Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Friday 4 April 2025 at 1.30pm
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Join Masa Nazzal as she launches and perform parts of her debut tape release on Glasgow’s GLARC cassette label, Slovenia Inshallah.
Slovenia Inshallah is a mixtape created by Masa Nazzal and Ilyas Titaou. Masa spent three months working in Bihać, Bosnia between October 2023 – January 2024 with a no-borders activist group called, No Name Kitchen, where she collected testimonies of violence happening to people on the move trying to pass through Croatia to Slovenia in order to seek asylum in the European Union. The mixtape and performance uses field recording, poetry, songs and storytelling to create a sonic journey about the violence and hopes of border realities; recorded in squats, outside of transit camps and on the streets. Masa’s performance explores how sound becomes the medium to imagine political futures that are not visible, but heard. Creating the spaces to hear futures that are not yet here. Masa uses these political soundscapes to listen from afar – both in time and space – to political possibilities hidden in the cracks of what is now. It is this sonic reaching that our ears hear what is beneath, below, ahead, and above to find new borderless futures.
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Saturday 5 April 2025 at 1.00pm
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A rare chance to hear Amina Claudine Myers’ story from her own voice, tracing her life and career’s trajectory through her early days in Chicago’s AACM collective, her solo work, collaborative work (including stints with Lester Bowie, Archie Shepp and Wadada Leo Smith) and her music today. Amina’s deep absorption in jazz, the avante-garde, blues, classical, gospel, and world music traditions positions her within a fascinating space in musical, poltical and cultural historical, and hopefully this discussion offers us the opportunity to delve deeper into this.
Adèle Oliver – an artist, scholar, and linguist originally Birmingham – will facilitate this talk. Adele’s practice focusses on black music, politics and culture and colonialism. Her recent publication “Deeping It” examines the criminalisation of UK Drill music.
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Friday 9 May 2025 at 7.30pm
Tickets £44.00 +booking fee (available from SeeTickets)
Curtis Stigers drives his publicists crazy.
For the past 30 years, the singer, songwriter, saxophonist and guitarist has been making records that confound those who try to categorize his music or put him in a box.
Curtis Stigers has had several top ten hits as a long-haired, blue-eyed soul singer and he’s written and sung an Emmy nominated TV theme song. He’s recorded a track for one of the biggest-selling pop albums of all 1me and he’s released nine critically acclaimed award-winning jazz albums. He’s played for presidents and princes, and he’s appeared in two Seth MacFarlane movies about a foul-mouthed cuddly bear called Ted. He’s recorded thirteen studio albums and a live album singing Sinatra songs with a big band from Denmark. He’s toured with symphony orchestras, written songs with Carole King and dueNed with Al Green, Shawn Colvin and Tom Jones.
Stigers’ success as a songwriter has included co-writing with the likes of legends like Carole King, Barry Mann and Beth Nielsen Chapman, and his songwriting talent also led to an Emmy nomination for co-writing and singing the theme song to the wildly successful TV series Sons Of Anarchy.
It is his rich singing voice, however—singular, balletic, and at turns both mournful and playful— that has landed him on records with the likes of Al Green, Shawn Colvin and Jackson Browne, in studios with venerated producers like Larry Klein, Danny Kortchmar, and Glen Ballard, and on stages and concert bills with pop and rock legends, including Eric Clapton, Elton John, Bonnie RaiN, Prince, Rod Stewart and The Allman Brothers Band, as well as jazz giants Nancy Wilson, Al Jarreau, Gerry Mulligan, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Chuck Mangione, Toots Thielmans, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Kurt Elling, Diana Krall, John Scofield, Larry Goldings and many more.
After being mentored in his early years by legendary jazz pianist Gene Harris, and by the revered jazz singer Mark Murphy, Stigers’ unique talent was recognized by music business impresario Clive Davis, who signed Stigers to a record deal after hearing him in a New York restaurant. A debut album sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide on the strength of self-penned hit singles like “I Wonder Why,” “You’re All That Matters to Me,” and “Never Saw a Miracle.” A year later, Stigers contributed a cover version of Nick Lowe’s “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding” to The Bodyguard soundtrack, which has sold over 45 million copies worldwide. Multiple appearances on The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Today Show and countless International TV shows, put Stigers directly in the spotlight of popular culture. Stigers also made cameo appearances in the movie comedies, Ted and Ted 2, written and directed by his friend, Seth MacFarlane.
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Friday 23 May 2025 at 7.00pm
Tickets £20.00 +booking fee (available from Universe)
Purveyors of Premium Folk & Gypsy flavoured musical entertainment, violin superstar Christian Garrick, accordion genius Eddie Hession, double bass legend Kelly Cantlon and local guitar wrangler Adrian Zolotuhin will be making their debut this May.
The living embodiment of shabby chic, Budapest Cafe Orchestra take great tunes and re-purpose them (with impeccable musicianship and a touch of humour) for a concert audience. Toes will tap, tears may be shed, but you can be guaranteed an evening of beautiful music. “The Music is Magic in their hands” – Sean Rafferty, BBC Radio 3
The premiere winter festival and international celebration of Celtic music will illuminate stages across Glasgow from Thursday 16 January to Sunday 2 February 2025, eclipsing dark winter nights with a kaleidoscope of internationally-renowned music, exciting new performances and unique showcases.
Creative Director Donald Shaw programmes more than 300 events across multiple genres of music. The festival is renowned for its ability to bring together one-off line-ups for special collaborative shows. The camaraderie between musicians continues late into the night at the Festival Club – home to legendary musical collaborations and spontaneous sessions.
“If there’s one thing that makes wintertime in Glasgow great then it’s Celtic Connections”. The Guardian
This year we are delighted to host 14 concerts at Mackintosh Queen’s Cross.
