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--------------------------------------SATURDAY 7 MARCH Na Trads :: 6.55pm on BBC ALBA. TIDELINES perform at the 2017 Trad Awards. www.bbcalba.co.uk

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Take The Floor :: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. For the very best in traditional music and song, join Gary Innes for Take The Floor. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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Pipeline :: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Gary West presents the definitive pipe music programme, featuring news and recordings from the piping world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland

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Na Trads :: 9.40pm on BBC ALBA. FIDDLERS' BID perform tunes at the Trad Awards. www.bbcalba.co.uk

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Seirm - Celtic Connections :: 10-10.55pm on BBC ALBA. Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy, with music from Celtic Connections 2020. The fifth episode of the series presented by Mary Ann Kennedy. Seirm | Celtic Connections was recorded in front of an audience in a new home, in Glasgow’s Arches, at Celtic Connections, 2020. In this programme, an eclectic line up from this year’s festival and musical guests include The Poozies; Naad-hara’s appealing musical blend of Scotland and India; innovative pipe music from Two Octaves – Malin Makes Music, and friends who originally got together to make music in Benbecula, Eabhal.

Headlining the show are a band that formed ten years ago and are widely acclaimed for their music – Rura.

Their tenth birthday provided the opportunity to invite musical friends to form a big band: pipers Ali Hutton, Chris Waite and Finlay MacDonald; James Lindsay from Breabach on bass, and, returning to the band to mark their decade, Adam Holmes. www.bbcalba.co.uk Billy Sloan :: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Hot

releases plus rock and pop music from Scotland and around the world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland TUNE :: 11.55pm on BBC Scotland. Mark Mackenzie discusses Inverness's challenging and exciting dance music scene. www.bbc.co.uk/scotland Belladrum :: Midnight on BBC ALBA. Belladrum highlights from 2019 with JOHNNY MARR. www.bbcalba.co.uk SUNDAY 8 MARCH Take The Floor :: 5pm on BBC Radio Scotland. For the very best in traditional music and song, join Gary Innes for Take The Floor. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Jazz Nights :: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Seonaid Aitken with a special edition celebrating International Women's Day. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Classics Unwrapped :: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland.

Stephen Broad presents the best in classical music. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Seirm - Celtic Connections :: 10pm on BBC ALBA. Presented by Mary Ann Kennedy, with music from Celtic Connections 2020. 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 MONDAY 9 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 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 TUESDAY 10 MARCH The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland.

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page 3: music on scotland's tv + radio this week listeners. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Na Trads :: 7pm on BBC ALBA. DUNCAN CHISHOLM performs the 2015 Trad Awards. www.bbcalba.co.uk Another Country with Ricky Ross :: 8pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Live music and conversation from Louisiana-born singersongwriter GILL LANDRY. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland 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 11 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. Roddy Hart is joined by REN

HARVIEU and RICK REDBEARD for a night of gothic torchsongs. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Classic Scottish Albums :: 10pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Davie Scott reveals stories behind classic PRIMAL SCREAM album 'Screamadelica'. 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 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

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SATURDAY 14 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

Take The Floor :: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland.

For the very best in traditional music and song, join Gary Innes for Take The Floor. 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 :: 9-10pm on BBC ALBA. Music show presented by Mary Ann Kennedy. Seirm | Celtic Connections was filmed during Celtic Connections, 2020. On tonight’s programme, Naad-hara – a harmony of east and Travelling Folk :: 8pm on BBC Radio Scotland. west from the talented Mischa MacPherson in Bruce MacGregor chats to Fiona Dalgetty, Chief collaboration with a gifted singer and dancer Executive of Feis Rois.

Ankna Arockiam, plus Alasdair Iain Paterson, www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Sodhi Singh Deere and Charlie Stewart. There’s also the brilliant Seamus Egan Project, a band Natasha Raskin Sharp :: 10pm on BBC Radio from the states but with deep Irish roots and Scotland. An eclectic mix of music from Natasha. headlining the show, the acclaimed five-piece www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland band who won the prestigious Belhaven prize at the Trad Awards last year – Kinnaris Quintet.

Fonn Fonn Fonn :: 11.30pm on BBC ALBA. An www.bbcalba.co.uk off-beat music quiz show. www.bbcalba.co.uk Pipeline :: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Gary West presents the definitive pipe music FRIDAY 13 MARCH programme, featuring news and recordings from the piping world.

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SKERRYVORE :: USA Tour. Back on the remote Another Country with Ricky Ross :: 10pm on Scottish island of Tiree in 2005, the raw but BBC Radio Scotland. Live music and contemporary trad quartet that formed conversations from the 3 day country festival in Skerryvore could have only dreamed that over Glasgow. the next decade they would become a multiwww.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland award winning act that was performing in over 25 countries worldwide and featured as Belladrum :: 10.45pm on BBC ALBA. Three ambassadors for their country in an songs from an exclusive acoustic set by C. International advertising campaign for Visit DUNCAN at Belladrum 2016.

Scotland. From those traditional roots the band www.bbcalba.co.uk have developed both in size and sound to create a unique fusion of their traditional music and ------------------------------------------------ songs with the urban sounds of rock, pop and funk. The band’s ability to fuse traditional Scottish music and rhythms with a range of other genres is a trademark of their distinctive, high energy sound. Tour details @ www.skerryvore.com

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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

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 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 meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the latter's Dundee studio, it marks a departure from Woomble's traditional working methods with either piano or guitar. www.facebook.com/RoddyWoomble

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BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends; his debut in May 2019 and then a special request to perform on KING CREOSOTE :: At Usher Hall, Edinburgh.

SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At their Christmas show on the 21st December in For the first time in over five years the stunning Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 the rather special BBC Radio Theatre, to a Scottish archive film From Scotland With Love, 1PL. 7.30pm, tickets: £12, 0131 560 1581 or packed out audience. With releases from the by director Virginia Heath with musical score by online. Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti unites debut EP throughout 2019, Angus has been King Creosote, will be performed live in March India, Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful featured on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Afternoon 2020. From Scotland With Love was last incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali Show and played across many radio stations in performed to both critical and audience acclaim Baul folk tradition. March will see the quartet the UK. He has headlined many gigs including at the end of 2015. Folk singer and songwriter makes its UK debut on tour. Scottish classical The Troubadour, London, The Blue Arrow, King Creosote aka Kenneth Anderson from Fife, guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s innate gift Glasgow; Tooth & Claw, Inverness; The Jazz Scotland (born 1967) in his lengthy career has for reinvention and expansion comes together Bar, Edinburgh as part of EdFringe; The Blue released over 40 studio albums and also been with one of the subcontinent's spiritually and Moon, Putney and even made guest an integral member of the Scottish-Canadian musically richest cultures. The group features appearances on two Scottish shows for folk band The Burns Unit. In the early stages of his Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida Yesmin, singer favourites The Jellyman’s Daughter. With his career, Anderson played in many local Scottish and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the star in the ascendance, Angus has also featured bands such as Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Indian Baul heartland of Santiniketan, and on Equinox Sessions with Fat Suit, the popular Khatoum Heroes and in 1995 he launched the Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh, one of a growing ensemble which takes the sounds of the record label Fence Collective with Johnny Lynch number of exceptional female tabla exponents.

Brownswood recordings, the UK underground where he began producing and releasing Ticket links @ jazz scene, and the broad soundscapes of material under the moniker King Creosote. www.simonthacker.com Scottish folk. Founder member Dorian Cloudsley www.facebook.com/kingcreosote said of their collaboration - "Equinox Sessions 16 MARCH #3 features our longtime friend and 12 MARCH collaborator, Angus Munro. Angus is one of the Brookfield Knights presents ..... most phenomenally talented vocalists we've had SPINNING COIN :: At Sneaky Pete's, BRONWYNNE BRENT :: At Traverse Theatre, the pleasure of working with, regularly making Edinburgh. Glasgow’s Spinning Coin have Edinburgh. Mississippi Delta songbird Bronwynne the most ludicrous vocal acrobatics look easy, determinedly, and with single-minded purpose, Brent returns to these shores with a brand new and it was a joy to get back in the studio with made their music heard: beautifully rough-hewn album to promote, and those who have enjoyed him." Angus’ music is to be featured in a guitar pop that takes in frustration, escapism, privileged access to finished tracks pre-release forthcoming Hollywood film and he is in demand but also gracefulness and splendor, in equal are saying it's a stunner. Bronwynne will once as a song-writer, in addition to putting the measure. The band take their new album again be joined by other musicians to complete finishing touches to his first formal album Hyacinth on the road this March. these dates in trio format. The much-anticipated release which is as yet untitled. For The Voodoo www.facebook.com/spinningcoin new album is sure to attract a lot of media Rooms gig, Angus is supported by Glasgow attention. BBC's Bob Harris and other nationwide based Man of the Minch, recipient of the Up and ALI WHITWELL :: At Captain's Bar, South radio presenters have continued to feature her Coming Artist Award at the Scots Trad Music College Street, Edinburgh. Thursday 2.30pm. music on a regular basis.

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Khan are set to play a string of dates accross out!) :: At Leith Dockers Club, Leith. 2020 will Americana and other stuff! the UK in support of their most recent album kick off in hectic fashion for Dean Owens - A www.facebook.com/ali.whitwell.5 Navarasa: Nine Emotions. The record tackles new album, The Man From Leith: The Best of www.facebook.com/CaptainsBarEdinburgh Robert Burns and Sufi poetry via Dick Gaughan Dean Owens - will be released on London’s Eel and Amīr Khusrow Dehlavī, traditional Scottish Pie Records in March 2020, launching at Leith ANGUS MUNRO with support MAN OF THE songs, ragas and their own spidery Dockers Club on 13 March, as Dean and the MINCH :: At The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh. His compositions.

Southerners (and some special guests) before ridiculous four-octave vocal range, tear jerking www.yorkstonthornekhan.com/# hitting the road in March, and throughout songs, stage acrobatics and trademark wit, summer 2020 to promote it. helped propel Angus Munro on to the scene in 25 MARCH www.facebook.com/deanowensmusic 2019 with his debut album "MIRROR MAN”. In fact, Angus made a rare two visit appearance on THE SLOW READERS CLUB :: At The Liquid

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Get latest roads and traffic updates @ www.trafficscotland.org // www.twitter.com/trafficscotland 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 onto and behind the band while they perform, creating an immersive background that pulsates and intensifies along with the track’s infectious and anthemic climax. The Slow Readers Club will embark on an extensive tour throughout the UK and EU in March, April and May, including shows in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol and London’s Electric Ballroom, with many close to selling out. www.theslowreadersclub.co.uk 2 APRIL 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 26 APRIL THE EDINBURGH QUARTET :: At City of Edinburgh Methodist Church, Edinburgh. 4pm.

