A gig held at The Cube on Sunday 23rd November. The event starts at 19:30.
An evening of voice & song blending improvisation & tradition.
Muslim Shaggan is a classical vocalist from Pakistan. A golden voice with a tender, soulful musicality rooted in the rich heritage & learning descending from Bhai Mardana (1459-1534), the muslim musician companion of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. This lineage of Rababi musicians eventually adopted the Gwalior style of Hindustani vocal music. Muslim was trained from a young age by one of its finest exponents, his grandfather, Ustad Ghulam Hassan.
He released Asar, his debut album, earlier this year on honiunhoni, the label of Ustad Noor Bakesh. Accompanied by harmonium & tanpura, Asar is a collection of South Asian styles; geet, ghazal, thumri, and kafi with a close voiced intimacy of nighttime reflection & deep spirituality.
This will be a rare chance to experience South Asian classical music amongst The Cube’s wood panelled auditorium resonance.
“in the presence of something special” Maria Lord, Songlines
Quinie (pronounced qu-why-nee, “young woman” in the Doric dialect) is a singer working from the Scots folksong tradition.
Both reverent and radical, Quinie’s approach to the tradition draws in voice and pipes, including canntaireachd (the vocal mimicry of pipe music) alongside toasts, improvisations, and poetic settings. Singing largely in Scots, one of Scotland's three official languages along with Gaelic and English, Quinie suggests this expression connects directly to “the landscapes I love” and acknowledges the ancestors that came before.
Her style is inspired by the Scottish Traveller singers, such as Sheila Stewart, and this respect and storytelling encourages celebration of travelling presence & history, often marginalised and discriminated against in modern Scotland, “despite being custodians of so many of our important traditions”.
For Quinie’s third album, Forefowk, Mind Me, following earlier releases on GLARC, she journeyed across the landscapes of the West of Scotland with her horse to explore the interconnected relationships between people, ancestors, animals, and place. Quinie is a vital presence in the song lines that thread Scottish greats such as Lizzie Higgins, Jeannie Robertson and Sheila Stewart together.
“unfiltered, ripe singing voice resonates like a siren…Alive with ideas” Jude Rogers, The Guardian.
Entry requirements: 18+
Muslim Shaggan is a classical vocalist from Pakistan. A golden voice with a tender, soulful musicality rooted in the rich heritage & learning descending from Bhai Mardana (1459-1534), the muslim musician companion of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. This lineage of Rababi musicians eventually adopted the Gwalior style of Hindustani vocal music. Muslim was trained from a young age by one of its finest exponents, his grandfather, Ustad Ghulam Hassan.
He released Asar, his debut album, earlier this year on honiunhoni, the label of Ustad Noor Bakesh. Accompanied by harmonium & tanpura, Asar is a collection of South Asian styles; geet, ghazal, thumri, and kafi with a close voiced intimacy of nighttime reflection & deep spirituality.
This will be a rare chance to experience South Asian classical music amongst The Cube’s wood panelled auditorium resonance.
“in the presence of something special” Maria Lord, Songlines
Quinie (pronounced qu-why-nee, “young woman” in the Doric dialect) is a singer working from the Scots folksong tradition.
Both reverent and radical, Quinie’s approach to the tradition draws in voice and pipes, including canntaireachd (the vocal mimicry of pipe music) alongside toasts, improvisations, and poetic settings. Singing largely in Scots, one of Scotland's three official languages along with Gaelic and English, Quinie suggests this expression connects directly to “the landscapes I love” and acknowledges the ancestors that came before.
Her style is inspired by the Scottish Traveller singers, such as Sheila Stewart, and this respect and storytelling encourages celebration of travelling presence & history, often marginalised and discriminated against in modern Scotland, “despite being custodians of so many of our important traditions”.
For Quinie’s third album, Forefowk, Mind Me, following earlier releases on GLARC, she journeyed across the landscapes of the West of Scotland with her horse to explore the interconnected relationships between people, ancestors, animals, and place. Quinie is a vital presence in the song lines that thread Scottish greats such as Lizzie Higgins, Jeannie Robertson and Sheila Stewart together.
“unfiltered, ripe singing voice resonates like a siren…Alive with ideas” Jude Rogers, The Guardian.
Entry requirements: 18+
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