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Port :: 8pm on BBC ALBA. Julie Fowlis and Muireann NicAmhlaoibh are in Co. Kerry. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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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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The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture from across Scotland. Belladrum 2019 :: 11-11.30pm on BBC ALBA. Highlights from the concert set by www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland festival favourites, the rock band DODGY, recorded at Belladrum Music Festival, August Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: 6.30pm 2019.The programme features seven songs on BBC Radio Scotland. Essential music from the popular rockers, including hits, So chosen by listeners. Let Me Go Far and If You’re Thinking of Me. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Remembrance :: 8.30pm on BBC ALBA. Another selection of Gaelic songs and poetry from the First World War. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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Travelling Folk :: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Bruce McGregor brings you the very best of folk and roots music from around the world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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Tradfest :: 10.30pm on BBC ALBA. Music from the Tradfest festival. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER Take The Floor :: 7pm on BBC Radio Scotland. For the very best in traditional music and song join Gary Innes. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Pipeline :: 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. The definitive pipe music programme, featuring news and recordings from the piping world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Belladrum 2019 :: 9-10pm on BBC ALBA. Highlights from the Belladrum Music festival in August 2019. This episode features THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER acoustic performances by country favourites MY DARLING CLEMENTINE and indie The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC Radio rockers DODGY. Scotland. Tune into what is happening in Ska legends THE SELECTER are the main music, arts and culture from across Scotland. stage attraction. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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the songwriting masters of country, folk, Billy Sloan :: 10pm on BBC Radio Belladrum 2019 :: 10pm on BBC blues and soul. Scotland. Hot releases plus rock and pop ALBA. DODGY, MY DARLING and THE www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland music from Scotland and around the SELECTOR recorded at Belladrum 2019. world. www.bbcalba.co.uk Perthshire Amber :: 11.35pm on BBC www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland ALBA. The Dougie MacLean festival Iain Anderson :: 11pm on BBC Radio featuring EDDI READER and her band. SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER Scotland. End the day in the company of www.bbcalba.co.uk the songwriting masters of country, folk, Take The Floor :: 5pm on BBC Radio blues and soul. TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER Scotland. For the very best in traditional www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland music and song join Gary Innes. The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER Radio Scotland. Tune into what is happening in music, arts and culture Jazz Nights :: 7pm on BBC Radio Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: from across Scotland. Scotland. Seonaid Aitken with the best 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland in jazz music from contemporary to Essential music chosen by listeners. classic. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Vic Galloway :: 9pm on BBC Radio Essential music chosen by listeners. Perthshire Amber :: 8.15pm on BBC Scotland. Featuring live sessions and www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland ALBA. Featuring TUNEBOOK with new material from the best alternative MAIREARAD GREEN and ROSS artists. Another Country with Ricky Ross :: AINSLIE. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland 9pm on BBC Radio Scotland. Nashville www.bbcalba.co.uk songwriters BOB DiPIERO, HEATHER Tradfest :: 10pm on BBC ALBA. Music MORGAN and ALLEN SHAMBLIN 'in Classics Unwrapped :: 9pm on BBC from the Tradfest festival. the round'. Radio Scotland. Jamie MacDougall has www.bbcalba.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland music to relax to, thanks to some listener favourites. Iain Anderson :: 11pm on BBC Radio Roddy Hart :: 11pm on BBC Radio www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Scotland. End the day in the company of Scotland. Roddy shines a spotlight on
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TOM WALKER @ Quay Sessions :: 11.30-12midnight on BBC ALBA. Tom Walker delights The Quay Sessions’ Port :: 11pm on BBC ALBA. Julie Fowlis audience with an acoustic set filmed at and Muireann NicAmhlaoibh visit North BBC Scotland earlier this year. It Uist and Berneray. features his hit single Just You And I www.bbcalba.co.uk and an exclusive performance of Leave A Light On with The Red Hot Chilli WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER Pipers. He won Best Breakthrough Act at the Brit Awards and his debut album, The Afternoon Show :: 2pm on BBC What A Time To Be Alive, reached #1 in Radio Scotland. Tune into what is the charts. This is a unique performance happening in music, arts and culture in the intimate surroundings of The from across Scotland. Quay Sessions, at BBC Scotland’s HQ. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland Quay Sessions presenter Roddy Hart said: “Scots born Tom is the rarest of Get It On... With Bryan Burnett :: things: a superstar with his feet firmly 6.30pm on BBC Radio Scotland. on the ground, which is exactly why he’s Essential music chosen by listeners. connected with so many music fans this www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland year. An honest and raw talent to treasure”. Travelling Folk :: 9pm on BBC Radio www.bbc.co.uk/scotland Scotland. Bruce McGregor brings you -----------------------------------------------the very best of folk and roots music from around the world. www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
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Opry le Daniel with ISLA GRANT :: 9-9.50pm on BBC ALBA. Opry Le Daniel features a wealth of musicians who are at the heart of country music. The King of Country music - Daniel O’Donnell presents and Anne Sinclair narrates as they give a warm welcome to the stars PLEASE CHECK ALL GIG DATES/ of country music. Tonight’s show DETAILS BEFORE TRAVELLING features talented Scottish singer Isla Grant as special guest. Recorded in front OR BOOKING TICKETS of a live audience, Opry introduces the THINGS CAN CHANGE!! cream of country music artists from the length and breadth of Ireland, from the Millennium Forum, Derry. www.bbcalba.co.uk
