New Writers Edinburgh book festival 2015

Lucy Ribchester

Oscar Coop-Phane

Shami Chakrabarti

Nell Zink

Sara Nović

Salia Simmuka

Zink Zink ives in Bad Belzig, Germany. Zink worked in construction, waited tables, and was a secretary before working as a translator.  "There's never a market for true art," Zink told an interviewer, "so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.

Mugstock Music festival

A new boutique festival at Mugdock Country park
I arrived at Mugstock with the early buzz of participants, families and music fans. The new festival has been designed to have broad appeal with a mix of music for all tastes and ages from dancing funk, classic rock, dynamic guitars!  The festival provided a friendly and fun atmosphere and clearly a lot of thought has gone into the planning. 

By five the Main Stage tent had developed a steam from the heat of bodies (or the steam machine!) in the enclosed space.The four year-old with the ‘born to rock’ T shirt was still running around in front of the stage.
Someone was getting a Shiatsu head and neck message. It is strange how atmosphere’s change over the day, as time takes a break at festivals and live music.  What is better than an excellent musician, renowned guitarist Preston Reed who played powerhouse guitar rhythms, and a time to relax and chill...http://www.mugstock.org/

My personal highlights were the chilled moments with Preston Reed's dynamic guitar playing, the effervescence of Mikey 9s dancing sound, crazy slide guitar of Dave Acari, the energy of Dodgy’s classic rock and the dancing fun of 

 Overall a highly professional and well organised new festival. Many congratulations to the festival teams hard work pulling it all together! 

Mugstock Photo gallery - http://pkimage.co.uk/p125685535

mugdock festival

Red Hot Chilli Pipers

Crossborder band & Erne Parkin

Bellevenue Rendevous

Fribo

In 2007 I enjoyed shooting one of my first music festivals – Mugdock music festival. I took photos again at Mugdock festival in 2008 and also in 2009. Mugdock country park lent itself to an intimate and fun festival. Headliners included Aly Bain, Battlefield band, Red hot Chilli pipers, Karen Matheson, Michael Marra, Kris Drever and John McCusker and more.  

 The festival was brought together by the fun energy of director Erne Parkin who sang with the Crossborder band and sadly died in 2009. 

Mugdock PHOTOS - http://pkimage.co.uk/mugdockfestival

This weekend  7th to 9th August, a NEW Mugstock festival takes place at Mugdock - check out their top line up here - http://www.mugstock.org

Erne Parkin

Fiddler Aly Bain with the sighthill project

Diwan

Battlefield band

Scottish Ballet

The Punch Brothers

he Punch Bothers were received with warm applause by fans at the Glasgow concert hall.
They consist of Chris Thile (mandolin), Gabe Witcher (fiddle/violin), Noam Pikelny (banjo), Chris Eldridge (guitar), and Paul Kowert (bass).They performed tracks from their upcoming release , 27th January 2014 - The Phosphorescent Blues. The band play acoustic song stories, unaccompanied singing, instrumentals, spirituals and sing with strong falsettos and harmony. The band wrote the song Dark Days for the movie Hunger Games 2012, and also performed on the songs The Last Thing on My Mind (Tom Paxton) and Ewan MacColl's The Shoals of Herring on the Coen Brothers 2013 film Inside LLewyn Davis.

American bluegrass player Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien, American country and bluegrass musician, performed at the Transatlantic Sessions at Celtic Connections Glasgow.