Fans of raucous rackets of a retro kind should head to Leith this week for the first ever Franklin-Fest, which brings together some fourteen beat combos for three days and nights of live music.

An off-shoot of the Franklin Rock n'Roll Club housed in the Franklin Academicals Cricket Club hut situated on Leith Links, Franklin-Fest runs from Thursday until Saturday, and features such legends as The Thanes, The Masonics and Sally Skull alongside a myriad of others. Friday and Saturday evenings run from 8pm to late, with a free Saturday afternoon session hosted at the nearby Parlour Bar, while an opening night party on Thursday will be held at the Safari Lounge in Abbeyhill. Evening tickets for this hip-shaking extravaganza are priced at £15, or £28 for the entire weekend. Tickets for the opening night at the Safari are £5 or free to weekend ticket-holders.

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Glasgow music promoter Sounds in the Suburbs continues to provide a Jordanhill stopover for musicians on tour from North America and points closer to home. This Sunday, July 5, the promoter welcomes Canadian Folk Music Awards-winning singer Sarah Jane Scouten, pictured, who will be playing the only Scottish date of a UK tour at Woodend Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club in Chamberlain Road. Sounds in the Suburbs also stages the return to Glasgow of sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell, from Georgia, in their Larkin Poe roots group at the CCA in Sauchiehall Street on Wednesday, July 8.

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Edinburgh's fortnightly Playtime jazz session stages a special concert to mark the recent passing of iconoclast and jazz visionary, saxophonist Ornette Coleman tomorrow. The Playtime house quartet of Martin Kershaw (saxophones), Graeme Stephen (guitar), Mario Caribe (bass) and Tom Bancroft (drums) will perform a selection of Coleman's music in the intimate loft space at The Outhouse in Broughton Street Lane from 8pm.

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American countertenor David Daniels was performing at Vienna State Opera until Saturday, singing Trinculo in Robert Lepage's production of The Tempest, conducted by the composer, Thomas Ades. This Saturday, however, he is at Edinburgh's Queen's Hall for a concert marking, a few months prematurely, the 180th birthday of the great Scottish philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Accompanied by pianist Iain Burnside, the recital will include songs by Purcell, Britten and Vaughan Williams.

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