Tenille Townes

Friday 2nd October

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Mackintosh Queen’s Cross welcomes Tenille Townes back to Glasgow after her previous sold out show here in 2023.

For Tenille Townes, writing songs has always been a way of reaching out to anyone trying to make sense of a confusing world. In the last five years alone, the Canada-born, Nashville-based artist’s full-hearted and soul-searching songwriting has led to touring with legends like Stevie Nicks, Miranda Lambert, Shania Twain, Keith Urban, Reba, Zac Brown Band, George Strait, and Dierks Bentley, while earning two JUNO Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, and 17 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. Along the way, Townes has built a globe-spanning fanbase drawn to her ability to tell deeply human stories with empathy, clarity, and hope.

“What I love about making music is the potential for my songs to meet people right where they are, but then leave them feeling a little more seen and lifted up than they were before,” says Townes. “Even if it’s just the comfort of knowing someone else feels the same way.” That mission continues into a bold new chapter with The Acrobat, Townes’ new album released on 10th April 2026.

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MADE in Glasgow

Saturday 10th October 11:00am – 4:00pm – Free Entry

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A new celebration of contemporary making is launching in Glasgow this October, bringing together some of the city’s jewellers, metalworkers and makers within one of its most extraordinary architectural landmarks. MADE in Glasgow will take place at Mackintosh Queen’s Cross on Saturday 10th October, combining a curated selling exhibition with live making, conversation and the opportunity to experience the only church fully designed by Mackintosh, in 1899. Created by Vanilla Ink CIC and the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, MADE will bring together close to 20 carefully selected jewellers, metalworkers and contemporary makers, celebrating the vibrancy, skill and range of craft being created in Glasgow and across Scotland. Visitors will be able to discover and buy work directly from the makers, meet the people behind the objects and experience making first-hand through a programme of live jewellery and metalworking demonstrations.

SCOTT McINTYRE, FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF VANILLA INK CIC, SAID:

“Glasgow has always been a city of makers, but we don’t always create enough opportunities to put that work in front of people and properly celebrate it. MADE is about changing that, even if we start small. “We want to bring brilliant contemporary makers together, let people see the skill behind the work, meet the people who make it and hopefully take something home. The ambition is that this becomes something Glasgow looks forward to every year.”

PAMELA McCLEAVE OF THE CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH SOCIETY SAID:

“Mackintosh Queen’s Cross feels like a natural home for MADE. Mackintosh’s work was rooted in craftsmanship, materials and the relationship between art and design, there is something very special about filing the building with people continuing that tradition of making today. “It allows us to celebrate Mackintosh’s legacy while also giving the building a living, contemporary creative purpose.” WHY MADE? Regardless of the medium, craft is distinguished by one very specific characteristic: the hand of the maker. MADE celebrates that act of making. Whether jewellery, metalwork or contemporary craft, every piece on display has been created with skill, creativity and purpose.

Saturday 10th October 11:00am – 4:00pm – Free Entry

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Brian Bilston – How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside

Thursday 22nd October – Doors 7:30pm

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Brian Bilston returns to Mackintosh Queen’s Cross to promote his new book How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside

The blurb goes: This is a book to help people overcome their suspicion (or loathing) of poetry, and maybe even encourage a few to write it. Well, maybe that’s a bit ambitious. You might just want to read the poems instead, of which there are 140, on subjects as diverse as pedantry, climate change, boogie management, beekeeping, procrastination, Mondays, Elon Musk and death.

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Irvine Welsh – Waterstones Event

Wednesday 4th November 2026 7:00pm

Irvine Welsh, bestselling author of Trainspotting, returns to Glasgow to celebrate his legendary career and his newest novel Can Nothing Save Us?

Take a riotous tour of the bright lights and back rooms of Las Vegas in the company of one very dysfunctional family. Luke, the dropout son of wealthy Sin City grandparents, lives a hedonistic life of drugs and dance music, until he’s pulled into the orbit of a violent cult leader and triggers a horrifying sequence of events. Throw in suspicious neighbours, frustrated housewives, and the pressure cooker of Nevada heat, and it’s a thrill ride like no other.

Irvine will be joining us to discuss his fascination with troubled characters, the appeal of sub-cultures, the differences between writing Americans and Scots, and much more, as well as answering your questions and signing books.

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Roger Billcliffe in Conversation – A life in Scottish Art – Art in Healthcare

Thursday 5th November (doors 6:30pm) 7:00pm

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Roger Billcliffe is the Honorary President of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society and has been a significant figure in the Scottish art world for over fifty years. He was in charge of the art collections at the University of Glasgow, before becoming Keeper of Fine Art at Kelvingrove Art Gallery. He was Director of the Fine Art Society for more than two decades and is the author of ten significant books about the Glasgow Boys, Scottish Colourists, and Mackintosh, including the definitive catalogue of his furniture. From 1992 until his retirement last year Roger ran the eponymous Billcliffe Gallery, which exhibited and sold contemporary and 20th century Scottish art, and was at one time Scotland’s largest private gallery.

