY Brookfield Knights presents ..... THUNDER AND RAIN with THE FRETLESS :: At Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy. When RnR magazine told readers: “There’s something special happening here,” and Colorado band Thunder and Rain toured the UK early in 2019, it sparked interest from a music-loving public keen to encounter something special. Big crowds turned out to catch the band that Maverick magazine had described as “like The Stray Birds, with a slightly bigger sound.” No one was disappointed. When the reviews came in, they were filled with similar praise. Now, they return with a brand new album to promote, and aiming to impress again. www.facebook.com/thunderandrainco www.brookfield-knights.com 30 MAY Langtoun Jazz Fundraiser - THE RED HOT RHYTHM MAKERS :: At Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy. 2pm. £10. All female sextet focusing on music from the ground-breaking women of jazz and blues. www.facebook.com/langtounjazz 25 JUNE RAB NOAKES - Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of my first LP ‘Do you see the lights? :: At Clarks on Lindsay Street, Dundee. Rab - “For me, 1969 ended with the preparation well underway for the recording sessions for my first LP. I had signed a deal with a production company called Lynx and their deal was with Decca Records. The studio was the renowned Craighall Studios in Edinburgh. It was recorded live, in the old-fashioned way, three songs a session. The record was released in September of 1970 and I became a featured recording artist. In this show, one set will be devoted to the LP’s 12 songs in sequence. The other set will feature songs from the period, many of which appeared on Demos & Rarities Vol One. They include ‘Turn a deaf ear’, ‘(What would have happened) If I’d stayed around?’, ‘November afternoon’, ‘Long time no see’, ‘It could be you’, ‘Looking up into the sun’, ‘Debts pile high’, ‘Taking the long way home’, ‘Long way round’ and others.” Tickets @ www.eventbrite.com www.rabnoakes.com 17 SEPTEMBER RAB NOAKES - Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of my first LP ‘Do you see the lights? :: At Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy. Rab - “For me, 1969 ended with the preparation well underway for the recording sessions for my first LP. I had signed a deal with a production company called Lynx and their deal was with
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 20: fife + central + perthshire + tayside :: aberdeen + ne :: highlands + west Decca Records. The studio was the renowned Craighall Studios in Edinburgh. It was recorded live, in the old-fashioned way, three songs a session. The record was released in September of 1970 and I became a featured recording artist. In this show, one set will be devoted to the LP’s 12 songs in sequence. The other set will feature songs from the period, many of which appeared on Demos & Rarities Vol One. They include ‘Turn a deaf ear’, ‘(What would have happened) If I’d stayed around?’, ‘November afternoon’, ‘Long time no see’, ‘It could be you’, ‘Looking up into the sun’, ‘Debts pile high’, ‘Taking the long way home’, ‘Long way round’ and others.” Tickets @ www.kirkcaldyacousticmusicclub.co.uk www.rabnoakes.com
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Almost Blue Promotions presents ..... JEFFREY FOUCAULT with RY CAVANAUGH (Session Americana) :: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen. 7.30pm. ABP bringing Country/ Americana/Folk/Roots music gigs to Aberdeen named after the iconic Elvis Costello album of Country covers, Almost Blue Promotions was set up with the aim of bringing Americana, Country, Roots gigs to Aberdeen on a regular basis. They regularly host artists from the US & Canada as well as the UK. www.facebook.com/AlmostBluePromotions
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NORTH ATLAS :: At Madhatters, Inverness. 9pm, Free Entry. North Atlas are back on the road! Hitting Scottish towns and cities throughout the country, North Atlas are back on the road ahead of the release of new music. The 15 APRIL three piece electro-alternative band of brothers embark on their first Scottish tour since heading Almost Blue Promotions presents ..... Belladrum’s Seedlings Stage last year. Achieving AMBER CROSS :: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen. national airplay on Planet Rock and the BBC for 7.30pm. ABP bringing Country/Americana/Folk/ their latest single South, North Atlas are set to Roots music gigs to Aberdeen - named after the take on 2020 by storm with a swathe of new iconic Elvis Costello album of Country covers, music and live appearances throughout the UK. Almost Blue Promotions was set up with the aim Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a of bringing Americana, Country, Roots gigs to successful show hosted by Primordial radio Aberdeen on a regular basis. They regularly host where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for artists from the US & Canada as well as the UK. SAMH and Marine Conservation Society charities, www.facebook.com/AlmostBluePromotions the band will also play Dunfermline, Dundee, Inverness, Newton Stewart, Galashiels and 10 MAY Paisley. Tickets @ www.musicglue.com/northatlas Brookfield Knights presents ..... THUNDER AND RAIN :: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen. 7 MARCH When RnR magazine told readers: “There’s something special happening here,” and SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At Colorado band Thunder and Rain toured the UK Ardross Hall, Ardross by Alness, Ross-shire IV17 early in 2019, it sparked interest from a musicOXW. 