The Darkness to Light concert series continues with Weaving Conversations. The Edinburgh Quartet is committed to nurturing talent and is resident at the Universities of Aberdeen and Stirling and it continues to maintain a strong association with the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University. As well as giving a regular classical concert series at each of these institutions, the players work with composition students, instrumentalists and student teachers.

In addition to working with university students the Edinburgh Quartet’s outreach programme encompasses workshops for primary and

secondary school children and tutoring adults on the Variations Summer School in Ullapool and an annual Spring Chamber Music Course in Linlithgow. www.facebook.com/edinburghquartet

have always been complex and thrilling. Already acknowledged as phenomenal live performers (‘the UK’s best live band’ – the Guardian), Lau arrived at a new creative peak with 2019’s Midnight and Closedown (Reveal Records). That album was produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL & AIDAN This Is The Kit), who said: ‘Lau are in touch with O’ROURKE :: At Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. their roots but not bound by them’. Due to fan Winner of the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 demand Lau are set release "Lau Unplugged" on Folk Awards 2019 – Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of the 17 April. Recorded direct from the concert Scotland’s fastest rising stars. A native Gaelic desk in January 2020 by Lau’s sound engineer speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous Tim Matthew, Unplugged captures Lau live at the language and culture, but draws inspiration from start of their Unplugged Tour. The Scottish trio a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape of Kris Drever, Aidan O’Rourke and Martin Green Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut recreate and rearrange material from across album ‘The Reeling’ has had an extraordinary their catalogue for the Unplugged tour and this response since it’s launch at a sold out Celtic album highlights about an hour of raw, stripped Connections show at the start of 2019. She was down Lau performance, with no studio overdubs joined on the recording by violinist Aidan or re-recording. Now 2020’s Unplugged concert O’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who tour sees traditional music’s most celebrated also produced the album. Working closely with innovators strip away their banks of electronics, Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a loops and wild effects. The trio of Kris Drever completely new way of arranging for pipe music (guitar, vocals), Martin Green (accordion) and that emphasises the rich textural drones of the Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle) feel drawn to a more raw smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates and plain-speaking aesthetic. The approach is a trance-like quality in the tunes. She has subtler, less about spectacle, more about close collaborated with many established artists over listening. In brash and polarised political times, the years, including Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, here is the poetry of real instruments and Paul Meehan, Aidan O’Rourke, Carlos Nunez, considerate music making. Tickets £22/£19 from Martin Green, Allan MacDonald.

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7pm for 8pm. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. The pioneering Scottish folk trio have always experimented with sound and form; the results

1 JUNE 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 Tradfest event. After they took the prestigious Baltimore Fiddle Fair in Cork, by storm,

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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 16 SEPTEMBER 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 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.efc1973.com www.rabnoakes.com

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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.

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country, North Atlas are back on the road ahead of the release of new music. The three piece electro-alternative band of brothers embark on their first Scottish tour since heading 12 MARCH Belladrum’s Seedlings Stage last year. Achieving national airplay on Planet Rock and the BBC for KING CREOSOTE :: At Glasgow Royal Concert their latest single South, North Atlas are set to Hall, Glasgow. For the first time in over five take on 2020 by storm with a swathe of new years the stunning Scottish archive film From music and live appearances throughout the UK. Scotland With Love, by director Virginia Heath Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a with musical score by King Creosote, will be successful show hosted by Primordial radio performed live in March 2020. From Scotland where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for With Love was last performed to both critical SAMH and Marine Conservation Society and audience acclaim at the end of 2015. Folk charities, the band will also play Dunfermline, singer and songwriter King Creosote aka Dundee, Inverness, Newton Stewart, Galashiels Kenneth Anderson from Fife, Scotland (born and Paisley. Tickets @ 1967) in his lengthy career has released over 40 www.musicglue.com/northatlas studio albums and also been an integral member of the Scottish-Canadian band The Burns Unit.

29 MARCH In the early stages of his career, Anderson played in many local Scottish bands such as RODDY WOOMBLE :: At Arts Centre, Paisley.

Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Khatoum Heroes Minimal and hypnotic, it's neither song nor and in 1995 he launched the record label Fence poem, and serves as the perfect taster for the Collective with Johnny Lynch where he began rest of Roddy Woomble's new EP and producing and releasing material under the forthcoming UK tour with Andrew Mitchell. moniker King Creosote.

