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Pathhead Music Collective - Celebration Of Commonwealth Games And African Music: At Pathhead Village Hall 3pm-5.30pm, with AKROWA DRUM AND DANCE ENSEMBLE & SIAKA DIARRA will perform with PMC members, the Pathhead Choir, the Pathhead Young Fiddlers, and the Pathhead African Drum & Dance group. Tickets from Wahlberg’s Bakers, Main St, Pathhead. £5 for Adults, Under 16s free. Remaining tickets will be available on the door. www.pathheadmusiccollective.org.uk
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EVA PLAYS DEAD: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £6, Time 7.30pm.
ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK / THE AMORETTES: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £8, Time 7.30pm.
WHITE DENIM: The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Tickets £16 adv. Plus BF. Doors 7pm. 23 MAY AVENGER /SPARTAN WARRIOR: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £7, Time 8pm. SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL TOUR with WE ARE THE IN CROWD + MORE: The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Tickets £15 adv. Plus BF. Doors 6pm.
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX /SPECIAL GUESTS: The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Tickets £12 adv. Plus BF. Doors 7pm. 28 MAY CAPITAL X / HOTSTUFF & THE EYECANDY: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £6, Time 8pm. 29 MAY
FAT GOTH: Album launch show. for 'One Hundred Percent Suave' At Electric Circus, Edinburgh. "My A BAND CALLED QUINN: At Summerhall, Edinburgh. favourite rock band on the planet right now" Vic If you missed ABCQ performing Biding Time (remix) at Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland) http://fatgoth.bandcamp.com last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the band were blown away by the reaction to the show and are ALASDAIR ROBERTS: Night #03 @The Counting looking forward to touring it this year; hopefully to a House, Edinburgh, featuring The Forgotten Works, Sea venue near you! Shanties and Craft workshops. www.bidingtimeremix.com www.alasdairroberts.com www.facebook.com/abandcalledquinn 24 MAY
Pathhead Music Collective - Celebration Of Commonwealth Games And African Music: At Tynewater Primary, Pathhead, 6pm-7.30pm with AKROWA DRUM AND DANCE ENSEMBLE & SIAKA Diarra will perform with PMC members and the schoolchildren of Tynewater Primary School. Tickets available from Tynewater Primary School (0131 271 4710 / tynewater_ps@midlothian.gov.uk). Remaining tickets will be available on the door. www.pathheadmusiccollective.org.uk
EAST INDIA YOUTH; The music that he creates is absolutely astounding, an original mixture of dark Detroit techno, lo-fi psychedelic noise rock, deeply romantic Pet Shop Boys-esque synth pop and ramshackle avant-electronica. Cabaret Voltaire 36-38 Blair St, Edinburgh. Time 7.00pm – 10.00pm 14+ show. Tickets £7.50.
THE DERELLAS / BUZZBOMB, THE BROTHEL CORPSE TRIO / HELLO CREEPY SPIDER: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £7, Time 8pm.
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PHIL & ALY Spring Tour: At Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh. EH21 6AA. 8 pm. 0131 665 2240. In 1988, two members from two of Scotland’s leading bands, “The Boys of The Lough” and “Silly Wizard”, came together to work on a television series. You could say “the rest is history”. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham enjoyed performing together so much that they decided to have a small tour that year. 25 years on, they are filling not only small village halls, but all of our major performance venues. www.bruntontheatre.co.uk http://philandaly.com/ THE REZILLOS: The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Tickets £17.50 adv. Plus BF. Doors 7pm. 25 MAY
BLUEPRINT: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £5, Time 8pm.
The Fallen Angels Club present: AOIFE O'DONOVAN plus Rachel Ries @ Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh. Doors 7.30pm/Start 8. £13.00. Aoife O’Donovan is known as the lead singer of Crooked Still and Sometymes Why. She has collaborated with some of the most eminent names across roots, classical, bluegrass, and jazz, from Alison Krauss and Chris Thile, to Gabriel Kahane and Dave Douglas. Aoife received high-praise for her performance at last year’s Transatlantic Sessions and this year’s Celtic Connections festival. With interest now high on both sides of the Atlantic, Aoife O’Donovan’s shows are not to be missed. RACHEL RIES hails from the inspiring, vast expanses of South Dakota, by way of Zaire. Her formative years were filled with Mennonite hymns, Suzuki violin and The Carpenters. Currently splitting her time between rural Vermont and New York City, she crafts sly and compassionate songs for the crooked hearted. With a clear voice and steady hand, she pulls the listener into her world of city grit, country dirt, and her open-eyed search for redemption and reason. The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh.
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Tickets £13 from Tickets Scotland 0131 220 3234 and Ripping Records 0131 227 7070 www.ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com Moon Hop with WITHERED HAND, MEURSAULT, CARBS, LOMOND CAMPBELL: Plus a very special guest to play the first of the new monthly Moon Hop club nights at Edinburgh’s Rowantree. Audible enjoyment comes in the form of Withered Hand, currently riding on a wave of critical acclaim thanks to the recently released ‘New Gods’, former Scottish Album of the Year nominees Meursault and Carbs, the hip hop side project of Jonnie Common and James Scott. Plus, Lomond Campbell - he of FOUND fame and a set from a very special guest! Moon Hop is moving from it’s former home at the Safari Lounge to become a monthly affair at The Rowantree and is now set to become one the city’s monthly must-attends. Moon Hop will mix performances by some of the UK’s most exciting musicians with sets from the Moon Hop DJ’s and their genre defying record collection. Tickets for the event are priced at £2 plus booking fee and must be purchased in advance via Brown Paper Tickets. Doors will open at 7.30. Tickets: http://moonhop.brownpapertickets.com/ Event page: www.facebook.com/events/509818142456363 https://twitter.com/Moon_Hop MOSTLY AUTUMN: The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Tickets £17.50. Plus BF. Doors 7pm. 31 MAY
THE HOLY GHOSTS: At The Electric Circus, Edinburgh. The Holy Ghosts, formed in January 2012 to spread the good word of the rock n roll gospel. They picked up 'Best Newcomer' at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards 2013 and have also performed live on BBC ALBA for their RAPAL TV show. They release their debut album 'Ride Them Down' on the 30 May. Tickets at www.gigsinscotland.com www.facebook.com/theholyghosts
DHM Concerts presents .....THE HAZEY JANES with special guest ANNA McLUCKIE: At The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. Dundee's finest head for the capital after supporting Deacon Blue on tour. Doors + bar 6.30pm, start 7.30pm. tICKETS AT www.thequeenshall.net www.thehazeyjanes.com
THE FORNICATORS: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £6, Time 8pm.
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The Fallen Angels Club present SAM BAKER: THE MERRYLEES: The Liquid Room, 9c Victoria Playing his first Edinburgh headline gig. TexasStreet, Edinburgh, Tickets £5 adv. Plus BF. based Sam Baker returns to Scotland for a show Doors 7pm. at The Pleasance in Edinburgh, his first solo headline performance in the Capital. His sell-out 1 JUNE gigs on his last two visits to Glasgow emphasised his rising popularity. LITTLE KICKS on tour: Acoustic Afternoon set “Every Sam Baker show leaves everyone in the Brewdog Edinburgh Bar with support. wanting more, and no wonder given the The Little Kicks are a 4 piece band who have a wonderful songs he plays and the stories in reputation for a great live show and are known them,” said Kevin Morris, director of The Fallen for their distinctly catchy upbeat indie pop Angels Club. songs."We play upbeat Indie Disco pop that Tickets from 0131 220 3234 priced £14, doors makes people dance." 7.30pm, Sam on stage 8pm, no support act. www.thelittlekicks.co.uk www.ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com SCREAM BABY SCREAM / TRASHSTARS, DEAD X111: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. SUNSET ABBEY / FALL ROCKETS / CARTER Time 8pm. DAMM / GUS HARROWER; Sunset Abbey Single Launch. Sunset Abbey are launching a BOATS IN BOTTLES: The Liquid Room, 9c brand new single which is the latest release from Victoria Street, Edinburgh, Tickets £5 adv. Plus them since their last EP 'Rose' which has been BF. Doors 7pm. bought by several of their loyal hometown fans who have continued to show their support since 6 JUNE the band got together in September 2012.. If you like Arctic Monkeys, there's a strong chance
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JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON NEW EP - 'GRAITH AND GRAIN'
Graith and Grain will be released on 24 May at Young's Interesting Books in Glasgow - please come along and enjoy the music and some drinks and snacks!
