ABERDEEN’s music festival True North has announced its line-up for 2019 which includes a concert celebrating Scottish pop music.

Rip it Up Live – A Celebration of Scottish Pop, which takes place as part of a weekend of music from September 19-22 in Aberdeen, will be staged for a one-off performance at the Music Hall on Sunday, September 22.

It has been commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts for True North and will be curated and hosted by BBC broadcaster Vic Galloway.

Guest singers will include Clare Grogan of Altered Images, King Creosote, Emma Pollock from The Delgados, Richard Jobson of The Skids, Fay Fyfe and Eugene Reynolds of The Rezillos, Kathryn Joseph, Honeyblood’s Stina Tweeddale, C Duncan, and Ross Leighton (Fatherson).

Aberdeen Performing Arts’ Cultural Programme Manager Steven Milne said: “The Rip it Up exhibition was widely recognised as a triumphant celebration of Scotland’s contemporary musical landscape, showing how a country as small as Scotland has managed to produce a constant stream of great musicians over the last seven decades.

“We felt this was an ideal platform for True North to create a unique showcase of the musical culture of the nation over more than half a century, from influential indie pioneers to global superstars. When it comes to the Scottish music scene there’s no one better qualified than Vic Galloway to pull this together so he is the perfect curator for the event; he has created an amazing line up.”

The Twilight Sad will be taking to the Music Hall stage as Saturday headliners, joined by special guests Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert.

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THE ritual of raising a toast will be explored at The Glenfiddich Distillery this summer by Canadian artists Marla Hlady and Christof Migone as part of the 18th Glenfiddich International Artists in Residence programme.

The pair are part of a group of eight artists who have begun to arrive at The Glenfiddich Distillery in Speyside to take part in the programme.

In addition to Canada, Taiwan, Australia, India, South Korea, the USA and Scotland are all represented in the 2019 residency, which sees artists spend three months at the Distillery creating new works inspired by their surroundings and their time living and working in the Dufftown home of world-famous single malt.

Other artists include Linh Do, Korean videographer, Ryu Biho, Liao Chine Chung from Taiwan, and Australian artist Penelope Cain.

Samantha Cheevers from Port Glasgow, a recent graduate of Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, will also take part.

She will be joined by Raju Baraiya who is the eighth recipient of the Glenfiddich Emerging Indian Artist of the Year award.

Works by previous participants in the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence programme are on display year-round both in the Distillery grounds and inside the production areas.

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EDINBURGH Sculpture Workshop’s galleries, windows and corridors will soon be taken over by Emotes, a new exhibition by 150 Primary Five pupils.

It is the result of a year of support and the complete creative control to make a collection of new installations, ceramics, performances and prints.

Their artist-teacher have included Charlotte Barker, Adam Benmakhlouf, Nick Evans, Adam Gandy, Lara MacLeod, Ashanti Harris, Kate Owens and Ciara Phillips.

In the final term the groups will be working with Aniela Piasecka on a performance, and Dougal Marwick and Chris Logan, from Edinburgh design agency Touch, on exhibition design and signage.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s ground breaking Schools Programme gives every Primary 5 pupil from Victoria and Trinity, neighbours of ESW, a practical introduction to contemporary art on a weekly basis.

Debi Banerjee, curator for learning at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, said: "It has been a privilege to work in partnership with Victoria and Trinity Primary schools over seven years to develop this unique Schools Programme.

"Working with the same children for an entire school year permits the possibility for exceptional thinking to happen.

"Whilst it is exciting to be able to present this exhibition of the inspired work of the schools, the emphasis throughout the year is on genuine engagement, week to week, and to allow the work presented to develop in surprising and unforeseen ways."

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