EDINBURGH Folk Club reconvenes after the summer break with an appearance by popular Scottish band the Tannahill Weavers at Summerhall on Wednesday. The club then moves back to its former home in the Pleasance, where Young Aberdeenshire traditional singer Iona Fyfe, who was a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2017 competition, appears with her band on September 13. Singer Emily Smith, who won the same competition in 2002, follows with multi-instrumentalist Jamie McLennan on September 20 and American traditional music specialist Jeff Warner returns to the club on September 27.

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GLASGOW promoters Sounds in the Suburbs return following the summer break with a concert by Irish singer-songwriter Eleanor McEvoy at the Glasgow Accies Sports Club in Anniesland tomorrow. Dublin-born McEvoy, pictured, wrote the song Only a Woman’s Heart when she was playing in singer Mary Black’s band and it subsequently became the opening track of one of Ireland’s biggest selling albums of all time. She has since recorded a dozen albums and toured across the world, including a visit to Uganda as part of her ambassador’s role with Oxfam Ireland. Her concert is part of a busy Sounds in the Suburbs autumn season that includes gigs by singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, bluegrass band the Coal Porters, Irish chanteuse Mary Coughlan, China Crisis and jazz pianist Philip Clouts’ world music-inspired quartet.

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SAXOPHONIST Tommy Smith has added a concert at the world famous Ronnie Scott’s jazz club in London to his new quartet’s autumn tour. Smith launched the group at a sold-out concert during Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival in July and has since released its first album, Embodying the Light to uniformly enthusiastic reviews. Both album and tour are in homage to Smith’s greatest inspiration, saxophone colossus John Coltrane, and mark the fiftieth anniversary of Coltrane’s death. The tour opens at An Tobar in Tobermory on Tuesday, September 26 and continues in Greenock (27th), Aberdeen (28th), and Paisley (29th), with further Scottish dates in Inverness, Glasgow, Musselburgh, and West Kilbride on either side of the Ronnie Scott’s gig during October.

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MERCHANT Voices community choir begins rehearsals for its Christmas Concert on Wednesday from 6.30pm to 8.30pm at Studio One, City Halls, Albion St. New members welcome and the choir operates a "no auditions" policy.

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