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College of Piping 65th Anniversary Concert

To celebrate its' 65th year, the College of Piping in Glasgow's West End will be hosting a concert on Saturday 30 January 2010. This concert will also celebrate the completion of our six year rebuilding programme. Providing the music on the big night will be the House of Edgar Shotts & Dykehead Pipe Band, Inveraray & District Pipe Band, and soloist Stuart Liddell, with a Ceilidh dance to follow. 

Tickets are priced at £10 each and available at the College and via our online shop. A free buffet and cash bar will be available.

Sixty-five years on, the College is very proud of its achievements and we invite you all to help celebrate!

For further information, please contact:

The College of Piping

16-24 Otago Street

Glasgow G12 8JH

Tel: 0141 334 3587

Web: www.college-of-piping.co.uk

 

Hazy Recollections: Nu Folk for a Nu Decade.

A celebration of Glasgow's burgeoning Nu-Folk scene.

30th January 2.30pm - 6pm

http://www.tickets-scotland.com

An afternoon event beneath Renfield Lane, ensconced in the bunker of their very own country house, the first ever Hazy Recollections will take place on the 30th January. Aimed to showcase five of Glasgow's finest Nu Folk acts the first Hazy Recollections is playing host to a very special guest direct from America.

The line up for Hazy Recollections includes the stars of 2009 BBC's Hogmanay Show, Pearl and the Puppets; the waywardly brilliant songwriter Findlay Napier; the heart filled orchestration and beautiful eccentricity of the Brother Louis Collective; the upbeat roar of Kitty the Lion; Captain and the Kings smoky folk pop and a very special appearance by our American cousin, legendary songwriter A J Roach.

Hazy Recollections was conceived by singer songwriter Findlay Napier and Pearl and the Puppets drummer Blair MacMillan.

'We realised that there were a lot of bands in Glasgow playing in a similar style to us,' says Napier, 'it was immediately obvious to Blair and I that we needed to bring all these bands together on one stage.'

Enlisting the help of VoxPopulus, Glasgow based creative agency, their idea has grown from a caffeine-fuelled rant in a damp practice room to a major event that is tipped to become a regular feature of the Scottish music calendar. With future Hazy Recollections planned later in the year featuring guest acts from across the UK alongside their Glasgow counterparts, on the 30th January you really could be witnessing the birth of a whole new scene.

Tickets on sale at Ticket Scotland £6 (+£1 booking fee) 

http://www.tickets-scotland.com

 

Celtic Connections Education Programme in Partnership with Culture and Sport Glasgow- Top Folk Band Bodega take Celtic Connections to the Communities of Glasgow
One of Scotland’s top young folk bands, Bodega, will take Celtic Connections to the communities of Glasgow with a series of five concerts throughout the city this January as part of the festival.

The Celtic Connections Education and Outreach Programme is working in partnership with Culture and Sport Glasgow to bring the festival to the communities of Barmulloch, Barlanark, Knightswood, Pennilee and Langside, allowing the people of Glasgow to see one of finest young bands on the Scottish folk scene perform live in their local area as part of Celtic Connections – Glasgow’s annual folk, roots, traditional and world music festival which features approximately 300 events taking place across the city between 14th – 31st January.

Barmulloch Community Centre, Fri 15th Jan, 7:30pm
46 Wallacewell Quadrant
Glasgow, G21 3PQ
Tickets are £3 and £2 and are available in person from the venue or on 0141 276 0875

Barlanark Community Centre, Thu 21st Jan, 7:30pm
33 Burnmouth Road
Glasgow, G33 4RZ
Tickets are £3 and £2 and are available in person from the venue or on 0141 773 1812

Langside Halls, Fri 22nd Jan, 7:30pm
5 Langside Avenue
Glasgow, G41 2QR
Tickets are £3 and £2 and are available from 0141 276 1330

Penilee Community Centre, Thu 28th Jan, 7:30pm
10 Gleddoch Road
Glasgow, G52 4BD
Tickets are £3 and £2 and are available in person from the venue or on 0141 882 3309

Knightswood Community Centre, Fri 29th Jan, 7:30pm
201 Alderman Road
Glasgow, G13 3DD
Tickets are £3 and £2 and are available in person from the venue or on 0141 959 9419

Hebrides Ensemble

Hebrides Ensemble have the perfect ticket to banish the January blues and de-ice these frosty evenings with our 2 short Rush hour concerts on the 21st and 28th January at 6pm, St. Georges West Church Shandwick Place.

We'd be delighted if you were able to join us for one, or indeed both, of these concerts, which promise to be a heart-warming affair with both of Brahms' sumptuous sextets set against modern works by Mark-Antony Turnage and Helen Grime.

Download the programme note in advance: http://www.hebridesensemble.com/userfiles//rushhourprog(1).pdf   

Listen to the podcast: with Helen Grime and Hebrides Ensemble Artistic Director Will Conway talking about the programme in more depth and what to expect: http://www.innerear.co.uk

 

www.myspace.com/musicbodega

Tigerstyle
Project Duration: 1 Year: (March 2010 - 2011)
Commitment: 1 x 2hr session per week
Venue: The Arches, Glasgow
Class timing: Thursday Evenings 6-8pm

Tigerstyle propose a new youth music project with a unique focus on producing contemporary urban music, allowing young people to express themselves creatively, and develop their new original music works into a live band performance.

Students will be provided with a basic knowledge and understanding of music making and encouraged to develop an appreciation for the wide range of urban music genres such as Hip Hop, Breakbeat, Dubstep, House, UK Garage/Grime, R n B, Bhangra, Reggaeton, Drum n Bass and Dancehall, all of which make use of the various compositional and recording skills that we will go on to teach them. They will be encouraged to develop their own individual musical talents while also being urged to increase their appreciation for the skills of other individuals in a group based setting.
Participants will engage in a series of clear and simple modules teaching them computer software commonly associated with the production of urban/electronic music and general music recording, (for example, Steinberg Wavelab, Sony Acid and Steinberg Sequel). The main focus of this programme however will be on teaching Steinberg Cubase, and two modules will also be presented on Sibelius 6. Students will also be taught how to use hardware sampling workstation synthesizers such as Roland Fantom G6 and Korg M3.
From composing their final music piece on Steinberg Cubase, then translating elements of their original Cubase project and composing further using Sibelius, students will work with young instrumentalists and go through a rigorous rehearsal schedule in order to perfect a performance of their material for the live stage. At this stage their training on hardware sampling workstation synthesisers will prove to be of great benefit as they will be able to integrate synthetic and sampled sounds into their live band performance.

This project is funded by Scottish Arts Council, Youth Music Initiative and in partnership with The Arches, Paragon, Soldier Sound Recordings and G-Town Desi.
Limited spaces available!!!

RNID Don't Lose the Music
Exposure to sounds above 85 decibels over time will damage hearing. Music played at clubs, gigs, in cars, at home and on personal audio equipment can be well above that level. Yet many people do not know the very thing they love could be harming them. We're campaigning to make sure people know how to protect their hearing while enjoying music.

For more information please visit: www.rnid.org.uk