THE FINAL of the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2017 goes ahead at City Halls, Glasgow on Sunday, February 5 as part of the Celtic Connections festival. Perthshire fiddler Charlie Stewart, Glasgow piper Dougie McCance, Paisley accordionist Grant McFarlane, Gaelic singer Kim Carnie, from Oban, and Scots singers Ella Munro, from Skye, and Iona Fyfe, from Huntly, will be hoping to win a title that, since being established in 2001 has proved to be a stepping stone to a professional career in traditional music. Previous winners include singer-fiddler Gillian Frame, singers Emily Smith, Robyn Stapleton and Claire Hastings and concertinist Mohsen Amini, who as last year’s winner will appear as part of the concert on February 5. The concert, which is broadcast live on BBC Radio Scotland, begins at 5pm.

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LEADING saxophone and piano duo Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock begin Smith’s 50th Birthday year with concerts in Falkirk and Glasgow. Smith, who recently released his symphonic work Modern Jacobite, recorded with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, will celebrate his birthday in April with his first acoustic jazz quartet album since 2005. He and long-time musical partner Kellock appear at Falkirk Town Hall on Friday at 7:30pm for Classic Music Live and at Merchants House, Glasgow on Wednesday, February 1 in the Westbourne Music lunchtime series at 1pm.

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SCOTLAND'S longest-running jazz club, Garioch Jazz Club in Inverurie begins its thirty-fifth year of promotions when saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski and pianist Euan Stevenson appear at the club’s regular venue, Hopeville Social Club on Friday, January 27. Wiszniewski and Stevenson, who co-lead the acclaimed New Focus group, will be presenting a duo programme of largely well-known jazz standards given their own slant, together with a few melodic original compositions. Also due to appear at the club are singers Marisha Addison and Morag McCall (February 24) and saxophonist John Burgess’s Big Five (March 31). All concerts begin at 8pm.

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THE FINE Art Society in Edinburgh presents a selling exhibition of works by some of the most notable British printmakers in a show that spans 100 years with more than 50 works by 20 artists.

It includes Theodore Roussel’s etching The Saw Mill of 1888 and Eduardo Paolozzi’s abstract screenprint Conjectures to Identity in 1963. Other artists in the show include David Wilkie, Augustus John, Sybil Andrews, Howard Hodgkin, John Hoyland, John Byrne and David Hockney.

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