l VETERAN of Tommy Smith's Youth Jazz orchestra and winner of this year's Young Jazz Musician of the Year competition, Pete Johnstone is at Edinburgh's Jazz Bar tonight and Glasgow Art Club tomorrow with his Organ Quartet.
Playing many Johnstone original compositions, the band also features drummer John Lowrie, guitarist Davie Dunsmuir, and saxophonist Adam Jackson. 8pm start for both shows and tickets a mere £5.
www.bridgejazz.co.uk
l SCOTS stage and screen actor Brian Cox has added his patronage to Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre, as founding patron of a new development effort at the theatre, which aims to attract many more tto he cause. Cox joined the Lyceum company in 1965 and has often returned over the years, most recently in John Byrne's Chekhov adaptation Uncle Varick in 2003. The actor is also patron of Scottish Youth Theatre, whose studio space is named in his honour, and of The Space in Dundee. The Lyceum has also announced a new chairman of its board. Shonaig Macpherson succeeds Donald Emslie.
www.lyceum.org.uk
l THE Edinburgh Quartet gives an unusual – and free – concert in the Lounge Bar of Teviot Row House, Bristo Square, on the Edinburgh University campus tomorrow evening. The string quartet will play Britten's Divertimenti and the Three Idylls of Frank Bridge, starting at 9pm.
www.edinburghquartet.com
l SINGER-SONGWRITER Benny Gallagher, best known as half of 70s chart-topping duo Gallagher and Lyle, plays Milngavie Folk Club on November 17. Gallagher started his career at The Beatles' Apple Corp, writing songs for Mary Hopkin, and he and Lyle had their first hits with McGuinness Flint before striking out as a duo, with hits Heart On My Sleeve and I Wanna Stay With You from the hit Breakaway album.
www.milngaviefolkclub.co.uk
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