The Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival has announced its 20th anniversary festival.

It will run from September 14-16 on Islay, home of the whisky.

The festival will feature bassist, Mario Caribe and trumpeter, Colin Steele, as well as saxophonists Tommy Smith and Martin Kershaw, and guitarist, Graeme Stephen.

Other musicians appearing will include Fergus McCreadie, Corrie Dick, Stephen Henderson, and Joe Williamson.

Two singer/pianists will be playing on Islay for the first time: Davis Rogan from New Orleans and Anthony Strong from London. Soweto Kinch and Tommy Smith both front their own bands.

The Tenement Jazz Band will make their festival debut playing music of the 1920s; Brass Gumbo will perform New Orleans brass band music and AKU will play "hard hitting in-the-moment contemporary jazz."

Stuart Todd of Islay Arts Association, co-promoters of the festival said: "The island welcomes the festival's magical mixture of good spirits and good music and art set against the spectacular backdrop of Islay".

Colin Gordon, Distillery Manager at Lagavulin says “We’re proud to have been at the heart of the Lagavulin Islay Jazz Festival for eight years now.

"The annual event is always one of our busiest and best times on Islay, with the festival really capturing the brand’s personality and heritage."

The festival, which has been running from 1999, has funding from Creative Scotland, Argyll and Bute Council and sponsorship from Lagavulin.

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THE BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is take up a six-day residency in Campbeltown from 29 September to 4 October.

The residency will include community events as well as school workshops in Campbeltown and the surrounding area, including on Gigha.

The week will end with a public orchestral concert in Campbeltown’s Victoria Hall on 4 October.

On Saturday 29 September there will be a special community event for early years and families called ‘Tunes for Tots’ at Campbeltown Town Hall.

Young musicians from Campbeltown Grammar School will receive performance masterclasses and workshops as well as the opportunity to perform alongside BBC SSO players, and pupils from local primary schools including: Castlehill, Dalintober, Carradale, Drumlemble, and Gigha will receive music workshops and a performance from the orchestra.

Dominic Parker, director of the BBC SSO, said: “It is not an area this Orchestra has been to before, and we’ve had so many great conversations across the community as we’ve planned the work we’re going to do that now it’s just around the corner we’re really excited"

The public concert programme includes Scottish composer Helen Grime’s piece ‘Snow from 2 Eardley Pictures’ inspired by a Joan Eardley painting, Britten’s ‘Four Sea Interludes’ from Peter Grimes, and Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ conducted by Scottish conductor Rory MacDonald.

The concert will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

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BELLE & Sebastian and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra are to combine to celebrate the success of the £21m Brick by Brick Appeal to build a new home for Glasgow’s Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.

Belle & Sebastian and the RSNO will take to the stage at the Royal Concert Hall today (24 August) for the concert.

The appeal to raise the money to create a new purpose-built facility on a 7.5-acre green site in Bellahouston Park, on land gifted by Glasgow City Council, was launched in 2012.

The new facility is due to open later this year.

All the profits from the event will go to support the Hospice.

Rhona Baillie, chief executive of The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice, said: “We’ve been genuinely overwhelmed by the support shown by all our donors.

"The generosity of people across Glasgow, as well as the rest of the UK and abroad, has been amazing.

"As ambassadors for the Hospice, Belle and Sebastian have been long-term supporters of our appeal.

"We’re enormously grateful for their continued support and that of the RSNO, DF Concerts and the team at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall.

"The cost of looking after patients, their carers, and their families, is £5 million a year, with only £1.9 million coming from the National Health Service.

"In order to keep the Hospice doors open, and look after those who need our support, we need to raise the remaining £3.1 million shortfall."

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