"Spontaneous and creative" is how he describes www.facebook.com/kingcreosote their collaboration - qualities now applied to the latest chapter of one of Scotland's most 15 MARCH acclaimed artists. "Everyday Sun" is a new single from Roddy Woomble, and the first taken SPINNING COIN :: At Centre For from his forthcoming EP. The song is a hazy Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Glasgow’s rumination, where observations on Spinning Coin have determinedly, and with meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written single-minded purpose, made their music heard: alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild beautifully rough-hewn guitar pop that takes in bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the frustration, escapism, but also gracefulness and latter's Dundee studio, it marks a departure splendor, in equal measure. The band take their from Woomble's traditional working methods new album Hyacinth on the road this March. with either piano or guitar. www.facebook.com/spinningcoin www.facebook.com/RoddyWoomble 18 MARCH

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BRONWYNNE BRENT :: At Performing Arts Centre, Kilbarchan. 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 muchanticipated 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

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SIOBHAN MILLER :: At CCA Glasgow, Glasgow. 7.30pm for 8pm. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. One of Scotland’s foremost singers, Siobhan Miller is an exceptional talent, renowned for her unique vocal style paired with her evocative song-writing. Miller creates music with detail and rich melodies that combine the sounds of indie and alternative music with sounds from her roots in folk music. Growing up in a musical family, she was immersed in traditional song and learned from many of Scotland’s finest source singers in her early years as a performer. Miller won the 2018 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best Traditional Track, whilst also nominated for Folk Singer of the Year, and is the only ever three-time winner of Scots Singer of the Year at the BBC Alba Scots Trad Music Awards. She releases her fourth album in spring 2020 – following three critically acclaimed solo releases – touring with Innes White (guitar/mandolin), Charlie Stewart (fiddle) and Euan Burton (double bass). Alongside her extensive solo ventures, Miller’s unique vocal style has been honed through collaborations with many of Scotland’s top musicians, as well as guest appearances with the National Theatre of Scotland, a season on Broadway, and a role on US/UK TV drama Outlander. Tickets £15 plus STBF from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151 and @ www.ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com

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BRONWYNNE BRENT plus support :: At Glad Café, Glasgow. Doors 7.30pm for 8pm. Tickets £13 from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151 and Ticketweb. 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. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to 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

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Amber performs solo and in band arrangements. She is often accompanied by long time friend and Cajun/oldtime fiddler Gary Arcemont and husband James Moore.

The two men play a variety of instruments to support Amber’s songs; guitar, fiddle, banjo, harmonica, mandolin and upright bass, as well as offering vocal support. Tickets £13 plus STBF from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151 and @ www.ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com 15 APRIL BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL & AIDAN O’ROURKE :: At CCA, Glasgow. 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

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 22 APRIL 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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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

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LYNNE HANSON & THE GOOD INTENTIONS plus support :: At The Glad Cafe, Glasgow. 8pm. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. www.fallenangelsclub.com 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 internationally-

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 15: glasgow + surrounding area acclaimed 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. 7.30pm for 8pm. The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. We look forward to welcoming back this fantastic odd couple back to Glasgow in May. Odessa, originally released in 1994 and Milk And Scissors in 1996 will be re-released by Loose Music is 2020 and available for the first time in vinyl.

The Handsome Family have written some of the most haunting and beautiful songs in American music. During a 30-year career, Brett and Rennie Sparks have created songs that transform the mundane landscape of modern life into a place of mysterious portent.

Handsome Family songs take place in parking lots and big box stores, under overpasses and in airports. They sing about Custer’s last stand and automatic lawn sprinklers in the same song. Rennie’s lyrics often focus on the myriad creatures that live at the edges of the manmade world: the sparrows, rats, cockroaches and crows that share our cities. Tickets £17.50 (plus STBF) from Tickets Scotland on 0141 204 5151 and @ www.ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com 12 MAY Brookfield Knights presents ..... THUNDER AND RAIN :: At Performing Arts Centre, Kilbarchan. 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 20 MAY LAU 'Unplugged Tour' :: At The Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock. 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

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Ensemble unites India, Bangladesh and the UK GIGnotes :: MARCH:

7 March, 8pm, Ardross Hall, Ardross by Alness, Ross-shire IV17 OXW. Tickets £10,

£8 conc., £4 student, 01349 880591 (no fee) or online (booking fee) // 8 March, 6.15pm, Bengali Performing Arts Glasgow at Eastwood Park Theatre, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock G46 6UG, part of a 12pm-10pm Multicultural Music Festival, Tickets: £15 including dinner, 0141 577 4956 or online // 9 March, 8pm, Lyth Arts Centre, Lyth, Wick KW1 4UD, Tickets: £20 (food and ticket), £10/6 ticket only, 01955 641434 or online // 10 March, 7.30pm, West Coast Arts, Gairloch Community Hall, Gairloch, IV21 2BP. Tickets on the door: adults £10, under 18s free // 11 March, 7.30pm, Universal Hall, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, Moray, IV36 3TZ. Tickets £14/£12 concs/£10 U16s online // 13 March, 8pm, Eyemouth Hippodrome, Harbour Road, Eyemouth TD14 5HT. Tickets: £11 early bird, £13.50 standard, £650 under 25, 01890 750099 or online. // 14 March, 7.30pm, Middlesbrough Town Hall, Albert Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 2QJ. Tickets, free (+booking fee) but booking essential, 01642 729 729 or online // 15 March, 7.30pm, Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL. Tickets: £12, 0131 560 1581 or online. Links @ www.simonthacker.com

Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti unites India, Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali Baul folk tradition. This month sees 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.

Baul music is one of the longest surviving examples of wandering minstrelsy, imbued with mysticism and universal messages of love and truth. In Farida, Raju and Sunayana, Simon found kindred spirits searching for the same freedom of spirit and depth of expression that has defined his own radically individualist path.