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24 May Young's Interesting Books, Glasgow - EP release 25 May The Glad CafĂŠ, Glasgow 26 May The Roxy 171, Glasgow (with Glasgow based guitarist and songwriter Paul Tasker)
3 June The Argyll Hotel, Ullapool 5 June The Tea Posy, Dingwall 6 June IG:LU Art Gallery, Inverness 13 June The Old Inn, Gairloch
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Sunset Abbey could be your new favourite Edinburgh band if you haven't seen them before. As long as you like fast paced indie/rock music you won't be disappointed. Their last EP 'Rose' can be found on iTunes. Support comes from local bands; Fall Rockets, Carter Damm & Singer-Songwriter Gus Harrower who is definitely one to watch over the next couple of years. Cabaret Voltaire 36-38 Blair St, Edinburgh. Time 7.00pm – 10.00pm. Tickets £6. 9 JUNE PETER KASEN: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £5, Time 8pm. 11 JUNE RYAN ROXIE: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £10, Time 19.30pm. 12 JUNE LED-INTO-ZEPPELIN: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £7, Time 8pm. 13 JUNE CATHERINE FEENY / THE KAT HEALY MUSIC CLUB / THE LITTLE UNSAID; Cabaret Voltaire 36-38 Blair St, Edinburgh 7.00pm – 10.00pm. Tickets £10 available fromTicket Web. THE BEDROOM HOUR: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £5, Time 8pm. 14 JUNE The Pathhead Music Collective present: Share a summer evening with INDIA ALBA and the CORRINA HEWAT BAND at Pathhead Village Hall. http://pathheadmusiccollective.org.uk/ DOUGIE MACLEAN; Dougie MacLean is Scotland’s pre-eminent singer-songwriter: a national musical treasure who has developed a unique blend of lyrical, roots-based songwriting and instrumental composition. Internationally renowned for his song Caledonia, and for music for the film Last of the Mohicans, his live performances are especially intimate. Marquee, Linlithgow RFC Organised by the Linlithgow Folk Festival Association as part of the Linlithgow Civic Festival. Box Office: 01506 282720 www.linlithgowfolk.com LAND OF CAKES: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £5, Time 8pm. THE BIG PROJECT YOUTH CHOIR join the SCOTTISH FIDDLE ORCHESTRA: For a STV charity appeal concert at the Usher Hall at 7.30pm. After recent gigs in their local Broomhouse with award winning songwriters Karine Polwart and King Creosote, The BIG Project Youth Choir (who are supported by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative) are looking forward to a brand new experience performing traditional Scots songs, accompanied by the Scottish Fiddle Orchestra under conductor Blair Parham, at a gig in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall. Tickets are now available from the Usher Hall Box Office on 0131 228 1155 or online at www.usherhall.co.uk www.thebigproject.org.uk 18 JUNE CODEJAK: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £5, Time 8pm. 19 JUNE INERTIA / AYRIA: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £10, Time 7.30pm.
20 JUNE THE JIMI HENDRIX RE-EXPERIENCE: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £7, Time 8pm. 25 JUNE
Pikes Peak. www.facebook.com/wozniakofficial LINE OF FIRE: Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £6, Time 8pm. 1 AUGUST
DOUGIE MACLEAN Part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014. Dougie MacLean is Scotland’s pre-eminent singer-songwriter: a national musical treasure who has developed a unique blend of lyrical, roots-based songwriting 26 JUNE and instrumental composition. Internationally renowned for his song Caledonia, and for music CAROLINE GILMOUR and MEGAN D: At The for the film Last of the Mohicans, his live Mash House, Hasties Close, 37 Guthrie Street, performances are especially intimate. The Edinburgh, EH1 1JG. 7:30pm. Tickets: £6 (early Queens Hall, Edinburgh. bird on sale to 26 May) then £7). Buy tickets from: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/683953 Caroline Gilmour returns with a new five-piece band for a special showcase gig. Expect new material plus songs from her 'Take A Look' album and the 'What Georgina Said' EP. Send us all your gig dates for Caroline first created a buzz in Scotland with Glasgow and West Coast area BBC Radio Scotland and Bauer Media's Scottish In:Demand Uncut show playing tracks from her Email them to Carol 2012 EP "What Georgina Said". The EP propelled carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com Caroline into the public eye with songs picking up plays on Podcasts and Internet Radio stations 22 MAY from the UK to Australia. Support comes from 18 year old singer Megan D who recently picked The Fallen Angels Club presents: An Evening up The Forth One to Watch Award. with ELIZA GILKYSON @ St Andrew's In The www.facebook.com/carolinegilmourmusic Square, Glasgow. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £13 www.facebook.com/MeganDMusic from Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151. Eliza Gilkyson, the Grammy-nominated singer, BELLA HARDY: At Vodoo Rooms Edinburgh. songwriter and activist, who played the Glasgow One of the most creative, prolific and original Americana Festival in 2012. Eliza is a politically singers in the UK and now winner of the BBC minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter who Radio 2 Folk Singer of The Year award, Bella Hardy's captivating voice inhabits her characters has become one of the most respected musicians in Folk and Americana music circles. and spins her stories with an equal balance of The daughter of songwriter Terry Gilkyson, strength and sensitivity. With fiddle in hand, she presents folk songs in the best tradition; not whose songs were recorded by artists as diverse as Johnny Cash, the White Stripes, and Dean as antiquated museum pieces, but as relevant Martin, Eliza was headed for a career in music at and very human artworks. an early age. www.thevoodoorooms.com www.ticketweb.co.uk www.BellaHardy.com www.fallenangelsclub.com 27 JUNE Hip Hop Showcase Live @ The Record Factory, 17 Byres Road, Glasgow West End G11 Soundhouse benefit gig: THE BANJO 5RD. 7pm - 2am. Tickets £5.00. Don't Miss This LOUNGE 4, BLUEFLINT, DEAN OWENS + Epic Night Of Hip Hop DJ'd By The Legend That FRIENDS, DOLPHIN BOY. At The Pleasance Is Steg Gilfoyle Of Sunny Govan Community Theatre, Edinburgh at 8pm (doors open at 7.30), £10. And we are expecting some surprise Radio & The Temple of Hip Hop Radio. Event page: special guests too. The Soundhouse will be a new state-of-the-art music venue for Edinburgh, www.facebook.com/events/281362478706702/ offering a fair deal for musicians, and a warm welcome to audiences of all ages. Andy Levy aka PRIDES / Y.O.U: King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, Dolphin Boy said: "Grassroots culture is alive in 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow. Doors 8pm. Tickets £7.00 Edinburgh but it is not kicking and we desperately need a venue like the Soundhouse. I STEPHANIE MANNS / TAYLOR RED / TOM fully support the aims and aspirations of the Soundhouse project and would urge anyone who SISSONS / BOBBY DEANS; Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. doesn’t want bankers and accountants as the Time 7.30pm. Tickets £5 sole arbiters of taste to do the same.” Tickets available via Ticketmaster @ BZR001: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall www.ticketmaster.co.uk Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 11.30pm. www.soundhouse.org.uk Tickets Free. FUCK ART LET'S DANCE / BEECHES; Fuck Art Let's Dance formed 2009 in the hanseatic city of 23 MAY Hamburg, Thet take on prolific electronica My First Music presents .....THE SUNSHINE combined with hefty beats and indie spirit. UNDERGROUND with support from MICKEY Cabaret Voltaire 36-38 Blair St, Edinburgh. 9’S, BROWN BEAR AND THE BANDITS & 7.00pm – 10.00pm. 14plus show. Tickets £6 CRASH CLUB: At Glasgow’s Classic Grand. This available fromTicket Web. night is going to be an experience, take you on a journey to the outer realms of your mind and 28 JUNE gently bring you back home, kiss you softly on WOZNIAK/ OUR SMALLEST ADVENTURES/ the cheek and wave you off into the Glasgow GLASSBOOKS: At Opium, Edinburgh, £4 on the darkness of night. Tickets door, 8pm. Morningside Young Team are hosting www.tickets-scotland.com Price £13. www.facebook.com/mfmayrshire an evening of shoegaze, post-rock and postpunk to mark the release of Wozniak’s new EP, NICKE BORG (BACKYARD BABIES): Bannermans, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Tickets £12, Time 7.30pm.
