The Path Of The Soul - The Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival
The Royal Sackbut Collective performs medieval to baroque on the precursor of the trombone.
The Royal Sackbut Collective is a historical brass chamber ensemble founded at the heart of the Royal College of Music brass department in 2024. Under the tutelage of the distinguished Sue Addison (as both an ensemble and as individuals), the group has showcased its passion for promoting all the artistic possibilities that the historical trombone offers, from rediscovering rarely performed early works to commissioning new pieces.
As a collective, they enjoy the flexibility of various instrumentations, often collaborating with guest artists, including singers and percussionists. Since their debut concert at the Salvation Army’s Regent Hall in London, they have become esteemed members of the Royal College of Music's Historical Performance department.
Andrew Cowie (tenor sackbut)
Sam Cox (alto + tenor sackbut)
Andy Leeming (tenor sackbut)
Jess Bull Anderson (tenor sackbut)
Adrian France (bass sackbut)
Govan Old Parish Church, Disabled Access, Govan subway
Cupid and Death - The Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival
Héloïse Bernard and friends perform the music of Dowland, 400 years after his death.
Fantasy: John Dowland
Come away, come sweet love: John Dowland
Time stands still: John Dowland
Nathaniel Giles' Miserere
The Frog Galliard: John Dowland
Now o now: John Dowland
Can she excuse my wrongs: John Dowland
Aude Sweete Love: Tobias Hume
O death rock me asleep: Anon / Anne Boleyn
In darkness let me dwell: John Dowland
Héloïse Bernard: voice
Lucia Capellaro: viola da Gamba
László Rózsa: recorders
Alex McCartney: lute
Govan Old Parish Church, Disabled Access, Govan subway
The Baroque Virtuosi - The Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland singers perform virtuoso baroque arias with students on period instruments.
RCS vocal students tread the light fantastic with spectacular, heart-wrenching and tender arias from the Baroque, supported by the next generation of early music string players from RCS and Glasgow University.
Anna Weronika Pych
Endless Pleasure - Handel Semele
Tornami a vagheggiar - Handel Alcina
With darkness deep as is my woe - Handel Theodora
Gabrielle McCann
Di Notte il Pellegrino & Caro, vieni a me
Handel Ricardo Primo, re d’Inghliterra
Tyler Newton
Forte e lieto - Handel Tamerlano
lo già t’amai - Handel Rodelinda
Deposuit Potentes - Bach Magnificat
Madison Cozens
Agitata infido flatu - Vivaldi Judith Triumphans
Qui Sedes - Bach Mass in B minor
Mi Lusinga il Dolce Affetto - Handel Alcina
Katy Reid
Neghittosi or voi che fate - Handel Ariodante
Col Piacer Della Mioa Fede - Handel Arsilda
Rejoice - Handel Messiah
violin 1 - Lucy Russell (leader), Celia Griffiths, Josh Albequerque
violin 2 - George Weir (principal), Evans Chou
viola - Emilian Danila (principal)
cello - Lucia Capellaro (principal), Sarah Kegerrais
bass - Callum Matheson (principal)
harpsichord - Mujie Yan
Govan Old Parish Church, Disabled Access, Govan subway
Supported by the Radcliffe, Cockaigne and Fidelio Charitable Trusts
Bach Cello Suites - The Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival
Pei-Jee Ng, principal cellist of the RSNO, plays Bach cello suites 1-3.
Australian cellist Pei-Jee Ng joined the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as Principal Cello in 2023 and also teaches at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. From 2015 to 2022 he was Co-Principal Cello of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He won the 2008 Young Classical Artists Trust auditions in London and was the 2001 Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year.
In addition to the six major Australian symphony orchestras, he has performed as soloist with Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, National Taiwan Symphony, Oulu Symphony, Estonian National Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra and London Philharmonic. In his debut season with the RSNO he performed Shostakovich’s Concerto No1 with Music Director Thomas Søndergård.
Bach’s likely wrote his six cello suites, some of the most outstanding cello repertoire ever, between 1717-23 in Köthen. He modelled them on a common baroque structure, beginning with a prelude then composing fashionable dance movements of the era. However, he transforms them into both individual masterpieces and integral units in the grand design of each suite. They faded into history until Pablo Casals recorded them in 1939, illuminating their world class stature in the repertoire.