8pm. Tickets £10, £8 conc., £4 student, loving public keen to encounter something 01349 880591 (no fee) or online (booking fee). special. Big crowds turned out to catch the band Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti unites India, that Maverick magazine had described as “like Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful The Stray Birds, with a slightly bigger sound.” incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali No one was disappointed. When the reviews Baul folk tradition. March will see the quartet came in, they were filled with similar praise. makes its UK debut on tour. Scottish classical Now, they return with a brand new album to guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s innate gift promote, and aiming to impress again. for reinvention and expansion comes together www.facebook.com/thunderandrainco with one of the subcontinent's spiritually and www.brookfield-knights.com musically richest cultures. The group features Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida Yesmin, singer 16 MAY and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the Indian Baul heartland of Santiniketan, and Almost Blue Promotions presents ..... JOHN Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh, one of a growing MILLER AND HIS COUNTRY CASUALS :: At number of exceptional female tabla exponents. The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen. 7.30pm. ABP bringing Ticket links @ Country/Americana/Folk/Roots music gigs to www.simonthacker.com Aberdeen - named after the iconic Elvis Costello album of Country covers, Almost Blue 8 MARCH Promotions was set up with the aim of bringing Americana, Country, Roots gigs to Aberdeen on KING CREOSOTE :: At Eden Court Theatre, a regular basis. They regularly host artists from Inverness. For the first time in over five years the US & Canada as well as the UK. the stunning Scottish archive film From Scotland www.facebook.com/AlmostBluePromotions With Love, by director Virginia Heath with musical score by King Creosote, will be 30 MAY performed live in March 2020. From Scotland With Love was last performed to both critical and Brookfield Knights presents ..... THE audience acclaim at the end of 2015. Folk singer FRETLESS :: At Glenbuchat Hall, Strathdon. and songwriter King Creosote aka Kenneth Multiple Juno Awards-winning Canadian Anderson from Fife, Scotland (born 1967) in his supergroup, The Fretless, return to exhilarate lengthy career has released over 40 studio audiences once again. The buzz they generated albums and also been an integral member of the at Celtic Connections Festival was amazing, Scottish-Canadian band The Burns Unit. In the completely confirming all that had been written early stages of his career, Anderson played in about them. The same happened after they many local Scottish bands such as Skuobhie appeared as one of the main visiting attractions Dubh Orchestra and Khatoum Heroes and in at Shetland Folk Festival and Edinburgh’s annual 1995 he launched the record label Fence Tradfest event. After they took the prestigious Collective with Johnny Lynch where he began Baltimore Fiddle Fair in Cork, by storm, producing and releasing material under the organiser Declan McCarthy said: “In a weekend moniker King Creosote. full of highlights, The Fretless were many www.facebook.com/kingcreosote people’s favourite. We’d have them back anytime!” 9 MARCH www.facebook.com/thefretless www.brookfield-knights.com SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At Lyth Arts Centre, Lyth, Wick KW1 4UD. 8pm, tickets: £20 (food and ticket), £10/6 ticket only, 01955 641434 or online. Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti unites India, Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali Baul folk tradition. March will see the quartet makes its UK debut on tour. Scottish
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 22: highlands + west coast + moray :: west coast islands + orkney + shetland classical guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s innate gift for reinvention and expansion comes together with one of the subcontinent's spiritually and musically richest cultures. The group features Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida Yesmin, singer and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the Indian Baul heartland of Santiniketan, and Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh, one of a growing number of exceptional female tabla exponents. Ticket links @ www.simonthacker.com 10 MARCH SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At West Coast Arts, Gairloch Community Hall, Gairloch, IV21 2BP. 7.30pm, tickets on the door: adults £10, under 18s free. Simon Thacker's SvaraKanti unites India, Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali Baul folk tradition. March will see the quartet makes its UK debut on tour. Scottish classical guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s innate gift for reinvention and expansion comes together with one of the subcontinent's spiritually and musically richest cultures. The group features Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida Yesmin, singer and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the Indian Baul heartland of Santiniketan, and Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh, one of a growing number of exceptional female tabla exponents. Ticket links @ www.simonthacker.com 11 MARCH SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At Universal Hall, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, Moray, IV36 3TZ. 7.30pm, tickets £14/£12 concs/£10 U16s online. Simon Thacker's SvaraKanti unites India, Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali Baul folk tradition. March will see the quartet makes its UK debut on tour. Scottish classical guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s innate gift for reinvention and expansion comes together with one of the subcontinent's spiritually and musically richest cultures. The group features Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida Yesmin, singer and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the Indian Baul heartland of Santiniketan, and Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh, one of a growing number of exceptional female tabla exponents. Ticket links @ www.simonthacker.com
Khusrow Dehlavī, traditional Scottish songs, ragas and their own spidery compositions. www.yorkstonthornekhan.com/#
artist. In this show, one set will be devoted to the LP’s 12 songs in sequence. The other set will feature songs from the period, many of which appeared on Demos & Rarities Vol One. They 9 MAY include ‘Turn a deaf ear’, ‘(What would have happened) If I’d stayed around?’, ‘November Brookfield Knights presents ..... THUNDER afternoon’, ‘Long time no see’, ‘It could be you’, AND RAIN :: At Universal Hall, Findhorn. When ‘Looking up into the sun’, ‘Debts pile high’, RnR magazine told readers: “There’s something ‘Taking the long way home’, ‘Long way round’ special happening here,” and Colorado band and others.” Tickets @ Thunder and Rain toured the UK early in 2019, it www.theceilidhplace.com sparked interest from a music-loving public keen www.rabnoakes.com to encounter something special. Big crowds turned out to catch the band that Maverick magazine had described as “like The Stray Birds, with a slightly bigger sound.” No one was disappointed. When the reviews came in, they were filled with similar praise. Now, they return with a brand new album to promote, and aiming to impress again. Send us all your gig dates www.facebook.com/thunderandrainco for all of the Scottish islands www.brookfield-knights.com
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15 MAY KERRY ELLIS :: At Elgin Town Hall 7:30pm. Forte Productions is delighted to announce that musical theatre star and West-End leading lady Kerry Ellis will be performing live at Elgin Town Hall in May. Award-winning Kerry has graced the stages of many a theatre, starring as the original Meat in We Will Rock You, the musical by Queen and Ben Elton. She was the first British actress to play Elphaba in Wicked in the West End as well as on Broadway and she also played the role of Ellen in Miss Saigon. Other credits include Grizabella in Cats, Nancy in Oliver! and Fantine in Les Misérables. Kerry will be performing a string of hit show tunes, as well as some of her favourite songs and she’s hoping to see a good crowd there on the night. “I love Scotland and whenever I have the opportunity to take a show there I jump at the chance. The audiences are always so welcoming and fun. I can’t wait to bring my solo show to Elgin. Get ready to laugh, cry and sing along! See you there.” Tickets cost £25 and are available from from IT Central (37 South Street, Elgin IV30 1JZ) or @ www.elgintownhall.co.uk 21 JULY
RAB NOAKES - Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of my first LP ‘Do you see the lights? :: At Ceilidh Place, Ullapool. Rab - “For me, 1969 ended with the preparation well 15 MARCH underway for the recording sessions for my first LP. I had signed a deal with a production YORKSTON/THORNE/KHAN :: At Old Bridge company called Lynx and their deal was with Inn, Inverness. Yorkston / Thorne / Khan are set Decca Records. The studio was the renowned to play a string of dates accross the UK in Craighall Studios in Edinburgh. It was recorded support of their most recent album Navarasa: live, in the old-fashioned way, three songs a Nine Emotions. The record tackles Robert Burns session. The record was released in September and Sufi poetry via Dick Gaughan and Amīr of 1970 and I became a featured recording
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 23: west coast islands + orkney + shetland :: ayrshire + dumfriesshire a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut album ‘The Reeling’ has had an extraordinary response since it’s launch at a sold out Celtic Connections show at the start of 2019. She was joined on the recording by violinist Aidan O’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who also produced the album. Working closely with Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a completely new way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the tunes. She has collaborated with many established artists over the years, including Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, Paul Meehan, Aidan O’Rourke, Carlos Nunez, Martin Green, Allan MacDonald. www.aidanorourke.net