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SUNSHINE SOCIAL / Sienna / Broken Boy: Sunshine Social have amassed a loyal and passionate fan base and are known in Glasgow for their stage-filling, multi-layered sound as well as their dynamic live shows. They combine autobiographical and introspective lyricism with accessible, foot-stomping tunes, resulting in a release of noise, dancing, joke telling and balloons King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow. Doors 8.30pm. Tickets £6.50. MIASMA / EARTHS / TETRA: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 7.30pm. Tickets £5 24 MAY JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON: Promoting their new GRAITH AND GRAIN EP tonight is the official release gig at Young's Interesting Books, Glasgow. In May and June 2014, we will be touring Scotland in support of our new EP, which will feature original songs and tunes steeped in the Celtic and American styles that influence us. We fill our shows with quality acoustic guitar and fiddle playing, close vocal harmonies, and of course the good Highland craic. www.facebook.com/pages/Youngs-Interesting-Books/108158585887550
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Indievous Presents: THE UNKNOWN + MESMERENE + BLIND DAZE + THE JOULES + BRIAN GATENS. At Pivo Pivo – 15 Waterloo Street, Glasgow. 7.30pm / £5/£4 on door. www.facebook.com/indievous NEON WALTZ / The Tripps / Alan Smithee / Park Planet: King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow. Doors 8.30pm. Tickets £6.50. IAN PROWSE & AMSTERDAM: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 7.30pm. Tickets £10 HAUSDIMENSION X OFFBEAT X SO WEIT SO GUT: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 11.30pm. Tickets £4. 25 MAY JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON: Promoting their new GRAITH AND GRAIN EP. At The Glad Café, Glasgow. In May and June 2014, we will be touring Scotland in support of our new EP, which will feature original songs and tunes steeped in the Celtic and American styles that influence us. We fill our shows with quality acoustic guitar and fiddle playing, close vocal harmonies, and of course the good Highland craic. www.johnandsofie.com www.facebook.com/johnandsofiemusic CROOKYGLASGOW / KILL SURRRF: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 8pm. 26 MAY JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON: Promoting their new GRAITH AND GRAIN EP. At The Roxy 171, Glasgow. In May and June 2014, we will be touring Scotland in support of our new EP, which will feature original songs and tunes steeped in the Celtic and American styles that influence us. We fill our shows with quality acoustic guitar and fiddle playing, close vocal harmonies, and of course the good Highland craic. www.johnandsofie.com www.facebook.com/johnandsofiemusic
ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH GERRY breathe; When I need you; It never rains in LYONS: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, southern California; One moment in time; I City Centre, Glasgow. Time 8pm. Tickets Free. need to be in love; Don’t turn around plus many many many more…At Oran Mor, Glasgow. 27 MAY 7.30pm/Tickets £20 Tel 0141 204 5151 www.oran-mor.co.uk GABRIELLA CILMI / Daniel Docherty *Gig rescheduled - original tickets still valid* King FOXES / Prides *Gig rescheduled - original Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, tickets still valid* Sometimes the most Glasgow. Doors 8pm. Tickets £8. rewarding discoveries are the ones that take you completely by surprise. Foxes is one of those 28 MAY discoveries. Arriving unheralded with her Neon Gold Records’ debut Youth late last year, it BETTY WHO / Joy / Bronagh Monahan: King wasn’t long before the song’s resplendent Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, synths, industrial percussion and by-turnsGlasgow. Doors 8.30pm. Tickets £6.50. searing-and-soaring vocal were the talk of the townKing Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent SOFT METALS / JD TWITCH: Nice N Sleazy’s. Street, Glasgow. Doors 8pm. Tickets £8. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 7.30pm. Tickets £7. THE HOLY GHOSTS + THE LITTLE ILLUSIONS: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall SO WEIT SO GUT: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 8pm. Tickets Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time £6.50. 11.30pm. Tickets Free. SLABS OF THE TABERNACLE WITH CALL 29 MAY SUPER: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 11.30pm. Tickets PHIL & ALY Spring Tour: St Andrews In The £4. Square, 1 St Andrews Square, Glasgow G1 5PP. 7:45pm, 0844 477 1000. In 1988, two members 31 MAY from two of Scotland’s leading bands, “The Boys of The Lough” and “Silly Wizard”, came together THE HOLY PISTOL CLUB / The to work on a television series. You could say Hummingbirds / Dionysus: Holy Pistol Club “the rest is history”. Aly Bain and Phil are the most dynamic, enthusiastic and exciting Cunningham enjoyed performing together so band to come out of Scotland and burst on to much that they decided to have a small tour the music scene in years. Formed in 2011 from that year. 25 years on, they are filling not only the ashes of three bands the life-long friends small village halls, but all of our major have now set about bringing their own unique performance venues. passionate, enigmatic and sleazy twist on rock www.acousticaffair.co.uk ’n’ roll..King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 272a St http://philandaly.com/ Vincent Street, Glasgow. Doors 8.30pm. Tickets £7.50 FREEZE THE ATLANTIC: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time MORE THAN CONQUERORS / FELIX 8pm. Tickets £7. CHAMPION: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 8.30pm. BELLA HARDY: At CCA Glasgow. One of the Tickets £6. most creative, prolific and original singers in the UK and now winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk 2 JUNE Singer of The Year award, Bella Hardy's captivating voice inhabits her characters and ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH GERRY spins her stories with an equal balance of LYONS: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, strength and sensitivity. With fiddle in hand, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 8pm. Tickets Free. she presents folk songs in the best tradition; not as antiquated museum pieces, but as relevant 6 JUNE and very human artworks. www.cca-glasgow.com HARSH TUG: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall www.BellaHardy.com Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 11.30pm. Tickets £4. THUMPERS / Alavano / Turtle: King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, Glasgow. 7 JUNE Doors 8.30pm. Tickets £7.50 The Fallen Angels Club presents: An Evening With SAM BAKER @ Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 30 MAY Edinburgh. Doors 7.30pm. £14.00 THE HOLY GHOSTS: At Nice N Sleazy, www.ticketweb.co.uk Glasgow. The Holy Ghosts, formed in January www.fallenangelsclub.com 2012 to spread the good word of the rock n roll gospel. They picked up 'Best Newcomer' at the STEVE IGNORANT (CRASS): At Stereo, Scottish Alternative Music Awards 2013 and Glasgow. Over 18s, £10 Advance. Tickets From have also performed live on BBC ALBA for their www.synergyconcerts.com RAPAL TV show. They release their debut album 'Ride Them Down' on the 30 May. Tickets at BLACK TENT: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall www.gigsinscotland.com Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 11.30pm. www.facebook.com/theholyghosts Tickets £4 STG Presents: The Stripped Sessions KIT CLARK plus Special Guests, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow. Doors 7:30 pm - Over 18's www.facebook.com/StgPromotions ALBERT HAMMOND: Song writing legend Albert Hammond is on tour in the UK in May. Albert has been writing and co-writing hit songs for over forty years; including - The Air That I
DOUGIE MACLEAN With the RSNO (Royal Scottish National Orchestra). Dougie MacLean needs no introduction; as singer, songwriter, composer and instrumentalist, no artist captures the soul of Scotland with more authenticity or emotion. For one night only, he teams up with conductor John Logan and the RSNO to bring a new and beautiful symphonic dimension to his best-loved songs: including Heiland Harry, Ca’ the Yowes, Green Grow the
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Rashes, This Love Will Carry, Till Tomorrow and of course the song that’s been called Scotland’s alternative national anthem,Caledonia. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Tickets Tickets: £35, £26.50, £22.50, £17 and £12.50. Time 7.30pm. www.rsno.org.uk www.glasgowconcerthalls.com Box Office: 0141 353 8000
renowned for his song Caledonia, and for music for the film Last of the Mohicans, his live performances are especially intimate. Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock ... still to be confirmed. Box Office: 01475 723723 (On sale date coming soon) www.beaconartscentre.co.uk
JUNEBUG with VERONA: At King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. Junebug have just released their new single "TR" and are set to headline King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. Junebug are an acoustic / rock five piece from Glasgow, who draw influence from the likes of Stereophonics & Kate Bush. They blend a mix of distortion with acoustic harmonies to produce a result that combines the caress of Bombay Bicycle Club with the energy of Blondie. www.facebook.com/junebugband
Indievous Presents: THE REWARD + BELTUR + THE PACIFIC BLUES + THE FRAMED + RICHARD KERR: At Pivo Pivo – 15 Waterloo Street, Glasgow. 7.30pm / £5/£4 on door. www.facebook.com/indievous
