l Lorne Campbell, who was associate director at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre until 2008, has become the latest Scot to be appointed to a major arts job south of the Border with the news that he will be the new artistic director of Northern Stage.
Campbell, who was born and raised in Edinburgh, has recently been co-artistic director of Greyscale as well as directing work at Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, The Gate in London and Oran Mor in Glasgow.
At the Traverse he directed award-winning shows by Morna Pearson and Alan Wilkins and currently teaches at Central St Martins College of Art and Design. He will take up the position in Newcastle in the late spring, succeeding Erica Whyman who has moved to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
www.northernstage.co.uk
l Tomorrow's Celtic Connections concert at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall by Fiddler's Bid, the Shetland-born group featuring the fiddles of Maurice and Kevin Henderson, Chris Stout, and Andrew Gifford has an added special guest in the shape of popular Fence Records founder and recording artiste Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote.
Pipped to the 2012 Mercury Music Prize by PJ Harvey for his collaboration with Jon Hopkins, Diamond Mine, King Creosote has been added to a bill that already includes a support set from singer and accordionist Emily Smith.
www.celticconnections.com
l Irish folk music legends Sean Cannon, Eamonn Campbell, Patsy Watchorn and Gerry "Banjo" O'Connor have had to reschedule their upcoming Scottish concerts due to illness. The foursome were due to celebrate the sound of the Dubliners, with whom Cannon, Campbell and Watchorn performed and with O'Connor taking the late Barney McKenna's place, in venues including Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in February. Replacement dates are now being fixed for May and will be announced on the official Dubliners website.
www.thedubliners.org/tourdates/tour2013
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