The Shore Bar in Leith begins a new weekly jazz session tomorrow.
Pianists Brian Kellock and John Elliott, the latter with his trio, will feature on alternate weeks in the intimate venue which already hosts popular jazz residencies on Tuesday evenings and Sunday afternoons. The evening sessions begin around 8:30pm.
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Chamber-folk-jazz group Quercus plays the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh on Friday, April 10 in a concert rescheduled from last autumn due to singer June Tabor's illness. As well as Tabor (pictured), the group, whose repertoire includes adaptations of lyrics by Shakespeare, Burns and Housman, English and Scottish folk songs and jazz standards, features saxophonist Iain Ballamy, a founding member of legendary London big band Loose Tubes, and long-time Tabor accompanist, pianist Huw Warren.
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Johnny and Duncan Cameron bring their McGinn meets Seeger and MacColl show to Fort Theatre, Bishopbriggs on April 25. The brothers, who run Riverside Studios in Glasgow, devised the show after American folk music legend Pete Seeger, with whom Johnny and his late brother Wallace once performed in New York, died last year. It tells the story of Glasgow songwriter and folk scene character Matt McGinn being introduced to Seeger after Ewan MacColl played him a tape of McGinn's songs. The show toured successfully throughout last year including dates at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom and a spot at the World Music Festival in Selb, Bavaria.
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Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Alasdair Roberts has organized a short Scottish tour in May for the Irish Traveller singer Thomas McCarthy, who has been hailed as the keeper of the flame of Irish traditional ballad and song. Originally from Birr in County Offaly, McCarthy now lives in West London but regularly returns to Ireland where his family, all of whom sing, have nurtured his interest in and knowledge of traditional songs since he was a child. He recently released his second album, Herself and Myself, and was filmed singing for BBC TV's Call the Midwife series. He appears at Aberdeen Folk Club on May 6, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh (May 7) and Glad Café, Glasgow (May 8).
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