FOLLOWING the success of its inaugural 2014 festival, which included 80 artists in 32 different venues, Glasgow Open House Art Festival will take place May 1 - 4 2015 with an ambitious programme of exhibitions and events taking place across a diverse range of venues in Glasgow.

Glasgow Open House is an artist-led, not-for-profit organisation that provides a platform for new and established artists, opening up their practices - and in many instances their homes - to new audiences. There is a fundraising event for this year's festival at The Old Hairdressers in Glasgow's Renfield Lane on February 13 with a Silent Auction of donated pieces, DJ sets from Sam Vitamins and Cry Parrot and live music from the Weakest Link.

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WISCONSIN-born singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault has added an extra Scottish concert ahead of his appearance at the Tron Theatre, Glasgow for Celtic Connections on Friday, January 30. Foucault, who shortly releases his fifth album, Salt as Wolves, having won praise for its predecessors from The New Yorker, Mojo and Uncut magazines, plays the recently opened Inchyra Arts Club, at Glencarse, near Perth, on Thursday, January 29 at 8pm.

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COWAL Music Club welcomes the unusual combination of trumpet and church organ for its next concert on Sunday, February 1. Pistons and Pipes features trumpeter Tom Poulson and organist and clarinet player Calum Robertson and will be playing a programme that ranges from Mozart and Bach to John Maxwell Geddes and James McMillan at St John's Church, Dunoon from 3pm.

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