THE SCOTTISH audition date for Open Mic UK 2016 will take place on Saturday, September 17 at TouchBase, 43 Middlesex Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow. The music competition aims to find the UK’s best singers, singer-songwriters, rappers and vocal groups and can offer a path to success. An opportunity for aspiring singers and musicians to perform to music industry judges at every stage from the auditions to the Grand Final, the competition is organised by Future Music, the company behind the discovery of acts including chart successes Luke Friend, Karen Hardy, Birdy, and Lucy Spraggan.
openmicuk.co.uk
SAXOPHONIST Tommy Smith is hosting a 5-day summer school for young jazz musicians at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow from July 24 to 28.
The course aims to benefit musicians between the ages of 12 and 17 who are beginning to develop their skills in spontaneous composition and jazz improvisation and wish to take their playing to the next level, working with a team of internationally regarded tutors.
Participants will receive master classes on their chosen instruments, jazz theory classes and recording experience and at the end of the week will take part in a public group performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The course runs from 10am to 5pm each day and the fee is £240.
rcs.ac.uk/shortcourses/jazz/
AWARD-winning Italian pianist and composer Alessandro Sgobbio brings his group Pericopes+1 to Scotland for the first time on April 15 for a gig at the Jazz Bar in Edinburgh. Originally a duo comprised of Sgobbio and saxophonist Emiliano Vernizzi, Pericopes formed in 2007 and later began working with New York-based drummer Nick Wight. They have since toured the U.S. as a trio and released the album These Human Beings in February this year. Now based in Paris, Sgobbio won the Umbria Jazz Award with Vernizzi in 2013.
pericopes.it
YOUNG traditional music duo Gráinne Brady & Tina Jordan Rees are hosting a day of workshops in St Peter’s Hall in Partick, Glasgow on May 21, followed by an evening concert. The duo, who released their first album, High Spirits, last year will be taking workshops in composition, building a repertoire, practising techniques, and playing fiddle, flute, whistle and piano. In the evening, BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2016 finalist, Cardross fiddler Ryan Young will open the concert, with guitarist-fiddler Innes Watson of Treacherous Orchestra joining Brady and Jordan Rees for the main set.
grainneandtina.com
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