The Summer Isles Festival returns for a fourth year to Achiltibuie in Ross & Cromarty on August 28 and 29.
The festival, which won the Community Project of the Year title at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2014, was established and is still run by local musician Mairearad Green and this year's line-up includes Anglo-Irish band Flook, Gaelic singer Kathleen MacInnes, rising star singer-guitarist Sorren MacLean, Highland neo-trad quintet The Elephant Sessions, DJ Dolphin Boy, and local pipe band, the Achiltibuie Highlanders.
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The current queen of Tex Mex music and Billboard magazine's Number One country songstress, Stephanie Urbina Jones (pictured) tops the bill at Americana Cavalcade 2015, held at Perth Racecourse as part of the Gold Cup weekend on June 6.
Jones, who has collaborated with Texas music legend Augie Meyers and duetted with Willie Nelson, heads a line-up that includes local country soul band, The New Madrids, 1960s pop stars-turned Americana specialists Vanity Fair, singer-songwriters Martin Stephenson and Des Horsfall, Fife's David Latto Band, Dundee-born dobro player Les Cowley, and acclaimed roots trio Dark Green Tree. The Cavalcade begins at 2pm and features twelve acts on two stages.
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Glasgow-based drummer Chris Whitehouse this month releases the first album, Grounded, by his band Connected. Whitehouse graduated BMus from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland last year and has since been working as a freelance drummer, including performances on the Edinburgh Fringe and in London West End musicals, and as a drumming instructor with a roster of pupils whose abilities range from beginner to advanced. Connected features fellow RCS alumnus Jonathan Edwards (saxophone), guitarist Stephen Maxwell, and bass guitarist Euan Taylor and is one of several bands Whitehouse can currently be heard with, the others including Hercules Mandarin, Driven By Harness, and Caturbhyas.
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Elgin-born pianist Chris Guild gives a memorial recital of the work of Ronald Stevenson at Edinburgh Society of Musicians in Belford Road tonight at 7.30pm. The concert has been organised by the composer's friend of forty years, Jamie Reid Baxter, who will give an introduction to the music, remembering the man he describes as "one of the last living links with the giants of the modern Scottish Renaissance."
Toccata Classics released a recording of Guild's performances of Stevenson on March 6 to mark Stevenson's 87th birthday, and the pianist's recital will feature works from the disc, Ronald Stevenson: a Celtic album, which will be on sale.
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