THE SECOND March into Pitlochry festival of Americana and Indie music takes place in the Perthshire town on Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25. Musicians from England and Wales will be appearing alongside Scottish talents including Hunter and the Bear, Purple Felts, The Carloways and local teenage singer-songwriter Dannie Smillie, pictured. Welsh combo Johnny Cage and the Voodoo Groove headline the Friday programme and singer-songwriter Peter Bruntnell, whose Nos Da Comrade was a recent Mojo magazine Americana album of the month is among the Saturday attractions. The music takes place in various venues and is sponsored by local businesses TLC Laundry, MKM Building Supplies, Edmundson Electrical, AGB Developments, Morris and Young, and RW Bell Pitlochry.
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A NEW SERIES of monthly lunchtime concerts is launching in Glasgow at the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Nelson Mandela Place. Tuesday Tunes will present leading musicians on the Scottish classical and chamber music scene in an hour-long programme and will begin on March 21 with guitar duo Allan Neave and Matthew McAllister in a meeting of master and pupil. McAllister studied with Neave at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, as was, before going on to appear in concert venues across the world including The Concertgebouw Amsterdam, The Purcell Room, London, Teatro Britanico, Lima, and Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. Violin and accordion duo Andrea and Djordje Gajic follow on April 18 and wind quintet Sirocco Winds, pictured, appear on May 23. The concerts begin at 1pm. www.classicalmusiciansscotland.com
GLASGOW promoters PM Music have added a tribute to jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald to their busy schedule of concerts throughout March, April and May. To mark Fitzgerald’s centenary year leading UK jazz singer Tina May and pianist Brian Kellock are touring their Ella & Oscar presentation, which revisits the recording Fitzgerald made with Oscar Peterson in 1975. They bring it to Websters Theatre in Great Western Road on Thursday, May 11 as part of PM Music’s spring season, which also includes 2-Tone legends the Selecter, American blues singer Sari Schorr, Fife-born troubadour Rab Noakes and Welsh folk band Calan.
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AS THE busy itinerary on his website illustrates, singer Tony Bennett has shown no inclination to slow down after his 90th birthday. A regular visitor to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall both during and outside the city's jazz festival, he returns to the venue on July 1 for the sole Scottish date in his celebratory tour, following two nights at London's Royal Albert Hall.
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