Award-winning singer and violist Mairi Campbell previews Pulse, a new work in development, at North Edinburgh Arts Centre on June 12 and 13.
Campbell, whose voice was heard worldwide when, in 2008, her version of Auld Lang Syne featured in blockbuster film Sex and The City, has received funding from Creative Scotland for the project which will tour Scotland later this year. Blending movement, storytelling, animation and music, it features music by Campbell and Dave Gray and animation by Claire Lamond and is directed by Kath Burlinson, of Authentic Artist Collective, whose directing credits include work developed at the National Theatre Studio London.
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Composer Savourna Stevenson (pictured) has written a quarter of a new work to be premiered at Temple Church, off London's Fleet Street, a week tomorrow. Four female composers have each composed a movement celebrating four women in history to complete Tetra, which will be played by female harp quartet, 4 Girls 4 Harps. The concert celebrates the fifteenth birthday of the group, who will then tour the work in the upcoming season.
Stevenson's movement is inspired by American-born, Paris-based dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker. She is currently working on a piece for piano and orchestra that also takes its inspiration from that era, documenting an instrument played by Horowitz, Gershwin, Ravel and Louis Armstrong.
Stevenson's work for young people with writer Stuart Paterson, Misterstourworm and the Kelpie's Gift, will have new performances by the RSNO in Children's Classic Concerts in Glasgow and Edinburgh this autumn.
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The Budapest Café Orchestra returns to Scotland for an extensive, twenty date tour, beginning at Stobo Village Hall in the Borders on May 26 and taking in the Highlands, Skye and Orkney before an appearance at the East Neuk Festival in Fife on June 28. The group, which includes violinist Chris Garrick, son of the late pianist, composer and educator Michael Garrick, specialises in folk dance tunes from Russia, Hungary, Ukraine and Romania and more reflective material from the Roma tradition.
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Edinburgh promoters ClickClack present the latest of their monthly left-field triple bills on Tuesday, May 26 at Henry's Cellar Bar with an international menu. Jazz/improv combo These Are They, the Indian sub-continent-influenced duo Gold Tone & Biscuit and jazz/blues/funk/Caribbean-flavoured horn blowers Pygmies provide the music from 7pm.
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