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Beyond and Glow Arts present LEO & ANTO at Oran Mor, 7pm, £12 adv. 14+ only. Under 16's accompanied by an adult. In the Summer of 2013 with The Saw Doctors on a year long sabbatical, two band members and friends, Leo TIJUANA BIBLES: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Moran and Anthony Thistlethwaite, have put Sauchiehall Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time together an acoustic show that will include 8pm. Tickets £6.50. different takes on well-known Saw Doctors' songs, versions of lesser-known band songs, a 16 JUNE few from Anthony's solo-albums and other songs written recently with Tuam songwriter Padraig ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC NIGHT WITH GERRY 8 JUNE Stevens. It's all new and fresh and challenging LYONS: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall Street, and scary and exciting. City Centre, Glasgow. Time 8pm. Tickets Free STG Presents: The Stripped Sessions DAVID www.facebook.com/events/616030588467544/ FORD plus Special Guests, At Cottiers Theatre, www.facebook.com/glowarts 18 JUNE Kelvin Bridge 7:30 pm - Over 18's www.facebook.com/StgPromotions 3 JULY BRONAGH & THE BOYS / HANNAH CHARLIE ROTH: TWA Corbies with Matt Morrow JACKSON: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall THE BIG SHOOGLE: At Cottiers Theatre, 93-95 Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 7.30pm. (£10 suggested donation), 40 Kilbowie Rd, Hyndland Road, Glasgow G11 5PU. The Cumbernauld, Glasgow G67 2PX. Charlie Roth's Tickets £4/6 National Trust for Scotland is delighted to 7th solo album is a collection of 12 tracks. team up with The Big Shoogle and Cottiers Charlie is a story teller, the cactus tartan heart Theatre and Bar in Glasgow to host its summer 19 JUNE takes us on the his journey! From the desert hill ceilidh in aid of conservation work at Ben country of Texas to the heather clad glens of Lomond. The Big Shoogle are one of Scotland’s bonny Scotland. There is a song of his home on LOKI & THE CARTOON CARTEL / MACHINES most highly acclaimed Ceilidh Rock bands and IN HEAVEN: Nice N Sleazy’s. 421 Sauchiehall the plains, a waltz across love, and a reflection have a unique approach, mashing up rock and Street, City Centre, Glasgow. Time 7.30pm. on social change, some barstool ballads about contemporary grooves while still remaining Tickets £5 thinkin’, drinkin’, and cheatin’. Charlie delivers solidly rooted in the Scottish folk music tradition. stories as always plain and simple, inspired So, join us for a fun filled evening of dancing 20 JUNE songs, inspiring playing, and inspirational and hospitality at this fun-filled extravaganza of singing. traditional Scottish folk music with a twist! 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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide …….. page 11: glasgow area / dundee / fife / perth / stirling / falkirk 8 AUGUST The Fallen Angels Club presents: ROBBIE FULKS @ Admiral Bar, Glasgow. Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start No Support Tickets £13/Tickets Scotland 0141 204 5151. Robbie Fulks, played the first ever Glasgow Americana Festival, the Chicago-based singer/songwriter has a large following who revel in his country-based music that has many twists and turns. Conventional is not a word associated with Robbie. It is mostly acoustic and leans heavily on a blue-grass, oldtime vibe though live, Fulks can veer into all sorts of territory, including pop if his keen and imaginative mind decides that’s needed. www.ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com 11 SEPTEMBER The Fallen Angels Club presents: THE STRAY BIRDS @ CCA, Glasgow. 7.30 p.m. £13.00 www.ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com 3 OCTOBER Glasgow Americana presents: MARY GAUTHIER & BEN GLOVER @ St Andrew's In The Square Glasgow. Tickets £15 from 0141 204 5151. Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start. The lady from Louisiana, Mary Gauthier will appear at this year’s Glasgow Americana Festival. The hugely popular and gloriously talented singer/ songwriter headlined the first ever Festival back in 2007. For this show, she will supported by Ben Glover who won many admirers during his performance at Glasgow Americana last year at the Gram Parsons’ tribute night. www.ticketweb.co.uk www.glasgowamericana.com 23 OCTOBER The Fallen Angels Club presents: RED MOLLY @ CCA, Glasgow. 7.30 p.m. £13.00 www.ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com
24 MAY: JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON: Promoting their new GRAITH AND GRAIN EP with the official release gig at Young's Interesting Books in Glasgow. In May and June 2014, they will be touring Scotland in support of the EP, which will feature original songs and tunes steeped in the Celtic and American styles that influence them. They fill their shows with quality acoustic guitar and fiddle playing, close vocal harmonies, and of course the good Highland craic. See website for tour dates - www.johnandsofie.com www.facebook.com/pages/Youngs-Interesting-Books/108158585887550 www.facebook.com/johnandsofiemusic
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HM Frigate Unicorn Jazz & Blues for 2014: With CHRISTINE TOBIN. Irish-born singersongwriter Christine Tobin is based in the UK. Her style, although rooted in jazz, is steeped in the singer-songwriter tradition and draws on a broad range of influences from West Africa to Brazil. Her sound is rich, authentic and deeply expressive. On board HM Frigate Unicorn which is berthed in Dundee’s Victoria Dock, right next to the Tay Road Bridge. www.frigateunicorn.org/events/jazz-blues-2014
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29 MAY ADAM HOLMES AND THE EMBERS: 8pm Clark's Bar, Lindsay St, Dundee (support from Danny McAtear (Sienna)). With his band The Embers he combines the songwriting influences of artists such as John Martyn, Bon Iver, James Taylor and Townes Van Zandt with the rhythm and blues, country and folk music textures of The Band, Neil Young and Ryan Adams and The Cardinals to play his own unique brand of roots pop Americana, with a hint of Scotland. www.adamholmesandtheembers.com
guitars) and modern technologies (synths, rhythms) conspire to create a colourful cornucopia of finely-crafted and contemporary Celtic compositions. £10, Concessions - £8, Accompanied Schoolchildren - £5 www.dundeebox.co.uk 30 MAY CHRISTINE TOBIN SINGS THE SONGS LEONARD COHEN; Christine Tobins A Thousand Kisses Deep brings together one of the most distinctive and alluring voices in jazz with one of the great poetic songwriters of our time, Leonard Cohen, in a mesmerising evening of music. Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling. Tickets £13, £11. Time 8pm. 31 MAY
BLUE ROSE CODE: ‘The Ballads Of Peckham Rye’ UK Launch Tour. At Elm House, Fife. Blue Rose Code is not folk music. Or so he’s been told. Ross Wilson, the Edinburgh-born 22 MAY songwriter who labours under that name doesn’t write folk songs. But having discovered the A BAND CALLED QUINN: At Adam Smith, traditional music of the British Isles whilst in Kirkcaldy. If you missed ABCQ performing Biding exile down south, he fell in love with what he Time (remix) at last year's Edinburgh Fringe PLANTEC: At Marryat Hall, Dundee. 7.30pm. heard. Those sounds informed what happened Festival, the band were blown away by the Breton based Plantec is at the very leading edge next. His new album 'The Ballads Of Peckham reaction to the show and are looking forward to of Celtic music. Their latest release Awen has Rye' features a remarkable roll call of musicians touring it this year; hopefully to a venue near received rave reviews for its avant-garde from the folk side of the fence, including Karine you! approach to traditional melodies. Longtime Polwart, Mattie Foulds, Lau’s Aidan O’Rourke www.bidingtimeremix.com musical innovators Plantec find the right mix of and Rachel Newton from The Furrow Collective. www.facebook.com/abandcalledquinn past, present and future . A mélange of To make it harder for our few remaining record traditional instruments (bombarde, acoustic shops to file Blue Rose Code in a rack, the new
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HM Frigate Unicorn Jazz & Blues for 2014: With ROSE ROOM. This exciting acoustic band will charm and entertain you with their “vigorous and vivacious” performances of ‘Hot Club’ and 1930s Jazz standards with a dash of Western Swing thrown in for good measure. “…as close to FAT GOTH: Album launch show. for 'One the sound of the great Stephane Grappelli as Hundred Percent Suave' At Buskers, Dundee. I think you’re going to hear in Scotland” – My favourite rock band on the planet right The Jazz House, BBC Radio Scotland. On now" Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland) board HM Frigate Unicorn which is berthed in http://fatgoth.bandcamp.com Dundee’s Victoria Dock, right next to the Tay Road Bridge. ALBERT HAMMOND: Tonight we are so www.frigateunicorn.org/events/jazz-bluesprivileged to welcome a songwriting master - 2014 as he brings his band on tour to mark his 70th birthday year. Song writing legend 7 JUNE Albert Hammond is on tour in the UK in May. AMERICANA CAVALCADE: Perth Albert has been writing and co-writing hit songs for over forty years; including - The Air Racecourse’s Americana Cavalcade from 2pm till 11pm at Perth Racecourse, Scone Palace That I breathe; When I need you; It never rains in southern California; One moment in Park, Perth, PH2 6BB. Tickets £15 available time; I need to be in love; Don’t turn around from www.perth-races.co.uk/americana-cavalcade.asp plus many many many more… At The Organisers have rounded up a posse of hit Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling. Show 8pm/ makers and hipsters lead by the Magical and Tickets £18 Tel 01786 274000 Medicinal Minnesotan Rancher Musician www.tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk CHARLIE ROTH - and VANITY FARE sixties hit makers with 2 gold discs and over 1 JUNE 5 million record sales. Vanity Fare are currently on their block buster Solid Silver DOUGIE MACLEAN; The closing concert of Sixties Tour, and they return to Scotland for the Perth Festival of the Arts 2014 with this exclusive performance to play the hits Dougie MacLean with Strings & Celtic including “Hitching a Ride” “Early In The Musicians. Premiere of Dougie MacLean's Morning” “Better By Far” & “Live For The "Perthshire Cantata". Commissioned by the Sun”, and will back our star from the states, Perth Festival of the Arts with support from Creative Scotland. Perth Concert Hall, Perth. Charlie Roth, as well as present their much acclaimed tribute to seminal country-rock Box Office: 01738 621031 band The Bryds “The Notorious Byrd www.perthfestival.co.uk Brothers” on The KO Corral Stage (Open air main stage). You can even go for the all-out, BLACK WATCH ARMY CADET FORCE authentic Wild West feel and camp overnight BAND: Present A Summer Concert from the Saturday to the Sunday. That is, of supporting ‘ABF-The Soldiers' Charity’ at St course, if you’re wild enough. The Americana Leonard's Church, Dunfermline, 7pm. The Cavalcade is presented in conjunction with Black Watch ACF Regimental Band will be Medicine Show Records. Many of the artist holding a Summer Concert in aid of ABF featured here are available on their latest The Soldiers' Charity with a varied programme of music showcasing the talents compilation CaledoniaVille and available from www.medicineshowrecords.co.uk of the young men and women in the cadet band. Entry by Donation and see the event 8 JUNE page for details www.facebook.com/ GRAEME CLARK AND GRAHAM DUFFIN; events/643218149090659/ As a cornerstone of the record breaking, www.facebook.com/BandBWACF multi-million selling band Wet Wet Wet, Scottish songwriter Graeme Clark is no 3 JUNE stranger to playing sell-out stadium concerts CHARLIE ROTH: At The Venue@No24' (£10) all over the world. More recently though, he's been performing his own stripped back, Crieff, Perthshire, PH7 4DL. Charlie Roth's intimate and acoustic songs to an amy of 7th solo album is a collection of 12 tracks. loyal and devoted fans. Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Charlie is a story teller, the cactus tartan heart takes us on the his journey! From the Stirling. Tickets £12.50. Time 8pm. desert hill country of Texas to the heather clad glens of bonny Scotland. There is a song 11 JUNE of his home on the plains, a waltz across love, and a reflection on social change, some DOUGIE MACLEAN; Dougie MacLean is barstool ballads about thinkin’, drinkin’, and Scotland’s pre-eminent singer-songwriter: a national musical treasure who has developed cheatin’. Charlie delivers stories as always a unique blend of lyrical, roots-based plain and simple, inspired songs, inspiring songwriting and instrumental composition. playing, and inspirational singing. 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21 JUNE LITTLE KICKS on tour: At AECC, Aberdeen. The Little Kicks are a 4 piece band who have a reputation for a great live show and are known for their distinctly catchy upbeat indie pop songs."We play upbeat Indie Disco pop that makes people dance." www.thelittlekicks.co.uk
TEN TONNE DOZER: At Sharkys, Montrose (as part of the Montrose Music Fest). The multiaward winning Shetland Islands groove metal band Ten Tonne Dozer are on tour promoting their album 'Uit de Buik - Duivel te koop'. Ten Tonne Dozer put on amazing live shows and are 18 JULY a well seasoned touring band. Almost Blue Promotions present RED DIRT www.facebook.com/tentonnedozer SKINNERS: At The Blue Lamp, 121 Gallowgate, AB25 1BU Aberdeen. Tickets £8 adv / £10 on 24 MAY the door from www.seetickets.com The Red Dirt Skinners are the first band in LIVE AT CAPTAIN TOMS: Hosted by Scott history to succeed at both the British Blues Ironside and Magenta Lust Lust. Filmed live in Awards (Runner up Best Instrumentalist) and Captain Toms studios and streamed worldwide also the British Country Music Awards (Finalist for FREE!! This one is also part of the Best New Act and People's Choice). Husband SEMPERFI ‘Polaris’ EP launch. View @ www. and wife duo and Rob and Sarah Skinner have kpx.tv brought out their third album, Sinking The Mary TEN TONNE DOZER: At Lemon Tree, Aberdeen Rose, which is going down a storm with audiences and press alike, and selling fast. (including Live at Captain Toms and live online www.almostbluepromotions.com broadcast in morning @ www.kpx.tv ). The www.facebook.com/AlmostBluePromotions multi-award winning Shetland Islands groove metal band Ten Tonne Dozer are on tour 6 AUGUST promoting their album 'Uit de Buik - Duivel te koop'. Ten Tonne Dozer put on amazing live DOUGIE MACLEAN Part of the Aboyne & shows and are a well seasoned touring band. Deeside Festival 2014. Dougie MacLean is www.facebook.com/tentonnedozer Scotland’s pre-eminent singer-songwriter: a national musical treasure who has developed a 25 MAY unique blend of lyrical, roots-based songwriting and instrumental composition. Internationally PHIL & ALY Spring Tour: Stonehaven Town renowned for his song Caledonia, and for music Hall, 36 Allardice Street, AB39 2BU. 7:30pm. for the film Last of the Mohicans, his live 0156 976 6264. In 1988, two members from performances are especially intimate. Deeside two of Scotland’s leading bands, “The Boys of The Lough” and “Silly Wizard”, came together to Theatre, Aboyne
HIGHLANDS Send us all your gig dates for all the Highlands Email them to Carol carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 22 MAY TEN TONNE DOZER: At Madhatters, Inverness. The multi-award winning Shetland Islands groove metal band Ten Tonne Dozer are on tour promoting their album 'Uit de Buik - Duivel te koop'. Ten Tonne Dozer put on amazing live shows and are a well seasoned touring band. www.facebook.com/tentonnedozer 23 MAY PHIL & ALY Spring Tour: At Nairn Community & Arts Centre, King St., IV12 4BQ. 7:30pm 01667 453476. In 1988, two members from two of Scotland’s leading bands, “The Boys of The Lough” and “Silly Wizard”, came together to work on a television series. You could say “the rest is history”. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham enjoyed performing together so much that they decided to have a small tour that year. 25 years on, they are filling not only small village halls, but all of our major performance venues. www.nairncommunitycentre.co.uk http://philandaly.com/ National Trust for Scotland: Music at the Castle - The Marvel of Peru: At Brodie Castle, near Forres, in Moray. An evening of music in the luxurious surroundings of Brodie Castle's Main Drawing Room. Directed by James Ross with soprano Aileen Birch, Baroque ensemble The Marvel of Peru returns to Brodie Castle. They will be entertaining and enthralling the audience with a delightful selection of music from Scotland, England and the Continent by Purcell, Handel, Bach, Stanley, Paisible, Clerk and Finger. Doors open at 7.30pm with the event starting at 8pm. Refreshments will be available to purchase during the interval. Numbers are limited so booking is essential. £12/£10 For further information please call 0844 4932156 24 MAY Medicine Music presents: CHRISTINE TOBIN, 2pm at The Greenhouse, 14 High Street, Dingwall. By Donation (Sugg. £8) www.medicinemusic.co.uk JAMES HICKMAN & DAN CASSIDY: At Inverie Village Hall (8pm), Inverie, Knoydart, PH41 4PL. Here's a link to James and Dan playing last year: http://bit.ly/1kP2IFl Tickets for this event are on the door - reserve tickets through this Facebook page (below) www.facebook.com/events/501813536604761/ www.facebook.com/InverieVillageHall HOOLEY IN THE HIGHLANDS – country music festival featuring John McNicholl & Band, Stillwater, Western Rhythm, John Dolan & Off The Kuff Band, Trevor Loughrey. Strathpeffer Pavilion, The Square, Strathpeffer. Time 1pm to midnight. Tickets £40 (limited number of under 18 tickets at £20) from 01463 811677 or landl@northhighlandradio.co.uk 28 MAY
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide …….. page 16: highlands BREABACH on tour: Carrbridge Village Hall. One of the most celebrated and successful Scottish folk bands of recent times, Breabach command the stage with flare, charisma and a sound that is as expansive as it is distinct. Powered by double bagpipes, flute and fiddle, this uncompromising force is further fuelled by the tight groove of double bass, guitar and stepdance. www.breabach.com 30 MAY BLUE ROSE CODE: ‘The Ballads Of Peckham Rye’ UK Launch Tour. At Northern Roots Festival, Inverness. Blue Rose Code is not folk music. Or so he’s been told. Ross Wilson, the Edinburghborn songwriter who labours under that name doesn’t write folk songs. But having discovered the traditional music of the British Isles whilst in exile down south, he fell in love with what he heard. Those sounds informed what happened next. His new album 'The Ballads Of Peckham Rye' features a remarkable roll call of musicians from the folk side of the fence, including Karine Polwart, Mattie Foulds, Lau’s Aidan O’Rourke and Rachel Newton from The Furrow Collective. To make it harder for our few remaining record shops to file Blue Rose Code in a rack, the new album also features two of the Scottish jazz scene’s supreme talents in trumpeter Colin Steele and pianist Dave Milligan. And on bass, the unclassifiable but unutterably classy Danny Thompson warms and grounds these songs, as only he can. www.facebook.com/bluerosecode www.bluerosecode.com FAT GOTH: Album launch show. for 'One Hundred Percent Suave' At Hootananny's, Inverness. My favourite rock band on the planet right now" Vic Galloway (BBC Radio Scotland) http://fatgoth.bandcamp.com 30-31 MAY BELLA HARDY: At Northern Roots Festival, Inverness. One of the most creative, prolific and original singers in the UK and now winner of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of The Year award, Bella Hardy's captivating voice inhabits her characters and spins her stories with an equal balance of strength and sensitivity. With fiddle in hand, she presents folk songs in the best tradition; not as antiquated museum pieces, but as relevant and very human artworks. www.northernrootsfestival.com www.BellaHardy.com Caithness Gigs presents: DONNIE MUNRO @ Assembly Rooms, Sinclair Terrace, Wick. Tickets £16.00 / Over 18s Only www.caithnessgigs.com MÀNRAN – the Pavilion team are delighted that we’ve finally managed to make a date with Mànran - an exceptionally talented group of young musicians, who are taking the music world by storm with their high energy, stomping tunes and phenomenal Gaelic and English songs. This will be their first gig in this area since their popular appearance at Runrig’s 40th anniversary “Party on the Moor”. Strathpeffer Pavilion, The Square, Strathpeffer. Time 8pm. Tickets £16 online from WeGotTickets and Ticketweb UK, via Ticketweb 24-hour hotline 08444 771000, from June’s Card Shop Dingwall and from the Pavilion 01997 420124 www.manran.co.uk PHIL & ALY Spring Tour: At Corran Halls, The
