THE featured artist at Counterflows 2015 in Glasgow at the start of April is underground master Richard Youngs.
Youngs has created a new piece specifically for Counterflows called Experiment for Demolished Structures for four classical voices. For the project Counterflows has recruited four young singers through the Royal Conservetoire: Grace Durham, Jonathan Cooke, David Horton and Anna Flannagan. The piece itself is inspired by Youngs' love for Brutalist architecture and the notation has been devised by using high contrast images of iexamples of this form of building superimposed on music staves. Each singer will sing words created by Youngs based on each building. The piece will be a geographical tour of lost buildings across the UK, celebrating the Tricorn Shopping Centre in Portsmouth, Rainbow Slides swimming pool in Stirling, the Odeon at Elephant & Castle, London and Glasgow University Union's Hive nightclub. The performance will happen at CCA Theatre on Friday April 3 at 6.45pm
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Stirling Tolbooth has rescheduled the concert by fiddle quartet Rant (pictured) that had to be cancelled in February due to illness. The group, which features Highland fiddlers Lauren MacColl and Sarah-Jane Summers and Shetland sisters Jenna and Bethany Reid and won a Herald Angel award in 2013, will now appear on Thursday, April 30 at 8pm. rantfiddles.com
Long-establish traditional music favourites Boys of the Lough play three Scottish dates to coincide with the release of their new album, The New Line, this month. The group, which currently comprises founder, singer and flautist Cathal McConnell, West Kerry singer-accordionist Brendan Begley, Shetland fiddler Kevin Henderson, and leading Irish guitarist Garry O'Briain, appears at Universal Hall, Findhorn on Friday, March 13, plays a free afternoon concert at the Braw Wee Emporium in the Barras, Glasgow on Sunday 15th, and appears at Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh on Monday 16.
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Edinburgh Blues Club presents its first public event of 2015 when singer and guitarist Jo Harman brings her band to the Voodoo Rooms on Friday, March 20. Named Female Vocalist of the Year at the British Blues Awards 2014 and announced as one of the headliners for Bluesfest in London this November, London-based Harman is influenced by gospel, soul, country, and rock as well as blues and recently signed a recording contract with American company Sands Foley Entertainment.
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Dunfermline Arts Guild presents the final concert of its 2014/2105 series on Sunday, March 15 when Edinburgh's Meadows Chamber Orchestra appears on the main stage of the town's Carnegie Hall. The orchestra has a forty-year history and a reputation for imaginative programming under principal conductor and musical adviser Peter Evans and will play Warlock's Capriol Suite, Mozart's Adagio for E violin and orchestra and Symphony No 33 in B flat, Dvorak's Romance for violin and orchestra and Schubert's Symphony No 3 in D. The concert begins at 7:30pm. daguild.co.uk
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