International Guitar Night, which has showcased a variety of acoustic guitar styles from across the world annually since 1995, tours Scotland from September 28. The 2015 line-up features founder, American Brian Gore, with gypsy jazz master and Django Reinhardt’s grand-nephew Lulo Reinhardt, English contemporary fingerstyle innovator Mike Dawes and German flamenco-swing specialist Andre Krengel.
The tour opens at Heart of Hawick then calls at Grassmarket Centre, Edinburgh (29), Cottier Theatre, Glasgow (30), Strathpeffer Pavilion (October 1), Ullapool Guitar Festival (2), An Lanntair, Stornoway (3), The Reel, Kirkwall (5), Mareel, Lerwick (6), Gaiety Theatre, Ayr (7), Birnam Arts Centre (8) and Universal Hall, Findhorn (9).
www.internationalguitarnight.com
Blues-rockers KING KING have been nominated for the Best New Band title at Classic Rock Magazine’s Roll of Honour Awards 2015 to be held at the Roundhouse, London on November 11.
The band, fronted by Glasgow singer-guitarist Alan Nimmo, won five categories at the British Blues Awards 2014 and released their third album, Reaching For The Light, earlier this year. They tour the UK in October and November, with a gig at Rothes Halls, Glenrothes on October 31.
www.kingking.co.uk
The links between psychoanalysis and poetry will be examined in a day-long event at the Sutton Gallery in Edinburgh on Sunday September 20. The Creative Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Poetry Pop-Up includes poet Nuar Alsadir giving a reading and being interviewed by psychoanalyst Ken Robinson, as well as a workshop by Saltire Prize-shortlisted poet JL Williams.
Tickets costing £25/£20 can be bought for the full day (including lunch), while entry to the Alsadir interview or reading only costs £5 and £4 respectively. The event is hosted by the Scottish Poetry Library in partnership with the Sutton Gallery and The Poetry Society.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Fiddler Adam Sutherland and keyboardist, flautist and singer Hamish Napier have announced a series of dates for their Nae Plans project. With Nae Plans, Sutherland and Napier spontaneously decide what to play from a repertoire of traditional and original tunes, plus songs drawn from folk and country music sources, so no two concerts are the same.
They appear at Leith Folk Club on Tuesday, September 15 then move on to Kirkcaldy Acoustic Music Club (17), Creagan Inn, Oban (19), Old Inn, Corbost, Isle of Skye (20), YNot Bar & Grill, Thurso (26), Eden Court, Inverness (27), Comrie Hall, Perthshire (October 3) and Old Hairdressers, Glasgow (October 6).
www.naeplans.co.uk
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here