Music at Paxton is ready to return this summer

Music at Paxton is returning to the summer festival season this July. Once again, it will bring glorious international chamber music to Paxton House, on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders. The Maxwell Quartet will return as Ensemble in Residence. There will be song recitals, an outstanding range of international musicians,…

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Free lunchbreak concerts go live again

Aberdeen Art Gallery’s Cowdray Hall is reverberating with the sounds of live music for the first time in two years. The popular free lunchbreak concerts series returned this week. The new programme has been launched in ambitious style as virtuoso local pianist Joseph Long continues his personal challenge to play all 18 of Mozart’s piano…

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Holywood headliner for Nae Ordinary Burns Supper

Hollywood and Broadway star Alan Cumming will bring some Hollywood sparkle to this year’s Nae Ordinary Burns Supper — the annual fundraiser hosted by singer and producer Fiona Kennedy which has generated over £400,000 for charity in the past decade. The January 25th bash takes place online this year, with guests and entertainers joining from…

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Beat the Winter Blues with the Scottish Blues Weekend

Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival is holding the Scottish Blues Weekend next month. Running from February 18-20, this is a three-day event featuring 10of the best Scottish blues bands performing live and online at Assembly Roxy with a closing concert from award-winning blues guitar phenomenon Mike Zito. The weekend kicks off with classic 1950s and…

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Making it happen in 2022 at The Royal Conservatoire

It’s the annual celebration of innovation that turns the spotlight on some of the nation’s most exciting young artists. The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – a world top three destination for performing arts education – has announced the 15 recipients of its Make It Happen Fund, which helps graduates in the early stages of their…

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Scottish Jazz Weekend 2021 dates are confirmed

This December, Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival present the Scottish Jazz Weekend. This is a weekend of the cream of Scottish jazz performing live and online at Assembly Roxy. Scottish Jazz Weekend presents a programme that runs from the early days of jazz in New Orleans to modern jazz and music created in recent months.…

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Nevis Ensemble tours Nevis Water Stories

Nevis Ensemble is to give 60 chamber music concerts in nine of Scotland’s local authorities as the culmination of the orchestra’s Nevis Water Stories projects as part of the Year of Coasts and Waters 20/21. Delayed from 2020 due to the pandemic, chamber groups will premiere new works written by four composers, following an Open…

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Lammermuir Festival online for special season

The Lammermuir Festival has announced its first winter season of online concerts, which are now available to book online. The return to live concerts at this year’s Lammermuir Festival in September was a magical and at times overwhelming experience, with incredible feedback from audiences and the press. The festival, aware that not everyone could make…

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Gaelic showcase at Royal National Mòd 2021 in Inverness

An exciting and inspirational celebration of Gaelic language and music is promised at The Royal National Mòd 2021 in Inverness this autumn. The eight-day event will hint at a return to normality as organisers of the prestigious celebration unveil a programme that will include a suite of in-person competitions and concerts. 2021’s hybrid approach will…

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Beautiful music in beautiful places at Lammermuir Festival

This year’s Lammermuir Festival returns to live performance with 14 days of 37 concerts at eight venues across East Lothian. The festival runs from September 7–20 and opens with four song recitals presented in partnership with BBC Radio 3 featuring Robert Murray and Alisdair Hogarth, James Atkinson and Sholto Kynoch, Catriona Morison and Malcolm Martineau,…

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