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autumn. Boo will sing songs from his new album ‘Before’, released on 6 September 2019, and his impressive back catalogue. A naturally gifted raconteur his gigs are always a total joy. The new recordings on ‘Before’ are a perfect contrast of mood and theme to the gloriously rich, full band pop sound of 2017’s acclaimed ‘Swimming in Mercury’ album. This new album finds Boo focused on the art of reduction, consumed by fine details and found sound, songs where the fragility and beauty of life are laid bear with a stark emotive honesty. Catch Boo live in Dundee, Stonehaven, Irvine and Edinburgh this autumn. Tickets @ www.boohewerdine.net 23 NOVEMBER Edinburgh Art Fair presents ..... SHAMANIC :: At The Corn Exchange, New Market Rd, EH14 1RJ. 2pm. Edinburgh Art Fair – celebrating its 15th year - has teamed up with SHAMANIC the collective which features acclaimed Russian artist Maria Rud, iconic punk rock legend, Fay Fife of the Rezillos and Martin Metcalfe, the frontman of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie & The Filthy Tongues – to feature 2 live performances, a unique first for the event. SHAMANIC is a unique, dramatic, visceral collision of live music and painting, created by Russian artist Maria Rud (a development of her AniMotion Shows with Evelyn Glennie (which toured to USA, China and Europe)), iconic Rezillos frontwoman Fay Fife and Martin Metcalfe (Filthy Tongues/ Goodbye Mr McKenzie/Angelfish). The unique collaboration between Edinburgh Art Fair and SHAMANIC aims to show
that art & music belong to the same sphere and to bring visitors closer to art. The collaboration with Edinburgh Art Fair is a natural partnership which will demonstrate that fine art can be perceived in an immersive and accessible way. The SHAMANIC performances are free to anyone attending the Edinburgh Art Fair; free tickets specifically for the SHAMANIC performance can also be ordered by emailing EAFShamanic@gmail.com www.shamaniclive.com THE FIRRENES :: At Voodoo Rooms, 19a W. Register Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2AA. Doors 7.30pm, band 8pm, finish 10.30pm. The Firrenes will be on stage at 8pm, playing two 50-minute sets with a short break in between. Over 18s only. £10.00 (£7.00 for students/ unwaged). From soaring indie rock anthems to burlesque-inspired cabaret numbers, The Firrenes (it rhymes with "beans") are a melodic, song-based rock band from Edinburgh who know how to put on a show. This concert introduces a new band lineup and will feature brand new songs, plus old favourites from the album Door Too Wide. One or two classic numbers from the British and American songbook will be thrown in for good measure. A varied and fun-packed evening of music, not to be missed. More info can be found on website below or just search 'The Firrenes' on YouTube, Spotify and other online platforms. Tickets on door (if available) from WeGotTickets (booking fee applies) on 0131 208 5373 or @ www.wegottickets.com/event/467397 www.TheFirrenes.com
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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. All dates @ www.facebook.com/davearcarimusic 30 NOVEMBER
The Soundhouse Organisation presents ..... AIDAN O'ROURKE & FRIENDS :: At The Queen’s Hall, 85-89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh. 7PM. £16. For the first time we’ll be taking part in St Andrew’s Fair Saturday and we’re excited to be partnering with our friends at the Queen’s Hall to bring some of Scotland’s best musicians to the stage. Award-winning fiddler, composer, producer and curator, Aidan O’Rourke (one third of Lau) is a pioneer of new sound in folk music who has redefined traditional forms. With roots in Scottish and Irish folk, Aidan was named Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2014 and has released four solo albums. In his latest project, he wrote a tune every day for a year in response to a short story collection by James Robertson and recorded the resulting 365 tunes with Kit Downes, guitarist Sorren Maclean and harpist Esther Swift. ‘365: Vol 2’ was released in August 2019 and featured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Aidan will be bringing friends to perform with him, including Skye piper Brìghde Chaimbeul (winner of the Horizon Award at this year's BBC Folk Awards). 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’ was produced by Aidan and was long-listed for the 2019 Scottish Album of the Year Award. There will also be a set by The Soundhouse Choir, who will perform ‘Songs from Scotland’. £1 from each ticket and profit after costs will go to the DAVE ARCARI :: At Sneaky Pete's, The SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ Soundhouse Organisation. The Edinburgh. Slide guitarist & songwriter ORCHESTRA with Grammy Soundhouse Organisation - Putting on nominated vocalist JAZZMEIA HORN: Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as great live music in Edinburgh and much to trash country, punk and At Usher Hall, Edinburgh. The Scottish rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues fundraising for a new centre for National Jazz Orchestra is delighted to musicians and music lovers. and have been showcased via ten announce three exclusive concerts in www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg/ Scotland as Grammy nominated vocalist internationally-acclaimed solo CD Jazzmeia Horn visits for the first time to releases. "Dave plays like he got his skin
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mns GIGfocus :: SHAMANIC Spectacular, monumental collision of live music and painting, in a first for Edinburgh Art Fair
GIGnotes :: SHAMANIC Live at the Edinburgh Art Fair Saturday 23 + Sunday 24 November, 2pm @ The Corn Exchange, New Market Rd, Edinburgh. EH14 1RJ Edinburgh Art Fair – celebrating its 15th year - has teamed up with SHAMANIC - the collective which features acclaimed Russian artist Maria Rud, iconic punk rock legend, Fay Fife of the Rezillos and Martin Metcalfe, the frontman of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie & The Filthy Tongues – to feature 2 live performances, a unique first for the event. SHAMANIC is a unique, dramatic, visceral collision of live music and painting, created by Russian artist Maria Rud (a development of her AniMotion Shows with Evelyn Glennie (which toured to USA, China and Europe)), iconic Rezillos frontwoman Fay Fife and Martin Metcalfe (Filthy Tongues/Goodbye Mr McKenzie/Angelfish). SHAMANIC is the fruit of the creative friendship between Fay Fife and Maria Rud, taking the AniMotion Show into the realm of rock ‘n’ roll, in which one member of the band is a painter. The SHAMANIC collective shares Edinburgh Art Fair’s belief that art is for everyone. The band delivers an unforgettable live experience in which music and painting become one in a psychedelic cinematic performance. Projected live, Maria’s iconic ever-changing imagery fused with music is akin to a live animated film. SHAMANIC was launched in the Old College Quad in Edinburgh in association with Rip It Up by the National Museum Of Scotland. Hailed as a “multimedia spectacular” by the Herald, and raved about by its audiences, SHAMANIC is headed overseas in 2020, to Austin, Texas, where it will be showcased at the legendary South By South West Festival. The unique collaboration between Edinburgh Art Fair and SHAMANIC aims to show that art & music belong to the same sphere and to bring visitors closer to art. The collaboration with Edinburgh Art Fair is a natural partnership which will demonstrate that fine art can be perceived in an immersive and accessible way. Maria Rud and sculptor Ewan Allinson - artistic director of The AniMotion Show - co-founded DOM which for nearly a decade maintained a public gallery in Edinburgh’s Advocate’s Close. DOM’s main aim was to reunite music & art and make them accessible to all.