Suite 1 in G
BWV 1007
I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV: Sarabande
V: Minuet 1&2
VI: Gigue
Suite 2 in D minor
BWV 1008
I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV: Sarabande
V: Minuet 1&2
VI: Gigue
Suite 3 in C
BWV 1009
I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV: Sarabande
V: Bourée 1&2
VI: Gigue
Govan Old Parish Church, Disabled Access, Govan subway, Free Entry
Iuchair - The Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival
Glasgow based vocal quartet sings 12th century devotional music from Santiago de Compostela.
Polyphony for St James from the Codex Calixtinus
12th-century devotional music from Santiago de Compostela
(All pieces are anon.)
Congaudeant catholici
Dum esset
Nostra phalanx
Iacobe sancte tuum
Gratulantes celebremus
Huic Iacobo
Alleluia vocavit
Ad superni regis decus
Iacobe virginei
Portum in ultimo
EDWARD MARSHALL - TENOR
ZAK MCCULLOUGH - BASS
ALASDAIR R O B E RT S O N - T E N O R
JOSHUA STUTTER - TENOR
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Govan Old Parish Church, Disabled Access, Govan subway
The Curious Collection - The Glasgow Barons Early Music Festival
Celebrate the newly discovered music of Scots organist Charles Macklean, who Handel brought to Dublin to premiere The Messiah with him.
In April 1742, Handel’s Messiah received its first performance in Dublin. Among the performers engaged for Handel’s celebrated Irish season was the Scottish violinist and organist Charles Macklean, a figure whose remarkable story has only recently come to light. Through sonatas, Scots tunes and vocal music, The Curious Collection traces Macklean’s career across Scotland, England and Ireland, revealing a musician equally at home in Italianate sonatas and Scottish fiddle music. Following his journey from Edinburgh and Montrose to London and Dublin, the programme explores the rich and interconnected musical world of the eighteenth century.
Aaron McGregor – violin
William Cole – harpsichord
Mhairi Lawson – voice
Alison McGillivray – baroque cello
Govan Old Parish Church, Disabled Access, Govan subway
Voices Of The Clyde
Montgomery's music shines over Govan songs of folk and steel by Norrie MacIver and Ainsley Hamill
Jessie Montgomery - Starburst (2012)
Jessie Montgomery - Chemiluminescence (2025 - Scottish premiere)
Ainsley Hamill - Songs from Not Just Ship Land (2017/21)
Norrie MacIver - Songs of Govan Old (2017/21)
This extraordinary orchestral programme brings together three amazing talents. In 2017, The Glasgow Barons introduced Ainsley Hamill and Norrie MacIver to the Govan Reminiscence Group, commissioning them to write new songs about local heroes and heroines and sing them in Govan with the orchestra. Here, for the first time, they come together for an evening of utter delight.
“The Gaelic cross-over voice of his generation". Norrie MacIver is a singer of range, clarity and melody, and although firmly rooted in Gaelic tradition, he has a voice completely at ease with a backbeat, effortlessly exploring rhythm and modern idioms.” - Calum MacDonald, Runrig. Norrie hails from Carloway in the Isle of Lewis and currently lives in Fife. From 2016 to 2025, he performed worldwide as Skippinish's lead singer, including Edinburgh Castle in front of 8000 people. We released our album with him, "Songs of Govan Old" in 2021.
Ainsley Hamill is one of the UK’s most distinctive and versatile singers, known for her remarkable voice, storytelling, and emotive style. Hailing from the West Coast of Scotland, Ainsley has built a career celebrated for its authenticity, merging traditional Scottish folk with a modern touch. Her Govan songs, appearing in the album "Not Just Ship Land", moved her into a more introspective and thematic songwriting style, with a focus on feminism and equality.
Jessie Montgomery is a GRAMMY® Award-winning composer, violinist, and educator whose work interweaves classical with folk music, improvisation, poetry, and social consciousness. Named Performance Today’s 2025 Classical Woman of the Year, her profound works have been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” (The Washington Post). Starburst's exploding gestures and gentle fleeting melodies create a kaleidoscopic world of rapidly changing colours. Chemiluminescence interprets light, agitation, reaction, and frenetic interplay, exploring her interest in connection between music and the natural world.
