Category Archives: Music

Jayde Records (Jayde 008) Released 27th October 2023 Light Streams is the follow-up to the enthusiastically received debut album by Cork-born, Hertfordshire-based pianist John Donegan’s Irish Sextet, Shadows Linger. A musician of huge experience – he has played with jazz luminaries Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Barney Kessel and Greg Abate as well as the world class Irish guitaristContinue reading “John Donegan The Irish Sextet: Light Streams”

This November, Edinburgh Fruitmarket Gallery presents their first festival of new music featuring commissions and performances from some of the leading radical and experimental composers, musicians and improvisors working today. They are brought together in the context of deep time to explore ideas of time and temporality; stasis and movement; provocation and play; ritual andContinue reading “Fruitmarket’s Festival of New Music, Deep Time, Announced”

A former Edinburgh musician has lent his musical know-how to the Royal New Zealand Air Force and earned an honorary rank in the process.  Drummer John Rae, who led the ground-breaking jazz group the John Rae Collective in the 1980s and went on to win awards for his jazz-folk band Celtic Feet, has produced theContinue reading “Scottish Drummer Flies High with Royal New Zealand Air Force”

The Lammermuir Festival, whose programme was met with great acclaim and was  cited as one of its most successful, was met with the shock news of finding out just days before its opening that Creative Scotland was not supporting its 14th festival, having invested in the event for thirteen years. Losing the cultural funder’s supportContinue reading “Open Letter in Support of Lammermuir Festival Funding Sent to Creative Scotland”

Andrew Trinick is to be the new Chief Executive of Dunedin Consort.   He will take up the role on 1 December 2023, arriving from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (SSO) where he is Head of Artistic Planning and Production. At the BBC SSO Andrew has been responsible for artistic planning for the main concert season,Continue reading “Andrew Trinick to be new Chief Executive of Dunedin Consort”

Grammy-winning pianist-composer Geoffrey Keezer joins the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra on a three-date Scottish tour from 29th September to 1st October, with concerts in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. Under the banner of The Art of Arranging, Keezer will guide the Orchestra through his unique, new treatments of jazz classics by saxophonists Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and WayneContinue reading “Grammy-winning Pianist Joins SNJO on Tour”

The heroic laoidhean, that formed a central part of traditional Gaelic culture in the later Middle Ages, will be brought back to life in the National Library of Scotland (NLS) on Saturday 23rd September. The reinterpreted Gaelic heroic lays or laoidhean are the result of a remarkable collaboration of  talented traditional Gaelic singer from SouthContinue reading “Gaelic Ossianic Ballads to Be Performed at National Library of Scotland”

Internationally acclaimed artists Maria Rud and Tommy Smith bring spontaneous live art and saxophone music to the Edinburgh Fringe with Luminescence, which runs in St Giles’ Cathedral from Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th August. Each performance of Luminescence will develop in front of the audience as artist and musician respond to each other’s ideas and interact with the architecture and acoustics of the twelfth century cathedral. “Images comeContinue reading “Music and Art Come Alive in the Moment in Historic St Giles’ Cathedral”

Steve Gadd, the drummer who contributed the instantly recognisable intro to Paul Simon’s Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover and the iconic drum break on Steely Dan’s Aja, returns to Glasgow on Friday 1st September. It’s less than a year since the American, whose resume also includes countless other examples of recorded brilliance in sessionsContinue reading “Drumming Legend Steve Gadd Heads for Glasgow”