Carnegie Hall in Dunfermline has announced its roots music and jazz programme for the first quarter of 2016. Germany-based Irish music specialists Cara promote their latest album Yet We Sing on January 29, with indie-folk package Withered Hand, The Pictish Trail and James Yorkston appearing the following evening. Glasgow-born blues singer Maggie Bell and Alabama soul singer Naomi Shelton appear on February 11th and 13th respectively. Sardinian virtuoso Giorgio Serci and Oriole’s Jonny Phillips trace the guitar’s history from its Spanish and North African origins across the world in Guitar Journey Duet on March 15, followed by Irish singer-songwriter Kieran Goss on April 27 and London-based jazz trio Partikel on April 29.
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Jazz Nairn continues to bring internationally acclaimed musicians to the town on the Moray Firth. Following recent appearances by Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello and leading English singer Tina May, Thursday January 21 sees the return to Nairn of saxophonist Scott Hamilton, pictured, in a quartet with pianist John Pearce, bassist Dave Green and drummer Steve Brown at Nairn Community & Arts Centre. Also lined up are Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis’ trio (March 19), with leading saxophone and piano duo Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock due later in the year.
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In the spirit of New Year fitness regimes, although as much spiritual as physical, now is the time to sign up for Deveron Arts annual Slow Marathon, the organisation's annual stroll in and around Huntly, Aberdeenshire. Slow Marathon 2016 will take place on the weekend of April 15-17 and is inspired by Anne Murray and Jake Williams’ project With and Against the Flow, for which they walked the length of the River Deveron from opposite ends, mapping its history, music, landscape and people as they travelled. The 26 mile route will follow the River Deveron, walking against the flow to the arts-venue town.
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With the support of Contemporary Art Society's Collection Fund, Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) becomes the first public collection to acquire a work by video artist Hito Steyerl, who represented Germany at last year's Venice Biennale. Abstract (2012) commemorates her childhood friend, activist and revolutionary Andrea Wolf, who was killed in the Kurdish region of Turkey in 1998 when fighting for the PKK. The work relates thematically to a number of key recent acquisitions including work by Fiona Tan, Emily Jacir, Barbara Krueger and Jenny Holzer.
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