Glasgow Folk-music Workshop launches its autumn season on October 7 at Strathclyde University Union with a weekend of workshops, tune sessions, and solo performances featuring North Carolina-based fiddler Jamie Laval and leading Scottish traditional musicians Finlay Allison, Daniel Thorpe, Nigel Gatherer, and Murry Grainger.

The organisation offers adult classes in song and instruments including fiddle, accordion and bodhran, as well as junior classes in fiddle, guitar and whistle, throughout the year on Mondays and Wednesdays in the John Wheatley Building at Glasgow Kelvin College. The opening weekend will include Saturday and Sunday classes and a final concert on Sunday, October 8 at 7:30pm.

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The final works from The Glenfiddich Distillery’s 16th International Artists in Residence programme, recognised as one of the top arts residencies of its kind, will go on show to the public on September 22.

The latest exhibition showcases the work of three leading emerging artists, Korean Jeehee Park, Indian artist Sitaram Swain and Edinburgh College of Art graduate, Fran Rokhlin.

Fran Rokhlin was awarded the Glenfiddich residency following her inclusion in the 2016 RSA New Contemporaries exhibition in Edinburgh.

Sitaram Swain is the winner of India’s biggest art prize, the Glenfiddich Best College Art award, given annually to the country’s leading emerging talent.

The Glenfiddich Artists in Residence programme is the first residency for Korean artist Jeehee Park.

Seven artists from Korea, China, Taiwan and Australia, Canada, India and Scotland have taken part in the 2017 Glenfiddich Artists in Residence programme, living and working at the Distillery.

The final Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Exhibitions will run until October 8.

The Gallery, located beside the Glenfiddich Distillery main car park, will be open daily throughout the exhibition periods.

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The first notes have been played in a project that will see an album recorded by musicians at opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean - in real-time.

A team from Edinburgh Napier has linked up with Berklee College of Music in Boston to record an album together at the same time.

Utilising advanced audio-visual streaming technology the project has involved musicians in Edinburgh, London, and Boston.

The band – which consists of Edinburgh Napier lecturer Dr Zack Moir on saxophone, Edinburgh Napier graduate Ewan Gibson on bass, Dr Gareth Dylan Smith, independent researcher and musician, on drums, and Dr Joe Bennett, Vice President at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, on guitar – see each other by being projected onto large glass panels in both studios.

The project is the latest in Edinburgh Napier’s development and testing of what is called LOLA technology, with the University using the system in the past to connect musicians across the UK and Europe for demonstrations and teaching.

This is the first time it has been used for real-time transatlantic recording by the University, and is a world-first.

Dr Paul Ferguson, associate professor of audio engineering at Edinburgh Napier, said: “We began our LOLA research in 2012 and it is really exciting to have proved that it can used for long-distance recording, not just in universities but by the Music Industry in the future – the potential for global interactivity as well as carbon reduction blows my mind."

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