Miscellaneous
Wed 29th Sept.
12.00 Butchart Centre (Meet, and March. )
12.30 Union Terrace Gardens ( Demonstration. )
Campaign Against The Cuts Continue reading »
Sep 242010
Sep 242010
Suffragette City is a free evening of anti-establishment politics, music with performances, speeches from activists in the area and a club night. With stalls from environmental, humanitarian, and left wing political groups. Continue reading »
Sep 172010
Miscellaneous
Sun 19th Sept
2.00pm, Rubislaw Church, Queen’s Cross
Victorian Aberdeen Photo Walk ( Hidden Aberdeen ) Join our guide, Allan Paterson, former director of the Aberdeen Urban Studies Centre, educator and expert in Aberdeen’s built environment as he takes us on a journey between Rosemount and Rubislaw in Victorian Aberdeen Sadly no tea – bring a flask! 🙂 Meet outside Rubislaw Church which is across the roundabout from Queen’s X Church
Fri 24th Sept
6.00pm, Peacock Visual Arts, 21 Castle Street, Aberdeen, AB11 5BQ
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? a video installation by Oliver Reesler “What is democracy?” is not one question, but two. On the one hand, the question relates to conditions of the current, parliamentary representative democracies that are scrutinized critically in this project. On the other hand, the question traces different approaches to what a more democratic system might look like and which organizational forms it could take. The project asked “What is democracy?” to activists and political analysts in 18 cities around the world, resulting in a multiplicity of different perspectives and viewpoints. Exhibition runs 25 September – 30 October
All over the UK
Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning … find one near you and help raise funds for MacMillan Cancer Support. http://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/Home.aspx See Article
Comedy
Sat 18th Sept.
7.30pm, Lemon Tree
DANNY BHOY – By royal Disappointment £15+BF
Tues 21st Sept.
7.30pm, Snafu
Scottish Comedian Of The Year Heat £3/4/5
Music
Sat 18th Sept.
7:00pm, The Warehouse, Windmill Brae
THE DRAYMIN Plus Special Guests £5.00adv + bf
7.00pm, Dyce Scout Hut, Pitmedden Road, Dyce, Aberdeen
Ceilidh for the Visayans A fundraising ceilidh in aid of volunteer for the Visayans, a charity organisation in the Philippines helping communities out of poverty. http://www.danceforthevisayans.weebly.com
7.30pm, The Tunnels
ELLIOT MINOR, MAKE THIS RELATE, AUTUMN IN DISGUISE.
8.00pm, The Moorings
LED ASTRAY, RISE
8.00pm, Elizabethan, Fraseburgh
THE THREATS, ALL AGES
11.00pm, The Tunnels
Rampage Rockclub SATURDAYS IN ABERDEEN JUST GOT F**KING AWESOME!! ABERDEEN NOW HAS A PREMIER SATURDAY ROCKCLUB. http://www.facebook.com/rocknightaberdeen
Sun 19th Sept.
9.00pm, The Moorings
The Jam Factory ( every Sunday. ) Bands, acoustic musicians, jammers, poets etc. all welcome.
8.00pm, Café Drummond
HEALTHY MINDS COLLAPSE, KASHMIR RED, Plus Support
Mon 20th Sept.
8.00pm, Café Drummond
OCEANSIZE
9.00pm, Blue Lamp
Traditional Acoustic Session. All welcome.
10.00pm, Café Drummond
Open Mic Night ( Every Monday ) Soloists, Poets, Musicians, Maniacs, and Full Bands Welcome. ( Full back line provided ) For more info, call 01224 619930
Tues 21st Sept.
7.30pm, The Tunnels
AMY SAWERS My return to the stage after the beautiful Heidi came along nine months ago! Also joining me on stage is Andrew Duhon ( all the way from New Orleans) and Kenneth Clark. Doors at at half seven and it will be a sharp start so come along early if you can!
