l Solo artist and frontman of American Music Club, Mark Eitzel, makes a welcome return to Scotland on February 27 for an appearance at Oran Mor in Glasgow.
Eitzel, whose laconic stage style makes his a very popular performer, suffered a heart attack in 2011. His latest album, Don't Be A Stranger, was conceived as an AMC disc before being issued on Decor Records as a solo set.
www.fallenangelsclub.com
l The Scottish Photographic Circle, an amateur body founded in 1907, opened its annual exhibition at the Auld Kirk Museum in Kirkintilloch on Saturday. The images in the show have been selected by members and last year's was an eclectic mix of landscape, portraiture, wildlife, arts and sport. The show runs to February 16.
www.scottishphotographic circle.co.uk
l Scotland's opera-crafting knight Sir David McVicar has his latest production at the Met in New York transmitted globally to cinemas on Saturday as the latest in the series of The Met: Live In HD broadcasts. Following his Anna Bolena, McVicar's Maria Stuarda is the second of a cycle of Donizetti's three Tudor operas. Joyce DiDonato is Mary, Queen of Scots and Elza van den Heever is Elizabeth, in her Met debut. Screens in Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Galashiels, Glasgow and Perth now show the operas, 6pm start.
www.metopera.org/uk
l The panto-style fun doesn't stop at the Gaiety in Ayr, reopened and under new management and boasting (not unreasonably) of attracting more than 20,000 people to the four-week Yuletide run of Cinderella. Hard on its heels come the men in tights outta Sherwood in The Adventures Of Robin Hood. Oddsocks theatre company presents this tongue-in-cheek musical comedy take on the old tale for one night only, February 5, and the only Scottish date.
www.ayrgaiety.co.uk
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