EDINBURGH promoters Lonesome Highway have announced a return to action with concerts by two of the new wave of young guns from the country music scene. Nashville songwriter Andrew Combs, who appeared on the large-scale Country to Country festival which visited Glasgow earlier this year and received high profile attention from BBC Radio’s Bob Harris, will be playing a more intimate show at the capital’s Voodoo Rooms on Wednesday, September 7. Then, in November, Texas-born singer Cale Tyson brings his band to the Voodoo Rooms in support of his Careless Soul album, which was recorded at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, scene of recordings by Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Wilson Picket, among many other notable artists.
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BERKSHIRE-based roots rock band Case Hardin play a series of intimate gigs on their way to their appearance at Belladrum Festival in Beauly on Saturday, August 6. The band took their name spontaneously from a character in the book that their main songwriter, Pete Gow, who doubles as a CBS television news journalist, was reading when the call came through to tell the previously nameless combo that they’d secured their first gig. They play the Village, Leith on Wednesday, August 3; Market Bar, Inverness, Thursday 4; and Stornoway Golf Club, Friday 5.
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HERALD Angel award-winning pianist Richard Michael, pictured, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this August with a one-man show, The Art of Improvisation. The presentation will include a tribute to the Fife-born, former Duke Ellington Orchestra and Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley, who died in May and was a long-time friend of Michael and the Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra, of whom Michael has been director for over forty years. The Art of Improvisation runs at St Marks artSpace in Castle Terrace from August 24 -26 at 8.30 pm.
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EDINBURGH music promoters Click Clack move to a Friday for their July presentation. The triple bill at Henry’s Cellar Bar on July 29 features Combo Combo’s acoustic music drawn from various Celtic countries, poetry and music from Opul (aka J.L. Williams and James Iremonger), and Snibbo, a jazz quartet comprising saxophonist Steve Kettley, bassist Dave Conway, drummer Des Travis, and guitarist Oli Conway, who is the artist latterly responsible for making The Herald’s Angel Awards statuettes.
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