8.00pm, Café Drummond
TRAPPED IN KANSAS, CAST OF THE CAPITAL, MIN DIESEL
8.00pm, The Tunnels, Aberdeen
RECKLESS LOVE, JETTBLACK, DIRTY ZENNA, GUTTERGODZ £10 … get in touch with either of the bands for tickets!
Wed 22nd Sept.
8.00pm, Blue Lamp
CORINNE WEST, JOE PHELPS & TUNGSTEN, BULLHELM
8:00pm, Café Drummond
KEN MAYBURY ” THE HYPNOTIST ” £3 … Free Admission To All 2010 Freshers!
7.30pm, The Tunnels
MARK MORRIS (THE BLUETONES), WILSON, THE TRADE, KASHMIR RED. £7.50
Thurs 23rd Sept.
8.00pm, The Tunnels
MT. DESOLATION, STANLEY £10
8.00pm, Café Drummond
Jack Daniels’ Band Night JABLONSKI, LADY MERCEDES, THE RUCKUS £3
8:00pm, The Tunnels
Gig For Palestine GONG FEI, TRAGICAL HISTORY TOUR, SIMON GALL & FRIENDS, RAPUNZEL WIZARD Come find out about SPSC Aberdeen’s current campaigns and find out how to get involved. All profits on the door will donated for aid for the next flotilla to Palestine. See Article
Fri 24th Sept.
7.30pm, Music Hall
Public Ceilidh with CLACHAN YELL
8.00pm, Café Drummond
COPY HAHO Plus Support
Sat 25th Sept.
7.30pm, Lemon Tree
THE CHRISTIANS £17.50+BF
7.30pm, The Tunnels
PEARL AND THE PUPPETS, NICKY POWELL, MYKE BLACK
8.00pm, Captain Tom’s
RIGHT HAND LEFT, TURNING 13, Plus Support £4
8:00pm, Mambo’s Peterhead
THE DRAYMIN, VELVET AUDIO, GRANT DAVIDSON, FUNKY TRANSPORT ( DJ SET ) £5
8.00pm, Café Drummond
THE VIPER LINES, TIJUANA SUN, DEVILS DISCO
8.00pm, The Moorings
APES I.Q. (tbc), DAYDREAM FRENZY, THE DIRTY TRICKS
11.00pm, The Tunnels
Rampage Rockclub SATURDAYS IN ABERDEEN JUST GOT F**KING AWESOME!! ABERDEEN NOW HAS A PREMIER SATURDAY ROCKCLUB. http://www.facebook.com/rocknightaberdeen
If you have a public event you would like us to include, please email details to… articles@aberdeenvoice.com
Sep 172010
By Andy Kite.
Musicians in Aberdeen play their part in the UK’s biggest ever charity music festival
The show forms part of Oxjam’s Month of Music which runs through the whole of October. Oxjam is a festival with a difference.: Thousands of fundraising music events are put on by ordinary people – from large-scale festivals to local sponsored busks – making it the biggest line-up of any music festival in the UK.
Among the artists playing include Weather Barn, Le Reno Amps, Jo McCafferty, The Wildcards, Gerry Jablonski, The Deportees, The Kitchen Cynics and Turning Thirteen. For just £5, wristbands for the event can be purchased allowing access to any of the stages in The Tunnels, Cafe Drummonds, Enigma and The Blue Lamp.
Laura Darnell, regional manager for Oxjam Aberdeen, said:
“We’re really excited to be playing our part in making Aberdeen part of a month-long musical celebration right across the country. Even more importantly, this gig is all about showing that the best in local music can have a global impact too – for example, just £7 could feed a family, and £10 can buy five bags of seeds. So everyone who comes along can rest assured that as well as having a great time, they’ll be helping to change lives around the world too.”
During October, more than 950 venues, 2,000 volunteers, 6,000 bands and musicians and 135,000 audience members nationwide will enable Oxjam to raise £500,000 to help Oxfam fight poverty.
