MNS GIGguide (Apr24-26)

MNS GIGguide - a MUSIC NEWS Scotland supplement
page 8: edinburgh + west + mid + east lothian :: glasgow + surrounding area
Atlantic Songs
12.30pm – 1.45pm
Erin Mungall-Baldvinsdottir and Ben Shanks Icelandic/
Finnish Songs
2.00 – 3.15pm
Miguel Girão Tunes from the Wedding Traditions of
Shetland
3.30 – 4.45pm
Sir-Reel Clarks North East Scotland Tunes
7.00pm Evening Concert
Sir-Reel Clarks ft Aaron Clark + Miguel Girão & Amy
Laurenson. Featuring Nordic and Scottish music and
song from talented young artists based in Scotland,
including BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional
Musician of the Year 2023 winner Amy Laurenson.
Sunday 28 April
2-5pm Open Music & Song Session – FREE entry
www.northernstreams.org
26 APRIL
EDDI READER :: At Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. One of
Scotland's all-time greatest female voices and
performers, with a unique ability to connect with live
audiences on a deeply emotional level, the Glasgowborn
singer promises an unforgettable experience for
fans old and new in Dumfries, Inverness, Aberdeen,
Perth, Lanark, Edinburgh, Stirling and Glasgow
throughout April.
www.eddireader.co.uk/gigs/
When Mountains Meet :: At The Studio, Edinburgh.
The captivating cross-cultural tale tells the true story
of Scottish musician Anne Wood as she travels from
the Highlands to the Himalayas to meet her father for
the first time. Featuring an international cast of
storytellers and musicians, the show features a
vibrant live score combining alap, raag, reel and
strathspey, as well as English, Gaelic and Hindustani
vocals. ‘The When Mountains Meet’ album will be
released on 25 April. Featuring new music composed
by Anne, the show is co-directed by Kath Burlinson
(Mairi Campbell: Pulse and Auld Lang Syne) and Niloo
-Far Khan (Play, Pie, Pint; Grid Iron/EIF; NTS) with
Mary MacMaster (The Poozies) on harp, Rick Wilson on
percussion and Rakae Jamil on sitar. The cast of
storytellers is Iman Aktar (The Great Muslim Panto,
Play, Pie, Pint), Hassan Javed (The Great Muslim
Panto, Play, Pie, Pint) and Jamie Zubari (In The
Weeds, Mull Theatre).
www.whenmountainsmeet.com
27 APRIL
Off Axis presents … NIAMHY MAC :: At Old Lab,
Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh. EH9 1PL.
7.30pm. Niamhy Mac has been championed by
Scotland On Sunday and secured airplay via Amazing
Radio. She’s also performed at Belladrum Tartan
Heart Festival, for Tiny Changes, Sofar Sounds, and
Musicplus+ Originally from the Highlands, Niamhy Mac
is now based in Scotland’s capital.
www.facebook.com/summerhalledinburgh
3 MAY
SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA & RSNO
- Rhapsody In Blue :: At Usher Hall, Lothian Road,
Edinburgh. 7.30pm. Big cities, big tunes – and you’d
better believe it’s going to swing! The Scottish
National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) is considered by many
to be one of Europe’s foremost contemporary big
bands. Founder/Director Tommy Smith established
the SNJO in 1995 as a not-for-profit organisation with
a crystal clear artistic vision and core values of
versatility, discipline and expression. The SNJO is
dedicated to promoting jazz as a pre-eminent art form
through performances, original compositions,
recordings, and educational outreach programmes.
This commitment extends to the task of developing
promising young jazz musicians through the ranks of
The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra.
www.facebook.com/theSNJO
3-13 MAY
Edinburgh Tradfest :: At various Edinburgh venues.