SHAMANIC :: www.facebook.com/ShamanicTheShow Alongside live performances, the SHAMANIC collective will be presented by Edinburgh Art Fair at the specially curated stand. As well as Maria Rud’s paintings and Ewan Allinson’s sculptures, the stand will feature works by musicians Martin Metcalfe and Derek Kelly ( Goodbye Mr Mackenzie /The Filthy Tongues), both practising visual artists, which further emphasises the point of art & music being inseparably linked. The SHAMANIC performances are free to anyone attending the Edinburgh Art Fair; free tickets specifically for the SHAMANIC performance can also be ordered by emailing EAFShamanic@gmail.com Shamanic :: www.shamaniclive.com
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Scottish Studies Archives, University of Edinburgh present a musical and literary celebration of the legacy of Hamish Wee Folk Club presents ..... DOWALLY :: At Royal Oak, 1 Infirmary Henderson. Poet, song-maker, folklorist and activist, he was also a champion of St, Edinburgh EH1 1LT. 8.30pm start (get their early to get in!). £6. The Wee Scotland’s rich oral tradition, and one of his key contributions to the nation’s Folk Club is held every Sunday. It's a culture was his half century of fieldwork delightfully compact and bijou venue collecting for the School of Scottish which generally plays host to acoustic Studies. Today this archive represents acts and as anyone who's played or been in the audience there will tell you, one of the finest audio collections of folk it's as warm, intimate and just generally culture in the world, and is a magnet for brilliant a night as you could possibly musicians, singers, storytellers, and creative artists of all kinds. Voice of the wish for. People brings together contemporary www.facebook.com/weefolkclub/ voices inspired by Henderson’s life and 6 DECEMBER work, featuring prominent tradition bearers and material from the School of Scottish Studies archives. The event The Soundhouse Organisation features highlights from the Rebellious presents ..... Voice of the People #Hamish100 :: At The Traverse Bar, Truth project curated by Lori Watson and commissioned by Celtic Connections Cambridge Street, Edinburgh. As we reach the centenary of his birth, Celtic & in January 2019. Performers confirmed so far are Fiona Hunter, Gary West, Scottish Studies and The School of 1 DECEMBER
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The Soundhouse Organisation presents ..... CUA + MIKEY KENNEY :: At The Traverse Bar, Cambridge Street, Edinburgh. The Soundhouse Organisation - Putting on great live music in Edinburgh and fundraising for a new centre for musicians and music lovers. www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg/ 15 DECEMBER Wee Folk Club presents ..... WENDY WEATHERBY :: At Royal Oak, 1 Infirmary St, Edinburgh EH1 1LT. 8.30pm start (get their early to get in!). £6. The Wee Folk Club is held every Sunday. It's a delightfully compact and bijou venue which generally plays host to acoustic acts and as anyone who's played or been in the audience there will tell you, it's as warm, intimate and just generally brilliant a night as you could possibly wish for. www.facebook.com/weefolkclub/
PHIL CUNNINGHAM'S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK on Tour :: At Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. 7.30pm. Phil will be joined by regular collaborators Eddi Reader, Karen Matheson, John McCusker, Kris Drever, Ian Carr, Kevin McGuire and the Songbook Brass Ensemble to lead you through a great fun night of festive music. www.facebook.com/ philschristmassongbook 22 DECEMBER PHIL CUNNINGHAM'S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK on Tour :: At Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. 7.30pm. Phil will be joined by regular collaborators Eddi Reader, Karen Matheson, John McCusker, Kris Drever, Ian Carr, Kevin McGuire and the Songbook Brass Ensemble to lead you through a great fun night of festive music. www.facebook.com/ philschristmassongbook 31 DECEMBER
16 DECEMBER KEIR GIBSON :: At Hogmanay Street Party Edinburgh. 9pm. Rising The Soundhouse Organisation presents ..... DEAN OWENS AND Highland star Keir Gibson will play the Waverley Stage at Edinburgh's THE SOUTHERNERS :: At The Hogmanay following a successful Traverse Bar, Cambridge Street, Edinburgh. 2019 has been an exciting summer of festival slots and the year for Leith’s Dean Owens – seeing release of his debut single. Thanks to him win UK Song of the Year (for the an early hook-up with Paradigm live music agency, home to the likes of title track of his most recent, widely Lewis Capaldi, Clean Bandit and Tom acclaimed album Southern Wind),
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carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com 20 NOVEMBER The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... BLUE ROSE CODE “Water Of Leith-Live” album launch show :: At The Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow. Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start. 2017’s stunning album The Water of Leith continues to shine with the release of a new live recording. ‘The Water of Leith- Live’ was recorded in Ross Wilson’s hometown of Edinburgh at the sold out Queens Hall show in November 2017. The album will only be available at live shows, instore and on the BRC band camp. The official release date will be November 25th but will be available exclusively to buy at the Queen Margaret University launch show. ‘The Water of Leith’ was hailed by The Skinny magazine as their Scottish Album Of The Year. The album was also nominated for both the SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) award and SAMA (Scottish Alternative Music Award). This ‘Live’ album features the Blue Rose Code ‘big band’ including Konrad Wiszniewski on saxophone, Colin Steele on trumpet and Seonaid Aitken’s string Quartet. Blue Rose Code is musically chameleon live, bringing warmth, honesty and truth to the stages they play. Tickets £17.50 from Tickets Scotland on 0141 204 5151 and @ www.Ticketweb.co.uk www.fallenangelsclub.com
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For the first time The Soundhouse Organisation will be taking part in St Andrew’s Fair Saturday and they’re excited to be partnering with their friends at the Queen’s Hall to bring some of Scotland’s best musicians to the stage.
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Award-winning fiddler, composer, producer and curator, Aidan O’Rourke (one third of Lau) is a pioneer of new sound in folk music who has redefined traditional forms. With roots in Scottish and Irish folk, Aidan was named Musician of the Year at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in 2014 and has released four solo albums. In his latest project, he wrote a tune every day for a year in response to a short story collection by James Robertson and recorded the resulting 365 tunes with Kit Downes, guitarist Sorren Maclean and harpist Esther Swift. ‘365: Vol 2’ was released in August 2019 and featured at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Fair Saturday started in Bilbao in 2015 as a global cultural movement with a social impact. Its aim is to highlight the essential role the arts play in shaping a better future for the world and to counteract the consumerism of Black Friday.
Also confirmed for the gig are Graeme Stephen, Lizabett Russo, Daniel Pioro and Allan Macdonald. There will also be a set by The Soundhouse Choir, who will perform ‘Songs from Scotland’. More guests will be announced soon so keep checking back or follow Soundhouse on social media for updates. £1 from each ticket and profit after costs will go to the Soundhouse Organisation. About St Andrew’s Fair Saturday
Scotland is now the first official partner country, joining Fair Saturday with our national day to create St Andrew’s Fair Saturday. The Queen’s Hall is proud to be an early supporter of the initiative.
