THE ANNUAL festival celebrating the eighteenth century Perthshire fiddler and composer, Niel [correct spelling] Gow goes ahead in Gow’s hometown, Birnam, over the weekend of March 17th-19th.
Guest artistes include the fiddle and guitar-playing Wrigley Sisters from Orkney, Donegal fiddlers Caoimhin Macaoidh and Peter Campbell and Northumberland's Roddy Mathews. Talents from nearer at hand include Alastair McCulloch from Ayr, west highland fiddler Archie Mcallister from Argyll and Birnam's own Karys Watt as well as festival director, fiddler and Gow authority Pete Clark, who will appear with cellist Ron Shaw and pianist Muriel Johnstone.
Now in its fourteenth year, the festival is based at Birnam Arts Centre and includes workshops for accompanists as well as fiddlers, spontaneous sessions and guided walks around local places of interest.
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GLASGOW'S Spark Trio launch a new monthly gig featuring leading Scottish jazz musicians as their guests in the city’s Griffin bar in Bath Street on Monday March 6.
The trio comprises multi-faceted pianist and keyboards player Paul Harrison, here playing organ, and two members of Peter Whittingham Jazz Award-winning group Square One, guitarist Joe Williamson and drummer Stephen Henderson.
The plan is to feature the trio’s own compositions and arrangements of jazz standards on the opening night and thereafter to invite guests from the Scottish scene whom Glasgow audiences might not get to hear too often in full concerts to join the trio. The first guest, saxophonist Paul Towndrow, pictured, appears on Monday April 3 followed by saxophonist Brian Molley on Monday May 8. The sessions begin at 8:00pm.
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