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Live Review: Anoushka Shankar, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, 27th August 2023.

An enthusiastic full house greeted sitar master, Anoushka Shankar last Sunday evening at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre, where in quintet she…
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Live Review: Edinburgh International Festival presents LANKUM at The Queen’s Hall, 17th August 2023. “Perhaps most striking of all is the sincerity and intensity with which Lankum perform. Their words and music seem to come from a very deep place, though any possible shadows there are expressed so very, very beautifully.” More below..

Some unsettling but rather captivating ambient electronic music put early-arriving audience members in an appropriate mood for this much anticipated…
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Live review: Sue McKenzie Trio + Friends The Jazz Bar, Edinburgh, 16th July 2023

Last night Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival-goers were treated at The Jazz Bar, to a slightly over 1 hour set…
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Students, this will be SO great!!

https://londonjazznews.com/2023/07/03/summer-jazz-camp-scotland-announced-7-11-august/
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The Epic presents: Big Band! This is a brilliant, FREE opportunity for those interested in playing Jazz, to spend a day ‘up-grading’ their skills & having fun with like-minded folk!

“..a one-day event at the Queen Margaret Union on Saturday 27 May from 10am onwards, with breaks and sectionals. There…
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Demuth / Wiszniewski Quartet and NooVision live review, 26th March 2023, St Bride’s Centre, Edinburgh.

With a population of around 650000, Luxembourg is a considerably smaller nation that Scotland, the latter having approximately 6 million…
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Meis / Bowden Quartet and Kershaw, Stephen, Dick live review, 26th March 2023, St Bride’s Centre, Edinburgh.

The final concert of the SPARK mini-fest began with an hour of free improvisation from seasoned and highly respected musicians,…
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Daniel Migliosi & Peter Johnstone Trio and Helena Kay Trio. A live review, Saturday 25th March 2023, at St Bride’s Centre, Edinburgh.

     This third gig of the SPARK weekend mini-fest brought two exceptional young talents to the same evening, both…
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Dock In Absolute and Dave Milligan Solo. A live review, Saturday 25th March 2023, at St Bride’s Centre, Edinburgh.

This second SPARK gig was about as far as you could imagine from the previous evening’s fare, whilst still being…
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Tele-Port and AKU! A live review, yesterday 24th March 2023, at St Bride’s centre, Edinburgh.

Whoever says that diversity doesn’t further creativity, should have attended yesterday’s concert, the opening night of Edinburgh Jazz and Blues…