Category Archives: Music

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”

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”