SCOTLAND's Theatre in the Hills opens the third production of its summer season tomorrow with matinee and evening performances of Alan Bennett's People. The play follows J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose and the musical High Society in the resident company's repertory, with another three shows still to come.

The play premiered at the National Theatre in London in 2012 and sees a disagreement between two sisters, ex-model Dorothy and clergywoman June Stacpoole, over the future of their family's decaying country home. Valerie Cutko and Margaret Preece play the sisters and Patrick Sandford directs.

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SAXOPHONIST Konrad Wiszniewski and pianist Euan Stevenson have been invited to present highlights from their acclaimed adaptation of saxophonist Stan Getz’s orchestral album, Focus at Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival as part of the event’s celebration of the first 100 years of jazz. Following the project’s success in 2011, Wiszniewski, pictured, and Stevenson went on to record their own music with a jazz quartet, string quartet and harp and their first album, New Focus was longlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year in 2013. They have since broadcast live from London’s Southbank Centre as part of BBC Radio 3’s 70th Birthday celebrations last September and ahead of their Edinburgh concert at the Rose Theatre on July 22, they will present their Standards Duo programme at the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock on Thursday, June 15.

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GLASGOW music promoters Sounds in the Suburbs present back-to-back concerts by singer-songwriters Carol Laula and Annie Keating on Thursday and Friday, June 22nd and 23rd. Laula appears with support from the Wellgreen at Oran Mor on Great Western Road and Brooklyn-based Keating, on her first UK tour since 2013, appears at the Kelvindale Bowling & Lawn Tennis Club in Baronald Drive. Keating, who has been championed by Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris, released her seventh album, Trick Star, to wide acclaim in 2016 and issues a new digital-only single, Trouble, to coincide with her UK visit.

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WITH exemplary but coincidental timing Cherry Red Records releases a seven disc box set celebrating Manchester's musical heritage next month.

Manchester North of England covers the period from 1977 to 1993 and includes famous tracks by Buzzcocks, Joy Division, The Fall, John Cooper Clarke, Happy Mondays, New Order, Magazine, The Charlatans, James, The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Chemical Brothers and 808 State, alongside more cult choices by bands like Crispy Ambulance and A Certain Ratio. The collection comes out on July 28.

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