Musical
THE LINE-UP for this year’s SSC Scottish Music Awards has been expanded with the news Mark Knopfler, Amy Macdonald, Kyle Falconer and The Snuts are all set to perform at the ceremony.
The musicians will be joining the previously announced Snow Patrol and Tom Grennan.
The SSE Scottish Music Awards will celebrate their 20th anniversary on December1.
The even was set up to showcase the best of Scottish music, while raising funds for Nordoff Robbins Scotland.
Amy MacDonald said, “I’m delighted to be invited back to the SSE Scottish Music Awards, especially as it’s their 20th anniversary year and also 11 years since they were kind enough to give me the Best Newcomer award when I was just starting out on my first album.
The musician adds; “Nordoff Robbins in Scotland which is a fantastic charity and one I’m always happy to support.”
Orchestral manoeuvres
SCOTLAND’S “finest non-professional orchestra”, the Amicus Orchestra, has been invited to perform in the 1900 seat, Grosser Saal (Great Hall) of the Leipzig Gewandhaus on November 11.
This is the first time in its 10-year history that the Amicus Orchestra will tour. The concert is already a sell-out.
The trip will be the culmination of a year of celebrations for the orchestra’s 10th birthday. In June 2018, Amicus collaborated with NYOS Symphony Orchestra players to perform Mahler Symphony No.1 at the Bute Hall, University of Glasgow, as part of the West End Festival.
Amicus was originally formed by alumni of NYOS Camerata wishing to continue playing at a high level whatever their chosen career in later life.
The orchestra attempts to fill the gap between amateur and professional orchestras, with players ranging from students, talented amateurs and semi-professional players, all looking for orchestral experience at the highest level.
The orchestra will be conducted by the highly regarded Berlin-based British conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire, whose recent appearances include work with the Colburn Orchestra Los Angeles and orchestras around the world from South America to China
Radical reading
EDINBURGH’S Radical Bool Fair is set to run from November 1-4 at the Assembly Roxy.
The Radical Book Fair has been running for 20 years and is Scotland’s leading alternative political and literary festival.
Over four days, 20 events will be staged with stalls representing over 50 publishers, indie authors and artists.
The key speakers include AL Kennedy, “who considers our common humanity through the lens of her new book, The Little Snake, a fable exploring war and displacement.
The Herald’s Literary Editor Rosemary Goring launches the fair with the first exclusively female history of Scotland.
The event will also include a debate on free speech, featuring Keith Kahn Harris, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Robert Somynne.
Other panel discussions will feature the sex industry, Scotland’s Windrush history and the interplay between literary culture and politics around the independence referendum and indieref2.
The Socialist politics debated will feature Maggie Chapman of the Scottish Greens, chaired by Hilary Wainwright and Mike Makin-Waite.
The Palestine Solidarity Event features a three hour celebration and exploration of Palestinian culture.
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