Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis has been shortlisted in the Best Artist category of the Songlines Magazine Music Awards, one of two Scottish nominations for the annual awards, now in their seventh year, alongside Salsa Celtic, who are up for the Cross-Cultural Collaboration award for their The Tall Islands album.

The winners will be announced in the magazine's June issue. This is Fowlis's second appearance in an awards shortlist this year: the singer from North Uist is one of four contenders for Folk Singer of the Year in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, which will be held at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on Wednesday April 22.

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The Devil Makes Three (pictured) are a punk-blues trio from Brattleboro, Vermont, who now base themselves in California but are currently on a European tour and make their Scottish headline debut at King Tuts in Glasgow tonight. There latest album, I'm A Stranger Here, was produced by Buddy Miller and recorded in Nashville at the Easy Eye studio of Dan Auerbach of Black Keys. Singer-songwriter Pete Bernhard is joined by guitarist Cooper McBean and upright bassist Lucia Torino in the group that also describes its music as garage ragtime and which has gathered fans on tours with Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and Trampled by Turtles.

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Cowal Music Club completes its 70th birthday season on Sunday, March 29 with the return, by public demand, of the Nova Scotia Jazz Band. Currently comprising John Burgess on clarinet and saxophone, Ross Milligan on banjo and guitar, Lorne Cowieson on trumpet, and Andy Sharkey on double bass, the band plays jazz from the music's early years in New Orleans and Chicago and its previous visit to the club was greeted by a standing room only audience. The concert takes place at Cowal Golf Club in Dunoon and begins at 3pm.

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Edinburgh promoters Click Clack's monthly evenings of left-of-centre music continue to bring sizable audiences to Henry's Cellar Bar in Morrison Street. March's special guests, Steele Plays Zappa from Glasgow, return by popular demand following their well-received set drawn from Frank Zappa's extensive repertoire last July. Also appearing on Tuesday 24th are bass guitarist Dave Conway's latest band, Dig for Victory, and the saxophone and percussion combo Good Job Squad. Doors open at 7pm.

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