Mugstock, a festival of music and merriment as it describes itself, has also undertaken to be Scotland's most weather-proof festival.
The event, in Mugdock Country Park, and supported by EventScotland and Stirling Council, takes place on August 7, 8 and 9 and features an astonishing list of musical performances, including sets by Jo Mango, Randolph's Leap, Kid Canaveral, Dodgy, Siobhan Wilson, Shona Brown, Preston Reed and Broken Records. Topping the bill are Californian experimental world fusion group Beats Antique, in their Scottish debut.
Given the erratic weather of late, festival director Alan Govan has made the decision to move the bulk of the programme into marquees, covering all possibilities. A third stage remains outside and there are a myriad recreational activities on site, should sunshine prevail.
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Aberdeen Music Hall will host two exclusive concerts of Scottish traditional music and Americana over the coming months. Under the Northern Arc banner, award-winning Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis, pictured, will collaborate with popular visitors to Scotland and Celtic Connections favourites, Québécois quartet Le Vent du Nord on Sunday, September 13. This will be followed on Saturday, February 13 when Herald Angel-winning fiddler and composer Duncan Chisholm shares the stage with Michigan bluegrass ensemble Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, whose recent concerts around Scotland have received extravagant praise. aberdeenperformingarts.com
Dundee’s popular Sunday jazz residency at Clarks Bar in Lindsay Street resumes at the new time of 3pm from this weekend. The weekly sessions feature musicians drawn from a pool of local players with a guest group being invited once a month. August’s guests will be a quintet led by drummer Greg Irons, originally from the Dundee area but currently studying on the jazz course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, who will appear on August 16.
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Streetland is a community festival in Glasgow's Govanhill tomorrow, centred on Westmoreland Street Gardens. Music, crafts, food, gardening and photography all feature there, while Govanhill Baths has poetry, art, dance and singing as well as a local currency project where The People's Bank of Govanhill will exchange boring old Sterling for shiny new Govanhill banknotes on a pay-what-you-can-afford basis. There an oral history tour and guided walk through the architecture of the area too.
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