BBC Music has announced the inaugural BBC Music Day, a nationwide celebration of music, with several events in Scotland.
It will take place in June 5.
The day will feature live music events and performances involving both well-known musicians and local communities across the UK and the BBC's Performing Groups, and will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC 6 Music, Asian Network, BBC Local Radio, and at bbc.co.uk/musicday.
BBC One's The One Show will be broadcasting live from the Music Day event in Glasgow and there will also be five day Festival of Music centred around Pacific Quay in Glasgow.
Every Radio Scotland music programme will be part of the celebrations, including a special of Bryan Burnett's Show as well as Travelling Folk, Jazz House and Another Country with Ricky Ross. Events in Scotland begin on June 3 with the debut of BBC Radio Scotland's new music live performance show, The Quay Sessions.
bbc.co.uk/music
Poetry, performance and songs about a "ship full of cannibal rats" are among the highlights of this weekend's Big Lit book festival in Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway.
The festival runs from April 16-19 and features, among others, Michele Roberts, the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of twelve novels including The Looking Glass and Daughters of the House and Terry Darlington.
Jenny Lindsay and Rachel McCrum are providing Sunday afternoon's finale when they appear as their alter egos Rally and Broad (pictured) and much of the cabaret will be focused round their latest collections of poetry Do Not Alight Here Again and Ire & Salt, both written against the backdrop of last year's referendum.
Karen Campbell is speaking about her new novel Rise, the poems of Hugh MacDiarmid are set to music and sung by Nicola Black and Elspeth Brown and Vivien Jones are launching new poetry collections. Many of the events are free.
biglit.org
Music at Paxton, a festival of international chamber music, takes place in Paxton House on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders from July 17-26. Music at Paxton was started in 2006 and the concerts take place in Paxton House's Picture Gallery. The festival has been planned by Helen Jamieson and features Brahms and Viennese threads throughout the programme, and the first Scottish performance by Signum Quarter.
There are Paxton House debuts by Natalie Clein, Benjamin Grosvenor and Notos Piano Quartet, a meet the artist event and two free concerts.
musicatpaxton.co.uk
Christiaan De Beukelaer, a lecturer in Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, has published a new book, Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice. Its research focuses on cultural and creative industries in 'developing countries'. De Beukelaer explores how the concepts of cultural and creative industries are constructed and implemented across African countries and evaluates various policy implications of his findings.
The lecturer was awarded the 2012 Cultural Policy Research Award (CPRA), which led to the publication of his book. The CPRA honours young and talented researchers addressing topics of European relevance in the field of applied and comparative cultural policy.
culturalfoundation.eu/library/cpra-2012
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