The day after Black Friday, thousands of artists and cultural organisations around the world come together to showcase their talents, bring audiences together in a cultural Aidan will be bringing friends to perform with him, including Skye piper Brìghde Chaimbeul experience and support social causes. (winner of the Horizon Award at this year's St Andrew’s Fair Saturday is a Scottish BBC Folk Awards). A native Gaelic speaker, Government initiative which is being delivered her style is rooted in her indigenous language by the Fair Saturday Foundation. Presented in and culture, but draws inspiration from a partnership with The Queen’s Hall. variety of piping traditions such as from Cape Breton, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Her debut www.soundhouse.org.uk album The Reeling was produced by Aidan and www.twitter.com/SoundhouseOrg was long-listed for the 2019 Scottish Album of www.facebook.com/soundhouseorg
23 NOVEMBER The SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA with Grammy nominated vocalist JAZZMEIA HORN: At Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. The Scottish National Jazz
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the warm lyrical nuances and featherfine melodies at the tender heart of their compositions. Alongside fan favourites ‘Who You Are’, ‘Is There Something I Missed?’ and ‘Foundations’, there’s also a breathtaking cover of the Lana Del Rey mega-hit: ‘Video Games’; making for a four-track collection that stands quite unlike anything they’ve released before. Tickets available @ www.musicglue.com/spinn-band/gigs www.facebook.com/spinnband/ 29-30 NOVEMBER
THE TWANG supporting SHED SEVEN :: At O2 Academy, Glasgow. The 24 NOVEMBER Twang have spent over a decade defying MISHRA :: At Tchai-Ovna House of Tea, expectation. From their beginnings in Glasgow. Mishra describe themselves as their Birmingham home town, vocalist Phil Etheridge, bassist Jon Watkin, a global folk “collective”. With strong roots in U.K folk, they weave a tight web guitarist Stu Hartland and drummer Ash Sheehan continue to wow audiences and of intricate, Indian-influenced original win new fans with their electric live music that defies genre labels. Led by shows. The Twang now join Shed Seven Kate Griffin’s voice and inimitable as special guests on their extensive UK clawhammer banjo and driven by Ford Collier’s continent-hopping instrumental tour. www.facebook.com/thetwang skills (Indian tabla, African calabash, Irish whistle and guitar). Both Kate and 30 NOVEMBER Ford have been to India to study the music more closely “It was a huge DAVE ARCARI :: At The Hug and Pint, inspiration to us”, says Ford. “Kate's a Glasgow. 8pm. Slide guitarist & very talented banjo player – the songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues instrument virtually an extension of sounds owe as much to trash country, her!” David O Hara, Cambridge Folk punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Festival. Delta blues and have been showcased www.mishramusic.co.uk via ten internationally-acclaimed solo CD releases. "Dave plays like he got his skin Mac DeMarco :: At O2 Academy, Glasgow. Mac’s fourth full-length album, turned inside out and pretty soon my Here Comes The Cowboy, is out now via skin was inside out too listening and it was all good. That boy bleeds for you – Mac’s Record Label (distributed in the he a real down deep player and a soul UK via Caroline International). The man..." Seasick Steve. All dates @ record, which received 4* reviews in www.facebook.com/davearcarimusic Uncut, Q, MOJO and The Evening Standard, was written, tracked and mixed at DeMarco’s Jizz Jazz Studios in IAN PROWSE :: At The Admiral, Glasgow. Ian Prowse is touring his brand Los Angeles during the first two weeks of an exceptionally rainy January 2019. new album Here I Lie is out now via Kitchen Disco Records. The album is Nearly every instrument on the album already attracting high praise with the was played by DeMarco, aside from like of Elvis Costello saying “It goes keyboards on select tracks by touring without the saying that he will make a member and close friend Alec Meen. Traveling sound engineer, Joe Santarpia, beautiful carriage of the music he loves”. Prowse formed Pele in Liverpool in 1989 helped shape the record, sharing along with Dally (drums), Robbo engineering and mixing duties with (Hammond), Nico (violin) & Jim DeMarco. McCallister (bass). Signed by Michael www.macdemarco.lnk.to Levy, Baron Levy in March 1991 to M&G Records/Polydor, the band went on to 26 NOVEMBER release 2 studio albums (Fireworks & SPINN :: At King Tuts, Glasgow. Riding The Sport Of Kings), 1 live album and 6 out of 2019 on a high, Liverpool’s SPINN singles. Prowse went on to form Amsterdam in 1999 with former Blow have shared their new ‘Acoustic EP’ ahead of their biggest UK & EIRE shows Monkeys drummer Tony Kiley and cousin to date; including a stop at Glasgow’s Johnny Barlow. It wasn't until September 2004 that the band managed King Tuts. Stripping back the fizz and to secure a record deal in the form of freneticism that defines the trademark London based Beat Crazy. They released sound of their vigorous studio one album The Journey in February recordings, the upcoming ‘Acoustic EP’ instead chooses to place the spotlight on 2005 and three singles, "The
Journey" (which hit number 32 in the UK top 40) and "Does This Train Stop on Merseyside" also hit the lower reaches of the charts. www.amsterdam-music.com BEVERLEY BEIRNE :: At Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock. As part of her Autumn tour renowned jazz singer Beverley Beirne is heading to Scotland on a minitour to perform songs from her recent album ‘Jazz Just Wants To Have Fun’ and a preview for her upcoming new album ‘Dream Dancer’ produced by New York Grammy winning producer Jason Miles, whose many credits include (Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, Diana Krall, Aretha Franklin). Beverley has headlined a variety of festivals and performed at leading clubs throughout the UK and Europe (Ronnie Scotts Upstairs, Pizza Express Jazz Club, 606 Club). Audiences can expect some swinging standards, exquisite ballads, a little sassy latin, the Duncan Lamont tunes and tunes from JJWTHF as Beverley scats and soars with her killer band, John Crawford (piano), Flo Moore (Bass), Matt Parkinson (Drums), Ronan Perrett (Sax and Flute). www.beverleybeirne.com 1 DECEMBER DOGHOUSE ROSES :: 'House Concert', Glasgow. Glasgow’s Doghouse Roses will bring their unique sound which threads British folk music and Americana to Glasgow this October when they play The CCA. Hot on the heels of the release of their fourth album, ‘We Are Made Of Light’, the duo of Iona Macdonald on vocals and Paul Tasker on guitars, banjo and harmony vocals will be out to delight audiences across Europe this autumn. The album has been nurtured over time and is a collection of songs, some new, others written over the band’s 15 years together but previously unrecorded and grew out of the duo’s touring set lists in 2018. Whether regularly gracing the stage of the Celtic Connections Festival at home in Glasgow or winning over an audience in an East German roadhouse, Tasker and Macdonald are exhilarating live musicians who bring their love of creating music to the fore every time they appear – and audiences will have the chance to see why they are considered one of the UK’s foremost folk based pairings this October. www.doghouseroses.net 17 DECEMBER PHIL CUNNINGHAM'S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK on Tour :: At The Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow. 7.30pm. Phil will be joined by regular collaborators Eddi Reader, Karen Matheson, John McCusker, Kris Drever, Ian Carr,