www.brichaimbeul.com 17 APRIL BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL & AIDAN O’ROURKE :: At Seall, Sleat, Isle of Skye. Winner of the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019 – Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of Scotland’s fastest rising stars. A native Gaelic speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous language and culture, but draws inspiration from a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut album ‘The Reeling’ has had an extraordinary response since it’s launch at a sold out Celtic Connections show at the start of 2019. She was joined on the recording by violinist Aidan O’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who also produced the album. Working closely with Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a completely new way of arranging for pipe music that emphasises the rich textural drones of the smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates a trance-like quality in the tunes. She has collaborated with many established artists over the years, including Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, Paul Meehan, Aidan O’Rourke, Carlos Nunez, Martin Green, Allan MacDonald. www.aidanorourke.net www.brichaimbeul.com 21-24 MAY DEAN OWENS & THE SOUTHERNERS :: At Orkney Folk Festival, Orkney. Various venues. 2020 will kick off in hectic fashion for Dean Owens - A new album, The Man From Leith: The Best of Dean Owens - will be released on London’s Eel Pie Records in March 2020, launching at Leith Dockers Club on 13 March, as Dean and the Southerners (and some special guests) before hitting the road in March, and
throughout summer 2020 to promote it. www.facebook.com/deanowensmusic
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Brookfield Knights presents ..... BRONWYNNE BRENT :: At Craigdarroch Arms Hotel, Moniave. Mississippi Delta songbird Brookfield Knights presents ..... THE Bronwynne Brent returns to these shores with a FRETLESS :: At Mareel, Shetland. Multiple Juno brand new album to promote, and those who Awards-winning Canadian supergroup, The have enjoyed privileged access to finished tracks Fretless, return to exhilarate audiences once pre-release are saying it's a stunner. Bronwynne again. The buzz they generated at Celtic will once again be joined by other musicians to Connections Festival was amazing, completely complete these dates in trio format. The muchconfirming all that had been written about them. anticipated new album is sure to attract a lot of The same happened after they appeared as one media attention. BBC's Bob Harris and other of the main visiting attractions at Shetland Folk nationwide radio presenters have continued to Festival and Edinburgh’s annual Tradfest event. feature her music on a regular basis. After they took the prestigious Baltimore Fiddle www.facebook.com/BronwynneBrentMusic Fair in Cork, by storm, organiser Declan www.brookfield-knights.com McCarthy said: “In a weekend full of highlights, The Fretless were many people’s favourite. We’d 21 MARCH have them back anytime!” www.facebook.com/thefretless NORTH ATLAS :: At The Vault Arts Centre, www.brookfield-knights.com Newton Stewart. 7pm, £5. North Atlas are back on the road! Hitting Scottish towns and cities 29 MAY throughout the country, North Atlas are back on the road ahead of the release of new music. Brookfield Knights presents ..... THE The three piece electro-alternative band of FRETLESS :: At The String, Lerwick, Shetland. brothers embark on their first Scottish tour since Multiple Juno Awards-winning Canadian heading Belladrum’s Seedlings Stage last year. supergroup, The Fretless, return to exhilarate Achieving national airplay on Planet Rock and audiences once again. The buzz they generated the BBC for their latest single South, North Atlas at Celtic Connections Festival was amazing, are set to take on 2020 by storm with a swathe completely confirming all that had been written of new music and live appearances throughout about them. The same happened after they the UK. Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a appeared as one of the main visiting attractions successful show hosted by Primordial radio at Shetland Folk Festival and Edinburgh’s annual where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for Tradfest event. After they took the prestigious SAMH and Marine Conservation Society Baltimore Fiddle Fair in Cork, by storm, charities, the band will also play Dunfermline, organiser Declan McCarthy said: “In a weekend Dundee, Inverness, Newton Stewart, Galashiels full of highlights, The Fretless were many and Paisley. Tickets @ people’s favourite. We’d have them back www.musicglue.com/northatlas anytime!” www.facebook.com/thefretless 10 APRIL www.brookfield-knights.com RODDY WOOMBLE :: At Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine. Minimal and hypnotic, it's neither song nor poem, and serves as the perfect taster for the rest of Roddy Woomble's new EP and forthcoming UK tour with Andrew Mitchell. "Spontaneous and creative" is how he describes their collaboration - qualities now applied to the latest chapter of one of Scotland's most acclaimed artists. "Everyday Sun" is a new single from Roddy Woomble, and the first taken Send us all your gig dates from his forthcoming EP. The song is a hazy for Dumfriesshire, rumination, where observations on South West and Cumbria areas meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild Email them to Carol bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com latter's Dundee studio, it marks a departure from Woomble's traditional working methods 28 MAY
