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Music touring Tunes Up
17/11/2003
Capercaillie, Radio Tarifa, Biffy Clyro, Altan and
the Paragon Ensemble are among a host of bands which will
be touring acrossScotlandnext spring thanks to a new Scottish Arts Council
lottery funded touring programme called Tune Up.
The Tune Up live music touring programme,
launched in Glasgow today by Tourism, Culture and Sport
Minister Frank McAveety, will bring high quality
traditional and contemporary music from Scotland and
abroad to people right across Scotland.
The line up of around a dozen bands encompasses
music of all styles from traditional Scottish to
cutting edge jazz and salsa, from contemporary
classical to the latest indie music:
- Capercaillie - One ofScotland's musical treasures, touring far and wide as
never before
- John Rae's Celtic Feet - Contemporary jazz
with the full flavour of Scottish traditional
music
- Altan & Cliar - Irish and Scottish Gaels
in two of the finest traditional bands of their
kind
- The Paragon Ensemble - Head-turning chamber music
- made inScotland- from the classical new wave
- Erik Truffaz - French new wave jazz from the
European successor to Miles Davis' trumpet
style
- Biffy Clyro - Contenders for the next indie
breakthrough and with a new album release
- Malinky & Daimh - Scottish traditions moving
forward with two ofScotland's best new young bands
- Radio Tarifa - The geniuses of Spanish world
music - nominated for the World Music Awards
- Salsa Celtica - It could only happen inScotland- salsa and latin fire meets the skirl of the
pipes
- Te Paolo Fresu Sextet - Contemporary European
jazz fromItaly's most in-demand trumpeter
The Minister said:
"This exciting and innovative initiative will put
live music of the highest quality at the heart of
communities across the length and breadth ofScotland. Young people in particular will welcome the
opportunity to enjoy world class talent performing live in
their own local venues. It is important that access to
excellence in live music and the other arts is not
restricted to urban audiences and I am, therefore,
delighted to endorse this touring programme."
Tourswill take place between February and June 2004,
reaching the parts ofScotlandthat other tours don't by visiting everywhere from
the Sea Angling Club in Stornoway to the Queen's Hall
inEdinburgh, from the Lemon Tree inAberdeento the Volunteer Halls in Galashiels.
Nod Knowles, Head of Music at the Scottish Arts
Council, said:
"We have created Tune Up to take more kinds of music
to more people in more places because we know that it is
often difficult for people to hear the kind of high quality
live music they want to, and it's equally difficult for
bands to finance tours to all the places they'd like to
visit. From now on,
"Tune Up will offer audiences acrossScotlanda broad range of fantastic musical experiences and
present high profile artists, some of whom are household
names while others are international names already known to
music aficionados inScotland, but now being introduced to a wider audience."
Performing at the launch of Tune Up was Mary Anne
Kennedy of Cliar, a contemporary Gaelic group which will
tour with Irish band Altan to theHighlandsandIslands. She said, 'I am thrilled that Scottish Arts Council
funding is supporting our tour to theHighlandsto meet our fans and play to new audiences. This is
also a great opportunity to work with a like-minded band
such as Altan, and to meet each other's
fanbase.'