Edinburgh Tradfest (ran by Soundhouse) has the very
best traditional music from Scotland and around the
world. A Soundhouse festival. As usual the festival
falls in line with Soundhouse’s mission:“Our aim is to
attract everyone who listens to and appreciates
music; to entice people from their homes to enjoy
music at its source, and to engage existing audiences
for live music; to promote a memorable experience
for audiences and musicians alike through a more
positive attitude to live music, and a feeling of
community. The Soundhouse Organisation encourages
audiences to make live music a regular part of their
lives.”
www.edinburghtradfest.com/schedule
4 MAY
Regular Music Presents...KATHRYN WILLIAMS &
WITHERED HAND :: At Dissection Room,
Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh. EH9 1PL.
7pm. Dan Willson is Scotland’s acclaimed singer
songwriter Withered Hand. He has released three
albums and a number of EPs over the last 15 years
and has toured internationally, amassing a devoted
following while staying close to his DIY roots in the
underground music scene. Kathryn Williams is a
Mercury Music prize-nominated English singer
songwriter
www.facebook.com/summerhalledinburgh
5 MAY
RACHEL NEWTON :: At Tradfest, Edinburgh. Singer,
harpist and composer Rachel Newton draws on
poems, ballads and stories that are hundreds of years
old, working them into her contemporary
compositional style to create a rich sound that is
ambitious, original and unique. Rachel has worked
and performed with artists from a range of disciplines
including theatre, dance, storytelling and visual art. A
skilled collaborator, Rachel is a founder member of
The Furrow Collective and the Lost Words: Spell
Songs, as well as the duo project Heal & Harrow with
long time friend and colleague Lauren MacColl.
www.edinburghtradfest.com/schedule
www.facebook.com/rachelnewtonmusic
5 JUNE
The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... KRIS
DREVER BAND :: At Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. 8pm.
Since the release of his acclaimed 2020 album 'Where
The World Is Thin' Kris has been busy playing major
shows with Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Sekou Keita
and Jackie Morris for their Lost Spell Songs project
(Thirty Tigers, 2021), won yet another BBC Radio 2
Folk Award for Best Original Song (see the band
performing 'Scapa Flow 1919' below) won Album of
The Year at the Scots Trad Music Award 2021, duetted
with Aoife O’Donovan and toured with Lau and Rachel
Baiman before returning to the studio in early 2023 to
record the new songs for this compilation album.
www.fallenangelsclub.com
GLASGOW + AREA
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UNTIL 28 SEPTEMBER
Glasgow Music City Tour :: Touring iconic music
spots in Glasgow. The famous Saturday music tours
are back! Morning Tour – ‘Merchant City Music’ starts
at 11am and then it's a 2pm start for the ‘Music
Mile’ (over 14s). They’d love you to walk'n'roll with
them. Tix available @
www.glasgowmusiccitytours.com
www.facebook.com/glasgowmusiccitytours
25 APRIL
The Fallen Angels Club presents ..... MARY
GAUTHIER featuring special guest JAIMEE
HARRIS :: At St Lukes & The Winged Ox, Glasgow.
8pm. As she has so eloquently accomplished over the
past 25 years, acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary
Gauthier has used her art once again to traverse the
uncharted waters of the past few years. “I’m the kind
of songwriter who writes what I see in the world right
now,” she affirms. Thankfully, amid dark storms of
pandemic loss, she found and followed the beacon of
new love: Her gift to us, the powerful Dark Enough to
See the Stars, collects ten sparkling jewels of Gauthier
songcraft reflecting both love and loss. Richard
Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant,
crossing thresholds, that informs his illumination of
the human experience through narrative song.
Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery,
busked in the streets of Paris, opened for Joan Baez
(who covered several of his songs), and collaborated
with Grammy-winner Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan,
Levon Helm, Elvis Costello). Originally from New York,
now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a
writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories,
juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters,
vividly evoking entire worlds along the way and
expanding our sense of just what it is a song may be.
www.fallenangelsclub.com
EDDI READER :: At Lanark Memorial Hall, Lanark.
www.fallenangelsclub.com
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