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one of a growing number of exceptional female tabla exponents. Ticket links @ www.simonthacker.com 14 MARCH The String Jam Club presents ..... DEAN OWENS & THE SOUTHERNERS :: At The County Hotel, 1-5 High Street, Market Square, Selkirk. “One of Scotland’s best troubadours fabulous.” (Bob Harris BBC) & Winner UK Song of the Year Award 2019 (UK Americana Music Association). Welcome return visit of the man from Leith, “one of the standout Americana artists this side of the pond” (Lonesome Highway). www.facebook.com/StringJamClub 27 MARCH
Reivers Concert with McKerron, Brechin and O'hEadhra :: At Evergreen Hall, Laidlaw Terrace, Hawick. TD9 9QJ (part of Hawick Reivers Festival). Doors 7.30pm for 8pm. Fiery tunes and beautiful songs from three of 26 APRIL Scotland’s finest musicians The Scottish Trad trio of Charlie McKerron (fiddle), Sandy Brechin Brookfield Knights presents ..... Letitia (piano accordion) and Brian O hEadhra (guitar VanSant (duo) :: At Harbour Arts Centre, and vocals) draw on their years of experience Irvine. Baltimore’s Letitia VanSant first came to and wealth of tunes and songs from the Scots prominence in 2017 when she won the and Gaelic traditions. They are each acclaimed prestigious Kerrville New Folk Song-writing composers in their own right and incorporate competition - an honour previously granted to many of their own tunes and songs into their many who went on to become big names, such repertoire. They have delighted audiences in as Lucinda Williams and Nanci Griffith. Since Scotland and abroad with their amazing releasing her debut album in Europe, the musicianship and lively performances. Each powerfully impressive singer-song-writer has artist is also well known through their work won a legion of new fans…and many glowing with other famous acts : Charlie performs with reviews. Last time she toured here with her Capercaillie and Session A9′ Sandy with Burach band’s guitarist who also provided backing and the Jimi Shandrix Experience and Brian with vocals -David McKindley-Ward - they made a big Anam and Cruin. Tickets £15+bf (no impact. It will be the same duo format again. concessions) on 01750 725480 @ www.facebook.com/LetitiaVanSant www.thelittleboxoffice.com/borderevents www.brookfield-knights.com www.hawickreivers.com/friday-27th
7.30pm. For the first time in over a decade, Lau present an entirely acoustic tour. The pioneering Scottish folk trio have always experimented with sound and form; the results have always been complex and thrilling. Already acknowledged as phenomenal live performers Lau arrived at a new creative peak with 2019's Midnight and Closedown (Reveal Records). Now 2020's Unplugged concert tour sees traditional music's most celebrated innovators strip away their banks of electronics, loops and wild effects. The trio of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), Martin Green (accordion) and Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle) feel drawn to a more raw and plain-speaking aesthetic. The approach is subtler, less about spectacle, more about close listening. In brash and polarised political times, here is the poetry of real instruments and considerate music making. www.facebook.com/LAUband 27 MAY Brookfield Knights presents ..... THUNDER AND RAIN with THE FRETLESS :: At Eastgate Theatre, Peebles. When RnR magazine told readers: “There’s something special happening here,” and Colorado band Thunder and Rain toured the UK early in 2019, it sparked interest from a music-loving public keen to encounter something special. Big crowds turned out to catch the band that Maverick magazine had described as “like The Stray Birds, with a slightly bigger sound.” No one was disappointed. When the reviews came in, they were filled with similar praise. Now, they return with a brand new album to promote, and aiming to impress again. www.facebook.com/thunderandrainco www.brookfield-knights.com 31 MAY
Brookfield Knights presents ..... THE FRETLESS :: At The Marquee and The Haining, Selkirk. Multiple Juno Awards-winning Canadian 3 APRIL supergroup, The Fretless, return to exhilarate audiences once again. The buzz they generated NORTH ATLAS :: At Macarts, Galashiels. 8pm, at Celtic Connections Festival was amazing, £6. North Atlas are back on the road! Hitting completely confirming all that had been written Scottish towns and cities throughout the about them. The same happened after they country, North Atlas are back on the road ahead appeared as one of the main visiting attractions Send us all your gig dates for of the release of new music. The three piece at Shetland Folk Festival and Edinburgh’s annual electro-alternative band of brothers embark on Tradfest event. After they took the prestigious Scottish Borders and their first Scottish tour since heading Belladrum’s Baltimore Fiddle Fair in Cork, by storm, Northumberland areas Seedlings Stage last year. Achieving national organiser Declan McCarthy said: “In a weekend airplay on Planet Rock and the BBC for their full of highlights, The Fretless were many Email them to Carol latest single South, North Atlas are set to take people’s favourite. We’d have them back carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com on 2020 by storm with a swathe of new music anytime!” and live appearances throughout the UK. www.facebook.com/thefretless 10 MARCH Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a www.brookfield-knights.com successful show hosted by Primordial radio WILLE AND THE BANDITS :: At St Boswells where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for 26 JUNE Village Hall, Scottish Borders. 