Category Archives: Music

The recently reactivated Dublin-based Livia Records is looking forward to issuing further albums featuring the late, great Irish guitarist, Louis Stewart, following an enthusiastic response internationally to its first two releases. Dermot Rogers, a music enthusiast who hosts a stylistically wide-ranging weekly programme on Dublin City FM, hit upon the idea of relaunching the labelContinue reading “Livia Records Live Again for the Love of Louis”

Tickets are now on sale for the National Youth Choir of Scotland (NYCOS) tour of Europe in late July. Widely acclaimed as one of the best choirs in the world, regardless of age, they are set to bring performances of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and American composer Stacy Garrop’s Sonnets of Desire, Longing, and Whimsy. Between 25thContinue reading “National Youth Choir of Scotland Performs Duruflé in Paris This Summer”

To mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first Windrush generation to the UK, Rush Theatre Company will be touring their critically acclaimed production RUSH – A Joyous Jamaican Journey. As part of this tour, the Company will perform at The Festival Theatre in early July. In sharing the chronicle accounts of the Company’s forefathers and celebrating theirContinue reading “Musical Celebration of Windrush Comes to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in July”

Scottish multi-instrumentalist Fraser Fifield releases a new album, Secret Path, on June 30th. The album is a showcase for Fifield’s skills on the simplest and most portable instrument in his armoury, the low D whistle.  Schooled in both the Highland bagpipe tradition and the soprano saxophone, Fifield has developed a technique on the whistle that borrows from thoseContinue reading “Fifield Takes the Secret Path to Musical Expression “

Dunedin Consort, Hera and Mahogany Opera have come together to breathe life into 300 year-old ‘operas’ that have never been staged in Britain before. Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s biblical cantatas, Judith, Rachel & Susanne, each a tiny opera in all by name, are  historical jewels written by a woman, about women, for women that tell bold, unflinching talesContinue reading “Previously Unstaged Operas Given New Life with Feminist Project Out of Her Mouth”

Emily Barron, a 16-year-old Clarinettist from St. Columba’s School, Kilmacolm, has won Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year 2023 in a competition in Glasgow involving 31 of the best Young Musicians from across Scotland. Emily started playing clarinet when she was 8 years old. Since then has picked up saxophone, piano and bassContinue reading “Winner of Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer Announced”

The annual Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year competition gives opportunities to more young people across Scotland to compete. Each area has selected their best local soloist to compete at the National Final at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland on Sunday 21st May 2023. Several big names in the world of Scottish musicContinue reading “Big Prizes for Final of Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year”

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra unites Orient with Occident and a 2000-year-old musical tradition with contemporary improvisation in World of the Gods, which tours to Greenock, Perth and Edinburgh in late May. Composed by SNJO artistic director Tommy Smith and incorporating traditional Japanese melodies, World of the Gods was first performed in 2010 and bringsContinue reading “World of the Gods Unites East and West, Ancient and Modern”

After an online competition that attracted entries from across the country, East Lothian Council Instrumental Music Service Senior String Ensemble have been announced as the 2023 winners of Scottish Young Musicians Ensemble of the Year, which for the first time was open to ensembles playing any genre or grouping of instruments.   Ensemble of the Year was openContinue reading “Scottish Young Musicians Ensemble and Brass Ensemble Winners Revealed”

FESTIVAL DATES: Friday 28 April – Monday 8 May 2023 Over the 11 days of the Festival, hundreds of artists and musicians will perform, including American folk singer, two-time winner, and six-time Grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi, who will kick off the festival at the Assembly Rooms on Friday 28 April supported by special guests Roo Geddes & Neil Sutcliffe. OverContinue reading “Edinburgh Tradfest – This Year Looking Better Than Ever!”