On her 16th studio album, Slipstream, released last year and recorded with the seemingly ubiquitous Joe Henry, Bonnie Raitt continued doing what she has always done: "curate a bunch of great songs from totally different traditions and stick them together on one record".
LEO Blanco had an unusual question ahead of the UK tour that brings the Venezuelan piano virtuoso to Scotland for five solo concerts at the end of June.
On his Facebook page on the last day of 2012, Glasgow acoustic singer-songwriter Ally Kerr expressed the hope that his music "will continue to drift further and wider over the next year".
Emeli Sande, Rizzle Kicks and Labrinth are among the stars who will perform at a concert in memory of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, 20 years after he was stabbed to death.
As Mark Owen dryly pointed out, recent Take That tours have seen them emerge from props like a giant elephant whereas on this solo jaunt he's having to make do with a small lucky Chinese gold cat as his onstage indulgence.
As THE longest-serving player in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's history, he has enjoyed a lifetime of adrenalin highs, playing world-class music under top conductors in beautiful concert halls to appreciative audiences across the globe.
Ten days after a rave in these pages for a new piano trio of Alasdair Beatson, Alexander Janiczek and Philip Higham, the Cottier Chamber Project neared its conclusion with a recital by Scott Mitchell, Anthony Moffat and Robert Irvine that illustrated exactly what a group imbedded in the local music scene can achieve.
THE last concert of classical chamber music in the Cottier Chamber Project 2013 featured the largest number of musicians seen on stage at once in the West End Festival.
17 June 2013
17 June 2013
17 June 2013
