The Electric Frog and Pressure Riverside Festival is being touted as the first electronic music festival to be staged in the grounds of the Riverside Museum and Tall Ship on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow.
The programme on Saturday August 24 wil be headlined by J Rocc, one of the original turntablists and founder, in 1992, of the Beat Junkies. Martin McKay of Rub a Dub Records and Pro Vinylist Karim are the warm up acts on the Optimo stage, while Boys Noize, Jamie XX, Underground Resistance, Slam, Optimo and Aunie Flo will also be spinning their stuff. A full comedy programme will be running on the Tall Ship with performance art and boutique and food stalls completing a packed day.
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Edinburgh singer/songwriter Kim Edgar, graduate of the Burnsong intiative and Burns Unit collective, has a solo gig during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Stockbridge Parish Church on August 24 when she will accompany herself on a Steinway baby grand on selections from her The Ornate Lie and Butterflies and Broken Glass albums. Edgar is using the concert to promote the work of Amnesty Interantional, with the opportuinity to make a donation to the campaigning organisation and a raffle, in which the prizes will include some of the produce from her own allotment, recently acquired after eight years on the waiting list. Showing a keen awareness of the sort of publicity line that never fails on the Fringe, she says that she is trying to "raise awareness of the great work in promoting human rights throughout the world - and show off my prize courgettes."
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With so many shows competing for attention, Canadian group Oh My Darling will be pleased if they can attract a fraction of the audience for their debut Fringe performances at the Assembly Rooms on August 5 and 6 that they played to on their final date before leaving for Europe. The quartet, who have been hailed as among the top pickers on the Canadian roots music scene, drew a wildly enthusiastic reception from 20,000 people at Winnipeg Folk Festival for their blend of classic country, Appalachian old-time, bluegrass, Cajun and Québécois folk music and their highly acclaimed original songs. Their Edinburgh visit is planned as a taster for an extensive tour of the UK and Ireland next August/September. They are onstage at the Assembly Rooms at 9.30pm. ohmydarling.ca
Following its sucessful show of John Bellany etchings, the Watermill Gallery in Aberfeldy has just opened a new exhibition of ceramics by Nancy Fuller. Fuller is Taiwanese by birth but was raised in Scotland and originally trained as a printmaker, only discovering the technique of wood-fired ceramics when she returned to Taiwan in 2000. After training in Japan, she now makes pots using the traditional Japanese anagama technique at her home in north-east Scotland, using a mixture of split pine and beech in her own kiln. The show of elegant rounded pots, entitled A Strong, Gentle Presence, runs to August 28.
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