DONALD Shaw, the artistic director of Celtic Connections, the annual roots and traditional music festival in Glasgow, is to take on a new role at the event.
He is taking a “sideways step” to become a creative director at the festival working on special commissions, major one off shows and other events.
Shaw, a noted musician as well as director of the festival for 12 years, will be succeeded in the director role by Jade Hewat.
It is expected there will be guest guest directors too.
The 25th festival registered 130,000 attendances in venues across the city.
He said he saw the 25th festival as a good time for him to “take a step back” from his previous role.
He added: “This is an exciting moment for the festival.
"Now that the Scottish Government Expo Fund has been opened up to us it is important that we make the most of this opportunity to develop more of the unique collaborations and one-off shows that the festival has become so well known for.”
The 18 days of entertainment included a mixture of concerts, talks, workshops, film screenings, ceilidhs, art exhibitions, free events and late night sessions.
www.celticconnections.com
PALOMA FAITH will top the bill of the Belladrum festival, near Inverness, on the festival’s Friday night.
She will be joined in the line up by The Charlatans, Rosanne Cash and Songhoy Blues.
The Supernaturals will appear with Darlingside and Kissmet.
These artists join previously announced Thursday night headliner Amy Macdonald, Frightened Rabbit, who will perform the whole of their album ‘The Midnight Organ Fight’.
2018 tickets for the 15th Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival are on sale on-line and via ticket agents.
www.tartanheartfestival.co.uk
The new show at the Stills Gallery in Edinburgh is entitled Collected Shadows, and runs until 8 April.
Collected Shadows is an exhibition of 200 photographs drawn from the extensive collection of the Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC).
The AMC is an organisation that was first established 25 years ago as a repository for photography and ephemera relating to the First and Second World Wars.
Curated by the AMC Director, Timothy Prus, Collected Shadows includes scientific, astronomical and botanical studies, studio sittings, portraits and private snapshots, press photographs, film stills and aerial photographs from several wars.
Spanning the history of the photographic medium from the mid-1850s to the present day, the exhibition includes early albumen, hand-tinted silver gelatin prints and cyanotype.
Collected Shadows is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London, organised in collaboration with the Archive of Modern Conflict, London.
www.stills.org
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