Esplanade, Oban. PA34 5AB. 7:30pm. 0163 156 7333. In 1988, two members from two of Scotland’s leading bands, “The Boys of The Lough” and “Silly Wizard”, came together to work on a television series. You could say “the rest is history”. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham enjoyed performing together so much that they decided to have a small tour that year. 25 years on, they are filling not only small village halls, but all of our major performance venues. www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/theatre/corran-halls http://philandaly.com/ 30 MAY BREABACH on tour: The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool. One of the most celebrated and successful Scottish folk bands of recent times, Breabach command the stage with flare, charisma and a sound that is as expansive as it is distinct. Powered by double bagpipes, flute and fiddle, this uncompromising force is further fuelled by the tight groove of double bass, guitar and stepdance. www.breabach.com
story teller, the cactus tartan heart takes us on the his journey! From the desert hill country of Texas to the heather clad glens of bonny Scotland. There is a song of his home on the plains, a waltz across love, and a reflection on social change, some barstool ballads about thinkin’, drinkin’, and cheatin’. Charlie delivers stories as always plain and simple, inspired songs, inspiring playing, and inspirational singing. www.facebook.com/charlierothtroubadour 5 JUNE JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON: Promoting their new GRAITH AND GRAIN EP. At The Tea Posy, Dingwall. In May and June 2014, we will be touring Scotland in support of our new EP, which will feature original songs and tunes steeped in the Celtic and American styles that influence us. We fill our shows with quality acoustic guitar and fiddle playing, close vocal harmonies, and of course the good Highland craic. www.johnandsofie.com www.facebook.com/johnandsofiemusic
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CHARLIE ROTH: At House Concert & Jam session @ Davy Cowan’s house (pass the hat), ADAM HOLMES and the EMBERS: At Eden 34 High Street, Invergordon, IV18 0EU Court, Inverness Northern Roots Festival. One of Charlie Roth's 7th solo album is a collection of 12 the brightest rising stars on today’s Scottish tracks. Charlie is a story teller, the cactus tartan music scene and long-listed for a 2014 Scottish heart takes us on the his journey! From the Album of the Year 'SAY' Award, the 23-year-old desert hill country of Texas to the heather clad is a singer and songwriter of rare and timeless glens of bonny Scotland. There is a song of his potency, drawing on influences from either side home on the plains, a waltz across love, and a of the Atlantic. reflection on social change, some barstool www.adamholmesandtheembers.com ballads about thinkin’, drinkin’, and cheatin’. Charlie delivers stories as always plain and PHIL & ALY Spring Tour: At The Nevis Centre, simple, inspired songs, inspiring playing, and An Aird, Fort William. PH33 6AN. 7:30pm, 0139 inspirational singing. 770 0707. www.facebook.com/charlierothtroubadour In 1988, two members from two of Scotland’s leading bands, “The Boys of The Lough” and 6 JUNE “Silly Wizard”, came together to work on a television series. You could say “the rest is JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON: history”. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham enjoyed Promoting their new GRAITH AND GRAIN EP. At performing together so much that they decided IG:LU Art Gallery, Inverness. In May and June to have a small tour that year. 25 years on, they 2014, we will be touring Scotland in support of are filling not only small village halls, but all of our new EP, which will feature original songs and our major performance venues. tunes steeped in the Celtic and American styles www.neviscentre.co.uk that influence us. We fill our shows with quality http://philandaly.com/ acoustic guitar and fiddle playing, close vocal harmonies, and of course the good Highland 1 JUNE craic. www.johnandsofie.com Highland Chamber Orchestra – the HCO www.facebook.com/johnandsofiemusic returns to its favourite venue for one of its popular Sunday afternoon concerts. Strathpeffer JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON: Pavilion, The Square, Strathpeffer. Time 3pm. Promoting their new GRAITH AND GRAIN EP. At www.highland-chamber-orchestra.co.uk The Old Inn, Gairloch. In May and June 2014, we will be touring Scotland in support of our new 3 JUNE EP, which will feature original songs and tunes steeped in the Celtic and American styles that JOHN MITCHELL & SOFIE JONSSON: influence us. We fill our shows with quality Promoting their new GRAITH AND GRAIN EP. At acoustic guitar and fiddle playing, close vocal The Argyll Hotel, Ullapool. In May and June harmonies, and of course the good Highland 2014, we will be touring Scotland in support of craic. our new EP, which will feature original songs and www.johnandsofie.com tunes steeped in the Celtic and American styles www.facebook.com/johnandsofiemusic that influence us. We fill our shows with quality acoustic guitar and fiddle playing, close vocal CHARLIE ROTH: At Lochcarron Hotel (£10)Main harmonies, and of course the good Highland Street, Lochcarron, Ross-Shire, IV54 BYS craic. Charlie Roth's 7th solo album is a collection of 12 www.johnandsofie.com tracks. Charlie is a story teller, the cactus tartan www.facebook.com/johnandsofiemusic heart takes us on the his journey! From the desert hill country of Texas to the heather clad 4 JUNE glens of bonny Scotland. There is a song of his home on the plains, a waltz across love, and a CHARLIE ROTH: At The Market Bar, 32 Church reflection on social change, some barstool St, Inverness IV1 1EH. Charlie Roth's 7th solo ballads about thinkin’, drinkin’, and cheatin’. album is a collection of 12 tracks. Charlie is a Charlie delivers stories as always plain and
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide …….. page 18: highlands + islands / shetland / orkney simple, inspired songs, inspiring playing, and inspirational singing. www.facebook.com/charlierothtroubadour 20 JUNE LAU - modern folk music’s most innovative band, with three brilliant musicians, thrilling performers and free-thinking visionaries. Kris Drever (vocals/guitar) from the Orkney Islands, Martin Green (accordion) from East Anglia and Aidan O’Rourke (fiddle) from Oban have won many awards, including being named Best Group in BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards a record-breaking four times and “the UK’s best live band” by The Guardian. Strathpeffer Pavilion, The Square, Strathpeffer. Time 8pm. Tickets £15 now on sale online from WeGotTickets and Ticketweb UK, via Ticketweb 24-hour hotline 08444 771000, from June’s Card Shop Dingwall and from the Pavilion 01997 420124 www.lau-music.co.uk 25 JUNE SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA makes its popular annual visit to the Pavilion. The programme will be: Schubert Symphony No. 2, Mozart Flute Concerto in D Major, Haydn Symphony 194 (“London”) and Mendelssohn Scherzo from his Octet. Conductor Richard Egarr, soloist the SCO’s own brilliant Principal Flute Alison Mitchell. Strathpeffer Pavilion, The Square, Strathpeffer. Time 8pm. Tickets £15 /
£13 / £5 now on sale from the Pavilion 01997 420124 and June’s Dingwall www.sco.org.uk www.intermusica.co.uk/egarr 15 JULY Medicine Music presents: SOPHIE BANCROFT & TOM LYNE at Argyll Hotel, Ullapool 9pm. Entry By donation (suggested £8) www.medicinemusic.co.uk 16 JULY Medicine Music presents: SOPHIE BANCROFT & TOM LYNE (Supp. The Slim Panatellas) at IG:Lu Art gallery, 19 Church Street, Inverness 7.30 pm. Tickets £8 www.medicinemusic.co.uk
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25 MAY Transclyde Music presents: We have folk royalty in the guise of multi award winner MARTIN SIMPSON, who will play at the Marble Hall in Mount Stuart. Transclyde Music promote live music on the Isle of Bute. https://twitter.com/transclydemusic http://transclydemusic.co.uk/ 31 MAY BREABACH on tour: Ceòl on the Croft, Isle of Skye. One of the most celebrated and successful Scottish folk bands of recent times, Breabach command the stage with flare, charisma and a sound that is as expansive as it is distinct. Powered by double bagpipes, flute and fiddle, this uncompromising force is further fuelled by the tight groove of double bass, guitar and stepdance. www.breabach.com 5 JUNE
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DOUGIE MACLEAN; Dougie will be performing as a trio with ROSS AINSLIE and PETE GARNETT. Part of Feis Ile - The Islay Festival of Malt. Music. Bowmore Hall, Bowmore, Isle of Islay. Time 8pm. Tickets £10.
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LITTLE KICKS on tour: At Kilmarnock Dirty Weekender, Kilmarnock. The Little Kicks are a 4 piece band who have a reputation for a great live show and are known for their distinctly catchy upbeat indie pop songs."We play upbeat Indie Disco pop that makes people dance." www.thelittlekicks.co.uk
ARRAN FOLK FESTIVAL: The 20th Arran Folk Festival line up is now on-line and tickets are available to purchase! We are proud of the musicians that we have booked to appear this year – we have managed to secure some big names on the Folk Scene who are all very enthusiastic about coming over to play here. 24 MAY www.arranevents.com/arranfolkfestival2014.php
THE DANGEROUS BROS: At The Alton Inn, Kilwinning. 9pm, free admission.
8 JUNE Transclyde Music presents: THE CORN POTATO STRING BAND (TBC). Transclyde Music promote live music on the Isle of Bute. https://twitter.com/transclydemusic http://transclydemusic.co.uk/ BARBARA DICKSON AND RAB NOAKES: Barbara and Rab have known one another for nearly fifty years and the songs represent many areas they've explored together in that time. That rich mixture of songs from limitless sources appealed to them, and instilled in them an instinct for songs of interest wherever they're from. Mareel, Lerwick. Shetland.
