Cowal Music Club begins its 2015/16 season with a concert by the Tunnell Trust award winners Andrewsmassey Duo on September 27 in Cowal Golf Club, Dunoon at 3pm. Flautist Emily Andrews and guitarist David Massey began playing together in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Music, from where they both graduated with Masters degrees the following year. As well as winning the Tunnell Trust award for 2012/13 they have been three times semi-finalists in the Royal Overseas League Competition in London and have given concerts all over the UK, in Italy and in Sweden. Their programme will include pieces by Schubert, Bach, Mozart, Barrios, Takemitsu, and Andy Scott.
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Texas-based troubadour Eric Taylor, pictured, plays three Scottish concerts on his latest tour of the UK and Ireland. Taylor, who is recognised by his peers including Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett and Steve Earle for his ability to encapsulate a novel- or film-sized narrative in four minutes of songcraft and whose performances combine storytelling with guitar mastery, appears at Tolbooth, Stirling on Saturday, October 10, One Touch Theatre, Inverness on Sunday, October 11, and Soundhouse at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on Monday, October 12.
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Accordionist and composer Freeland Barbour is publishing a collection of his music in two volumes entitled The Music and the Land through Birlinn Books. Barbour, who is known in Scottish traditional music circles for his work with Silly Wizard, the Wallachmor Ceilidh Band and the Occasionals dance band, has commissioned photographs and introductions to each of the twenty-six chapters, which contain over four hundred tunes composed in honour of places and people the length and breadth of Scotland and across the north of England and Scandinavia. The collection is launched at a concert and ceilidh in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh on Saturday, September 10.
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BAFTA Scotland hosts an exclusive preview of the new ITV series, Jekyll and Hyde tomorrow at 6.30pm at Grosvenor Cinema, Glasgow. It’s a rare opportunity for the public to attend as these events are normally open to members only. Set in 1930’s London, the drama pays homage to the Stevenson novel, and is written by The Fast Show's Charlie Higson, who will be present for a Q&A, hosted by Sanjeev Kohli, after the screening. Tickets are available from the Bafta Scotland website.
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