Music Preview: Let’s Get Lost/Chet Baker discussion, 2 August, Filmhouse, Edinburgh

The Filmhouse will host a discussion this Sunday, 2 August, on jazz musician Chet Baker, followed by a screening of 1988 Baker documentary Let’s Get Lost, as part of the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.

Music Preview: Armoured Cats, 9 May, Studio 24, Edinburgh

Edinburgh-based rockers The Armoured Cats are playing an album launch night at Studio 24 on Saturday 9th May.

Music Preview: Eurovision Song Contest 2009, 17 May, Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh

Back at Edinburgh’s Cameo cinema on Saturday 17 May is their annual Eurovision Party.

Theatre Review: Hello Dolly!, 31 March, Brunton Theatre

On Monday I was asked by the Edinburgh Evening News to make my way to Musselburgh’s Brunton Theatre to review the opening night of the Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association’s new production of Hello Dolly!

Music Preview: Jackson Browne, 3 April, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

American rock singer-songwriter Jackson Browne is coming to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre for one night only on Friday 3 April.

Music Preview: Concerto for Turntables, 19 June, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow

I’ve already mentioned the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Video Games Live concert in June, so thought I should also point people in the direction for another RSNO event: Concerto for Turntables on Thursday 19 June.
Club classics and the full force of the RSNO collide in a performance that brings to life Gabriel Prokofiev’s Concerto for [...]

Music Preview: Video Games Live, 26 June, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow

Who’d have thought that orchestral and video game music would have much in common? There’s a bit of genre fusing going on around the globe at the moment, and its due to hit Scotland on Thursday 26 June: Video Games Live arrives at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall.
Take one well respected orchestra – in this case [...]