Rob Adams
@rabjourno.bsky.social
Writer (inc UK Jazz News) and agent/PR for saxophonist Tommy Smith, Scottish harper Karen Marshalsay and jazz-classical duo New Focus.
Thank you @glasgowwestend.bsky.social for previewing harper Karen Marshalsay’s Eadarainn a’ Chruit : Between Us the Harp at Celtic Connections on Sat 31 Jan: www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/music/scots-...
December 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Thank you @glasgowwestend.bsky.social for previewing harper Karen Marshalsay’s Eadarainn a’ Chruit : Between Us the Harp at Celtic Connections on Sat 31 Jan: www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/music/scots-...
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“I’m really looking forward to playing at the Tron Theatre because it’s essentially the album launch concert.”
#LiveMusic #Glasgow #CelticConnections #harp
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#LiveMusic #Glasgow #CelticConnections #harp
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www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/music/scots-...
Scots harper Karen Marshalsay at Celtic Connections
Scots musician to showcase her latest album
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December 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“I’m really looking forward to playing at the Tron Theatre because it’s essentially the album launch concert.”
#LiveMusic #Glasgow #CelticConnections #harp
@rabjourno.bsky.social
www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/music/scots-...
#LiveMusic #Glasgow #CelticConnections #harp
@rabjourno.bsky.social
www.glasgowwestendtoday.scot/music/scots-...
We are the village tree appreciation society
God save Barnett’s rolls, Penman’s pies and podiatry
We are the Marketgate fogie toadlers society
God save Green’s black pud, the Golf Hotel and sobriety
God save Barnett’s rolls, Penman’s pies and podiatry
We are the Marketgate fogie toadlers society
God save Green’s black pud, the Golf Hotel and sobriety
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We are the village tree appreciation society
God save Barnett’s rolls, Penman’s pies and podiatry
We are the Marketgate fogie toadlers society
God save Green’s black pud, the Golf Hotel and sobriety
God save Barnett’s rolls, Penman’s pies and podiatry
We are the Marketgate fogie toadlers society
God save Green’s black pud, the Golf Hotel and sobriety
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Another of the 3 jigs I’ll be teaching online on Saturday 6th! Sign ups still available at www.karenmarshalsay.com/buy/p/new-ye...
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Another of the 3 jigs I’ll be teaching online on Saturday 6th! Sign ups still available at www.karenmarshalsay.com/buy/p/new-ye...
Great to hear the Phat Controller on Radio Skye celebrating the marvellous guitarist Jim Mullen so handsomely during Jim’s 80th Birthday week. player.autopod.xyz/1106218
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Great to hear the Phat Controller on Radio Skye celebrating the marvellous guitarist Jim Mullen so handsomely during Jim’s 80th Birthday week. player.autopod.xyz/1106218
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🎉 It’s time for another piping Hot 100, a celebration of the people, places and festivals across Scotland that have kept us entertained and intrigued, and occasionally left us gobsmacked and enlightened. Find out which cultural titan made our top spot.
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎉 It’s time for another piping Hot 100, a celebration of the people, places and festivals across Scotland that have kept us entertained and intrigued, and occasionally left us gobsmacked and enlightened. Find out which cultural titan made our top spot.
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🔥 We’ve taken the temperature of another 12 months of Scottish excellence to find art and culture that's piping hot.
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
🔥 We’ve taken the temperature of another 12 months of Scottish excellence to find art and culture that's piping hot.
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Online workshop teaching 3 Jigs for the New Year on 6 December (4-6pm UK time) recordings & sheet music for the tunes on sign up, arrangements sent afterwards & the video on replay - all for seasonal discount price of £15! Come learn some New Year tunes ! www.karenmarshalsay.com/online-harp-...
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Online workshop teaching 3 Jigs for the New Year on 6 December (4-6pm UK time) recordings & sheet music for the tunes on sign up, arrangements sent afterwards & the video on replay - all for seasonal discount price of £15! Come learn some New Year tunes ! www.karenmarshalsay.com/online-harp-...
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Online workshop teaching 3 jigs for the New Year on 6 December- with recordings and sheet music for the tunes on sign up, arrangements sent afterwards and the video on replay - all for seasonal discount price of £15! Come learn some New Year tunes ! buff.ly/ajll4Hs
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Online workshop teaching 3 jigs for the New Year on 6 December- with recordings and sheet music for the tunes on sign up, arrangements sent afterwards and the video on replay - all for seasonal discount price of £15! Come learn some New Year tunes ! buff.ly/ajll4Hs
Happy 80th Birthday to the great Jim Mullen, whose right thumb is still the best blues singer Glasgow has ever produced. Lovely to see so many colleagues paying tribute to Jim today at UK Jazz News. ukjazznews.com/birthday-gre...