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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 19: glasgow + surrounding area :: fife + central + perthshire + tayside present an entirely acoustic tour. The Kevin McGuire and the Songbook Brass Ensemble to lead you through a pioneering Scottish folk trio have always experimented with sound and form; the great fun night of festive music. results have always been complex and www.facebook.com/ thrilling. Already acknowledged as philschristmassongbook phenomenal live performers Lau arrived at a new creative peak with 2019's THE ILLICITS supporting PRIMAL Midnight and Closedown (Reveal SCREAM :: At Barrowlands, Glasgow. Freshly signed to Alan McGee’s Creation Records). Now 2020's Unplugged 23 label, THE ILLICITS have confirmed concert tour sees traditional music's most celebrated innovators strip away details of their AA single “Left Behind / Born Slippy” (out 29 November) and live their banks of electronics, loops and wild dates in support of Liam Gallagher and effects. The trio of Kris Drever (guitar, Primal Scream. With their blistering live vocals), Martin Green (accordion) and Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle) feel drawn to a shows, The Illicits are bringing people more raw and plain-speaking aesthetic. together, speaking to their peers and documenting life in post-industrial towns The approach is subtler, less about and cities. The band’s euphoric take on spectacle, more about close listening. In brash and polarised political times, here punk rock is instilling confidence and is the poetry of real instruments and swagger into their music scene, and increasingly resonating with kids up and considerate music making. www.facebook.com/LAUband down the country as word spreads. www.facebook.com/Theillicits/ 20 MAY 18 DECEMBER LAU 'Unplugged Tour' :: At The Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock. 7.30pm. THE ILLICITS supporting PRIMAL For the first time in over a decade, Lau SCREAM :: At Barrowlands, Glasgow. Freshly signed to Alan McGee’s Creation present an entirely acoustic tour. The 23 label, THE ILLICITS have confirmed pioneering Scottish folk trio have always experimented with sound and form; the details of their AA single “Left Behind / Born Slippy” (out 29 November) and live results have always been complex and dates in support of Liam Gallagher and thrilling. Already acknowledged as Primal Scream. With their blistering live phenomenal live performers Lau arrived at a new creative peak with 2019's shows, The Illicits are bringing people Midnight and Closedown (Reveal together, speaking to their peers and documenting life in post-industrial towns Records). Now 2020's Unplugged and cities. The band’s euphoric take on concert tour sees traditional music's most celebrated innovators strip away punk rock is instilling confidence and their banks of electronics, loops and wild swagger into their music scene, and increasingly resonating with kids up and effects. The trio of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), Martin Green (accordion) and down the country as word spreads. Aidan O'Rourke (fiddle) feel drawn to a www.facebook.com/Theillicits/ more raw and plain-speaking aesthetic. The approach is subtler, less about 20 DECEMBER spectacle, more about close listening. In brash and polarised political times, here GOODBYE MR MACKENZIE :: At is the poetry of real instruments and Barrowland, Glasgow (Sold Out). The considerate music making. Filthy Tongues (Martin Metcalfe, Fin Wilson and Derek Kelly, best known as www.facebook.com/LAUband original members of 80s legends Goodbye Mr Mackenzie) - after a hiatus, during which they played a series of sell out gigs celebrating the 30th anniversary of Goodbye Mr Mackenzie’s Good Deeds and Dirty Rags - return this Send us all your gig dates for Autumn with a great new single and a Tayside, Perthshire, tour of Scotland. Meanwhile the Fife and Central areas reformed Goodbye Mr Mackenzie pick up their storming anniversary tour later in . Email them to Carol the year, with tour dates in England carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com (November) including the legendary Dingwalls in London, culminating in a 22 NOVEMBER sold out gig at Glasgow Barrowlands on 20 December. SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ www.filthytongues.com ORCHESTRA with Grammy nominated vocalist JAZZMEIA 23 JANUARY HORN :: At Perth Concert Hall, Perth. The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra is LAU 'Unplugged Tour' :: At City Halls delighted to announce three exclusive & Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. 7.30pm. concerts in Scotland as Grammy For the first time in over a decade, Lau
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nominated vocalist Jazzmeia Horn visits for the first time to join the SNJO in a wonderful mixed programme of jazz. Winner of the 2015 Thelonius Monk and 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competitions, Jazzmeia Horn is an extraordinary jazz vocalist whose name speaks for itself and captures her very essence. "Jazzmeia has one of the best voices I've heard in over 40 years" -Jon Hendricks www.snjo.co.uk 28 NOVEMBER DAVE ARCARI :: At Backstage at the Green Hotel, Kinross. 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-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. All dates @ www.facebook.com/davearcarimusic Crail Folk Club presents ..... EDWINA HAYES :: At Town Hall, Crail. 8pm, BYOB, £8. Edwina’s beautifully written songs, charming stage presence and voice of an angel have won her a reputation as a true natural talent of gentle folk-Americana. She has opened numerous shows for Jools Holland and Van Morrison as well as her own gigs playing stages everywhere from Glastonbury Festival to The Royal Albert Hall. The title track of her album Pour Me A Drink was covered by Nanci Griffith who calls her 'the sweetest voice in England' and her cover of the Randy Newman song Feels Like Home was featured in the Cameron Diaz film My Sister's Keeper and has since had over eight million plays on You Tube. Edwina has also toured with artists ranging from Loudon Wainwright and Roger McGuinn to KT Tunstall and Gretchen Peters. Edwina was born in Dublin and grew up in Preston, Lancashire before moving to the East coast of Yorkshire as a teenager, where she has been based ever since. Dividing her time between the UK and America, Edwina's second home is Nashville where she is much loved as a songwriter and artist. Edwina released her second album 'Pour Me A Drink' to great success. Edwina followed in the same style with her third release 'Good Things Happen Over Coffee' and touring constantly continues to attract wonderful reviews and fans worldwide. Edwina toured as support with Fairport Convention on their UK Wintour, toured China a few months later, and then Australia. www.facebook.com/crailfolkclub
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DICKSON, NOEL FARROW, CILLA FISHER, JIM HERD, JIMMY HUTCHISON, BRIAN MILLER, RAB NOAKES, DAVEY STEWART and ARTIE TREZISE! :: At Lochgelly Centre, Lochgelly, Fife. KY5 9RD. 8pm. £10. Back in late 1969 a troupe of singers from the Fife Folksong Scene gathered themselves together for a trip to Belfast. The occasion was an invitation to provide a show around Folksong from Scotland at Queens University. Later that year a wee tour of East Anglia was undertaken and here the name The Great Fife Road Show was unveiled. This celebratory show will be performed by all surviving ex-members. Singer/ Guitarist Des Haldane, who died too young in 2008, will be fondly remembered and there’ll be a segment of the show devoted to the seminal John Watt which will contain several of his masterly compositions. The show will revisit some of its renowned ensemble pieces and solo performances. There’ll be old songs, new songs, old jokes and a delicious camaraderie on display. Tickets on 01592 583303 or @ www.onfife.com
THE ILLICITS supporting PRIMAL SCREAM :: At Concert Hall, Perth. Freshly signed to Alan McGee’s Creation 23 label, THE ILLICITS have confirmed details of their AA single “Left Behind / Born Slippy” (out 29 November) and live dates in support of Liam Gallagher and Primal Scream. With their blistering live shows, The Illicits are bringing people together, speaking to their peers and documenting life in post-industrial towns and cities. The band’s euphoric take on punk rock is instilling confidence and swagger into their music scene, and increasingly resonating with kids up and down the country as word spreads. www.facebook.com/Theillicits/ 21 MAY 20 DECEMBER PHIL CUNNINGHAM'S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK on Tour :: At Perth Concert Hall. 7.30pm. Phil will be joined by regular collaborators Eddi Reader, Karen Matheson, John McCusker, Kris Drever, Ian Carr, Kevin McGuire and the Songbook Brass Ensemble to lead you through a great fun night of festive music. www.facebook.com/ philschristmassongbook 21 DECEMBER SKERRYVORE with TRAIL WEST :: At Reid Hall, Forfar. 7.30pm. Skerryvore are a multi-award winning Scottish band creating a ‘trad-rock’ fusion that has seen them perform in over 25 countries worldwide. Twice awarded 'Live Act of the Year' at the Trad Music Awards www.facebook.com/skerryvore