The Baul Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti debuted in India to standing ovations in 2014, with the full trio programme premiering to exceptional acclaim at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as part of the prestigious Made in Scotland showcase. The quartet debuted in 2016 to 60 000 people at the Dhaka International Folk Fest and appeared at the Sacred Pushkar in 2017, one of the region's major sacred music festivals, before releasing the Scottish New Music Award winning double album Trikala in 2018. They have featured on BBC Radio 3's In Tune and World on 3, Maasranga Bangla TV, BBC Asian Network and STV. "One wonders whether in a past life Simon Thacker was a Bengali itinerant Baul mystic musician or perhaps a South Indian master of mridangam. Such is his grasp of the techniques and spirit of India’s disparate musical styles...a major statement in the coevolution of Indian and Western music."

Songlines Magazine - "isn't diluted to get a desired but superficial effect, instead it distills down to deeper essences and ancient traditions."

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GRETCHEN PETERS :: At Community Central

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The Fallen Angels Club bringing you the best Americana music to Glasgow. For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville’s most beloved and respected artists. “If Peters never delivers another tune as achingly beautiful as ‘On A Bus To St. Cloud,'” People Magazine wrote, “she has already earned herself a spot among country’s upper echelon of contemporary composers.” Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October 2014 by singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who called her “both a songwriter and a poet (who) sings as beautifully as she writes,” and said her song “The Matador”, “moved me so greatly, I cried from the soles of my feet”, Peters has accumulated accolades as a songwriter for artists as diverse as Etta James, Bonnie Raitt, The Neville Brothers, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Bryan Adams and Faith Hill. Her 2015 album, ‘Blackbirds’, debuted at #1 on the UK Country chart and in the top 40 UK pop chart, and was awarded International Album of the Year and Song of the Year. In 2015, The Telegraph named her one of the greatest 60 female singersongwriters of all time. Her latest album, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury, is a loving tribute to another Hall of Fame songwriter and a profound influence on Peters’ own writing. It will be released in May 2020. Tickets from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151 and Ticketweb. www.fallenangelsclub.com 27 MAY RAB NOAKES - Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of my first LP ‘Do you see the lights? :: At Glad Café, Glasgow. 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 oldfashioned 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.thegladcafe.co.uk www.rabnoakes.com 31 MAY The Fallen Angels Club presents .....

MADISON VIOLET :: At CCA, Glasgow. 8pm.

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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 DEAN OWENS & THE SOUTHERNERS :: At lengthy career has released over 40 studio The Glad Cafe, Glasgow. 8pm. 2020 will kick off albums and also been an integral member of the in hectic fashion for Dean Owens - A new album, Scottish-Canadian band The Burns Unit. In the The Man From Leith: The Best of Dean Owens - early stages of his career, Anderson played in will be released on London’s Eel Pie Records in many local Scottish bands such as Skuobhie March 2020, launching at Leith Dockers Club on Dubh Orchestra and Khatoum Heroes and in 13 March, as Dean and the Southerners (and 1995 he launched the record label Fence some special guests) before hitting the road in Collective with Johnny Lynch where he began March, and throughout summer 2020 to promote producing and releasing material under the it. moniker King Creosote. www.facebook.com/deanowensmusic www.facebook.com/kingcreosote 4 JUNE

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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

SPINNING COIN :: At Beat Generator, Dundee.

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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BRONWYNNE BRENT :: At Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy. Mississippi Delta songbird Bronwynne Brent returns to these shores with a brand new album to promote, and those who have enjoyed . Email them to Carol privileged access to finished tracks pre-release carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com are saying it's a stunner. Bronwynne will once again be joined by other musicians to complete 6-8 MARCH these dates in trio format. The much-anticipated new album is sure to attract a lot of media CashBack in Fife with RAB NOAKES, IAN attention. BBC's Bob Harris and other nationwide RANKIN, DEAN OWENS & THE CELTABILLY radio presenters have continued to feature her ALLSTARS, MARHA HEALY, HANNAH ROSE music on a regular basis.

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began Easter concerts in Clunie Village Hall and in March 2019 we had two great sold-out Clunie Concerts again. Now we are moving to a very NORTH ATLAS :: At Monty's Rock Bar, special new venue …Cardney Steading on the Dunfermline. 7pm, £3. North Atlas are back on Carney Estate (between Dunkeld and the road! Hitting Scottish towns and cities Butterstone). The steading is beautifully restored throughout the country, North Atlas are back on stone and brilliantly adapted as a venue. Set in a the road ahead of the release of new music. The stunning landscape with amazing views and three piece electro-alternative band of brothers wildlife it will we are sure become one of our embark on their first Scottish tour since heading very special venues. If there is a demand we will Belladrum’s Seedlings Stage last year. Achieving hire a shuttle bus, leaving from and returning to national airplay on Planet Rock and the BBC for Dunkeld. Please email admin@butterstone.com if their latest single South, North Atlas are set to you are interested in tickets for this. At Cardney take on 2020 by storm with a swathe of new Steading there will be a licensed bar with tea, music and live appearances throughout the UK. coffee and non alcoholic dinks available as well Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a as the usual beers, wines and spirits….including successful show hosted by Primordial radio The Gael gin and Caledonia whisky! Tickets and where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for more info @ SAMH and Marine Conservation Society charities, www.dougiemaclean.com the band will also play Dunfermline, Dundee, Inverness, Newton Stewart, Galashiels and 21 MARCH Paisley. Tickets @ www.musicglue.com/northatlas The Cardney Concerts with DOUGIE 7 MARCH

11 MARCH KING CREOSOTE :: At Perth Concert Hall, Perth. 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

MacLEAN :: At The Cardney Concerts, Cardney Steading, Cardney Estate, Butterstone, Dunkeld, Perthshire, PH8 0EY. We hope you’ll join us for a new adventure this coming Spring. Years ago we began Easter concerts in Clunie Village Hall and in March 2019 we had two great sold-out Clunie Concerts again. Now we are moving to a very special new venue …Cardney Steading on the Carney Estate (between Dunkeld and

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RAB NOAKES - Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of my first LP ‘Do you see the lights? :: At Backstage at The Green, Kinross.

