ST MARY'S Music School in Edinburgh presents three concerts in June to mark the end of the school year. Jazz at the Jam House will take place at the Jam House in Queen Street on Tuesday, June 7 and features the school’s senior jazz ensembles, directed by Richard Ingham, playing music by Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Richard Rodgers, Mike Mainieri, Horace Silver, and Richard Ingham. The Directors’ Recital Prize, in St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place on Tuesday, June 14 features four senior soloists competing before a panel of judges for this award, which is now in its sixteenth year. And on Monday, June 20 at the Queen’s Hall in Clerk Street, A Midsummer Night’s Dream will feature choral, orchestral, traditional music and jazz with a Shakespearean theme, performed by the school’s orchestra, senior choir, traditional music group, string, brass and jazz ensembles and the choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral.

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LEADING Appalachian folk song specialist and multi-instrumentalist Bruce Molsky returns to Scotland this month for a series of concerts. Molsky, who has been described as “The Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddle” and who also plays guitar and banjo in groups with Shetland fiddler Aly Bain and Irish folk music hero Andy Irvine, appears at the Hippodrome, Eyemouth on Saturday, May 28 before going on to Dundee Acoustic Music Club (Sunday, 29), Bonar Bridge Village Hall (Tuesday, 31), Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye (Wednesday, June 1), Crafts & Things, Glencoe (Thursday, 2), and a house concert in Edinburgh (Friday, 3).

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