The Blas 2015 festival has three ceilidhs on the programme featuring what it says is "the very best of Scottish dance bands".
The first takes place on the opening weekend of the festival in Dingwall where Fèis Rois Cèilidh Trail are joined by Rona Lightfoot, Ali Levack, Innes White and others.
On the closing Friday of the festival, September 11, Cathy Ann MacPhee, Royal National Mòd Traditional Gold Medallist Ruaraidh Cormack, Strath Gaelic Choir and the Robert Nairn Dance Band will play.
In Strathy, Fergie Macdonald, and his band, accompanied by Huradal and Fèis in an Oir will play the music.
Blas 2015 will take place at venues across the Highlands and Argyll between September 4 and 12.
Tickets for all Blas events can be bought online, or by phone, with details on the festival’s website.
www.blas-festival.com
James Clark will step down from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) later this month after five years as co-leader.
Clark, who is also co-leader of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, is based in Merseyside, and aims to spend more time with his family as well as concentrate more of his time on performing chamber music, the orchestra said.
James Clark’s final appearances as RSNO Leader will be accompanying Ballett am Rhein at the Edinburgh Playhouse, where the Düsseldorf-based ballet company performs Seven, choreographer Martin Schläpfer’s full ballet response to Mahler’s Symphony No7.
Clark became a well-known figure at the front desk of the first violins as guest Leader following the retirement of Edwin Paling in 2007.
In 2010 he was appointed to the specially-created position of Principal Guest Leader, and in 2011 accepted the permanent joint leadership alongside Maya Iwabuchi.
In August 2011 Clark won a Herald Angel Award, recognising his outstanding performances at that year’s Edinburgh International Festival.
The RSNO will be inviting guest leaders to join the musicians while the search for a successor to James Clark is undertaken.
www.rsno.org.uk
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and directed by Mark Thomson is to play at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh for three weeks.
Starring Brian Cox and Bill Paterson it will run for three weeks only between September 18 and October 10.
The production is part of a season marking 50 years of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company.
Brian Cox and Bill Paterson are joined by John Bett and Benny Young in the cast.
This production also celebrates the 60th anniversary of the play’s first UK production.
The play will have design from Michael Taylor and lighting design from Mark Doubleday, with Stewart Campbell as assistant director.
Brian Cox as Vladimir, Bill Paterson as Estragon, John Bett is Pozzo, Benny Young is Lucky and Zak McCullough and Jack Dickson will play the part of Boy on alternate performances.
www.lyceum.org.uk
The Glasgow School of Art is to host the first Leverhulme International Network of Contemporary Studies symposium on September 1.
International academics and practitioners will examine three "moments of the Contemporary" on the GSA campus: the Mackintosh Building as a ‘contemporary’ rather than ‘modern’ building; the Reid building as a contemporary reworking of the original 'Mack'; and the project for the rebuilding of the Mackintosh library.
The Leverhulme International Network of Contemporary Studies is a three year project led by academics from Delhi, Glasgow, Montreal, Paris and St Andrews.
The Glasgow symposium is the first in a range of events planned over a three year period from September to May 2018.
www.gsa.ac.uk
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