No Borders String Trio: The Billiard Room Sessions
Catch the No Borders String Trio LIVE @ Govan & Linthouse Parish Church on the 25th June. FREE ENTRY // DISABLED ACCESS
No Borders Trio is a dynamic string trio committed to breaking down barriers through live music centred around the performance of classical music in diverse community settings, such as hospitals, care homes, schools and arts venues across Scotland. The trio consists of Frances Patterson (Violin), Suzanne Godet (Viola) and Joanna Stark (Cello), all recent graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with previous experience of volunteering with non-for-profit organisations such as the Nevis Ensemble and in Dementia Day Care centres. The group formed in early 2023 through their shared passion for chamber music and drive to build stronger links between music and communities.
In 2026 they were awarded the Chamber Music Scotland Small Venues Touring Fund to tour their new Soundbath concept across rural Scotland. Inspired by meditation techniques, this soundbath concert series will focus on the journey of the listener through the music of Wolfgang Van Schweinitz. They are very excited about this new collaboration with the Los Angeles based composer, which will open new development in their versatile portfolio.
"No Borders string trio is delighted to welcome you in their special new concert series exploring a new way to experience music, called soundbath.
The concert will be around the piece by Wolfgang Von Schweinitz called Klang auf Schön Berg La Monte Young, a string trio composed in 1999 and revised in 2013. This 45 min long piece consists of sustained microtonal harmonies which very gradually resolve to major harmonies. The piece comprises lots of swelling in dynamics with various motives coming in and out to introduce a news layers playing with the tension/release of the harmony.
The composer was inspired by La Monte Young and on the Indian Raga. The word raga means “colour” and in Indian Classical music, the role of Raga is to colour the mind of the listener with improvised music, set with specific rules varying according to the season, the mood or the emotion.
Take a breath, relax your shoulders and let yourself go on a musical journey!"
FREE ENTRY // DISABLED ACCESS
Govan & Linthouse Parish Church
1pm, 25th June 2026
Musicians In Exile Present: Under One Sky (Refugee Festival Scotland)
Join us for Musicians In Exile Present: Under One Sky - a part of Refugee Festival Scotland 2026.
Musicians In Exile Present: Under One Sky
Get ready for an unforgettable in-person experience with musicians coming together to celebrate unity and culture. Under One Sky is all about sharing stories, rhythm, and soul in a night filled with amazing performances. Musicians in Exile, made up of Glasgow's asylum seeking and refugee musicians, present their annual show for Refugee Festival Scotland celebrating the landmark UN Refugee Convention of 1951 that has protected millions of lives, theirs among them. Don’t miss out on this event! Supported by Craignish Trust, Gordon Fraser Foundation, Glasgow Wellbeing Fund.
Govan & Linthouse Parish Church, DISABLED ACCESS
Northern Lights - The Glasgow Barons Orchestra
The Glasgow Barons string orchestra paints a panopy of north European sounds from Iceland to Ireland, from Finland to the Faroe Isles.
Join us in lighting up Govan with a spectacular spectrum of Nordic sounds and a live performance of The Danish String Quartet's album "Keel Road".
Dag Wirén - Serenade for Strings (1937)
Rautavaara - Divertimento for Strings (1953)
María Sigfúsdóttir - Horfnir Skógar - Vanished Woods (2023)
The Danish String Quartet - "Keel Road" album (2024)
Conductor - Paul MacAlindin
Supported by Creative Scotland.
Part of Westfest '26.
DISABLED ACCESS
Little Melonae: Billiard Room Session
Little Melonae puts together three of Scotland’s brightest Jazz talents, Harben Kay (tenor saxophone) Stephen Henderson (drums) and Brodie Jarvie (acoustic bass). The trio explores repertoire from the likes of Jackie Mclean, Carla Bley, Alice Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.
Their sound draws upon the jazz post-bop tradition, allowing for free improvisation and explosive interplay. Formed in 2025, the band’s debut performance was to a sold-out audience at the iconic Jazz Bar in Edinburgh as part of the Jazz and Blues Festival.
Tom Campbell Trio: Billiard Room Session
This Glasgow folk trio are Battle of the Folk Bands winners 2021 and BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Finalists 2019.
