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Norman&Corrie, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 9th May 2024. Live review

Photo credit: the artists. It was with high expectations that this writer attended Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, where two highly versatile…
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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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A petition. “Why we must retain a full-service Pipeline programme on BBC Radio Scotland.”

BBC Radio Scotland means to reduce the profile of Scottish music on the radio. Please consider signing to protect Scotland’s…
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Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti, Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh. A similar review appeared in Songlines magazine, May issue.

Phone snap & concert review by Fiona Mactaggart. Simon Thacker’s Svara-Kanti Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland March 15, 2020…
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Beyond Django – Les Violons de Bruxelles and Rose Room

Date: February 2, 2019 Venue: The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland Review by Fiona Mactaggart https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/2019/02/17/concert-review-beyond-django-les-violons-de-bruxelles-and-rose-room/ The inaugural three-day long Thrill…
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Vasen, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh

Photograph by Denise Canavan.  Concert review by Fiona Mactaggart. 26 April, 2018 http://www.doobeedoobeedoo.info/2018/05/20/concert-review-vasen-sweden/ Before the Swedish string trio have even…
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Xylouris White: Crete/Australia Duo of Master Musicians, The Dissection Room, Summerhall, Edinburgh

  Image by James Duffy. Concert Review by F Mactaggart. 28 August 2017 Xylouris White: Crete/Australia Duo of Master Musicians…
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Moishe’s Bagel: Acoustic Music From Scotland And Beyond

Image from Moishe’s Bagel website.  Concert review by F Mactaggart 24 August 2017 – The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh Moishe’s Bagel: Acoustic…