l Floor-stomping Glasgow folk-rockers Kassidy have been announced as the supporting turn on a mammoth European tour by Lana Del Ray, whose boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill is in the band.
They are in Elizabeth Woolridge Grant's home country, appearing at trade fair South By South West in Austin, Texas, and set off on the tour at the start of April in Denmark, winding up in Belgium at the end of May. The tour includes eight shows in the UK, with two nights at Glasgow's O2 Academy on May 15 and 16.
www.kassidymusic.com
l A new exhibition at Gracefield in Dumfries is a collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, where a version of it was shown in spring last year. Locating the Nest combines the talents of craft-artist Lizzie Farey, printmaker Hugh Bryden and writer Tom Pow, exploring the idea of nests in words, images and sculpture in a show that extends into the gardens outside the gallery. Farey has collected nests from the Botanic Gardens and uses them in the work she creates. Bryden works with linocuts and in drypoint and has recently been working on artists' books, collaborating with writers including Pow. He is an award-winning poet and teacher of creative writing, who came to the idea of the nest through his project on dying and abandoned villages. The show runs to May 18.
www.dumgal.gov.uk/museums
l The next of the Classic Album Sundays organised in Glasgow by high fidelity sound system retailers Loud & Clear is on April 28 at the Berkeley Suite in North Street. At the sessions, an album is played in dimmed lighting in its entirety on a top drawer Linn sound system, preceded by a selection of music that inspired its making. Next month's disc is Talking Heads' Remain in Light. The session starts at 5.30pm, with Remain in Light on the turntable at 7.30pm.
www.loud-clear.co.uk
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