A previously unheard set of recordings by four of the main figures in the 1960s British blues bloom will be released on April 20.
John Mayall, Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood only worked together as John Mayall's Bluesbreakers for three months in 1967 before Green, McVie and Fleetwood went off to form Fleetwood Mac, scoring hits with Albatross and Man of the World before becoming known for million-selling albums including Rumours. But a Mayall fan from Holland who sneaked a one channel reel-to-reel tape recorder into five London gigs and captured this line-up recently presented the tapes to Mayall, who has restored them with the technical assistance of Eric Corne of Forty Below Records and is making this historical document available as John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Live in 1967.
fortybelowrecords.com
Guitarist Andy Timmons (pictured) brings his band to Glasgow's Classic Grand on Sunday hotfoot from Barcelona for the first of three UK dates on his European tour. Timmons, who hails from Indiana but operates from Dallas, Texas, is the sort of fretsman who regularly tops "best guitarist" polls. He studied the instrument at the University of Miami (because that's where Pat Metheny and Jaco Pastorius went) and has had stints as MD for Olivia Newton John as well as four years with US pop-metal band Danger Danger alongside countless studio sessions.
andytimmons.com
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
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.
edinburgh-blues.uk
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