Promoters in Dundee, Renfrewshire and Lochaber are the first three winners in an initiative to encourage young people to form a regular music club in their area.
The Scotland Live Awards were launched at the end of last year by traditional music advocates Hand Up For Trad to foster a new generation of music promoters and Dundee Acoustic Music Club, Bishopton Folk Night and Arisaig Club have been selected to programme eight nights of music from September. Simon Thoumire of Hands Up for Trad says: "We are very excited about this project. Scotland needs more places for musicians to play and more promoters to enable this. These three promoters have all showed to us they can run exciting clubs that will be fun and give something back to the music scene."
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Lucy Wainwright Roche (pictured) slips a Glasgow gig of her own into her extensive UK and Ireland tour schedule as support to fellow American singer-songwriter Dar Williams next month. Roche, who is the daughter of Loudon Wainwright lll and Suzzy Roche, of harmonising sisters the Roches, and the half-sister of Rufus and Martha Wainwright, appears at Woodend Lawn Tennis and Bowling Club in Jordanhill on Wednesday May 20.
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The May 6 edition of Soundlab, the concerts of new and experimental music that take place regularly in Glasgow City Halls' recital room, features the premiere of composer Matthew Whiteside's new work for viola d'amore and live electronics alongside Prologue by Gerard Grisey and Ghosts by Ed Bennett. Northern Ireland-born Whiteside has had pieces performed in New York, Dublin and Belfast and recently completed his first commission for a film soundtrack, The Loudest Sound, which portrays a torrid three years in the previously happy lives of a twentysomething couple in Boston.
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