SCOTLAND AT ESNS

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15-18 Jan 2025

Groningen, Netherlands 🇳🇱

We’re back in Groningen flying the flag for Scotland at Europe’s leading showcase festival

Scotland’s
Networking Reception

Thursday 16 January 2025
17.30-19.30 | O’Malley’s

Join Scotland’s Music Convention Wide Days for a warming bowl of Scotch broth, chips, deep-fried mars bars and whisky samples.

Showcasing Artists

Brògeal

Fri 17 > Sat 18 Jan · Het Paleis · 00:20-01:00 · venue map ↗

Daniel Harkins and Aidan Callaghan got to know each other on the bus from Falkirk to Glasgow, and started a ‘trash punk garbage rock band’ in high school together. This eventually grew into a five-piece, named after an ancient group of travelling mercenaries, who in the winter turned to playing music for food: the Brògeal. With influences from Scottish and Irish folk music and instruments like banjo, mandolin and grandad’s accordion, they play “true Scottish pop music that is too folk for the indie kids and too indie for the folk dads”.

Cara Rose

Thu 16 Jan · Nieuwe Kerk · 23:30-00:10 · venue map ↗

Cara Rose is a 26-year-old singer-songwriter from Glasgow, Scotland, exploring what it means to be a young woman in such uncertain times. Distinctly Glaswegian, her direct, passionate and insightful lyrics pull no punches as she traverses topics of love, life, and her place in the world. Cara nurtured her love for music from the soul, inspired by artists like Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, Joan Armatrading, and John Martyn. In 2024 she embarked on her debut European tour, selling out shows across Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Jacob Alon

Fri 17 Jan · Lutherse Kerk · 21:00-21:40 · venue map ↗

Jacob Alon is a Scottish singer-songwriter with a profound gift for storytelling. Both intimate and devastatingly introspective, the music is touched by a rare timelessness. Alon, raised by a single mother in the suburbs of Dunfermline, learned a first piano piece at age 9 and picked up the guitar at 15, enchanted by the intimate, somber beauty of wizards like Nick Drake and Adrianne Lenker. The first taste of this extraordinary songwriter is ‘Fairy in a Bottle’, a bright and yearning acoustic masterstroke. On it, Alon sings of impossible, obsessive love.

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