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 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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MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGguide page 22: aberdeenshire + north east :: highlands + west coast :: islands punk rock is instilling confidence and swagger into their music scene, and THE TWANG supporting SHED SEVEN :: At Music Hall, Aberdeen. The increasingly resonating with kids up and Twang have spent over a decade defying down the country as word spreads. www.facebook.com/Theillicits/ expectation. From their beginnings in their Birmingham home town, vocalist 16 DECEMBER Phil Etheridge, bassist Jon Watkin, guitarist Stu Hartland and drummer Ash Sheehan continue to wow audiences and PHIL CUNNINGHAM'S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK on Tour :: At The Music win new fans with their electric live shows. The Twang now join Shed Seven Hall, Aberdeen. 7.30pm. Phil will be joined by regular collaborators Eddi as special guests on their extensive UK Reader, Karen Matheson, John tour. McCusker, Kris Drever, Ian Carr, www.facebook.com/thetwang Kevin McGuire and the Songbook Brass Ensemble to lead you through a 29 NOVEMBER great fun night of festive music. www.facebook.com/ DAVE ARCARI :: At The Blue Lamp, philschristmassongbook Aberdeen. Slide guitarist & songwriter Dave Arcari’s alt.blues sounds owe as 20+21 DECEMBER much to trash country, punk and rockabilly as they do pre-war Delta blues Let It Snow :: At St Giles Church, and have been showcased via ten Elgin. Let It Snow promises to be internationally-acclaimed solo CD releases. "Dave plays like he got his skin another festive hit with Moray music lovers. Now in its fifth year, the crowdturned inside out and pretty soon my pleasing, feel-good performances will skin was inside out too listening and it was all good. That boy bleeds for you – bring the usual sparkle and magic to the region. Let It Snow began in 2015, as a he a real down deep player and a soul fundraiser for Lucy’s Fight - Lucy's Fight man..." Seasick Steve. All dates @ is a local campaign set up by Lucy www.facebook.com/davearcarimusic Lintott, the youngest person in Scotland living with Motor Neurone Disease BEVERLEY BEIRNE :: At Garioch Jazz Club, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. As part (MND). Lucy’s Fight raises money for the of her Autumn tour renowned jazz singer charity MND Scotland and awareness of MND. Every year since then, some of the Beverley Beirne is heading to Scotland finest jazz musicians in the country on a mini-tour to perform songs from come to Elgin to team up with local her recent album ‘Jazz Just Wants To talent, forming a big band, who perform Have Fun’ and a preview for her purely to help the cause. Promising to be upcoming new album ‘Dream Dancer’ produced by New York Grammy winning the best yet, 2019 is the show’s fifth birthday and there will be the usual big producer Jason Miles, whose many band, featuring some of the most credits include (Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, Diana Krall, Aretha Franklin). exciting young jazz players in the country, led this year by trumpet player Beverley has headlined a variety of festivals and performed at leading clubs Joshua Elcock. Guest singers are still to be announced and the line-up will also throughout the UK and Europe (Ronnie Scotts Upstairs, Pizza Express Jazz Club, feature a community choir. Performances on 20 December at 7:30 606 Club). Audiences can expect some swinging standards, exquisite ballads, a pm / 21 December at 2:30pm and 7:30pm. Tickets, £18 (adult), £16 little sassy latin, the Duncan Lamont (child) +bf from IT Central, 37 South tunes and tunes from JJWTHF as Beverley scats and soars with her killer Street, Elgin or @ band, John Crawford (piano), Flo Moore www.forteproductions.co.uk (Bass), Matt Parkinson (Drums), Ronan Perrett (Sax and Flute). www.beverleybeirne.com 14 DECEMBER THE ILLICITS supporting PRIMAL SCREAM :: At Music Hall, Aberdeen. Freshly signed to Alan McGee’s Creation 23 label, THE ILLICITS have confirmed details of their AA single “Left Behind / Born Slippy” (out 29 November) and live dates in support of Liam Gallagher and Primal Scream. With their blistering live shows, The Illicits are bringing people together, speaking to their peers and documenting life in post-industrial towns and cities. The band’s euphoric take on
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ILLICITS have confirmed details of their AA single “Left Behind / Born Slippy” (out 29 November) and live dates in support of Liam Gallagher and Primal Scream. With their blistering live shows, The Illicits are bringing people together, speaking to their peers and documenting life in post-industrial towns and cities. The band’s euphoric take on punk rock is instilling confidence and swagger into their music scene, and increasingly resonating with kids up and down the country as word spreads. www.facebook.com/Theillicits/ 18 DECEMBER PHIL CUNNINGHAM'S CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK on Tour :: At Eden Court Theatre, Inverness. 7.30pm. Phil will be joined by regular collaborators Eddi Reader, Karen Matheson, John McCusker, Kris Drever, Ian Carr, Kevin McGuire and the Songbook Brass Ensemble to lead you through a great fun night of festive music. www.facebook.com/ philschristmassongbook 21 DECEMBER KEIR GIBSON :: At Railway Club, Fort William. Rising Highland star Keir Gibson has announced he will play a headline hometown show in Fort William, following a successful summer of festival slots and the release of his debut single. Keir will bring his stand-out alternative pop sound to life for audiences at Fort William Railway Club. Thanks to an early hook-up with Paradigm live music agency, home to the likes of Lewis Capaldi, Clean Bandit and Tom Walker, Keir has also secured a string of support slots across the UK and Ireland with Irish act Keywest, taking in cities including Dublin, Manchester and Glasgow. In the past year, Keir has progressed from playing small support slots, to travelling the country in pursuit of his music. He supported London songwriter Billy Lockett at Glasgow’s King Tuts and has been announced among the line-up for Edinburgh’s infamous Hogmanay Street Party, joining the likes of Mark Ronson, Soft Cell frontman Marc Almond and Glasgow new wave act The Ninth Wave. Tickets @ www.keirgibson.bigcartel.com www.facebook.com/KeirGibsonMusic/
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mns GIGfocus :: Big birthdays to be celebrated in Highland style at An Lanntair for Blas Festival GIGnotes :: Friday 22 November, at An Lanntair, Stornoway + 23 November, at Northbay Village Hall, Barra. Both at 7.30pm. Tickets for both @ www.blas-festival.com Fast-becoming a Blas Festival tradition, three big birthdays of Gaelic musicians will be celebrated in true Highland style this year with an impressive array of special musical guests taking to the stage.
Celebrating with the Lewis men at An Lanntair in Stornoway on 22 November at 7.30pm, will be Gaelic singers Kathleen Macinnes and Iain Mackay, Allan Henderson, members of the Lewis Pipe Band and other special guests.
Seonaidh said: “I’m very grateful to the Blas Festival for the opportunity to celebrate my own and Donnie’s recent ‘big birthdays’. I have very fond memories of performing at the Two of Lewis’ finest will be celebrated at a festival 10 years ago, celebrating another concert in Stornoway; Gaelic singer, John ‘Seonaidh Beag’ Macmillan will celebrate his milestone at a concert in Drumnadrochit. 80th birthday, alongside fiddler, Donnie I’m really looking forward to the evening in An ‘Leody’ Macleod who celebrates his 90th. Lanntair with a great cast of artists. Donnie Barra singer, Chrissie Macdonald, will mark and I have been part of many, many cèilidhs her 80th with a special concert on her home over the years and I know we’ll enjoy this island. one!” Donnie, who turned 90 earlier this year, is a well-known figure in traditional music circles, particularly for his fiddle playing and has been a keen supporter of the traditional music scene for many years across the island, including a long-term stint as a tutor at his local Fèis Eilean an Fhraoich.