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Friday 29 November 2024 at 7.00pm
Tickets £20.00 +booking fee (available from TicketWeb)
Hailing from the Scottish Highlands, Rachel Sermanni is an enchanting singer-songwriter, whose performance and lyrics draw from a deep well of mysticism, dreams, nature and the simple-complex experience of being human. A contemporary folk musician influenced by a wealth of genres including jazz, rock, old-time and traditional, her latest release, Dreamer Awake, is …’spare, spectral, intimate music that highlights the powers of Sermanni’s vocals’. Arts Desk
Rightly described by critics as a “Folk noir gem” (MOJO), “Stately, poetic” (CLASH) and “Folk of the Highest Order” (Time Out), Rachel Sermanni has been making music for over a decade and has developed her artistic voice over her many releases, each time pushing boundaries and experimenting with different musical textures.
Mackintosh Queen’s Cross | Sunday 1 December 2024 from 12 till 4.00pm
Come join us at our very special Christmas Shopping Day. Avoid the hustle and bustle of the High Street this Christmas Day and enjoy the tranquil surroundings of Mackintosh Queen’s Cross. This is a wonderful opportunity for friends and members to meet up and pick up some Christmas presents for your loved ones.
Find gifts inspired by our collection. From art books, cards, prints, jewellery, and scarves etc.,
Every purchase supports the work of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society.
The Spooky Men’s Chorale is a vast, rumbling, steam powered and black clad behemoth, seemingly accidentally capable of rendering audiences moist eyed with mute appreciation or haplessly gurgling with merriment. Based on the twin pillars of grand foolishness and the quest for the perfect subwoofer-rattling boofchord, the Spooky Men seek to commentate on the absurdity and grandeur of the modern male armed only with their voices, a sly collection of hats and facial hair, and a twinkle in the eye.
Formed in the Blue Mountains of NSW in 2001 by Christchurch born spookmeister Stephen Taberner, the Spooky Men soon attracted attention with a judicious combination of Georgian table songs, pindrop beautiful ballads, highly inappropriate covers, and immaculate man anthems like “Don’t stand between a a man and his tool”, all of which amounted to a manifesto for the new breed of man: happily suspended between thug and wimp.
The Spooky Men first attracted wider attention at the National Folk Festival in Canberra, 2004, which led to appearances at Woodford Festival and the first of six tours to the UK in 2006. Standout appearances amongst their 500+ gigs since have included (in Australia) WOMAD, The Great Escape Festival, Woodford, Cobargo, Port Fairy, Blue Mountains and Bellingen festivals. ABC TV appearances include The Mix, Spicks and Specks, and the New Inventors Grand Final.
In the UK/Europe they have appeared at major festivals including Tonder (Denmark), Cambridge, Broadstairs, Wickham, Camp Bestival, Towersey, Shrewsbury, and Edinburgh Fringe. Theatrical venues have included Union Chapel (London), St David’s Hall (Cardiff), The Philharmonic (Liverpool), Colston Hall (Bristol), the Sheldonian (Oxford) and Sage Gateshead.
The Spooky Men have recorded seven CDs: Tooled Up (2004), Stop Scratching It (2007), Deep (2009), Big (2011), The Spooky Man in History (2013), Warm (2015) and Welcome to the Second Half (2019).
In live performance, the Spooky Men draw on a combination of musical and theatrical values which are elusive and multifarious. Notable themes and antecedents include Georgian male polyphony, a running joke on man as a vast, oblivious useless object, whispers of clown, bouffon and Monty Python, and forays into massively pleasurable grunting tribalism. The audience are invited to first joyously endure a wall of mansound, then laugh stupidly, then venture into areas of great tenderness. It is ideally not so much comedic as hilarious, not so much shimmeringly perfect as human in a very deeply resonant way.
Please note that this show has a mix of floor and standard unreserved seating.
“JAZZ-BẢN ĐỊA” (Indigenous Jazz) is a concept about a music genre, a style seemingly shaped by the serendipitous encounter between the Jazz saxophonist Quyền Thiện Đắc and the creative group of musicians Đàn Đó. The journey with jazz music of Jazz saxophonist Quyen Thien Dac influenced by his family’s traditional musical background. His musical path involved persistent study and research abroad. After graduating from the Hanoi Conservatory of Music, he earned a scholarship to Berklee College of Music in the United States, followed by a master’s degree at Malmo University in Sweden. His return to Vietnam brought a foundation of Western knowledge along with ambitious thoughts about paving the way for a jazz style with the spirit of Vietnamese soul.
Đàn Đó will be collaborating with 3 Scottish musicians for this unique concert:
Sue McKenzie – saxophone Tom Bancroft – drums Ali Levack – whistle/pipes
In the dynamic landscape of contemporary jazz, Scottish pianist and composer Fergus McCreadie has carved a remarkable niche. Since 2021, his career has skyrocketed, marked by two acclaimed album releases that propelled him into the limelight – shortlisted for the Mercury Prize and clinching the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) for “Forest Floor.” His debut with Edition Records, “Cairn” (2021), set the stage for a journey deeply rooted in natural themes.
McCreadie’s latest venture, “Stream,” continues this intriguing exploration, this time delving into the essence of water. Accompanied by his long-standing comrades, David Bowden and Stephen Henderson, the album flows with the fluidity of its namesake. It’s a musical stream that flows through the rich landscapes of Scottish folklore and the sophisticated avenues of contemporary jazz, blending them seamlessly.
‘A giddying fusion of Scottish culture and jazz history’ – The Times
‘One of my favourite jazz piano trio albums of the last few years’ – Jamie Cullum
7:00 pm doors, 7:30 pm start time
Over 14s, under 16s accompanied by an adult over 18
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