THE NORTHERN Roots Festival goes ahead at Bogbain Farm, near Inverness on Friday and Saturday June 23 and 24 with a packed programme of Scottish musical talent. Among those confirmed to appear are Justin Currie & The Pallbearers, Lau, Rab Noakes, Andy Gunn Band, Adam Holmes & The Embers, Rachel Sermanni, and Elephant Sessions. Weekend tickets are available for adults (16 and over), youths (12 – 15) and children (under 12) and there are camping facilities for tents, caravans and campervans. This year’s event is also notable for one of the festival’s most prominent musicians, Alasdair Taylor, mandolinist with Highland alt-folk band Elephant Sessions, headlining an event at a venue where he used to be a car park attendant.
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TICKETS for the new season at Glasgow Citizens Theatre are on sale from 10am this morning, and in addition to the previously announced main house shows, a programme of work in the Circle Studio is headed up by a new adaptation Shakespeare's Scottish Play from artistic director Dominic Hill, his first production in that space. The Macbeths "will focus on the relationship of the killer couple, and its disintegration following an act of murder which at first bind them together and then destroys them," he says.
The Studio also sees a visit by Actors Touring Company with Mark Lockyer's Living With The Lights On and the Scottish premiere of Anders Lustgarten's Lampedusa while the main house has revivals of Zinnie Harris's version of the Oresteia, This Restless House, before its Edinburgh Festival run, and Gareth Nicholls's re-staging of Trainspotting. Between those come the National Theatre of Scotland's Adam and Eve, which uses the talents of Frances Poet, Cora Bissett, Jo Clifford, Chris Goode and Susan Worsfold, and Helena Kaut-Howson's satire Faithful Ruslan: The Story of a Guard Dog. Following Stuart Paterson's Cinderella, in the New Year Hill directs a curriculum-friendly revival of Rona Munro's Bold Girls.
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PIANIST David Milligan becomes the latest guest of Edinburgh’s Playtime jazz sessions when he appears at the Outhouse in Broughton Street Lane on Thursday.
Best known in jazz circles for his internationally acclaimed trio and for his long-running integral role as pianist-arranger in trumpeter Colin Steele’s award-winning quintet, Milligan also works successfully in traditional music as the co-leader of trad big band Unusual Suspects and as pianist in international fiddle group String Sisters’ rhythm section.
He’ll be joined on Thursday by Playtime regulars, Martin Kershaw (saxophones), Graeme Stephen (guitar) and Tom Bancroft (drums). The music begins at 8:00pm.
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