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REPUBLIC OF SOUL: At Eagle Tavern, Prestwick. 9pm, free admission. www.facebook.com/eagle.prestwick 25 MAY KAN: At Knockengorroch World Ceilidh, onstage at 8.45pm. All information and ticket booking at www.knockengorroch.org.uk Featuring Brian Finnegan (Flook!) and 2014 BBC Folk Musician of the Year Aidan O'Rourke (Lau), Kan takes the listener on a high-octane and dynamic journey that will enthral the senses and make the blood rush. Following the critically acclaimed debut album 'Sleeper', Kan has cultivated a formidable live act that has captivated audiences at home and around the globe. www.kan-music.co.uk
Irvine Folk Club presents: KENT DUCHAINE www.kentduchaine.com www.irvinefolkclub.trad.org.uk 26 JUNE Irvine Folk Club presents: BRUCE & WALKER www.bruceandwalker.com www.irvinefolkclub.trad.org.uk 9 JULY Irvine Folk Club presents: CLAUDE BOURBON www.claudebourbon.org www.irvinefolkclub.trad.org.uk 23 JULY Irvine Folk Club presents: JINSKI www.jinski.com www.irvinefolkclub.trad.org.uk 19 SEPTEMBER
PHIL & ALY Spring Tour: At Kirkcudbright Parish Church, St Mary's Street, DG6 4AQ. 7:30pm.. Transclyde Music presents: DES HORSFALL In 1988, two members from two of Scotland’s at Musicker. Transclyde Music promote live leading bands, “The Boys of The Lough” and music on the Isle of Bute. “Silly Wizard”, came together to work on a https://twitter.com/transclydemusic 28 MAY television series. You could say “the rest is http://transclydemusic.co.uk/ history”. Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham enjoyed BELLA HARDY: At The CatStrand, New 16-19 JULY Galloway. One of the most creative, prolific and performing together so much that they decided original singers in the UK and now winner of the to have a small tour that year. 25 years on, they ADAM HOLMES and the EMBERS: At BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of The Year award, Bella are filling not only small village halls, but all of Hebridean Celtic Festival. One of the brightest Hardy's captivating voice inhabits her characters our major performance venues. http://philandaly.com/ rising stars on today’s Scottish music scene and and spins her stories with an equal balance of long-listed for a 2014 Scottish Album of the Year strength and sensitivity. With fiddle in hand, she 'SAY' Award, the 23-year-old is a singer and presents folk songs in the best tradition; not as songwriter of rare and timeless potency, drawing antiquated museum pieces, but as relevant and on influences from either side of the Atlantic. very human artworks. www.adamholmesandtheembers.com www.catstrand.com www.BellaHardy.com 19 JULY Irvine Folk Club presents: JOHN DOYLE Transclyde Music presents: NICK HARPER at www.johndoylemusic.com Send us all your gig dates for Craigmore Bowling Club. Transclyde Music www.irvinefolkclub.trad.org.uk Scottish Borders and promote live music on the Isle of Bute. Northumberland areas https://twitter.com/transclydemusic 31 MAY http://transclydemusic.co.uk/ Email them to Carol THE SPLINTERS: At The Alton Inn, Kilwinning. carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 16 August 9pm, free admission. 26 JUNE
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Kazmiranda Music Cafe presents: Jam Session. This one will be a night to remember, we have the pleasure of hosting Steve Morrison and other special guests. The band is a kitchen 1 JUNE collective, we meet at Keiths house every week DAVE ARCARI with ALAN FREW and MARK & and drink tea and jam. This is our third café CAROL BAILEY: Playing an evening headline session. Open 7.30pm, all welcome. For details show at The Twa Dugs as part of Ayr’s Fresh Ayr email Brian at themusicgallery@btconnect.com www.facebook.com/pages/Kazmiranda-Vintage-Local-Art-Boutique/478898812161209 Festival. The event – held in various venues www.facebook.com/TheMusicGalleryUk around the town’s Burns Statue Square – is the brainchild of Ian Wallace who runs the local Big 24 MAY Sparra Vinyl record shop. Arcari, whose 2013 debut US tour was a resounding success (and BREABACH on tour: Folkworks Hexham sees him return to the States later this year) is Gathering. currently touring to promote his latest album One of the most celebrated and successful Whisky in my Blood. Dave has shared the stage Scottish folk bands of recent times, Breabach with major artists including country/Americana
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LITTLE KICKS on tour: At the 'End Of The Month Club' at Charlie’s, Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Little Kicks are a 4 piece band who have a reputation for a great live show and are known for their distinctly catchy upbeat indie pop songs."We play upbeat Indie Disco pop that makes people dance." www.thelittlekicks.co.uk
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LITTLE KICKS on tour: At Head Of Steam, Kazmiranda Music Cafe presents: Anna Raine Newcastle. The Little Kicks are a 4 piece band @ 1pm and then Open Mic @ 7pm. For details who have a reputation for a great live show and are known for their distinctly catchy upbeat indie pop songs."We play upbeat Indie Disco pop that makes people dance." www.thelittlekicks.co.uk
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St Boswell’s Live present: ARCHIE FISHER / TOMMY ASHBY & ADAM DOUBLE for St Boswells Village Week! St Boswells Live! will be opening Village Week with a fabulous music show. Scottish folk legend Archie Fisher will 27 MAY provide a laid-back, evocative set, followed by a 31 MAY performance from Tommy Ashby and his superb Kazmiranda Music Cafe presents: Hosting band. There will also be a special appearance ‘Hazels Acoustic Session’, from 7.30pm. This is a STEVE MORGAN: Singer/songwriter originally from our very own Sub-Committee, playing a very relaxed environment to try your thing, goes from Wishaw now residing in Bergen, Norway, few infectious covers to kick the evening off. round the room, songs, tunes, ditty’s and makes a rare appearance at Tibbie Shiels Inn, Doors open at 7.30pm with the music starting at poems. For details email Brian at near Selkirk with Ross Gardiner (keys) and Frank 8pm. Tickets are priced £10 full, £5 for underthemusicgallery@btconnect.com Usher (guitar) at 8.30pm. (See also 1 June) 16s and £25 for a family of up to 5. www.facebook.com/pages/Kazmiranda-Vintage-Local-Art-Boutique/478898812161209 www.stevemorganmusic.org www.facebook.com/TheMusicGalleryUk www.stboswellslive.com www.sonicbids.com/stevemorgan
1 JUNE STEVE MORGAN: Singer/songwriter originally from Wishaw now residing in Bergen, Norway, makes a rare appearance at Tibbie Shiels Inn, near Selkirk with The Borders Boogie Band from 1pm to 5pm. (See also 31 May) www.stevemorganmusic.org www.sonicbids.com/stevemorgan 5 JUNE Kazmiranda Music Cafe presents: Steve Morrison is back!!! We are running the masterclass again and the Blues Buffet. Tickets for the master-class are £10 and the performance £10 once again the class is from 4pm—6pm and the gig at 7.30pm very limited tickets available, please let us know straight away if you need tickets reserved! For details email Brian at themusicgallery@btconnect.com www.facebook.com/pages/Kazmiranda-Vintage-Local-Art-Boutique/478898812161209
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String Jam Club present: BENNY GALLAGHER - BOB WOOD – COLIN MACFARLANE. One half of the legendary Gallagher & Lyle, Benny has written more great songs than seems really fair and remains one of the best players on the circuit. Add in the combined talents of exemplary musicians, Bob Wood and Colin MacFarlane, and you have a gig made in heaven. We anticipate a huge demand for this gig, another sell-out, so get in quick. Wear your heart on your sleeve for Benny and buy your tickets on Saturday! Tickets on sale at the beginning of August. String Jam Club meets on the second Saturday of every month at The County Hotel, 1- 5 High Street, Selkirk TD7 4BZ. www.facebook.com/StringJamClub
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Southside Fringe Glasgow 9-25 May It’s an incredibly exciting time in the Southside with fantastic new venues The Glad Café and The Bungo actively encouraging creativity and supporting local Southside talent. The ethos of the Southside Fringe is very much ‘strength in numbers’ : the more facets of the community and local businesses who get involved the louder our voice and the bigger the Southside’s profile will be on the festival map.
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Doune & Dunblane Fling Dunblane 22-15 May
Like many others, the Fling was conceived with the help of music and alcohol. It began as an idea at the Dunblane Folk Club, among a group of people fond of music and fun. And so in May 1993 the first Fling happened. Since then the Fling has gone from strength to strength. Somewhere along the line the first 'Fling by the River' began. Held each Fling Saturday on Dunblane's historic Drying Green, its activities have ranged www.southsidefringe.org.uk from an open stage for local young musicians, fire engines, space-hopper races and fire-eating jugglers, to the annual Rotary Club race for Dumfries & Galloway 4,000 plastic ducks down the Allan Water. Arts Festival Gradually a 'Fringe Fling' has developed, featurDumfries and Galloway ing over the years everything from ghost walks, 16-25 May pub quizzes, plays from the local Drama Group, master classes in everything from fiddling or Our 9-day festival has taken place since 1979. mandolins to harmony singing or bodhran, and The founding aim was to bring international per- the now-annual Thursday Jazz Night. formers of the highest quality to a region containing many scattered rural communities since www.dunblanefling.com then this region has produced some of its own talent of international standing and we’re proud Perth Festival of the Arts to also be able to present these artistes from Perth time to time. We offer a wide range of events: music – including classical, jazz and folk, dance, 22 May - 1 June theatre, literary, children’s events, plus the visual arts and films. Events take place in a range Perth Festival of the Arts is one if the highlights in Perth's cultural calendar in Scotland. Now its of venues throughout the region, from large to 43rd year, it covers a wide range of artforms small, formal to informal, urban to rural. from classical music and opera to rock music and drama. Concerts are staged in Perth Concert www.dgartsfestival.org.uk Hall and St John's Kirk.
