7 d. ago Talented young musicians from West Lothian play to packed audiences at annual concert series

Pupils from 37 schools in the local authority area performed

Culture

8 d. ago I was 36 weeks pregnant when I was jailed and nearly gave birth behind bars

Jodie was sent to HMP Peterborough in 2011 after she stole £20,000 from the bank where she worked - money that belonged to an elderly man with Alzheimer's.

Events

8 d. ago Elton John and Brandi Carlile to perform in ‘unforgettable’ ITV concert special

The concert, An Evening With Elton John And Brandi Carlile, will be hosted by Schitt’s Creek actor Dan Levy.

Culture

2 w. ago Elton John: New artists should ‘play in a pub’ instead of on The X Factor

The 77-year old musician has warned emerging talent away from the instant fame that comes with televised music competitions.

Culture

2 w. ago Motherwell gym raises incredible £18k for Beatson Cancer Charity after 24 hour challenge

The event brought together over 400 participants throughout the day, included a range of fitness activities designed to push physical limits while supporting those affected by cancer.

Economics

3 w. ago Talented young musicians perform at concert in Motherwell raising money for Alzheimer's charity

Olivia Bowden and Marco Festorazzi entertained at the United Services club

Culture

3 w. ago Everybody Loves the Sunshine is just one point of perfection in Roy Ayers’ truly ubiquitous legacy | Alexis Petridis

Ayers’ genre-bending jazz-funk sound produced one fantastic album after another – and then found a new lease of life in hip-hop sampling• Roy Ayers, jazz-funk pioneer behind Everybody Loves the Sunshine, dies aged 84There’s a sense in which Roy Ayers was blessed from the start. Aged five, the son of two musicians – and by all accounts already showing talent as a pianist – he was famously presented with his first set of vibraphone mallets backstage at a gig by Lionel Hampton. If you wanted to take a romantic view, you could look on that as an act of benediction: the man who had more or less singlehandedly popularised an instrument that had previously been viewed as a novelty passing on the mantle along with his mallets. Hampton had broken racial barriers in the process: at a time when jazz bands were almost entirely segregated, Hampton and pianist Teddy Wilson’s work with Benny Goodman’s quartet was subtly acclaimed by one critic as “the most beautiful example of men working together...

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