Club Calendar

Giulia Drummond and Mario Caribé will perform at the Scottish Arts Club in the second of  a series of three monthly concert from May-July. In this show, Giulia and Mario will be joined by accordionist Phil Alexander in a musical love letter to humanity; playing genres and styles from across the whole globe!

Phil Alexander is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he works on Scottish-Jewish musical encounters. His monograph Sounding Jewish in Berlin: klezmer music and the contemporary city was published by Oxford University Press in 2021, and he has also published on Edinburgh salsa, Holocaust memorial silence, synagogue cantors in Glasgow, and accordions. Phil is also a busy musician, leading the band Moishe’s Bagel and performing and recording regularly with well-known UK folk and jazz artists.

Giulia Drummond is a singer-songwriter from Brazil now based in Scotland. Her musical background is filled with magical sonorities from all over the world, from Afro-Brazilian chants to Celtic music, visiting Buddhist and Hindu mantras, Hebrew and Sephardic music, in a constant research for as many influences she can find on what she refers to as Magical Music. By exploring these different music traditions, she also explores the languages, singing in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Gaelic, Latin, Hebrew, Haitian Criollo, Yoruba, Ladino…

Sao Paolo-born bassist Mario Caribé has been a major presence on the Scottish music scene since he moved here to study in 1996. He has worked with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and klezmer adventurers Moishe’s Bagel, as well as playing innumerable sideman dates across a spectrum of style.