Barra’s Chrissie Macdonald, or Chrissie Denny as she is commonly known, is one of Barra’s finest singers and tradition bearers. A wonderful line-up will be celebrating Chrissie’s contribution to Gaelic song at Northbay Village Hall, Barra on 23 November at 7.30pm, including Mary Ann Kennedy, Allan Macdonald, Alasdair Whyte, Seonaidh Beag, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday, is a one of Gaeldom’s best loved Còisir Ghàidhlig Bharraigh and The Cèilidh King, Fergie Macdonald. traditional Gaelic singers. He was the lead vocalist with the seminal Gaelic folk group ‘The Arthur Cormack of Fèisean nan Gàidheal, Lochies’ with whom he recorded seven albums organisers of the Blas Festival said: “We and over the years has performed at cèilidhs think it is extremely important to celebrate the and concerts across the country. He remains contribution of people who have made an hugely popular and respected. enormous contribution to Gaelic culture. That is the reason, for example, that Fèisean nan Gàidheal has sponsored the Traditional Music Hall of Fame for a number of years. There is nothing better than giving people like Seonaidh, Donnie and Chrissie the opportunity to surround themselves with the singers and musicians they most admire to celebrate their significant birthdays and we are delighted to have secured additional funding from Comhairle nan Eilean Siar to enable Blas to do that.”
John ‘Seonaidh Beag’ Macmillan
Isle of Bute …. Transclyde Music is a group of like minded people on the Isle of Bute whose aims are to promote live music on the island. For their latest gig news go to …. www.facebook.com/Transclydemusic 22 NOVEMBER Three Big Birthdays - JOHN ‘SEONAIDH BEAG’ MACMILLAN + DONNIE ‘LEODY’ MACLEOD +
Blas, which means ‘taste’ or ‘sample’, is organised by Fèisean nan Gàidheal in partnership with The Highland Council and will take place from 22-30 November, culminating in a variety of events across the Highlands to celebrate St Andrew’s Night. It aims to celebrate Gaelic culture and the thriving Scottish traditional music scene over 8 days of concerts, cèilidhs and workshops in venues
CHRISSIE MACDONALD :: At An Lanntair, Stornoway. Fast-becoming a Blas Festival tradition, three big birthdays of Gaelic musicians will be celebrated in true Highland style this year with an impressive array of special musical guests taking to the stage. Two of Lewis’ finest will be celebrated at a concert in Stornoway; Gaelic singer, John ‘Seonaidh Beag’ Macmillan will celebrate his 80th birthday, alongside fiddler, Donnie ‘Leody’ Macleod who celebrates his 90th. Barra singer, Chrissie Macdonald, will mark her 80th
Donald ‘Donnie Leody’ Macleod
across the Highlands and Islands. In a programme which really does offer something for every member of the family, as well as 20 main concerts and cèilidhs, there will also be daytime cèilidhs, a series of song lectures and a special schools programme which will see some of the musicians visit local schools for performances and workshops. Other acts at this year’s Blas, which takes place in a variety of venues across the Highlands and Islands, from Badenoch to Barra, include the Gary Innes Band, Cape Breton sisters, Dawn and Margie Beaton, Tideline’s Robert Robertson and Ross Wilson, Sian, Iain Macfarlane and Ingrid Henderson and neo-trad trio Project Smok. This year will also feature two special partnerships; Blas and Smalls Halls Festival will present shows in Kyleakin and Edinbane featuring a world-class line up of musicians including Capercaillie’s Donald Shaw, fiddler Duncan Chisholm, Grantown-on-Spey multiinstrumentalist and composer Hamish Napier and BBC Young Folk Award winner, uilleann piper Jarlath Henderson whilst the Highland capital will also host a show by electronic celtic fusion super group, Niteworks, at Ironworks, a partnership between 432 and Blas Festival.
The full programme of events can be found at www.blas-festival.com along with details of how to purchase tickets. www.blas-festival.com www.twitter.com/blasfestival www.facebook.com/blasfestival with a special concert on her home island. Celebrating with the Lewis men at An Lanntair in Stornoway on 22nd November at 7.30pm, will be Gaelic singers Kathleen Macinnes and Iain Mackay, Allan Henderson, members of the Lewis Pipe Band and other special guests. www.facebook.com/blasfestival
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DRENCHED + GECKOHEAD + DYLAN PATERSON + THREE OUT OF FOUR ..... in an awareness concert Email them to Carol for 'Health in Mind' :: At Tait Hall, carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com Kelso. 7pm. In aid of mental health charity Health in Mind - tickets are free 25 NOVEMBER with donations to the charity very welcome - seats must be booked. More THE TWANG supporting SHED SEVEN :: At Sands Centre, Carlisle. The info + tickets @ Twang have spent over a decade defying leonardharpergow@aol.com expectation. From their beginnings in 29 NOVEMBER their Birmingham home town, vocalist Phil Etheridge, bassist Jon Watkin, guitarist Stu Hartland and drummer Ash WREST plus support DEAD Sheehan continue to wow audiences and ELECTRIC :: At MacArts, Bridge Street, Galashiels. TD1 1SP. 7.30pm. Wrest are win new fans with their electric live shows. The Twang now join Shed Seven a Scottish indie band making music from Edinburgh's Old Town. The sound as special guests on their extensive UK combines soaring guitars with layered tour. lyrics and heartfelt melodies, with songs www.facebook.com/thetwang reminiscent of bands like Frightened Rabbit, The National and We Were Promised Jetpacks. Building on previous critically acclaimed projects, Wrest were reborn in 2018, with their lead single Adventurers kicking off the launch of their highly acclaimed debut album, Send us all your gig dates for Coward of Us All. Scottish Borders and www.facebook.com/MacArtsCentre/ Northumberland areas
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ELEPHANT SESSIONS :: At MacArts, Bridge Street, Galashiels. TD1 1SP. Hailing from the Highlands of Scotland the band formed in 2012. They are comprised of Euan Smillie (fiddle), Alasdair Taylor (mandolin), Mark Bruce (guitar), Seth Tinsley (bass, synth) and Greg Barry (drums, samples). Creating a progressive blend of intricate tunes, engulfing guitars, with a bass and drum heavy backline, their music combines the very best of trad, funk and electronica resulting in a new and exciting sound. www.facebook.com/MacArtsCentre/ 10 MARCH WILLE AND THE BANDITS :: At St Boswells Village Hall, Scottish Borders. 7.30pm. Wille and the Bandits are returning to St Boswells Live to do a concert in St Boswells Village Hall. www.willeandthebandits.com www.facebook.com/stboswellslive 23 MAY