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Happy 80th Birthday to the great Jim Mullen, whose right thumb is still the best blues singer Glasgow has ever produced. Lovely to see so many colleagues paying tribute to Jim today at UK Jazz News. ukjazznews.com/birthday-gre...
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Coming to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow on Sat 31 Jan … the full cast of harps and musicians from the album play Celtic Connections.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Coming to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow on Sat 31 Jan … the full cast of harps and musicians from the album play Celtic Connections.
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Me and the harps AND all 4 of my album guests will be playing the album live at Celtic Connections on 31st January at the Tron theatre! Can't wait!
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Me and the harps AND all 4 of my album guests will be playing the album live at Celtic Connections on 31st January at the Tron theatre! Can't wait!
Coming to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow on Sat 31 Jan … the full cast of harps and musicians from the album play Celtic Connections.
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Coming to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow on Sat 31 Jan … the full cast of harps and musicians from the album play Celtic Connections.
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
“… should be celebrated far more than they are” - Jazzwise magazine gives Tommy Smith’s Eternal Light four stars and an Editor’s Choice rating.
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“… should be celebrated far more than they are” - Jazzwise magazine gives Tommy Smith’s Eternal Light four stars and an Editor’s Choice rating.
Five Stars from The Scotsman for saxophonist Tommy Smith and pianist Gwilym Simcock’s Eternal Light, recorded live in Edinburgh two months ago: a potent combination of improvisational freedom and melodic lyricism”.
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Five Stars from The Scotsman for saxophonist Tommy Smith and pianist Gwilym Simcock’s Eternal Light, recorded live in Edinburgh two months ago: a potent combination of improvisational freedom and melodic lyricism”.
Just announced for Celtic Connections 2026: harper Karen Marshalsay brings the show of her new album, Eadarainn a’ Chruit : Between Us the Harp to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow on 31st January.
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Just announced for Celtic Connections 2026: harper Karen Marshalsay brings the show of her new album, Eadarainn a’ Chruit : Between Us the Harp to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow on 31st January.
“The musical interplay between the two men is highly impressive” - JazzViews enthuses about guitarist Louis Stewart and flautist Brian Dunning’s Alone Together album. Reissued tomorrow on Livia Records.
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“The musical interplay between the two men is highly impressive” - JazzViews enthuses about guitarist Louis Stewart and flautist Brian Dunning’s Alone Together album. Reissued tomorrow on Livia Records.
Just came across a radio show playlist that juxtaposed Flora Purim singing Egberto Gismonti’s O Sonho with the Ozark Mountain Daredevils’ Leatherwood. Turns out it was computer generated but as the song says, It Could Have Been Me.
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Just came across a radio show playlist that juxtaposed Flora Purim singing Egberto Gismonti’s O Sonho with the Ozark Mountain Daredevils’ Leatherwood. Turns out it was computer generated but as the song says, It Could Have Been Me.
Lovely to hear Eternal Light, the title track of the new live album by saxophonist Tommy Smith and pianist Gwilym Simcock on Round Midnight @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Thank you @sowetokinch.bsky.social and @foldedwinguk.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Lovely to hear Eternal Light, the title track of the new live album by saxophonist Tommy Smith and pianist Gwilym Simcock on Round Midnight @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social Thank you @sowetokinch.bsky.social and @foldedwinguk.bsky.social
One of Couleurs Jazz’s highlights of October: “Together, they craft a conversation of remarkable purity, where every note breathes, responds, and rises. Nothing artificial here - only the sincerity of the moment, captured as-is, without retouching, in a light that is both gentle and fervent.”
November 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
One of Couleurs Jazz’s highlights of October: “Together, they craft a conversation of remarkable purity, where every note breathes, responds, and rises. Nothing artificial here - only the sincerity of the moment, captured as-is, without retouching, in a light that is both gentle and fervent.”
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We have a brand new dispenser on Porty Prom filled with 200 papers for you to pick up and read. New November issue out now.
November 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
We have a brand new dispenser on Porty Prom filled with 200 papers for you to pick up and read. New November issue out now.
Coming to Dumfries next Friday, 7th November, New Focus: The Classical Connection - www.dgwgo.com/music-festiv...
Pianist Behind Naomi Campbell’s Catwalk Soundtrack Performs In Dumfries | Dumfries & Galloway! What's Going On?
A pianist whose recent assignments include an orchestral soundtrack for supermodel Naomi Campbell plays a concert at The Bridge in Dumfries on Friday 7th
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October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Coming to Dumfries next Friday, 7th November, New Focus: The Classical Connection - www.dgwgo.com/music-festiv...
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A week tonight, Friday 7th November, New Focus - pianist Euan Stevenson and saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski- bring The Classical Connection to The Bridge in Dumfries.
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A week tonight, Friday 7th November, New Focus - pianist Euan Stevenson and saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski- bring The Classical Connection to The Bridge in Dumfries.