The Tom Campbell Trio is a collective of three Scottish musicians with Tom on Flute, Callum Convoy on Bodhran and Gillie O'Flaherty on Guitar. All three are immersed in the Glasgow traditional music scene. The trio’s sound comes from a blend of tastes, ideas and experiences formed from Scottish and Irish musical traditions. A lot of the band’s music is original, although inspired by trad. However, contemporary ideas are also included in the new compositions and arrangements.
DCS BHANGRA NIGHT - GOVAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
DCS, Rootless and Cosmic Dance
DCS, one of the greatest Bhangra bands in the world, launched their first album "Teri Shaun" back in 1985 and have been rocking the Asian music scene ever since.
Rootless unite Glasgow's top Indian classical and Roma musicians in a fusion that will get you jumping for joy.
Cosmic Dance have been championing the gorgeous dance forms of Bharatanatyam in Edinburgh. They have grown and popularised Bharatanatyam in its traditional and modern form across Scotland.
TICKETS £10 plus booking fee. Under 16s must be accompanied by parent or legal guardian. Disabled access. Bar. Doors open 7pm.
The Four Barons String Quartet - GOVAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
Govan's resident string quartet performs a stunning line up of classic masterworks old and new, with tuneful cheer and dramatic atmosphere.
Schubert -Death and the Maiden (1824)
Moishe's Bagel - Timgad & Rosa Ravelska's Blind Date(arr. Ben Norris 2025)
Donnacha Dennehy - STAMP (to avoid erotic thoughts) (2008)
Grace-Evangeline Mason - Midnight Spires (2019)
Aaron McGregor - violin 1
Allison Stringer - violin 2
Zoe Matthews - viola
Marina Sanchez-Caballo - cello
Supported by McGlashan Charitable Trust, disabled access
FREED UP FRIDAY - GOVAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
Freed Up Friday brings people together to celebrate music, recovery and creativity, all in a safe, welcoming, drug anad alcohol-free space. With powerful live performances and an unbeatable atmosphere, it’s more than a gig — it’s a movement! Featuring Hunter & McMustard, Hawaii Fivo, Willie Campbell, FREED UP singer songwriters and Phoenix Futures rappers. Supported by HSCP Glasgow, Creative Scotland, Baillie Gifford through Foundation Scotland FREE TICKETS HERE disabled access. Ibrox & Cessnock subways.
The Auld Alliance - GOVAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
The Glasgow Barons Orchestra presents riffs, roars & romance from Scotland & France.
Scotland and France, two cultures forged together through history; passionate, stylish and gallus!
Ibert - Concertina da Camera for saxophone and chamber orchestra - soloist Dean Garrity
Richard Greer - Inheritance (premiere)
Damase - Duo Concertant - flute Catriona Ryan, harp Teresa Romão
MacMillan - The Exorcism of Rio Sumpul
Conductor Paul MacAlindin
The Great Govan Sea Voyage - GOVAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
Riverside Primary P5 & 6 create a brand new show, six months in the making, with director John Binnie and composer Karen McIver on their learning theme of Govan's ship building heritage. Local singer-songwriters Jennifer Armstrong, Ant Thomaz, Alex Neilsen and Hawaii Fivo also perform their new songs celebrating The Clyde. Choreography Jane Simpson, Robin Mitchell design. Supported by Creative Scotland & Ernst Maas Educational Trust.
FREE ENTRY: TICKETS HERE
Govan School Choirs - GOVAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
School choirs from Lorne St, Ibrox, Govan Gaelic, St Saviours, St Constantines, Pirie Park Primaries and musicians from Hazelwood. Free entry, tickets here.
A WORLD OF CEILIDH - GOVAN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026
Dance the night away with Glasgow's own refugee Musicians in Exile performing music of their homelands alongside Glasgow University musicians and alumni Ceithir Ceilidh band.
Tròppos Ensemble - Billiard Room Session
Oboe, clarinet, violin and tuba play Latin and Spanish music! What's not to love about that? Tròppos take us through a world of dance rhythms to return us to the sensuality of movement in music. Thu 12th Mar, 1pm entry free, disabled access, Govan & Linthouse Church, opposite Govan subway, disabled access.
The Silver Keys: Billiard Room Sessions
The Silver Keys are a dynamic multi-national clarinet quartet based in Scotland. Scottish-American, English, Lithuanian, and Polish, they are passionate about sharing the transformative power of worldwide music in all kinds of settings. Free entry, disabled access, opposite Govan subway & bus station