LAU 'Unplugged Tour' :: At Sage Gateshead. 7.30pm. For the first time in over a decade, Lau present an entirely Email them to Carol 6 DECEMBER acoustic tour. The pioneering Scottish carol.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com folk trio have always experimented with String Jam Club presents ..... JENNY sound and form; the results have always 23 NOVEMBER BIDDLE :: At The County Hotel in been complex and thrilling. Already Selkirk. Our favourite local Aussie Jenny acknowledged as phenomenal live THE COUNTESS OF FIFE plus support Biddle, more news to follow. performers Lau arrived at a new creative THE TRAMA DOLLS :: At MacArts, www.stringjamclub.co.uk peak with 2019's Midnight and Bridge Street, Galashiels. TD1 1SP. Closedown (Reveal Records). Now 7.30pm. FAY FIFE singer and creative 11 DECEMBER 2020's Unplugged concert tour sees force behind the Rezillos sings, writes traditional music's most celebrated and plays keys with her alternative THE TWANG supporting SHED innovators strip away their banks of country outfit The Countess of Fife. The SEVEN :: At O2 Academy, Newcastle. electronics, loops and wild effects. The Countess of Fife was created as a writing The Twang have spent over a decade trio of Kris Drever (guitar, vocals), project in Edinburgh 2½ years ago by defying expectation. From their Martin Green (accordion) and Aidan Fay Fife, Rezillos/Revillos and Lord beginnings in their Birmingham home O'Rourke (fiddle) feel drawn to a more Mcdowall of influential post punk country town, vocalist Phil Etheridge, bassist Jon raw and plain-speaking aesthetic. The outfit ‘So You Think You're A Cowboy’. Watkin, guitarist Stu Hartland and approach is subtler, less about The Countess of Fife now focusing on drummer Ash Sheehan continue to wow spectacle, more about close listening. In live shows as well as recording their first audiences and win new fans with their brash and polarised political times, here album. The Countess of Fife from electric live shows. The Twang now join is the poetry of real instruments and country, punk, early R'n'B, soul, surf and Shed Seven as special guests on their considerate music making. gospel. The Cramps crossed with Johnny extensive UK tour. www.facebook.com/LAUband Cash! www.facebook.com/thetwang
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NOVEMBER Carrying Stream Festival
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SEALL Festival of Small Halls
Edinburgh 1-11 May
Isle of Skye 22-30 November
Edinburgh Tradfest has a rich story. With its longer tap roots in the Edinburgh Folk Festival, it was launched by Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (TRACS) in 2013 to provide a distincThe Festival of Small Halls on the Isle of Skye tive platform for folk arts in the capital city. Edbrings music to ten remote village halls around inburgh is a hot house of talent, home grown the Island and Lochalsh. The SEALL Festival of Small Halls runs for eight days and includes con- and visiting, and Tradfest is an opportunity to certs, cèilidhs and public and music workshops in see it all in play. halls and schools by some of the nation’s finest www.edinburghtradfest.com traditional musicians.
Edinburgh Folk Club is running its annual Carrying Stream Festival (CSF) over the weekend Friday 8 to Sunday 10 November. This festival was created shortly after Hamish Henderson died in 2002 in order to celebrate his life and work. John Barrow of the Edinburgh Folk Club said: “This www.seall.co.uk/small-halls year would have been Hamish’s 100th birthday so we’ve gathered ourselves up and made a speEdinburgh’s Hogmanay cial effort to augment previous years’ festivals by creating what we think is an appropriate Edinburgh weekend’s events.” 31 December
Orkney Folk Festival Orkney 21-24 May
One of Scotland’s longest-running folk festivals, celebrating its 38th outing in 2020, the Orkney www.efc1973.com Folk Festival is one of the most prolific events in See in the New Year at the world’s best street party as Edinburgh invites the world to share the the Scottish and UK folk calendars, and one of love, embrace friends – old and new – and cele- the highlights of Orkney’s diary of community Monsterfest events. An entirely voluntary run event, the fesbrate the New Year in the home of Hogmanay. Inverness tival annually attracts artists from all corners of Get 2020 ready now - take advantage of our 15-16 November the folk world - from leading international names Early Bird discount with tickets for £20.00 + £1.00 booking (limited availability). Edinburgh’s to up and coming fresh faces - to Stromness, in The second annual Monsterfest music event will Hogmanay is the UK’s (if not the world’s) leading Orkney’s West Mainland, for four days of conbe staged in Inverness with the help of new certs, ceilidhs, clubs, sessions, talks and craic. New Year Festival lasting 3 days in Scotland’s main sponsor Loch Ness Water. Monsterfest Artists and audiences are welcomed by and into stunning capital city drawing an estimated launched in 2018 with a mix of established, clas- 150,000 people from Scotland and around the Orkney’s own thriving folk scene, with Orcadian sic and new rock bands and is returning by artists providing around two thirds of the festival world. popular demand as the only rock festival in this programme. Line-up announced across Decemformat in the north of Scotland. ber-March, with tickets on sale in April, around www.edinburghshogmanay.com six weeks ahead of the event. www.monsterfest.rocks www.orkneyfolkfestival.com
Scots Fiddle Festival Edinburgh 15-17 November
JANUARY 2020 Celtic Connections Glasgow 16 January - 2 February
One of Scotland's biggest traditional music festivals, promoting & sustaining traditional fiddle music since 1996. A weekend packed full of great music! Concerts, ceilidhs, recitals, workshops, talks, open stage, festival clubs, sessions, stalls, come and trys, seminars and lots more! The first concert of the Isle of Skye’s popular 'Festival of Small Halls' winter festival takes place in Kyleakin Hall and will not only herald the start of nine days of world-class Scottish traditional music in small halls around the Isles of Skye and Raasay, but will also mark SEALL’s 2000th event since its inception 28 years ago. www.scotsfiddlefestival.com
Blas Festival Highlands 22-30 November
From Thursday 16 January to Sunday 2 February 2020, musicians from across the world will take part in over 300 events in venues throughout Glasgow for the UK's premier celebration of celtic music - Celtic Connections. The 18 days of entertainment will brighten up the dark, wet January nights with a mixture of concerts that include a host of one-off musical collaborations alongside talks, workshops, film screenings, theatre productions, ceilidhs, exhibitions, free events and late-night sessions. Renowned as a musical cure for the wintertime blues, Celtic Connections 2020 will be the 27th incarnation of a festival that began in 1994, when it offered 66 events at one venue. Since then it’s grown more adventurous, experimental and diverse each year and now offers thousands of events in locations across Glasgow. www.celticconnections.com
The programme for this year’s Blas Festival has been launched and it reveals an outstanding line-up of musicians from Scotland and further afield for this year’s Gaelic music festival which will take place this month in venues throughout the Highlands. Blas, which means ‘taste’ or ‘sample’, is organised by Fèisean nan Gàidheal in partnership with The Highland Council and will take place from 22-30 November, culminating in a variety of events across the Highlands to celebrate St Andrew’s Night. It aims to celebrate Gaelic culture and the thriving Scottish traditional music scene over 8 days of concerts, cèilidhs and workshops in venues across the Highlands and Islands. www.blas-festival.com
Big Burns Supper
Dumfries 24 January - 2 February The 2020 festival will be our ninth edition and is going to be crammed full of top notch artists with big names, big hearts and the usual quirky madness you have come to expect. www.bigburnssupper.com
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The Gathering Inverness 30 May
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 lineup showcasing the very best traditional music, food & drink and crafts from the Highlands and across Scotland. The family friendly one day festival will feature a line-up including legendary Scottish trailblazers PEATBOG FAERIES who have created a glorious mixture of traditional sounds and dance-floor grooves that have been embraced worldwide. Drawing upon a dazzling myriad of influences from jigs and reels through Dance Music, Jazz, African, and more, they will bring the sound of Scotland fresh-faced and breathless to The Gathering. www.thegatheringscotland.com
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