7.30pm. Wille and SAMH and Marine Conservation Society charities, the Bandits are returning to St Boswells Live to the band will also play Dunfermline, Dundee, DAVE ARCARI with BERNARD ALILSON :: At do a concert in St Boswells Village Hall. Inverness, Newton Stewart, Galashiels and Cluny, Newcastle. Slide guitarist & songwriter www.willeandthebandits.com Paisley. Tickets @ Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as much to www.facebook.com/stboswellslive www.musicglue.com/northatlas trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues and have been showcased 13 MARCH 16 APRIL via ten internationally-acclaimed solo CD releases. “Dave plays like he got his skin turned SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At DAVE ARCARI :: At The Cluny, 36 Lime St, inside out and pretty soon my skin was inside Eyemouth Hippodrome, Harbour Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 8pm. Slide guitarist & out too listening and it was all good. That boy Eyemouth TD14 5HT. 8pm, tickets: £11 early songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as bleeds for you – he a real down deep player and bird, £13.50 standard, £6.50 under 25, 01890 much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as a soul man…” Seasick Steve 750099 or online. Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti they do pre-war Delta blues and have been www.davearcari.com unites India, Bangladesh and the UK in its showcased via ten internationally-acclaimed solo powerful incarnation expanding on the mystical CD releases. “Dave plays like he got his skin Bengali Baul folk tradition. March will see the turned inside out and pretty soon my skin was quartet makes its UK debut on tour. Scottish inside out too listening and it was all good. That classical guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s boy bleeds for you – he a real down deep player innate gift for reinvention and expansion comes and a soul man…” Seasick Steve. together with one of the subcontinent's www.davearcari.com spiritually and musically richest cultures. The group features Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida robert.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 23 MAY Yesmin, singer and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the Indian Baul heartland of LAU 'Unplugged Tour' :: At Sage Gateshead. Santiniketan, and Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh,
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Cash Back in Fife Aberdour 6-8 March
Knockengorroch Festival Carsphairn Hills, Castle Douglas 21-24 May
The line-up for our 34th festival reflects the mix of traditional and electronic music from home A new festival with Rab Noakes, Ian Rankin, and abroad which makes this festival so special Dean Owens & The Celtabilly Allstars, Marha and we’re very excited to unveil the first names Healy, Hannah Rose Platt, The Marriage and David Latto at Woodside Hotel, Aberdour. A new on our bill for next year. We can’t wait to welcome familiar and new faces back to the event in festival celebrating the legacy of music legend May to experience the diversity, inclusiveness, Johnny Cash - his music, inspiration and his liberating atmosphere and musical celebration of family roots in the Kingdowm of Fife. A mix of original songs + songs written, inspired and cov- Knockengorroch.” ered by The Man in Black. Weekend accommodawww.knockengorroch.org.uk tion packages and individual gig tickets available. Info and ticket on link below.
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The Gathering Festival is set to return to The Northern Meeting Park in Inverness for its second outing on Saturday 30 May 2020 with a lineMànran :: 10 by the Ben up showcasing the very best traditional music, Fort William food & drink and crafts from the Highlands and across Scotland. The family friendly one day fes10-11 April Next year will mark ten years at the heart of the tival will feature a line-up including legendary Scottish trailblazers PEATBOG FAERIES who Scottish Traditional Music scene for folk supergroup Mànran. Having been in high demand as a have created a glorious mixture of traditional sounds and dance-floor grooves that have been live act across the world with shows in over 30 countries, the 7-piece are coming home to host embraced worldwide. Drawing upon a dazzling myriad of influences from jigs and reels through a star-studded two-day festival in Fort William on Friday and Saturday, 10-11 April. Joining the Dance Music, Jazz, African, and more, they will bring the sound of Scotland fresh-faced and band to celebrate their ten years at the top will be a host of talented friends, including long-time breathless to The Gathering. cohorts and internationally acclaimed, Skerrywww.thegatheringscotland.com vore, who will headline the Friday night.
