THE Budapest Café Orchestra has announced an extensive tour of Scotland. The group, which plays traditional folk and gypsy flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia and whose musicians come from the Balkan outposts of Harringay and Berkhamsted, stops off at Stobo Village Hall on June 7 before going on to Dundee (8), Johnshaven (9), Findhorn (10), Portmahomack (11), Strathpeffer (12), Melvich, Caithness (13), Durness (14), Auchiltibuie (15), Aultbea, Wester Ross (16), and Applecross (17). They then cross over to Skye to play in Portree (18) before taking in Arisaig (19), Tobermory (20), Iona (21), Bunessan, Isle of Mull (22), Helensburgh (23), Crieff (24), and Edinburgh (25). budapestcafeorchestra.co.uk
GYPSY violinist Tcha Limberger, pictured begins his latest UK tour in Scotland in June. The most celebrated Gypsy musician of his generation and the nephew of renowned guitarist Fapy Lafertin from Belgian band Waso, Limberger was born in Belgium into the Manouche family and began playing guitar before taking up violin and from the age of thirteen studying modern classical composition alongside the Belgian composer Dick Vanderharst. He appears with his Kalotaszeg Trio at Plockton Village Hall on June 22; Eden Court, Inverness (23); and Nevis Centre, Fort William (24).
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DRUMMER Ken Mathieson’s Classic Jazz Orchestra plays three concerts next month. The orchestra, which specialises in the jazz repertoire that encompasses the 1920s through to the early 1960s and whose latest album, Clarinet Gumbo, features Californian-born New Orleans music specialist Evan Christopher, appears at the Maltings in Berwick-upon-Tweed on Friday, June 17, Kilbarchan Performing Arts Centre on Friday June 24, and Crail Community Hall, as part of Fife’s East Neuk Festival, on Saturday June 25. classicjazzorchestra.org.uk
LYTH Arts Centre in Caithness has a programme that spans music, literature and theatre in June. Widely acclaimed recent arrivals on the Irish folk music scene, The Jeremiahs open the programme on Sunday, June 5 with author Ian Leith following on Saturday 11 to launch his new book, Caithness to Patagonia with an illustrated talk. Krazy Kat Theatre returns to Lyth with its family show The Very Magic Flute and LipService Theatre presents its potted version of Wuthering Heights, Withering Looks on Thursday, June 23, which is also being staged the previous evening in Mill Theatre, Thurso.
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