It’s exciting to think that anyone can get involved and every single gig will help to raise loads of money to change lives around the world
Since 2006, more than 36,000 musicians have played to an audience of over 750,000 people at almost 3,000 Oxjam events, raising in excess of £1.2 million to fight poverty around the world. Oxjam 2010 is expected to take the total past £1.5 million, enough to buy safe water for 1.6 million people, 750,000 bags of seeds or 60,000 goats.
From 27th to 30th September, a diverse range of the biggest names in music, including pop princess Diana Vickers, Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell, and Britpop legends The Charlatans performed their most unusual shows to date – inside an Oxfam shop – as the official launch events for the Oxjam month of music.
Former X-Factor star Diana Vickers, who headlined the Oxfam shop show on 28th September, said:
“The best thing is that everyone who takes part – from singers like me to musicians, promoters and audience members – is the real star of Oxjam. It’s exciting to think that anyone can get involved and every single gig will help to raise loads of money to change lives around the world.”
Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell, whose new band performed for Oxjam, said:
“Our gig is only the beginning of a movement of thousands of gigs, club nights and events right across the country, all raising money to fight poverty. ”
In the lead up to the festival, there will be a campaign night held at The Belmont Cinema on the 15th September between 6pm to 8pm. Campaigners from Oxfam along with representatives from the Aberdeen team will be present to answer questions and demonstrate what funds will be going towards.
To find out what Oxjam events are going on in Aberdeen and the full line-up for the Takeover festival visit www.oxfam.org.uk/oxjam. Tickets can be bought at www.wegottickets.com and donations made at www.justgiving.com/oxjamaberdeen.
Oxjam Takeover events take place on 23rd & 24th October in the following locations:
Aberdeen, Bath, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Brecon, Brighton, Bristol, Canterbury, Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Guildford, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London (Brixton, Leadenhall Market, Brick Lane, Kilburn, Kingston), Manchester, Neath, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Stirling, Stoke-on-Trent and Wiltshire.
- More than 600 Oxfam shops across the country sell second-hand music – double the total number of independent record shops in the UK*.
- Oxfam shops sell around £6 million of music every year, which equates to around 1.8 million CDs and records every year, all donated by the British public. The largest single donation was of 4,000 vinyl albums to an Oxfam shop in Devon in 2008.
- Oxfam has been one of the lead charities at Glastonbury since 1993, raising £2.7 million through stewarding the festival and signing up more than 400,000 people in support of its campaigns at the festival. Oxfam works at seventeen music festivals across the summer, stewarding, campaigning and selling festival fashion.
Sep 172010
Pete Thomson reviews the recent New York Dolls concert at The Lemon Tree in Aberdeen. Photography by Dod Morrison.
It’s been a long, hard road from Lexington Avenue to West North Street but, nearly 40 years since they burst out of Manhattan under the stewardship of one Malcolm Maclaren Esq., the New York Dolls hit the Lemon Tree.
Only David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain survive the original line-up, and although they’re no longer the mascara’d drag queens of yore, it would be dangerous to expect anything less than the dirty, streetwise rock and roll with which they made their name. And so it proves.
They kick off with Looking For A Kiss and Dolls fans rock from the start; for curious onlookers like yours truly, unfamiliar with the bulk of the band’s material, the conversion takes a little longer. We’re three numbers in before a smiling Johansen whips out a mouth organ and leads the crowd in a rousing chorus of We’re All In Love. The ice is broken.
Dolls gigs are all about having a good time. One thing they don’t do is take themselves too seriously. Where Sylvain yelps and cajoles with irreverent asides, Johansen grins and pouts good-naturedly. The latter’s showmanship is the glue that holds everything together, but even if you don’t love rock and roll it’s hard to resist the Dolls’ chaotic charm.
crazed backing vocals recall 60’s girl groups, while Bo Diddley’s sinuous rhythms pop up everywhere
Johansen shows off the rich blues credentials underlying his street punk bravura In Private World, but this is not just a few oldies flogging a dead horse to cover the rent. The freshness of Nobody Got No Bizness – from last year’s ‘Cause I Sez So collection – proves the Dolls aren’t quite ready for the nostalgia circuit yet.
