Mastersons head for only Scottish date
Mastersons head for only Scottish date
Sounds in the Suburbs bring two top Americana attractions to Jordanhill next week. The Mastersons, who form part of Steve Earle's backing band and who will be flying to the UK directly from recording sessions with Earle in Nashville, return to Woodend Bowling and Tennis Club tomorrow, the only Scottish date on their itinerary. The following evening, Texan singer-songwriter and former symphony violinist Carrie Rodriquez and guitarist Luke Jacobs visit the same venue for the first time.
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Ewan Mains is the main event
Trumpeter Ewan Mains leads a new weekly jazz night at Drury Street, the bar-restaurant in the street of the same name in Glasgow city centre, today. Mains, who has the distinction of working with both jazz bon vivant George Melly and funk queen Chaka Khan as well as the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, will be fronting a quintet in the style of Louis Armstrong's famous Hot Five of the 1920s. Doors open at 7pm and entry costs £2.50, but is free for anyone producing a receipt from the FOPP record store.
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Scaring up curiosities
Off The Wall is a new show at the Mansfield Park Gallery in Glasgow's west end that gathers together artists working in three dimensions in an unusual collection of curiosities, found objects, sculptures and taxidermy. The aim of gallery owner Victoria Cassidy is to give the lie to perceptions that such work does not have the market enjoyed by drawing and painting and its sometimes macabre tone is, she suggests, particularly suited to the Hallowe'en season. The show runs to November 16.
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Flowers out of the flames
Artist Boo Paterson has created a limited edition papercut work commemorating the resurrection of Glasgow School of Art after the devastating fire in May. Paterson's work shows an architectural profile of the Rennie Mackintosh building and the flames turning into flowers, overlaid in the text of Hugh MacDiarmid's poem, The Little White Rose of Scotland.
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Now for more of that satire
As well as boasting a groove-tastic Mark Robb DJ night and regular comedy gigs, Glasgow's Vespbar in Drury Street will be home to a regular satire night from tomorrow. The Tuesday New Review will be written by Alex Cox and Graham de Banzie and is the follow up to their Referendum Review Show, which ran for 32 sold-out performances in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
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