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Watercolour Music is hosting a residential guitar workshop at its Highland studio complex in Ardgour in Lochaber from June 4-7. Designed as an intensive but relaxed weekend in a beautiful location, the retreat offers participants tuition and advice from attention two top professionals, John Goldie (pictured) and Peter Kroll-Ploeger and is aimed at musicians of all levels who want to learn new skills and increase their confidence in a group situation.

watercolourmusic.co.uk

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Nairn Jazz, the organisation that's bringing jazz to the Moray Firth town again following the death of much-respected local jazz impresario Ken Ramage, has announced its programme for 2015. Fife-born baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley, who has been a prominent figure on the New York jazz scene since the 1960s, opens the programme in a concert with pianist Brian Kellock (pictured)at Nairn Dunbar Golf Club on March 8. Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello follows in a trio with bassist Dave Green and drummer Steve Brown on May 8 and also confirmed for later in the year are leading vocal-piano duo Tina May & Nikki Iles and early jazz stylists Nova Scotia Jazz Band.

jazznairn.org

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The fourth edition of Resonate takes place at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh from March 9 - 30. A collaboration between the venue and the City of Edinburgh Council's Children and Families, Arts and Creative Learning Service, it begins with Drake Music Scotland's Planetarium & The Red Planet Suite in separate lunchtime and evening performances on March 9. The former, bringing together pupils from nine Special Schools alongside a composer and mainstream ensemble, will transform the hall into an audible Planetarium with the performance of original compositions based on the theme of Space. Commissioned by Drake Music Scotland and devised with composer Lewis Forbes, The Red Planet Suite features three of Edinburgh's Special Schools working alongside Edinburgh Schools Jazz Orchestra in a one-off performance showcasing music technology.

thequeenshall.net

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This Friday's concert by fiddle quartet Rant at the Tolbooth in Stirling has been postponed due to illness. The venue is hoping to announce a rescheduled date soon.

rantfiddles.com