Sylvain reminds us what a fine guitarist he is in Stranded In The Jungle but, while second guitar Steve Conte is absent tonight, his replacement, Blondie’s Frank Infante, is no slouch either and trades fiery licks with Sylvain throughout.
Speaking of guitarists, Sylvain opens a ballad with a few bars of Johnny Thunder’s You Can’t Put Your Arms Round A Memory, the late Doll’s prophetic elegy evoking the darker side of the band’s history.
The Dolls music, however, draws on glorious traditions. Often crazed backing vocals recall 60’s girl groups, while Bo Diddley’s sinuous rhythms pop up everywhere. One frantic medley climaxes with a thundering rendition of the great man’s much-covered Who Do You Love, while no Dolls set would be complete without Pills, Diddley’s barnstorming anthem to the seamier side of rock and roll.
There’s no let-up and the boys race through a skanky Trash as Sylvain whips the crowd ever higher: “We’re all in this together, “he screams. He’s not joking either. The temperature is rising and it seems like we’re just getting going when a rambunctious, metallic Jet Boy brings proceedings to a halt. There’s one delirious encore of Personality Crisis, the near-capacity crowd so high nobody’s giving a hoot just how loose things get. But shambolic or not, the set has been a triumph. Johansen and crew wander off wreathed in smiles, reputations and legend fully intact.
Sep 102010
Miscellaneous
10th to 11th Sept.
Gadiefest 2010
A Festival of Storytelling and Traditional Arts in the North East of Scotland.
Details, click here. http://www.gadiefest.co.uk/
Comedy
Tues 14th Sept.
7:30pm, Snafu
DES SHARPLES, DAVID INNES, ELAINE MALCOLMSON, MARTIN McALLISTER, MIKEY ADAMS MC
£3/4/5
Sat 18th Sept.
7:30pm, Lemon Tree
DANNY BHOY – By royal Disappointment
£15+BF
Music
Sat 11th Sept.
7:30pm, The Tunnels
TALK TO ANGELS (ft Mickey Dale, Embrace ), MEET ME IN VEGAS
£5
8.00pm, Blue Lamp
GLEBE STREET BLUES BAND
£7/£5
www.glebestreet.20m.co
THE LEVEE STROLLERS, KETIMINE DECO, HIPPOCAMPUS
£3
8:30pm, Drummonds
AKA SKA
11.00pm, The Tunnels
Rampage Rockclub
SATURDAYS IN ABERDEEN JUST GOT F**KING AWESOME!!
ABERDEEN NOW HAS A PREMIER SATURDAY ROCKCLUB.
http://www.facebook.com/rocknightaberdeen
…to Fri 17th Sept
Northern Edge Jazz Festival
Local authority run festival with big name acts in the form of Stan Tracey,
Courtney Pine & Curtis Stigers. Lots of gigs & workshops on over a 10 day period
www.boxofficeaberdeen.com
Sun 12th Sept.
7:30pm, The Tunnels
ANGRY Vs THE BEAR, INATLANTA, THE FIRE AND I, THE MINIATURE DINOSAURS
£5
7:30pm, Music Hall
CURTIS STIGERS
£18+BF
8:00pm, Blue Lamp
GRAHAM MACKIE, TEDDY, RAY BRADSHAW, ASIM ALI and More
£5/7
9.00pm, The Moorings
The Jam Factory ( every Sunday. )
Bands, acoustic musicians, jammers, poets etc. all welcome.
Mon 13th Sept.
9.00pm, Blue Lamp
Traditional Acoustic Session. All welcome.
10.00pm, Café Drummond,
Open Mic Night ( Every Monday )
Soloists, Poets, Musicians, Maniacs, and Full Bands Welcome.
( Full back line provided ) For more info, call 01224 619930
Tues 14th Sept.