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TradFest Edinburgh Edinburgh 1-11 May
Argyll 6 June
Scottish supergroup Skerryvore will celebrate their 15th anniversary next year with a special one-day festival branded ‘XV’ in the beautiful Edinburgh Tradfest has a rich story. With its longer tap roots in the Edinburgh Folk Festival, it grounds of Inveraray Castle, Argyll. Taking place on Saturday 6 June, this unmissable day of celewas launched by Traditional Arts and Culture brations will see Skerryvore welcome to the Scotland (TRACS) in 2013 to provide a distinctive platform for folk arts in the capital city. Ed- stage 15 special guests and acts who they have worked with over their 15 years at the centre of inburgh is a hot house of talent, home grown the contemporary Scottish traditional music and visiting, and Tradfest is an opportunity to scene. see it all in play. www.edinburghtradfest.com
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Orkney Folk Festival
Killin Music Festival
One of Scotland’s longest-running folk festivals, celebrating its 38th outing in 2020, the Orkney Folk Festival is one of the most prolific events in the Scottish and UK folk calendars, and one of the highlights of Orkney’s diary of community events. An entirely voluntary run event, the festival annually attracts artists from all corners of the folk world - from leading international names to up and coming fresh faces - to Stromness, in Orkney’s West Mainland, for four days of concerts, ceilidhs, clubs, sessions, talks and craic. Artists and audiences are welcomed by and into Orkney’s own thriving folk scene, with Orcadian artists providing around two thirds of the festival programme. Line-up announced across December-March, with tickets on sale in April, around six weeks ahead of the event.
Year 5 for Killin Music Festival promises to bring another exciting weekend to the heart of Scotland in June 2020. Lineup will be announced, and tickets will go on sale, towards the end of 2019.
Orkney 21-24 May
Killin 19-21 June
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JULY Stonehaven Folk Festival Stonehaven 9-12 July
….. concerts, ceilidh, sessions, singarounds, workshops, the famous aqua ceilidh and world paper’n’comb championships! www.stonehavenfolkfestival.co.uk
Tiree Music Festival Tiree 10-12 July
The festival offers a diverse programme with a mixture of genres including folk, pop and indie. Artists across the years have included The Fratellis, Dougie MacLean, Sharon Shannon, The Levellers, Capercaillie, Sandi Thom and Eddi Reader. With picture-perfect white sands and world-famous surf, a trip to Tiree Music Festival is a real Island adventure, often described as one of the most stunning festival locations in the world. Details of TMF2020 will be announced later in the year. www.tireemusicfestival.co.uk
TRNSMT Festival Glasgow 10-12 July
150,000 music fans descended on Glasgow Green last weekend for the sold out TRNSMT Festival which well and truly lived up to its reputation as Scotland’s biggest and best music festival. Hot on the heels of another hugely successful weekend, festival organisers have confirmed dates for TRNSMT 2020 with the festival set to return to Glasgow Green between 10th - 12th July 2020. Over 70 acts performed at TRNSMT 2019 over three days of incredible live music and glorious sunshine as fans were treated to unforgettable sets from Main Stage heavyweights Stormzy, Catfish & the Bottlemen, George Ezra, Gerry Cinnamon, Lewis Capaldi, Emeli Sandé and more while over at the King Tut’s Stage Powered by Utilita Energy and the brand new Queen Tut’s Stage, fans had the opportunity to check out an exciting array of up and coming talent from all over Scotland and further afield. www.trnsmtfest.com
HebCelt
Stornoway 15-18 July Four day festival set against the unique backdrop of the Hebrides. Organised by the HCF Trust, this first festival was held in 1996 and now regularly attracts attendances of 14,000 over its four day run. Wild, but not a bit woolly, this festival has built up a fabulously loyal audience locally and from across the world, many of whom have Hebridean ties, many of whom just love coming here and joining in the great party. www.hebceltfest.com
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