Haley Heynderickx

Monday 24th August

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Singer/songwriter Haley Heynderickx draws from a wide array of influences, citing her religious Filipino-American upbringing, the folk music of the 1960s and ’70s, jazz radio, and the idiosyncratic acoustic guitar styles of Leo Kottke  and John Fahey. All of those ingredients find their way into her music, which pairs deft fingerpicking with lyrics that flirt with levity but hew toward introspection. Her first album, I Need to Start A Garden saw release in 2018. Following years of heavy touring, Heynderickx unveiled her 2024 album, Seed of a Seed.

Coming November 21st 2025, Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover partnered again for their second collaborative album, What of Our Nature via Fat Possum Records. The pair spent a year sharing songs from opposite corners of the country while reading Woody Guthrie’s words and biographies, slowly exploring a patchwork of Americanism to see where their stories fit. The result is a collection of music about profound friendship, the legacy of colonialism, generational identity, commercialism, and the slippery target of addressing social equity in song.

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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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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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Adam Holmes

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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Past Events ……..

Cove Park – Bagri Music Awards – Solo Performance: Ayman Hlal

Saturday 1st August 2026

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Leading violinist, composer, and educator, Ayman Hlal was born in As-Suwayda, a city in Syria that is particularly famous for producing artists. Now based in Berlin, Ayman specialises in both Middle Eastern and Western classical music. Since leaving Syria as a result of war, he has participated in several national and international events and projects, and performed with multiple orchestras and bands, including the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra (SEPO), and Nai’ Oriental Orchestra in Austria. In 2024, Ayman took part in the Making Tracks Residency at Cove Park.

Recipient of the 2026 Bagri Music Award presented by Cove Park and the Bagri Foundation, this live performance at The Mackintosh Church on Saturday 1 August takes place during Ayman’s two-week residency at Cove Park.

In 2025, international residency Cove Park announced a new two-year partnership with the Bagri Foundation, to launch Sound Series, a new programme of residencies bringing acclaimed international musicians to the UK. The Bagri Foundation works within a network of leading cultural organisations that champion artistic excellence and provide extraordinary artists from across Asia, wider visibility on the global stage. Working collaboratively with Cove Park to nominate and select the artists, the Bagri Music Award is aimed at artistic development and is a unique opportunity for acclaimed emerging or mid-career musicians from West Asia to spend quality time in Scotland.

This performance marks the culmination of Ayman’s Cove Park residency, developed in close collaboration with SEPO, the first Symphony Orchestra for professional and academic Syrian musicians who live in the European Union. SEPO was founded in September 2015 in Germany by the Syrian musician Raed Jazbeh.

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In 2025 Cove Park announced a two-year partnership with the Bagri Foundation to launch Sound Series, a new programme of residencies bringing international musicians to the UK.  Working collaboratively with Cove Park to nominate and select the artists, the Bagri Music Award is aimed at artistic development and is a unique opportunity for acclaimed emerging or mid-career musicians from West Asia to spend quality time in Scotland.

The Bagri Foundation works within a network of leading cultural organisations that champion artistic excellence and provide extraordinary artists from across Asia, wider visibility on the global stage.

The Bagri Music Awards makes possible two Sound Series residencies at Cove Park, the first in 2025 and the second in 2026, alongside live performances.

COMMON STRINGS/WSPÓLNE STRUNY Maciej Granat/Aleksandra Hałat/PolSco Choir

20 Saturday June 7:00pm

Join us for an extraordinary evening where Polish and Scottish cultures meet through the universal language of music. Pianists Maciej Granat and Aleksandra Hałat join forces with the PolSco Choir (directed by Maciej Granat) for a journey across genres and borders.

From the delightful elegance of classical rarities and the unfiltered emotions of traditional folk, to iconic film scores and contemporary pop, experience a specially chosen program in the stunning acoustics of Mackintosh Queen’s Cross.  

Dvořák, MacMillan, Nyman, Eurythmics, Sośnicka and more!

 Date: 20th June 2026 7pm | Doors open: 6:30pm 

Tickets available here: https://www.universe.com/events/common-strings-wspolne-struny-maciej-granat-aleksandra-halat-polsco-choir-tickets-7BD0PN?ref=share-widget-buffer

Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art

Thursday 4th – Sunday 21st June (check opening times)

Free and open to all, Glasgow International presents an array of artists’ projects across Glasgow, by international artists and those based locally. The festival amplifies the city’s identity as a vibrant centre for artistic production, presentation and cultural organising; and as a place with deep connections to international cultural and social concerns.

Glasgow International is a collective endeavour. The festival programme includes projects conceived and organised by Glasgow-based arts organisations, artist-led initiatives, artists, and curators, alongside the Glasgow International team. These projects span exhibitions, performances, research initiatives, community organising, and forms of publishing. The festival also includes a series of Gatherings, a programme of workshops, talks and discussions that will provide opportunities to engage more deeply with points of exchange and recurring themes across the festival.

A digital version of the programme is available here.

Maryhill Integration Network, Helen McCrorie, Annabel Wright
This Home, This Voice

Left pic: Annabel Wright, untitled, 2026 Right pic: Helen McCrorie,untitled ,2026 16mm film still

For This Home, This Voice, Maryhill Integration Network (MIN) and artists Helen McCrorie and Annabel Wright have collaborated on a behind-the-scenes portrait of MIN’s vital work, developing artistic responses to the experience of community-building in Glasgow.

MIN works alongside refugees, migrants, and people seeking asylum, with a focus on campaigning, wellbeing, and creativity. Helen McCrorie and Annabel Wright share a passion for documenting community groups and social activities and celebrating grassroots activism. The project has evolved through mutual learning and exchange.

In the year of MIN’s 25th anniversary, the resulting exhibition celebrates and reflects on daily acts of care and solidarity, through an evocative collage of drawings, sound recordings, 16mm film, and animation.

For opening times, other than the regular Mackintosh Queen’s Cross opening times, check the link below:

https://glasgowinternational.org/programme/projects/this-home-this-voice

Glasgow Phoenix Choir

Mackintosh: A Birthday Celebration

7 Sunday June 14:30pm

The Glasgow Phoenix Choir is delighted to be performing a concert in Mackintosh Queen’s Cross, to celebrate the birthday of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 Jun 1868) and we welcome a return to this beautiful venue after many years. The Glasgow Phoenix Choir is now performing its 75th season of choral excellence.  Our conductor, Cameron Murdoch joined us in 1987 as Accompanist and Depute Conductor, taking over as conductor in 2019.  Cameron is also Organist and Choir Master of St. John’s Renfield Church in Glasgow’s West End and is accompanist to the excellent Glasgow CREATE Choirs.  Many of the pieces in the current Phoenix repertoire were arranged by Cameron.

The Glasgow Phoenix Choir performs many concerts every year, the majority of which raise money for charity and each involves a range of music from choral standards to new music and, in addition, features many delightful solo performances from choir members.

Matthew McIlree, our regular accompanist, will perform with us at this concert.  He has been a multiple prize winner at both the Glasgow and Inverclyde music festivals, including twice winning the Glasgow Society of Organists’ Trophy at the Glasgow open organ class; and three times winning the top piano award, as well the 2016 overall prize, in Inverclyde. He is now undertaking PhD studies and in his ‘spare time’ works as a freelance wedding musician and accompanist. Matthew can also be heard playing the organ as part of the daily recital programme at Kelvingrove Art Gallery.

£10.00 available from MRC Shop or from WeGotTickets via the choir’s website at www.phoenixchoir.org