AULD Hat New Heids, the group formed by brothers Fraser and Ian Bruce, play a Fair Friday concert at Cottiers Theatre in Glasgow on Friday to mark the release of their first album, Volume One. The brothers were popular on the folk scene in the 1980s before Fraser took time off to concentrate on his civil engineering business and their concerts aim to recreate the audience-involving atmosphere of folk clubs when entertainers including Matt McGinn, Billy Connolly and Iain Mackintosh played the circuit.
The album cover celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper with a collage that features over 120 people from the 1960s and 1970s folk scene. Following their Glasgow concert the group, which also includes fiddler Pete Clark and accordionist Gregor Lowrie, play Pitlochry Festival Theatre (July 17), Faw Kirk, Falkirk (21st), and Whiting Bay Hall, Arran (27th).
fraserbruce.co.uk/auld-hat-new-heids
SCOTTISH Opera is to present BambinO, a piece of music theatre for infants aged 6 to 18 months, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, from August 8-20.
Performances will take place in the Robertson Room at Edinburgh Academy.
Later, there will be performances at Scottish Opera’s Production Studios in October and November.
Written by Scottish Opera’s Composer in Residence Lliam Paterson and directed by Improbable’s critically-acclaimed Phelim McDermott, BambinO is the follow up to Scottish Opera’s successful first project for infants, BabyO.
Babies are free to explore during the performance, and to interact with the singers and each other.
Director Phelim McDermott, said: ‘BambinO has gone down a treat with our tiny audiences and it has been fascinating to see their reactions."
BambinO is commissioned and produced by Scottish Opera, Manchester International Festival and Improbable.
A new co-production with Manchester International Festival and Improbable, the show premiered at Manchester International Festival on July 5.
www.scottishopera.org.uk
GLASGOW music promoters Sounds in the Suburbs present two concerts in July. Durham-born Martin Stephenson celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of the release of his first single with his band the Daintees, Roll on Summertime, at Partickhill Bowling Club on Friday 21st. Then, on Wednesday 26th, Muscle Shoals, Alabama singer-songwriter Hannah Aldridge marks the release of her new album, Gold Rush at the Argyll Hotel in Sauchiehall Street. Aldridge is the daughter of Walt Aldridge, writer of hits for Ronnie Milsap, Travis Tritt and many other country music stars. She appears in Glasgow on her way to gigs at Stirling Tolbooth (27th), Weem Inn, near Aberfeldy (28th), and the Southern Fried festival in Perth (29th).
hannah-aldridge.myshopify.com
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