Glasgow promoters Sounds in the City celebrate ten years of bringing music to Woodend Bowling and Lawn Tennis Club in Jordanhill, and to city centre venues too, with a busy programme of events in 2016. Ayrshire band Dumb Instrument open the series at Woodend on Saturday, January 16 at Woodend, with Nashville-based singer-songwriterJeff Finlin, Canadian Rachel Ries, Christy Moore’s touring partner, Declan Sinnott, California-based English soul-roots singer Terry Reid, and 70s chart-topper Kiki Dee among those due to follow.
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Jazz at the Blue Lamp in Aberdeen announces the first presentations of 2016. Leading saxophone and piano duo Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock, pictured, who were recently described as “world class” by Jazz Journal magazine and Glasgow-based winners of the 2015 Peter Whittingham Jazz Award, Square One are among the attractions in a programme that opens with Edinburgh funk band James Brown is Annie on Thursday, January 21. London-based trumpeter Steve Fishwick’s sextet and Guitar Journey Duet, featuring Sardinian virtuoso Giorgio Serci and Jonny Phillips, of the Latin American influenced band Oriole, are also scheduled to appear in the Granite City. Smith & Kellock play at the Lemon Tree on February 11; all other gigs take place at the Blue Lamp in Gallowgate.
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Award-winning Glasgow-based Australian blues singer Charlotte Marshall returns to live action with her soul-funk-blues and R&B band the 45s at the Cottier Theatre, Glasgow on Saturday, January 16. Marshall and the seven-piece 45s won Blues Magazine’s Future of the Blues 2015 competition in London last April and have continued to create a strong impression across the UK with three television appearances, a busy live schedule and a well-received single, Big Easy.
charlottemarshall.com.au
Cirque Berserk is touring the UK with a new production. This year's tour includes shows at the King's Theatre in Glasgow and the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh.
The show this year includes what the company claims is "the world's most dangerous circus act", the Globe of Terror. In this hazardous act four motorcyclists speed at over 60mph inside a steel cage.
The group performs in Glasgow from January 22 to 24 and in Edinburgh from March 10 to 12.
cirqueberserk.co.uk
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