7:00pm,The Tunnels
TOMMY REILLY
Tommy Reilly is a talented Scottish singer–songwriter from Torrance, East Dumbartonshire.
He gained recognition after winning the Channel 4 TV show Orange unsigned Act.
7:00pm,The Tunnels
TOMMY REILLY Plus Support
7:30pm, Lemon Tree
THE CAVERN BEATLES
£14.50+BF
8:00pm, Café Drummond
SKY LARKIN Plus Support
Wed 15th Sept.
7:30pm, The Tunnels
MAKE SPARKS, THREE KNOTS, FAREWELL SINGAPORE, HEADLIGHT
£5
Thurs 16th Sept.
7:30pm, Lemon Tree
ADRIAN EDMONDSON AND THE BAD SHEPHERDS
£15+BF
8:00pm, Cafe Drummond
SUCIOPERRO Plus Support
Fri 17th Sept.
Music Hall
SWEET ADELINES 30th ANNIVERSARY in Aid Of Cornerstone … see article
7:30pm, The Tunnels
CURATORS, TURNING 13, SMUGGLERS RUN, MARIONETTES
£4
8:00pm, Blue Lamp
SAM CARTER, THIS HEROIC ROUTINE
£6/8
8:00pm, Cafe Drummond
WASHINGTON IRVING Plus Support
Sat 18th Sept.
7:30pm, The Tunnels
ELLIOT MINOR Plus Support
8:00pm, Elizabethan, Fraseburgh
THREATS, ALL AGES
11.00pm, The Tunnels
Rampage Rockclub
SATURDAYS IN ABERDEEN JUST GOT F**KING AWESOME!!
ABERDEEN NOW HAS A PREMIER SATURDAY ROCKCLUB.
http://www.facebook.com/rocknightaberdeen
If you have a public event you would like us to include,
please email details to… articles@aberdeenvoice.com
Sep 082010
The Aberdeen Chorus of Sweet Adelines celebrates its 30th birthday with Cornerstone 
The Aberdeen Chorus of Sweet Adelines International is one of the top women’s barbershop choruses in the UK singing in four part harmony a cappella style.
The chorus attracts women of all ages and now has over 90 members. Performing regularly in and around Aberdeen the Sweet Adelines have recently done a successful show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the 3rd successive year.
As a celebration of their 30th anniversary the Aberdeen Chorus is preparing for a Grand Charity Show in the Music Hall on 17th September in aid of Cornerstone which is also celebrating its 30th birthday. Cornerstone is a charity which supports 12,000 adults and children across Scotland with learning disabilities.
Sharing the stage will be the local men’s barbershop chorus : The Granite City Chorus as well as The Flying Pigs, the locally renowned comedy troupe.
Tickets £12 (Concessions £9) are available from Aberdeen Box Office on 01224 641122 or www.boxofficeaberdeen.com or Aberdeen Chorus on 07941 415516
Free singing lessons
In addition to their Music Hall show the chorus is offering free singing lessons to women – these will take place for 6 weeks commencing 20th September 2010 from 7-8p.m.in the Britannia Hotel, Bucksburn.
Participants will receive tuition on breathing and posture, vocal production and performing skills in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
All course materials – music and learning CDs will be provided – there is no need to be able to read music – but you need to enjoy singing!
For more information visit our website www.aberdeenchorus.co.uk e mail info@aberdeenchorus.co.uk or phone/text 07941 415516
Anne Cargill
Publicity Officer
Aberdeen Chorus
Sep 032010
By Dave Guthrie.
On a quiet Saturday evening a couple of weekends ago a celebration took place in Union Terrace Gardens.
As evening fell, small groups of people began arriving with picnic blankets, candles, lanterns and glow lamps to take part in ‘Unplugged in the Park’, a low-key event loosely organised by Friends of UTG.
Amidst a sea of shimmering lights the audience were treated to storytelling, poetry, some amateur dramatics ( rather wittily entitled ‘Trees Not Wood!’ ), some fine music and African drumming.
