ACOUSTIC guitarist Tony McManus has added two extra concerts to his current homecoming tour. The Paisley-born musician, who now travels the world from his base in Canada, plays Kilbarchan Performing Arts Centre on Tuesday, July 12 and Weem Inn, Aberfeldy on Wednesday, July 13. The Aberfeldy concert is preceded by a workshop, starting at 6pm, which will examine McManus’s approach to playing bagpipe music and other traditional music styles on guitar and is open to all ages.
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GRAMMY Award winning troubadour Michelle Shocked has announced an Edinburgh Fringe residency from August 4 to 28. Shocked, who recently created the arts activist collective 1000 Yard to provide viable alternatives to exploitative institutions in the American performing arts, will be returning to live performance following a three-year hiatus to showcase her Mercury Trilogy of albums - Short, Sharp, Shocked, Captain Swing, and Arkansas Traveler – at The New Town Theatre in George Street. She will be joined by her backing band plus musicians from around the world, as well as Scottish talent, with the final three days promising “a monumental collective of performers.”
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GLASGOW music promoters The Acoustic Affair have announced a series of concerts at venues throughout the city through to the autumn. The organisation is currently celebrating its fourteenth year of providing a platform for songwriters and players specialising in acoustic music and brings Quebec folk favourites Le Vent du Nord to Cottiers in Hyndland on Wednesday, July 27 followed the next evening by American traditionalists Anna & Elizabeth at the Hug and Pint on Great Western Road. Also scheduled to appear in the coming weeks are singer-guitarists Alan Tall, Dick Gaughan and Martin Simpson and Irish folk band Lynched.
pmmusic.co.uk
SINGER, songwriter and guitarist Nick Harper has arranged a series of Scottish concerts to coincide with his appearances on the Edinburgh Fringe. Harper, who was awarded a Herald Angel for his Fringe performances in 2003 and released a CD drawn from those concerts, Hark!, to celebrate his return to the Fringe last year, is the son of veteran troubadour Roy Harper and set a new record for the world’s highest gig when he performed at Mount Everest base camp for cancer charities in 2007. He plays Lamlash, Isle of Arran on Friday, August 12; Craigmore Bowling Club, Rothesay (13th); Jazz Bar, Edinburgh (14-18th); Berits & Brown @ Eurocentral, near Coatbridge (19th); Tolbooth, Stirling (20th); Jazz Bar, Edinburgh (21-27th); and String Theory, Hawick (29th).
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