23 November 2011
GLASGOW metal band Achren are the headline act at Flanagans Bar in Elgin next month.
22 November 2011
Jazz SOME musicians choose their instruments, but with others it seems as a though the instrument chose them. That seems to be the case with Dennis "Badbone"…
20 November 2011
BACK in the early days of the Belladrum Festival, when former Squeeze songsmith Glenn Tilbrook was playing a solo acoustic show, he found himself fighting…
16 November 2011
SCHEDULED for their third appearance in the Highlands this year, Vintage Trouble’s Nalle Colt might be forgiven for thinking Inverness is very far away.
13 November 2011
TWO of Scotland’s most reverved jazz musicians are joining forces in an intimate setting in the The Stables, Cromarty. Trumpeter and composer Colin…
10 November 2011
A BAND with its roots in the Highlands and its base in Edinburgh, Homework are set to launch their second album, "All That Glitters". The much anticipated…
06 November 2011
CONTEMPORARY music is never easy to sell to the generally conservative audience for classical music, but William Conway remains committed to the kind…
04 November 2011
?A MUSICAL community project in Buckie has helped a teenage rock band to record their debut album and plan for their first Scottish tour. Alternative…
30 October 2011
GLASGOW-BORN saxophonist Bobby Wellins admits he is very excited at the prospect of two of his rarely-heard jazz suites from the 1960s being performed…
23 October 2011
WHEN singer-songwriter Janis Ian was booked to play at Strathpeffer Pavilion, the American singer’s first question was a perhaps understandable: "Where?"…
23 October 2011
THINK of jazz and it is the Mississippi rather than Merkinch which is most likely to spring to mind, but that could be about to change. Merkinch Community…
18 October 2011
BRODIE Castle near Forres will come alive to the sounds of Simply Music this weekend.
16 October 2011
THE new album from Dundee’s Hazey Janes has been a long time coming, the band’s Andrew Mitchell admits, but it looks as though it was worth the wait. …
16 October 2011
ONE of classical music’s most exciting rising stars, Perth-born pianist Alasdair Beatson, returns to Inverness this month in familiar company. Beatson…
09 October 2011
UNLIKE some other artists, Irish singer Eleanor McEvoy never finds it much of a hardship to go a bit further afield than the Central Belt when she comes…
09 October 2011
UNLIKE some other artists, Irish singer Eleanor McEvoy never finds it much of a hardship to go a bit further afield than the Central Belt when she comes…
06 October 2011
WITH grandparents from Nairn, musician and indie record label boss Fionn Patrick, has also got links all over Scotland.
02 October 2011
AFTER a decade fronting folk-rockers Wolfstone and his own band, Orcadian songwriter Ivan Drever is happy to be plying his trade as a solo artist once…
30 September 2011
ONE of Australia's most highly regarded performers will be making her third visit to Lyth Arts Centre next week.
25 September 2011
SCOTTISH Opera’s new co-production with Northern Ireland Opera brings Offenbach’s popular operetta "Orpheus In The Underworld" into the present day. A…
