Guitarist, singer and songwriter Brooks Williams appears at Woodend Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club in Jordanhill on Sunday, December 6, the only Scottish date on the Georgia-born artist’s latest UK tour. From Statesboro, a town with strong blues associations, Williams learned his craft in Boston, Massachusetts, where he moved in his late teens, and New York, playing in raucous bars and in the more sedate coffee houses that nurtured Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt, Chris Smith and Tracy Chapman. He’ll be featuring songs from his extensive back catalogue and his most recent album, Shreveport Sessions.
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A new exhibition opening in Bath in February next year will feature French masters taken from the Scottish National Gallery. Impressionism: Capturing Life, which runs at the Holburne Museum in Bath, brings together 28 masterpieces from British public collections, curated by Holburne director Jennifer Scott.
The focus of the exhibition will be on figurative paintings by artists who exhibited at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 in Paris, including Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.
It also includes significant loans from Tate and The National Gallery, London
holburne.org
The December jazz session at Clarks Bar in Dundee has been rescheduled due to the approaching festive season and will now take place on Sunday 13th. The session, which runs from 3-5pm, will feature classic songs from Disney films including Dumbo, the Aristocats and the Jungle Book and musicians will include singer Kit Clark from 1980s Dundee chart-topping band Danny Wilson.
clarksonlindsaystreet.com
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