The first lantern-balloon, released perhaps too soon, rose slowly in the still night air and there was some apprehension as it hovered close to the trees and HMT but there was a collective sigh of relief – and a few cheers – as it caught the breeze and seemed to head decisively in the direction of St Nicholas House.
Later launchings were trouble free.
A couple of bobbies strolled through the Gardens, no doubt grateful for a few minute’s respite from the street-level intensity of a city-centre Saturday night, as everyone enjoyed the entertainment and the spectacle.
Perhaps the only sour note rose from the two under-maintained port-a-loos standing in for the Grade ‘B’ listed Victorian facilities which have been allowed to fall into a sad state of disrepair.
The weather was kind, with the showers not arriving until most of the crowd had quietly dispersed and the clean-up operation was well under way.
Once again, the Gardens had provided an oasis of calm in the city centre which people could enjoy fully with the minimum of fuss.
Sep 032010
Miscellaneous
Sat 4th Sept.
10:00am to 6.00pm, The Princess Royal and Duke of Fife Memorial Park, Braemar
Braemar Gathering
The Gathering is famous for its friendship and hospitality which we look forward to sharing with the many visitors.
http://www.braemargathering.org/
10.30pm, The Brig O’ Don, King Street, Aberdeen
Sue Ryder Care Aberdeen Midnight Walk
Sue Ryder Care’s second Aberdeen women only 10k sponsored Midnight Walk.
Event starts at 10.30pm and finishes at 3.30am on Sunday.
Registration for the walk is £15.
http://fundraising.suerydercare.org/midnightwalk/events/aberdeen-midnight-walk.aspx
Thurs 9th Sept.
7.00pm, Aberdeen Forward offices, 2 Poyernook Road Aberdeen AB11 5RW
Home composting
Learn how to make your own compost from kitchen and garden waste in time for next year’s seed sowing projects.
£2
Contact Aberdeen Forward
http://www.aberdeenforward.org
Tel ; 01224 560360
email : admin@abzforward.plus.com
10th to 11th Sept.
Gadiefest 2010
A Festival of Storytelling and Traditional Arts in the North East of Scotland.
http://www.gadiefest.co.uk/
Comedy
Fri 10th Sept.
8:30pm, Cellar 35, Rosemount Viaduct
GEESALAFF Comedy night
“There won’t be a dry seat in the house!” Graeme Pyper
Doors open 8.30 p.m. Mayhem starts at 9!
Music
Sat 4th Sept.
7:30pm, Stonehaven Town Hall
Ceilidh and a Curry
Featuring a rare public appearance by SHINDIG
Tickets from Celtic Chords Tel: 01569 763913
http://www.celtic-chords.co.uk/
7:30pm, Kilau Coffee ( Little Belmont Street )
Katerwaul single release
KATERWAUL, SARAH J STANLEY
7:30pm, The Tunnels
THE SECOND HAND MARCHING BAND, BENNI HEMM HEMM, EAGLE OWL
8:00pm, The Moorings
EDDIE AND THE HOTRODS, JOHNNY SKYSCRAPER, Plus Support
8:00pm, Café Drummond
TOM HINGLEY (The Voice Of The Inspiral Carpets)
11pm – 3am, The Tunnels
IT’S A RAVE!
A nostalgic evening allowing you to indulge your inner raver….
Revisit the toxic youth of the 90’s for an evening of nostalgic dance classics, britpop and old skool rnb….
Dress; Think glow gear, rave paint, fluro, 90’s heros, nostalgic trash to dress your body, Boomboxes, 90’s dance inspiration and glowsticks…
£3
11.00pm, The Tunnels
Rampage Rockclub
SATURDAYS IN ABERDEEN JUST GOT F**KING AWESOME!!
ABERDEEN NOW HAS A PREMIER SATURDAY ROCKCLUB.
http://www.facebook.com/rocknightaberdeen
Sun 5th Sept.
