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MUSIC NEWS Scotland <strong>GIGguide</strong> page 15: glasgow + surrounding area Americana :: [SOLD OUT] At The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG. Diana Jones has appeared on world-renowned TV and radio shows Later With Jools Holland, BBC4 Folk America, BBC4’s Songwriters Circle and BBC Radio 2 Country with Bob Harris. Diana’s progressive, yet historically rich, songs have been recorded by artists including Joan Baez and Gretchen Peters and have won her awards from Kerrville Folk Festival, New Song Festival and nominations from International Folk Alliance. Song To A Refuge (Proper Records, April 24 2020), Diana’s 6th solo recording, gives voice to the stories of asylum seekers worldwide; a testament to Diana’s commitment to social justice through her gifts as a consummate songwriter and performer. Doors 7.30pm, 8pm start. www.fallenangelsclub.com SID GRIFFIN plus SCOTT ASHWORTH @ Glasgow Americana (In association with Sounds In The Suburbs) :: At The Admiral Bar 72a Waterloo St, Glasgow G2 7DA. Tickets £13, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start. www.glasgowamericana.com 2 OCTOBER ROSEANNE REID plus DAVID LATTO @ Glasgow Americana :: At The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG. Tickets £12, doors 3.30pm, 4pm start. www.glasgowamericana.com ECHO MACHINE :: At Broadcast, Glasgow. A loud Pop Group from Dundee, and they have gigs! "They will be a flippin' hoot!" Echo Machine played the King Tut's Summer Nights Festival in 2019. In addition to performing live, the band released a number of singles in their first year together, many of which arrived with accompanying videos. Debut single St Elmo was followed by Vibrations, Chameleon and Automatic Love, the latter being reviewed as a 'bruising, belter of a song'. In addition to these videos, Echo Machine collaborated with Thai singer Janine Alissa Wollmann on a cover of the Billie Eilish track Bad Guy, producing an accompanying music video. Their single 'Headlights' was also well-reviewed, being described as 'infectious discowave'. The success of the band in 2019 prompted BBC radio presenter, Vic Galloway, to name the band as one of his 25 Scottish Artists to Watch in 2020. In January 2020 the band announced that their debut album would be called Instant Transmissions. www.facebook.com/echomachinez Song Writers In The Round: Featuring JILL JACKSON, CAHALEN MORRISON & ROSEANNE REID @ Glasgow Americana :: At The Glad Café 1006A Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow G41 2HG. Tickets £16, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start. www.glasgowamericana.com 7 OCTOBER The Seven Song-Featuring MAN OF THE MINCH, THE COALTOWN DAISIES, and KIRSTEEN HARVEY @ Glasgow Americana :: At Room 2 69 Nelson Mandela Pl, Glasgow G2 1QY. Tickets £12, doors 3.30pm, 4pm start. www.glasgowamericana.com The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra celebrates its twentyfifth anniversary with a return to live performance at the Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh on Friday 24 September at 7:30pm. LIVE at 25 will feature music from across the orchestra’s lifespan and highlights the continuing emergence of jazz talent in Scotland. The award-winning young trombonists Anoushka Nanguy and Liam Shortall take their places as soloists and section players in a programme drawn from almost 100 years of jazz history as well as the classical and Scottish music traditions. Nanguy, from Newton Mearns, won the Rising Star title at the Scottish Jazz Awards 2020 and Dumfries-born Shortall won the Best Band and Best Album prizes, with his group corto.alto, at the same awards. He also won the 2021 New Music Scotland Innovation in Jazz Award with the group. Both products of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s acclaimed jazz course, Nanguy and Shortall typify the zest and enthusiasm of the youthful Glasgow jazz scene that has attracted international interest. “There are talented young jazz musicians materializing all over Scotland,” says SNJO founder-director, saxophonist Tommy Smith. “When the orchestra began, we wanted to MUSIC NEWS Scotland GIGspotlight SNJO returns to the stage for 'LIVE at 25' celebration GIGnotes ..... 24 September at Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. Tickets @ www.thequeenshall.net/book/108801 showcase the high quality of Scottish jazz and having established a reputation as one of the world’s leading large-scale ensembles over the past twenty-five years, we want to reward ability and hard work among those young players by giving them a platform. It’s great to have their creativity and imagination, as well as their diligence, onstage with us.” The LIVE at 25 concert programme includes music by leading jazz composers Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams and Neal Hefti and classical composer Leonard Bernstein. It also encompasses pieces by groups including Weather Report, Steps Ahead and Yellowjackets. Scottish elements, including an arrangement of Robert Burns’ My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose and an extract from Culloden Moor Suite, which the orchestra recorded with its composer, the late Glasgow-born saxophonist Bobby Wellins, also feature. “We can’t wait to play together with an audience in the same room,” says Smith. “It’s been eighteen months since our previous live concert and although we’ve played online and recorded videos to keep in touch with everyone in the interim, nothing beats the physical thrill of performing with - and listening to - a big band in person.” www.snjo.co.uk www.twitter.com/SNJO2 www.facebook.com/theSNJO JACK FRANCIS :: At King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow. In little over a year, Jack Francis went from playing his unique brand of Soulful Folk at small local gigs in his hometown of Southampton, to appearing at major UK festivals such as the Isle Of Wight, Victorious and Stone Free Festival at the O2 Arena. Jack will be supporting Ferris & Sylvester on their UK tour. www.facebook.com/jfrancissongs MY DARLING CLEMENTINE plus ARKSONG @ Glasgow Americana (Finale Night) :: At The CCA 350 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3JD. Tickets £15, doors 7.30pm, 8pm start. www.glasgowamericana.com 11 OCTOBER DJANGO DJANGO :: At Saint Luke’s, Glasgow. Maxïmo Park have released a new EP, Live From The Coast, featuring songs from their new album Nature Always Wins, which hit #2 on the Official UK Albums Chart in March. Maxïmo Park have always thrived in a live setting, and Live From The Coast follows 2019’s As Long As We Keep Moving live DVD Email your gig dates to robert.musicnewsscotland@gmail.com