Music

Welsh rockers Stereophonics plus special guests are to play at Caird Hall, Dundee on Tuesday August 22, 2017

We don’t want to take fans on a nostalgic trip back to 1977,” Richard Jobson said speaking of the Skids’ anniversary tour, when I caught up with him for a chat.

Banchory-based new music organisation sound will be going to great lengths for a special performance at Aboyne Swimming Pool this week.

A Deeside music organisation has been awarded three-year funding from Help Musicians UK it was announced today (Monday, February 27).

The timeless cool of Frank Sinatra met the robust swing of the Count Basie Orchestra on the classic album, ‘Sinatra at the Sands’ and it has remained a beloved classic ever since, the perfect marriage of old-school pop and big band jazz.

The Stranglers’ story, which began way back in the early 1970s, is both long and complex. And it’s one that is still being written.

Musician Mairi Campbell is touring her critically acclaimed one-woman theatre show Mairi Campbell: Pulse around Scotland from March.

Scottish Opera’s annual Opera Highlights tour to smaller, more remote venues the length and breadth of Scotland kicked off this month.

It was a very cheery Amy Macdonald that came on the phone when I grabbed her for a chat about her new upcoming album. But then, she has a lot to be happy about.

Like many a British musician before him, Billy Bragg, bard of Barking, singer songwriter, political activist, and musical historian has made no secret of his obsession with the songs and the mythology of the Americas, not least those of his artistic and philosophical forebear Woody Guthrie. With his friend and collaborator, US singer songwriter Joe Henry, he has made an album that focuses on the transformative part the railroad played in disseminating the songs that gave birth to the rock’n’roll era.

For most cities, January is a time to bring normality back to life after the festivities of Christmas and New Year.

Following sell-out shows with his band in 2016, Ben Watt returns in early 2017 with a new stripped-back approach.

Tomorrow (Nov 25) is Wear Your Old Band T-Shirt To Work Day, so get rummaging through the closet tonight to check for armpit stains and moth holes.

When we heard that singer songwriter Rufus Wainwright was heading to Aberdeen and Perth as part of a three-date Scottish Highlands tour, of course we were excited.

International superstar Emeli Sande has pledged her support to the multi-million pound redevelopment of Aberdeen’s historic Music Hall.

A Banchory schoolgirl has set her sights on global stardom after winning the north-east’s largest youth singing contest, the NEX Factor.

A piping event to be held in Banchory has received a boost after being promoted to the “North of Scotland Pipe Band Championship”.

The Rotary Club of Aboyne & Upper Deeside supported Aboyne Academy in their third Young Musician of the Year Competition last week.