8:00pm, Cellar 35
Sunday Sessions,
MIKE BLACK, STEVE WINTON, CRAIG JOHN DAVIDSON, CHRIS GLEN, OLIVER RICHARDS
9.00pm, The Moorings
The Jam Factory ( every Sunday. )
Bands, acoustic musicians, jammers, poets etc. all welcome.
Mon 6th Sept.
9.00pm, Blue Lamp
Traditional Acoustic Session. All welcome.
10.00pm, Café Drummond,
Open Mic Night ( Every Monday )
Soloists, Poets, Musicians, Maniacs, and Full Bands Welcome.
( Full back line provided ) For more info, call 01224 619930
Tues 7th Sept. to Fri 17th Sept
Northern Edge Jazz Festival
Local authority run festival with big name acts in the form of Stan Tracey, Courtney Pine & Curtis Stigers.
Lots of gigs & workshops on over a 10 day period
www.boxofficeaberdeen.com
Thurs 9th Sept.
7:30pm , The Tunnels
ESPERI, NOISERV, AMBER WILSON, CRAIG DAVIDSON
8:00pm, Blue Lamp
SAM BAKER
£10/12
8:00pm, The Tunnels
ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK, SAMURAI FURY, ETERNAL IDOL, SEMPERFI
£10
Sat 11th Sept.
7:30pm, The Tunnels
TALK TO ANGELS (ft Mickey Dale, Embrace ), MEET ME IN VEGAS
£5
8.00pm, Blue Lamp
GLEBE STREET BLUES BAND
£7/£5
www.glebestreet.20m.com
8:00pm, The Moorings
THE LEVEE STROLLERS, KETIMINE DECO, HIPPOCAMPUS
£3
8:30pm, Drummonds
AKA SKA
11.00pm, The Tunnels
Rampage Rockclub
SATURDAYS IN ABERDEEN JUST GOT F**KING AWESOME!!
ABERDEEN NOW HAS A PREMIER SATURDAY ROCKCLUB.
http://www.facebook.com/rocknightaberdeen
If you have a public event you would like us to include,
please email details to… articles@aberdeenvoice.com
Sep 012010
At Woodend Barn this Saturday, music lovers can enjoy a fresh approach to the music of Chopin, and Scotland’s influence on his work.
The girls have toured this concert to many venues in UK and in Ukraine as part of the international celebration of Chopin’s 200th Anniversary (1810-1849). The tour will end in October with a concert at RSAMD where Alina was appointed Harp Lecturer in 2008. The programme which is designed to be audience friendly is narrated by Margaret and Alina who as well as playing their special arrangements, present amusing and revealing extracts from letters and commentaries from the last year of Chopin’s life.
Alina says, “I feel a special affinity for Chopin’s music and have found some experiences in his letters that I can definitely relate to, having had some similar thoughts when I settled in Scotland some years ago”
Margaret and Alina met in Aberdeen Music Hall in 2003, when they were playing Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius with massed Choirs and Orchestra conducted by James Loughran. This was a tribute to Lady Aberdeen in tribute to her 90th birthday. The girls “hit it off” and decided to form Amadeus Duo in order to play some of the glorious music written for their instruments. Since then they have played a diverse repertoire, everything from Mozart flute and harp concerto to Debussy and contemporary music as well as their own compositions. They have been invited to play their arrangements of Scottish music in Kiev next year.
Recent comments at their SOUND festival performance in Aberdeen Art Gallery:
“The proof of that was an almost full-house and in an arena which can be notorious for extraneous noise, there were almost no disturbances at all as everyone became absolutely absorbed in the seductive sounds of the Duo…. After the concert, many among the audience stayed to chat to the two performers and not many people rushed away to go home. Always a good sign!” –Alan Cooper
Details:
Saturday, 4 September
7.45pm, Woodend Barn, Banchory,
£10, £2 students, under 18 and jobseekers
The concert is being promoted by the Woodend Barn Music Society.
Licensed bar.