The Wickerman festival, scheduled for July in Dumfries and Galloway, has announced The Waterboys and Tom Odell as headliners for the main Summerisle Stage.
Mike Scott's troupe recently revealed a harder southern rock edge to their sound on their album Modern Blues, which broke the Top 20 in January, while singer-songwriter Odell enjoyed a No 1 hit with his 2013 album Long Way Down. Joining them on the bill is festival regular Example, who will perform live with grime-scene pioneer DJ Wire.
This year's Wickerman takes place on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 June at East Kirkcarswell Farm near Dundrennan, and for the first time will be working with independent music promotors Synergy Concerts. More acts will be announced soon, but tickets are already on sale from www.skiddle.com.
www.thewickermanfestival.co.uk
Soundhouse, the project that is planning to open a new music venue in Edinburgh, continues its Monday night series of promotions in the Traverse Theatre bar through March.
Folk singer Alasdair Roberts appears on March 2, with klezmer band Celter Schmelter following on March 9, award-winning jazz guitarist Graeme Stephen's trio on March 16, English folk singer and guitar master Martin Simpson on March 23, and singer, songwriter and guitarist Nick Harper on March 30. All concerts begin at 8pm.
www.traverse.co.uk
A new commissioned art work by Kenny Hunter, unveiled yesterday, commemorates Edinburgh College of Art's most significant benefactor. Portrait Of Andrew Grant is cast in bronze but is designed to look like a clay bust set on a handmade wooden plinth.
Grant, who was born in a house on Leith Walk in 1830, was a lawyer who established the Royal Bank of India and later served as Liberal MP for Leith Burghs. He provided a third of the funds for the construction of ECA's main building on Lauriston Place and, on his death in 1924, left the college a sum that, in modern terms, would be the equivalent of almost £18 million.
Kenny Hunter is best known for his sculptural work, including Citizen Firefighter, which stands outside Glasgow's Central Station.
www.eca.ed.ac.uk
Tickets go on sale at 9am today for Damien Rice's upcoming concert at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. The Irish singer-songwriter comes to the Scottish capital on June 9, one of only three UK dates in his 2015 world tour (the others being Manchester and London) which follows on from the release of his third studio album, My Favourite Faded Fantasy, last November.
Tickets cost £49.50, £38.50 and £33, including booking fee, and are limited to a maximum of four per person.
www.usherhall.co.uk
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