Drake Music Scotland will include a tribute to the organisation’s associate musician David McNiven, who died last month, in its Celtic Connections concert at Glasgow City Halls this Saturday afternoon. A composer for theatre and television, including Rab C Nesbitt and the 7:84 Company offshoot Wildcat, McNiven worked latterly with children with special needs for Drake and successfully campaigned for the Scottish Qualifications Authority to recognise the Brainfingers system, which allows pupils with cerebral palsy to create music with a laptop and to interact with other musicians. Harpoi, a piece he composed with laptop musician-composer Rhona Smith, will feature in Saturday’s concert, which begins at 2:30pm.
drakemusicscotland.org
Leiper Fine Art in West George Street Glasgow reopens today with exhibitions by landscape photographer Damian Shields and illustrator Conrad Molleson. The two complementary shows, timed to parallel the Celtic Connections music festival, combine breathtaking images of Scottish geography in all weathers and drawings of musicians and venues in the city. Molleson is based in Leith and himself a musician and founding member of the group Shooglenifty, and Shields is a fine art photography graduate of Glasgow School of Art and works as a press photohrapher with the Herald and Time group.
The show runs to January 31.
leiperfineart.com
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