Today the single in aid of war veterans charity Erskine, and featuring some of the leading singers and musicians from Scotland's folk scene is released for download.
Marking the centenary of World War I, Our Heroes has been written by accordionist Gary Innes of folk rock band Mànran, and features members of that group, Treacherous Orchestra, Skerryvore, Rura and the Red Hot Chilli Pipers alongside Phil Cunningham, Julie Fowlis, Duncan Chisholm, Scott Wood, and Siobhan Miller. The track also features award-winning piper Duncan MacGillivray playing a set of World War I bagpipes that belonged to a fallen relative, Lance Corporal Donald Paterson, and its release date is exactly 100 years to the day that the twenty-three- year old Cameron Highlander fell alongside 17,000 allied soldiers at the Battle of Festubert, part of the second Battle of Artois.
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Benjamin Clementine (pictured) is a Londoner with a great back-story who has already been feted in France as well as spanning the divide between BBC Radio1 and 6Music with his contemporary cabaret songwriting. Following his Cornerstone and Glorious You EPs, his debut album At Least For Now won rave reviews at the end of March and his Barbican gig a few days later drew notices as just as appreciative. A pianist with an Erik Satie teenage obsession, his singing style has drawn comparison with Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons) and Nina Simone, with Scott Walker and Leonard Cohen thrown into the mix. His concert appearances are carefully selected, and this mon sees him appearing at the Colston Hall's Lantern Room in Bristol and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. But before both of those, he is at the newly remodelled Strathclyde Suite in Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Wednesday of this week, a space that proved itself transformed for the Unesco Jazz Day/Glasgow Jazz Festival launch gig on April 30. One to catch.
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Edinburgh's Usher Hall has announced an appearance by jazz bassist Marcus Miller, a crucial sideman and producer for many of the music's top names, particularly Miles Davis, with whom he worked on albums throughout the 1980s from The Man With Horn, via Tutu, to Amandla. His own current Blue Note album Afrodeezia includes contributions from pianist Robert Glasper and vocalist Lalah Hathaway. He comes to Scotland on Thursday October 22.
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