9pm, £18. 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, 23 MARCH many of which appeared on Demos & Rarities Vol One. They include ‘Turn a deaf ear’, ‘(What YORKSTON/THORNE/KHAN :: At Perth would have happened) If I’d stayed around?’, Theatre, Perth. Yorkston / Thorne / Khan are set ‘November afternoon’, ‘Long time no see’, ‘It to play a string of dates accross the UK in could be you’, ‘Looking up into the sun’, ‘Debts support of their most recent album Navarasa: pile high’, ‘Taking the long way home’, ‘Long Nine Emotions. The record tackles Robert Burns way round’ and others.” Tickets @ and Sufi poetry via Dick Gaughan and Amīr www.mundellmusic.com Khusrow Dehlavī, traditional Scottish songs, www.rabnoakes.com ragas and their own spidery compositions. www.yorkstonthornekhan.com/# 18 APRIL 28 MARCH RODDY WOOMBLE :: At Webster Memorial Theatre, Arbroath. 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 meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the latter's Dundee studio, it marks a departure from Woomble's traditional working methods with either piano or guitar. www.facebook.com/RoddyWoomble 4 APRIL NORTH ATLAS :: At Church, Dundee. 7pm, £6.

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 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. 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 17 APRIL

24 APRIL Langtoun Jazz Fundraiser - Jazz Night with LOCARNO SWING + TIM SAUL QUARTET with special guest ANGELA DUNCAN :: At Windsor Hotel. 8pm. £15. www.facebook.com/langtounjazz 27 MARCH Langtoun Jazz Fundraiser - Blues Night with MAIN STREET BLUES + WOLFTRAIN :: At Windsor Hotel. 8pm. £15. www.facebook.com/langtounjazz 21 MAY

LAU 'Unplugged Tour' :: At The Tolbooth, Stirling. 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 BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL & AIDAN music's most celebrated innovators strip away O’ROURKE :: At Tolbooth, Stirling. Winner of their banks of electronics, loops and wild effects. the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk The trio of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), Martin Awards 2019 – Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of Green (accordion) and Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle) Scotland’s fastest rising stars. A native Gaelic feel drawn to a more raw and plain-speaking speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous aesthetic. The approach is subtler, less about language and culture, but draws inspiration from spectacle, more about close listening. In brash a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape and polarised political times, here is the poetry Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut of real instruments and considerate music album ‘The Reeling’ has had an extraordinary making. response since it’s launch at a sold out Celtic www.facebook.com/LAUband Connections show at the start of 2019. She was joined on the recording by violinist Aidan 28 MAY O’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who also produced the album. Working closely with Brookfield Knights presents ..... THUNDER Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a AND RAIN with THE FRETLESS :: At Acoustic completely new way of arranging for pipe music Music Club, Kirkcaldy. When RnR magazine told that emphasises the rich textural drones of the readers: “There’s something special happening smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates here,” and Colorado band Thunder and Rain a trance-like quality in the tunes. She has toured the UK early in 2019, it sparked interest collaborated with many established artists over from a music-loving public keen to encounter the years, including Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, something special. Big crowds turned out to Paul Meehan, Aidan O’Rourke, Carlos Nunez, catch the band that Maverick magazine had Martin Green, Allan MacDonald. described as “like The Stray Birds, with a slightly www.aidanorourke.net bigger sound.” No one was disappointed. When www.brichaimbeul.com the reviews came in, they were filled with similar praise. Now, they return with a brand new 23 APRIL album to promote, and aiming to impress again. www.facebook.com/thunderandrainco Brookfield Knights presents ..... Letitia www.brookfield-knights.com VanSant (duo) :: At Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy. Baltimore’s Letitia VanSant first came 30 MAY to prominence in 2017 when she won the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Song-writing Langtoun Jazz Fundraiser - THE RED HOT competition - an honour previously granted to RHYTHM MAKERS :: At Old Kirk, Kirkcaldy. many who went on to become big names, such 2pm. £10. All female sextet focusing on music as Lucinda Williams and Nanci Griffith. Since from the ground-breaking women of jazz and releasing her debut album in Europe, the blues. powerfully impressive singer-song-writer has www.facebook.com/langtounjazz won a legion of new fans…and many glowing reviews. Last time she toured here with her 25 JUNE band’s guitarist who also provided backing vocals -David McKindley-Ward - they made a big RAB NOAKES - Celebrating The 50th impact. It will be the same duo format again.

Anniversary of my first LP ‘Do you see the www.facebook.com/LetitiaVanSant lights? :: At Clarks on Lindsay Street, Dundee. www.brookfield-knights.com Rab - “For me, 1969 ended with the preparation well underway for the recording sessions for my

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 20: fife + central + perthshire + tayside :: aberdeen + ne :: highlands + west 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 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

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. www.facebook.com/kingcreosote

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Brookfield Knights presents ..... THE FRETLESS :: At Glenbuchat Hall, Strathdon.