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Buchan Heritage Society Strichen Festival Strichen, Fraserburgh 23-25 May The Buchan Heritage Festival at Strichen is one of the finest places to appreciate our rich tradition of music, song, verse, drama and story, and, at the same time, enjoy listening to, or using, the broad 'Doric' language which is still very much alive here in the North East, and enjoy a friendly family atmosphere where contestants have come from a' the airt's and pairt's o' Scotland and sometimes beyond. www.buchanheritagesociety.co.uk
The Islay Malt & Music Festival Islay 23-31 May During the last week of May each year the island of Islay welcomes visitors from across the world to help us celebrate our culture our music and of course our world renowned single malt whiskies. During the festival we have all sorts of activities including dances, recitals, fishing, Gaelic lessons, ceilidh's, folk music, whisky tastings and so much more - each event is served with a warm Islay welcome. www.theislayfestival.co.uk
The Border Gaitherin Coldstream May 30 - June 1
The Border Gaitherin is back in 2014 and we are currently planning a great weekend of musical www.perthfestival.co.uk Kirkcudbright entertainments and activities for all our partici22-25 May Come and enjoy! The Border Gaitherin is Kilmarnock's Dirty Weekender pants. the major showcase for Borders music and for Kilmarnock If you prefer a bigger festival in a smaller pot the immense musical and creative talent which you are a Knockengorrocher! Join us beside the 23-25 May resides here in the Borders. However this year glittering Water of Deugh beneath the broad we are pleased to have American guest musiKilmarnock’s Dirty Weekender music festival was cians bringing an Appalachian flavour to the shoulders of southwest Scotland's great mountain peaks to celebrate some of the finest music established in 2012. In 2013 the event exweekend. panded with over 40 acts performing and a third from the Celtic diaspora and everywhere invenue being added to include an all agers stage. www.bordergaitherin.com between. The World Ceilidh melds together the most ancient roots music with the latest cutting In 2014 Kilmarnock’s Dirty Weekender will see further growth with the inclusion of the 1300 caedge sounds. This first truly backwoods upland Northern Roots Festival pacity Grand Hall venue. 2014 will also see the music fest in Scotland hosts some of the best Inverness development and implementation of Glasgow’s musicians and performers from across the 30 May - 1 June Dirty Weekender. This will take place between world. All are invited to journey over hill and the 28 February and the 1 March over three of dale by rock and stream to our natural Established in 2009, Bruce MacGregor's Northgreenfield auditorium and to our upland stage to the city’s venues, Pivo Pivo, Ivory Blacks and ern Roots Music Festival is held in Inverness and experience the biggest little festival this side of Stereo. The Dirty Weekender crew will take its years of experience and deliver a unique and di- features the very best in acoustic, roots, folk anywhere! and blues from around the world. Celebrating verse event to Glasgow for the first time. celtic connections in the Highlands and a new www.knockengorroch.org.uk way of doing things including some great seswww.killieweekender.com sion pubs for the afternoons
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Orkney Folk Festival Orkney 22-25 May
Montrose Music Festival
Montrose Here we are folks – Orkney Folk Festival number 23-25 May 32! Once again we have some big names coming north to join in the fun in May, and from the Montrose Music Festival is a Scottish music festival which takes place at the end of May in Monceilidh bands to the almost indie strand, we trose, Angus. It has become a much anticipated, have brought together a broad mix of artists annual event across Scotland. The festival comthat we hope appeals to everyone’s interpretation of the increasingly expansive folk genre. As mittee is a non-profit, volunteer run organisation, dedicated to promoting free live music of ever, our local traditions and musicians – both established and emerging – will be centre stage all styles and genres, and at all levels, in Montrose and surrounding areas. The festival acalongside those visiting the festival. You would be hard pushed to find another festival through- tively promotes local acts as well as hosting musicians from across the United Kingdom out the country that has such a strong home
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JUNE goNORTH Inverness 4-5 June goNORTH is an annual Creative Industries Festival taking place in Inverness featuring a broad range of Music, Screen, Publishing, Fashion and
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In what promises to be a exciting year in the spotlight for Scotland, Solas will entertain you with a mixing pot of art, music, dance and comedy whilst covering everything from jazz to ceilidh dancing, and hip hop to slow food. Our brilliant variety of acts and friendly atmosphere www.gonorthfestival.co.uk make it a great destination for families. Under12s go free. The festival aims to create a generous, hospitable space in Scotland where the arts Arran Folk Festival can be performed and enjoyed by all. The proIsle of Arran gramme also makes space for challenging de6-8 June bate with activists, writers and thinkers from Arran Events are responsible for the continuance across the political, cultural and religious specof The Arran Folk Festival which will run from 6- trum. 8 June this year. As well as being fully supporwww.solasfestival.co.uk tive of the work that Arran Folk Festival have done since its creation in 1990, we aim to widen Glasgow Jazz Festival our scope and include all genres of music and hope that we will cater for most musical tastes! Glasgow 25–29 June www.arranevents.com/arranfolkfestival2014.php
Glasgow West End Festival Glasgow 6-29 June Over 100 Glasgow-based organisations, arts groups and local and international artists deliver a mixture of activities and projects, overseen by a small festival team. The WEF brings all of these activities together in the festival programme and includes events, exhibitions, performances, talks, tours, workshops and screenings, and many are free of charge to allow accessibility. The WEF’s ethos is to include participants and venues that can complement the already diverse programme.
Newton Stewart 4-5 July Traditional and acoustic music festival in the picturesque market town of Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, in South West Scotland. Ross Couper & Tom Oakes, Siobhan Miller & Aaron Jones, Wendy Stewart, Aaron Jones & Nathon Jones, Zoë Bestel and Jonathan Henderson... workshops, sessions...we look forward to seeing you there. More details to follow... www.facebook.com/TradMusicFestival
Black Isle Fiddle Festival Cromarty 4-6 July
Do you want to learn from some of the finest fiddle players in Scotland in a unique Highland setting? Join us in Cromarty in July for the Black Welcome to the 2014 Glasgow International Jazz Isle Fiddle Weekend. Intensive tuition in a small Festival, this is the 28th year of the Festival, and class setting, top-notch concerts, informal sesonce again we hope that this year’s line up offers sions and of course, great Highland hospitality! something for everyone! The first headliners in- The Black Isle Fiddle Weekend takes place in the clude Courtney Pine’s acclaimed House of Legbeautiful, historic village of Cromarty,at the Old ends, Martin Taylor, Neil Cowley Trio featuring Brewery – an intimate and homely learning envitracks from their latest album, Jazz Jamaica, ronment. Jacqui Dankworth & Todd Gordon. www.fiddleweekend.co.uk www.jazzfest.co.uk
Bannockburn Live Stirling 28-29 June
A two day feast of music, culture, ancestry, food and drink and battle performances. As part of www.westendfestival.co.uk the Bannockburn Live weekend there is a plethora of home grown talent performing, including Dougie MacLean, Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Meadows Festival Rachel Sermanni and many more. This HomeEdinburgh coming Scotland 2014 signature event will im7-8 June merse you in Scotland’s history and culture, The Edinburgh Meadows Festival is a free volun- commemorating the 700th anniversary of the teer-run annual event featuring live music, mer- Battle of Bannockburn and celebrating the best of Scottish traditional and contemporary music, chandise, stalls, kids’ and adults’ activities and food and drink and more. loads more. The first Meadows Festival took place in 1974 and since then the Festival has been an annual feature of the calendar. In 2013 www.bannockburnlive.com over 20,000 people attended across the two days of the Festival, so it’s a busy and fun-filled couple of days! There will be two stages at the 2014 Meadows Festival: Red Dog Music Stage and Fortune Futures Stage
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T in the Park Fife 11-13 July
What more can we say! Scotland’s most widely known and respected festival, which always attracts the biggest names. Check out if tickets are still available at www.tinthepark.com/tickets www.tinthepark.com
Hebridean Celtic Festival Hebrides 16-19 July Fantastic four-day festival set against the rich cultural backdrop of the Outer Hebrides, featuring top quality music from around the Celtic nations and beyond. Stornoway and throughout Lewis and Harris. Get your tickets quickly at www.hebceltfest.com/booking www.hebceltfest.com
Tiree Music Festival Isle of Tiree 18-20 July
Raehills Meadows 12-15 June
Tiree Music Festival (TMF) was formed in 2010 Organisers are waiting for decisions on funding when Tiree musician Daniel Gillespie for Wizard before they can confirm the 2014 (Skerryvore) teamed up with school friend StewWe are a boutique festival showcasing fresh mu- dates - but were looking at July. Stay up-to-date art MacLennan with the radical idea of holding an via facebook and twitter links. sic and electrifying performances! Set in the open-air festival on their local island of Tiree. stunning Raehills Meadows on the 13th-15th of TMF is more than just attending a music festiJune, hosting 9 different stages including a kids www.facebook.com/wizardfestival val – it is an island adventure. Get your tickets https://twitter.com/wizardfestival arena, circus tent, drive in cinema, comedy, quick, the early birds sold out in hours cabaret and workshops, as well as a feast of perhttp://tireemusicfestival.co.uk/ticket-prices formers, artworks, games and much much more. Newton Stewart Traditional Tickets are currently £95. Line up to announced www.tireemusicfestival.co.uk & Acoustic Music Festival shortly. Latest video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgqJZ08P3QY www.facebook.com/theedenfestival
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