The Chester Summer Music Festival is back to bring you the best in choral and orchestral music with “a hint of France”. Highlights include the European Union Chamber Orchestra with the stunning Nicola Benedetti as violin soloist in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Opera North Orchestra in Saint-Saen’s great Organ Symphony, the Choir of King’s College Cambridge… Read More
The recent flooding around Nashville, Tennessee has caused utter devastation for many people and left 30 people dead. As one of the greatest musical centres in the world the losses to musicians and indeed music history are not small either. Along with the historic Grand Ole Opry House, musican’s hub Soundcheck and recently opened Musicians… Read More
Applications are now open for the New Music 20×12 (twenty times 12 minute compositions) programme for the London 2012 Olympics, which will see 20 pieces performed at least 3 times each and broadcast internationally on BBC Radio 3 as part of the 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Venues, festivals and ensembles who commission works from UK based… Read More
On Thursday the 20th of May the legendary Bobby Kimball of iconic rock band TOTO will be jetting to the Mantra Garden Bar in Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland to perform at the launch party for the much anticipated i-tab which, despite delays due to volcanic ash and software updates, is going to arrive at Dawsons… Read More
Dawsons Music Reading are presenting in collaboration with Roland UK a Roland V-Drum day featuring the UK’s most in-demand session drummer Craig Blundell (AKA Dr. Octopus). Craig will be presenting demonstrations through out the day of the Roland TD20 and TD9 V-Drum kits along with the first look at the all new version of Roland’s… Read More
Line 6 have teamed up with legendary guitar maker James Tyler to create the three beauties above: JTV-69, JTV-59, JTV-89. The James Tyler Variaxes have all the great modelling features and playability of the previous generation of Variaxes but with some serious new features. All three of these guitars have James Tyler designed pickups (and… Read More
Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (of The Mars Volta) have teamed up to release a new album and they are literally giving it away! According to the duo this 30 minute instrumental album, which is simply titled Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & John Frusciante, “was recorded many years ago” but never… Read More
Thursday the 19th of August is going to be a day that this year’s A-level students will be dreading but we want to give them something to look forward to, as well as a little extra encouragement. Any student who gets an “A” grade in their A-level results this year will be entitled to 10% off at Dawsons… Read More
To enter this competition you have to film yourself playing an Epiphone guitar for a maximum of 90 seconds and upload the entry to a video hosting website (such as Youtube) and then click here to submit your entry and your contact details. There are also other competitions and freebies on Epiphone’s goodies page such as… Read More
Videos from the April 10th Open Mic Day at our Stockport store are now uploaded on Youtube so watch the one above and click here to see the others on the Dawsons Youtube Channel. As we reported previously, guitarist-singer-songwriter Rosie Lewis-Dunn bagged the top prize, winning a Farida F-8CE acoustic guitar with a case and… Read More