This event will see Roger in conversation with Stuart Robertson, former Director of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society. It is an opportunity to hear from Roger about his life in art; the collections overseen, the discoveries made, his connections with artists and professionals in the Scottish art world, and the impact of bringing Scottish art to wider public acclaim.

Proceeds from the event go to Art in Healthcare, a charity working across Scotland to improve health and wellbeing for individuals and communities by providing opportunities to experience and engage with high-quality visual art, artists and creativity – particularly within community, health and social care settings.

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Grouper

Thursday 12th November

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Mackintosh Queen’s Cross Welcomes back Grouper for the first time since 2018.

Grouper is the recording moniker of American ambient folk and drone musician, artist, and producer Liz Harris.

Working under the name Grouper since 2005, Harris creates intimate, haunting music characterised by heavily reverbed vocals, hazy guitar loops, field recordings, and tape decay.

Aside from Grouper, she has recorded under monikers like Nivhek, Raum, Helen, and Mirrorring (a collaboration with Jesy Fortino). She also runs her own imprint, YELLOWELECTRIC, and has released acclaimed records through labels like Kranky.

Support comes from Joanne Robertson. Joanne Robertson is an experimental British multidisciplinary artist.^[1] She is best known for her collaborations with British avant-garde musician Dean Blunt on albums such as The Redeemer and Black Metal, as well as her 2025 album Blurrr, which was featured on several year-end lists

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Martyn Joseph

Saturday 14th November

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Martyn Joseph is a completely unique and mind blowing artist. Take everything you think you know about singer songwriters….and rip it up. For one man and a guitar he creates a performance with a huge far-reaching sound that is energetic, compelling and passionate. Be it to two hundred people or twenty thousand, he blows the crowd away night after night.

After being signed to Sony Music in the early  ’90’s, for whom he recorded 2 albums and achieved Top 40 chart success, Martyn became a trailblazer for independent musicians. He launched his own record label in 1999 forging a successful career using the internet, ahead of many other artists.

In July 2024 he was invited by BBC Radio 2 for a second time to write a song as part of their brand new award winning “21st Century Folk” project, following on from the success of his 2023 track, “Albert’s Place”, which featured in the original series,  and which included appearances on BBC Breakfast TV, the Jeremy Vine and Ken Bruce shows on BBC Radio 2 along with Radio 4’s World at One. 

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Jamie Duffy

Friday 20th November

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At just 24, Jamie Duffy has emerged as one of Ireland’s most compelling new artists, blending folk, classical, and contemporary influences into a sound that’s both intimate and cinematic. His debut single Solas became the most streamed debut by an Irish artist since Hozier’s Take Me To Church, with over 135+ million streams on Spotify, 27 million YouTube views, and 7.3 billion views on TikTok.

In 2024, he released his debut EP On A Wing, sold out his first Irish headline tour (2,600+ tickets), and supported Andrea Bocelli and Hans Zimmer at BST Hyde Park.

In October 2025, he released his highly anticipated debut album Jamie Duffy. Crafted over two years between wild coastlines and still nights across the two awe-inspiring landscapes of Ireland and Iceland, the album reflects Jamie’s rural Monaghan roots, shaped by changing environments, Irish folklore, love, light and trepidation. It is a true labour of love and effort rarely known by those in their early twenties, but for Jamie, it was a journey he’s been working towards for some time. While evident themes of nature, journey, light and hope spring forward from early listens, the messages within the album, will hopefully, be different for everyone.

Alongside the album, Jamie has scored his first feature film 500 Miles, (starring Bill Nighy and Maisie Williams) due to be released in 2026. Reuniting with his album producer Atli Örvarsson at his home studio in London, the project highlights the creative strength and synergy between the two collaborators.

With over 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify and sold out dates across Ireland, UK and Europe, Jamie is cementing his status as a formidable and rapidly rising global artist whose music continues to resonate with a massive and expanding international audience.

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Adam Holmes – The Full Band Christmas Concert

Saturday 19 December

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Adam Holmes is a Scottish BBC award-winning songwriter whose work has found a distinct and enduring place in the UK folk landscape.

His songs have been broadcast across BBC Radio and featured in television and film, including Outlander and Apple TV productions.

In recent years, his music has reached a global audience, drawing in a new generation of listeners while staying close to those who have followed his work over time.

Raised in Portobello, the second youngest of eight children, Holmes grew up surrounded by music. The slow airs and church hymns of his childhood continue to shape his melodic sensibility, alongside early exposure to Edinburgh’s folk scene and long nights listening and learning old fiddle tunes by ear.

At 19, on the same day he was offered an apprenticeship on the building site, Adam received a call confirming his place in the semi-finals of the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year. He chose music and has followed that path since.

In the years that followed he played a thousand times wherever he could. Small rooms, quiet corners and the kinds of spaces where a song either holds or it doesn’t.

He has shared stages with artists including Martin Simpson, Karine Polwart and John Prine and appeared on bills alongside Laura Marling, Van Morrison and Jason Isbell.

His work is defined by songs that reward attention. Songs that don’t always reveal themselves immediately but stay with people long after they’ve been heard.

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