Multiple Juno Awards-winning Canadian supergroup, The Fretless, return to exhilarate audiences once again. The buzz they generated 8 MAY at Celtic Connections Festival was amazing, completely confirming all that had been written Brookfield Knights presents ..... THUNDER about them. The same happened after they AND RAIN :: At The Tin Hut, Gartly. When RnR appeared as one of the main visiting attractions magazine told readers: “There’s something at Shetland Folk Festival and Edinburgh’s annual special happening here,” and Colorado band Tradfest event. After they took the prestigious Thunder and Rain toured the UK early in 2019, it Baltimore Fiddle Fair in Cork, by storm, sparked interest from a music-loving public keen organiser Declan McCarthy said: “In a weekend to encounter something special. Big crowds full of highlights, The Fretless were many turned out to catch the band that Maverick people’s favourite. We’d have them back magazine had described as “like The Stray Birds, anytime!” with a slightly bigger sound.” No one was www.facebook.com/thefretless disappointed. When the reviews came in, they www.brookfield-knights.com 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 11 APRIL 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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SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At Ardross Hall, Ardross by Alness, Ross-shire IV17 OXW. 8pm. Tickets £10, £8 conc., £4 student, 01349 880591 (no fee) or online (booking fee).

Simon Thacker's Svara-Kanti unites India, Bangladesh and the UK in its powerful 15 APRIL incarnation expanding on the mystical Bengali Baul folk tradition. March will see the quartet Almost Blue Promotions presents .....

AMBER CROSS :: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen. makes its UK debut on tour. Scottish classical 7.30pm. ABP bringing Country/Americana/Folk/ guitarist/composer Simon Thacker’s innate gift Roots music gigs to Aberdeen - named after the for reinvention and expansion comes together with one of the subcontinent's spiritually and iconic Elvis Costello album of Country covers, Almost Blue Promotions was set up with the aim musically richest cultures. The group features Bangladeshi Baul singer Farida Yesmin, singer of bringing Americana, Country, Roots gigs to Aberdeen on a regular basis. They regularly host and khomok virtuoso Raju Das Baul, from the Send us all your gig dates for artists from the US & Canada as well as the UK. Indian Baul heartland of Santiniketan, and Aberdeenshire and the Kolkata's Sunayana Ghosh, one of a growing www.facebook.com/AlmostBluePromotions north east area number of exceptional female tabla exponents.

Ticket links @ 10 MAY Email them to Carol www.simonthacker.com Brookfield Knights presents ..... THUNDER carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 8 MARCH AND RAIN :: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen.

When RnR magazine told readers: “There’s 7 MARCH KING CREOSOTE :: At Eden Court Theatre, something special happening here,” and Inverness. For the first time in over five years Colorado band Thunder and Rain toured the UK Almost Blue Promotions presents ..... AGS the stunning Scottish archive film From Scotland early in 2019, it sparked interest from a musicCONNOLLY :: At The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen.

With Love, by director Virginia Heath with 7.30pm. ABP bringing Country/Americana/Folk/ loving public keen to encounter something Roots music gigs to Aberdeen - named after the special. Big crowds turned out to catch the band musical score by King Creosote, will be performed live in March 2020. From Scotland that Maverick magazine had described as “like iconic Elvis Costello album of Country covers, With Love was last performed to both critical and Almost Blue Promotions was set up with the aim The Stray Birds, with a slightly bigger sound.” audience acclaim at the end of 2015. Folk singer No one was disappointed. When the reviews of bringing Americana, Country, Roots gigs to and songwriter King Creosote aka Kenneth Aberdeen on a regular basis. They regularly host came in, they were filled with similar praise.

Anderson from Fife, Scotland (born 1967) in his artists from the US & Canada as well as the UK. Now, they return with a brand new album to lengthy career has released over 40 studio promote, and aiming to impress again. www.facebook.com/AlmostBluePromotions albums and also been an integral member of the www.facebook.com/thunderandrainco Scottish-Canadian band The Burns Unit. In the www.brookfield-knights.com 9 MARCH early stages of his career, Anderson played in many local Scottish bands such as Skuobhie 16 MAY KING CREOSOTE :: At Music Hall, Aberdeen.

Dubh Orchestra and Khatoum Heroes and in For the first time in over five years the stunning 1995 he launched the record label Fence Almost Blue Promotions presents .....

JOHN Scottish archive film From Scotland With Love, Collective with Johnny Lynch where he began MILLER AND HIS COUNTRY CASUALS :: At by director Virginia Heath with musical score by producing and releasing material under the The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen.

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Country/Americana/Folk/Roots music gigs to 2020. From Scotland With Love was last performed to both critical and audience acclaim Aberdeen - named after the iconic Elvis Costello www.facebook.com/kingcreosote album of Country covers, Almost Blue at the end of 2015. Folk singer and songwriter 9 MARCH King Creosote aka Kenneth Anderson from Fife, Promotions was set up with the aim of bringing Americana, Country, Roots gigs to Aberdeen on Scotland (born 1967) in his lengthy career has released over 40 studio albums and also been an a regular basis. They regularly host artists from SIMON THACKER'S SVARA-KANTI :: At Lyth Arts Centre, Lyth, Wick KW1 4UD. 8pm, tickets: integral member of the Scottish-Canadian band the US & Canada as well as the UK.

