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A new, Scottish-based Latin-Afrobeat band, Poción de Fe begins a UK tour on Friday, March 6 in support of its debut single, Al Infierno, which is released this week. The band, fronted by Edinburgh-based Colombian-American singer-guitarist Felipe Schrieberg, launched its career at the Edinburgh Fringe last August and has since appeared at the London International Arts Festival and has its first album scheduled for spring release. The tour opens at the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh and moves onto England, returning to Scotland in April when the band appears in Inverness (17th), Aviemore (18th), and Glasgow (19th).
thejazzbar.co.uk
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The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra's bassist, Calum Gourlay (pictured) releases a solo double bass album this month. Recorded in front of an audience in his living room in Golders Green, North London with no edits or electronic embellishment, it's called Live at the Ridgeway and features Gourlay playing tunes by Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Joni Mitchell plus his own dedications to Jimi Hendrix and Cole Porter. When not performing with SNJO, Gourlay keeps busy on the London jazz scene and recently began a new project with saxophonist Martin Speake, pianist Hans Koller and drummer David Dyson that aims to learn and perform all of Thelonious Monk's compositions. Live at the Ridgeway is released by Two Rivers Records.
tworiversrecords.org
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Following a very successful inaugural year, when it attracted 3500 visitors over the weekend, the second annual Scottish Borders Art Fair takes place from Friday March 20 to Sunday March 22 at Springwood Hall in Kelso. Artists from across the region are contributing work to the show, which is organised from Kelso's Vennel Gallery, with prices ranging from £25 to £5000. Around 70 artists are showing at the fair, which opens at 4pm on the Friday (until 8pm), and then from 10am to 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.
borderexhibitionsandevents.co.uk
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Dundee University Choir and Orchestra perform Haydn's The Creation in the city's Caird Hall on the evening of Saturday March 21. Graeme Stevenson conducts and the soloists are Wilma MacDougall, tenor James Slimming and bass Phil Gault.
cairdhall.co.uk
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