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The Magners Summer Nights outdoor concerts which were a highlight of Glasgow's busy summer of post-Commonwealth Games culture at the refurbished Kelvingrove Park Bandstand are to return in August this year and then migrate East to the Ross Bandstand in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens for the end of the Festival and Fringe. Promoted by Regular Music in partnership with the purveyors of Irish cider, six concerts will take place over tow weekends in Glasgow form August 6 to 8 and 13 to 15. There will then be three concerts in Edinburgh from August 26 to 28, before the bandstand is relinquished to conductor Garry Walker and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert that closes the Edinburgh International on Monday August 31.
eif.co.uk
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THIS year's Crail Festival in the picturesque fishing village in the East Neuk of Fife will culminate in a concert on August 1 by Barbara Dickson and Rab Noakes, whose Reunited album was released in April of last year. The duo bring to a close a programme of musical entertainment that also includes singer-songwriter Christine Bovill, Fife Opera, 2014's BBC Scottish Young Traditional Musician of the Year Robyn Stapleton, and young classical violinist Charlotte Rowan (pictured). The festival opens on July 22 and its theatre programme includes children's cabaret from Funbox and outdoor Shakespeare specialists Illyria with The Taming of the Shrew.
crailfestival.com
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Scotland's Julie Fowlis will host the live announcement of the winners of this years's BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in the company of DJ Mark Radcliffe on April 22 at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Nominations for the 16th year of the awards were revealed by Radcliffe on his show this week and include Fowlis herself, in the running for Singer of the Year, and accordian and electronics maestro Martin Green, nominated for Musician of the Year. Performers at the event will include Loudon Wainwright III, Kate Rusby, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens and Ewan MacColl, the subject of a special concert at Celtic Connections this year, will be inducted into Radio 2 Folk Awards Hall of Fame.
bbc.co.uk/radio2
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