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 22: highlands + west coast + moray :: west coast islands + orkney + shetland £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 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 15 MARCH

YORKSTON/THORNE/KHAN :: At Old Bridge Inn, Inverness. 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/#

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 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.

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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 underway for the recording sessions for my first LP. I had signed a deal with a production

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Transclyde Music is a group of like minded people on the Isle of Bute whose aims are to promote live music on the island. For their latest gig news go to …. www.facebook.com/Transclydemusic 26 MARCH RODDY WOOMBLE :: At The String, Lerwick, Shetland. 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 meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the latter's Dundee studio, it marks a departure from Woomble's traditional working methods with either piano or guitar. www.facebook.com/RoddyWoomble 16 APRIL BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL & AIDAN

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 23: west coast islands + orkney + shetland :: ayrshire + dumfriesshire O’ROURKE :: At Aros, Portree, 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

Owens - A new album, The Man From Leith: The for Dumfriesshire, Best of Dean Owens - will be released on South West and Cumbria areas London’s Eel Pie Records in March 2020, launching at Leith Dockers Club on 13 March, as Email them to Carol Dean and the Southerners (and some special carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com guests) before hitting the road in March, and throughout summer 2020 to promote it.

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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!”

17 APRIL www.facebook.com/thefretless NORTH ATLAS :: At The Vault Arts Centre, www.brookfield-knights.com Newton Stewart. 7pm, £5. North Atlas are back BRÌGHDE CHAIMBEUL & AIDAN on the road! Hitting Scottish towns and cities O’ROURKE :: At Seall, Sleat, Isle of Skye.

29 MAY throughout the country, North Atlas are back on Winner of the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 the road ahead of the release of new music.

Folk Awards 2019 – Brìghde Chaimbeul is one of Brookfield Knights presents ..... THE The three piece electro-alternative band of Scotland’s fastest rising stars. A native Gaelic FRETLESS :: At The String, Lerwick, Shetland. brothers embark on their first Scottish tour since speaker, her style is rooted in her indigenous Multiple Juno Awards-winning Canadian heading Belladrum’s Seedlings Stage last year. language and culture, but draws inspiration from supergroup, The Fretless, return to exhilarate Achieving national airplay on Planet Rock and a variety of piping traditions such as from Cape audiences once again. The buzz they generated the BBC for their latest single South, North Atlas Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut at Celtic Connections Festival was amazing, are set to take on 2020 by storm with a swathe album ‘The Reeling’ has had an extraordinary completely confirming all that had been written of new music and live appearances throughout response since it’s launch at a sold out Celtic about them. The same happened after they the UK. Returning to Edinburgh off the back of a Connections show at the start of 2019. She was appeared as one of the main visiting attractions successful show hosted by Primordial radio joined on the recording by violinist Aidan at Shetland Folk Festival and Edinburgh’s annual where the band helped to raise £1114.30 for O’Rourke from experimental folk trio Lau, who Tradfest event. After they took the prestigious SAMH and Marine Conservation Society also produced the album. Working closely with Baltimore Fiddle Fair in Cork, by storm, charities, the band will also play Dunfermline, Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde has devised a organiser Declan McCarthy said: “In a weekend Dundee, Inverness, Newton Stewart, Galashiels completely new way of arranging for pipe music full of highlights, The Fretless were many and Paisley. Tickets @ that emphasises the rich textural drones of the people’s favourite. We’d have them back www.musicglue.com/northatlas smallpipes; the constancy of sound that creates anytime!” a trance-like quality in the tunes. She has www.facebook.com/thefretless 10 APRIL collaborated with many established artists over www.brookfield-knights.com the years, including Ross Ainslie, John McSherry, RODDY WOOMBLE :: At Harbour Arts Centre, Paul Meehan, Aidan O’Rourke, Carlos Nunez, Irvine. Minimal and hypnotic, it's neither song Martin Green, Allan MacDonald. nor poem, and serves as the perfect taster for www.aidanorourke.net the rest of Roddy Woomble's new EP and www.brichaimbeul.com forthcoming UK tour with Andrew Mitchell.

"Spontaneous and creative" is how he describes 21-24 MAY their collaboration - qualities now applied to the latest chapter of one of Scotland's most DEAN OWENS & THE SOUTHERNERS :: At acclaimed artists. "Everyday Sun" is a new Orkney Folk Festival, Orkney. Various venues.

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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 24: ayrshire + dumfriesshire :: scottish borders :: + 1 hr over border from his forthcoming EP. The song is a hazy rumination, where observations on meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the latter's Dundee studio, it marks a departure from Woomble's traditional working methods with either piano or guitar. www.facebook.com/RoddyWoomble 11 APRIL RODDY WOOMBLE :: At Catstrand Arts Centre, Castle Douglas. 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 meaninglessness sit alongside optimism. Written alongside frequent collaborator and Idlewild bandmate Andrew Mitchell and recorded in the latter's Dundee studio, it marks a departure from Woomble's traditional working methods with either piano or guitar. www.facebook.com/RoddyWoomble

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 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

boy bleeds for you – he a real down deep player and a soul man…” Seasick Steve. www.davearcari.com 23 MAY LAU 'Unplugged Tour' :: At Sage Gateshead.

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

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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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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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