Introducing Tune Up 2008/2009

SEASON 1:  OCTOBER 2ND - DECEMBER 7TH
www.tuneup.org.uk

INJUNS & CLAES CEM
RUMBA CALIENTE AFRO LATIN SOUL ORCHESTRA
CATRIONA MACDONALD’S OVER THE MOON
JOHN MCCUSKER’S UNDER ONE SKY
(WITH JULIE FOWLIS, RODDY WOOMBLE, NORMAN BLAKE)
ARILD ANDERSON, TOMMY SMITH & PAOLO VINACCIA TRIO 

Tune Up, the Scottish Arts Council, National Lottery funded initiative that supports musicians to play in venues as far and wide as Scotland itself, is ready to hit the road with a new round of tours.
 
Divided into two seasons of tours, the first will run from October 2nd to December 08, with the second season covering February to June 09 sending artists such as Roddy Woomble and Julie Fowlis on their way to venues in 26 different Scottish cities, towns, villages and islands not normally included on conventional tours.
 
Tune Up takes bands like Injuns and artists such as Claes Cem from the indie ambience of Glasgow’s Barfly to Portree Community Centre on their native Isle of Skye, and allows them to deliver their startlingly original musicianship to a whole new range of audiences.
 
“We are delighted with the diverse programme of tours - the people of Scotland are in for musical treats over the course of the next nine months. Whether it is an international jazz trio, brand new music from some of Britain's finest folk musicians, contemporary classical, rock or indie, you will find some of the best musicians playing right on your doorsteps. It’s also great this year to see tours from a number of independent Scottish record labels – another sign of the wealth of talent in the music sector”.  Stuart Thomas - Scottish Arts Council
 
Details of artist, dates and locations can be found below on the Tune Up website:
www.tuneup.org.uk

NOTES TO EDITORS:

•Tune Up runs from October 2008 to May 2009, with season two commencing in February 2009 - more information on the 2009 sesaon will be made available nearer the time.
 
•Tune Up is an initiative of the Scottish Arts Council, funded by the National Lottery and launched in 2003, five years ago.
 
•Tune Up reaches the more remote parts of the country or those that do not usually benefit from a varied range of such high quality live music, such as Orkney, Skye, Strontian, Livingston, Paisley, Pilton, Dunfermline, Melrose, Giffnock. Tobermoray, Wick, Dumfries, Kilmardinny, Dunkeld, Banchory, Findhorn, Peebles, Glenfarg, Thurso, Stornoway, Strathpeffer, Castle Douglas, Glenuig, Craignish, Alness, Ullapool, Invershin, Newton Stewart, Glenrothes, Lerwick, Drumnadrochit, Durness, Easterhouse, Wormit, Hoy and Spey Bay.

•Tune Up has previously, successfully toured artists such as Eddi Reader, King Creosote, Tinariwen, the Battlefield Band, Aberfeldy, The Delgados, Michael McGoldrick, Julie Fowlis, Hebrides Ensemble, Renaud Garcia Fons, Akio Suzuki & John Butcher, Omar Sosa, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, Phil Bancroft Quartet and The Unusual Suspects.

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Issued by: Scottish Arts Council