Cassani/Campbell/Stephen @ Glad Cafe 21st December
- 21 Dec 2025, 7:30 p.m., The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Glad cafe tickets site
Repertoire La Cavallina, by Roberto Cassani
Description
A joyful celebration of improvised music and friendship from a trio of unique Scottish artists.
Fraser Campbell has been based in NYC for many years now, but he is from Perth, and returns when he can, to let loose with pal double bassist Roberto Cassani (who’s not strictly Scottish, but we’ve adopted him). The pairs’ 2023 album “Poet.Shuts.Clock” came out to rave reviews on the legendary Sunnyside Records. Meanwhile, Scotland’s guitar treasure Graeme Stephen, also released a critically acclaimed album with Roberto this year: “Pictish Spaghetti”, on Brooklyn label 577 Records.
The trio met this summer for one afternoon and almost accidentally ended up recording a belter of an album of groovy and ever changing free music: “La Cavallina”, soon to be released on brand new label ‘Music for the purpose of Joy’.
Now they are meeting up again for more of the same, but obviously different, and this time you can be there to witness it.
You will be made very welcome: it’s going to be friendly, joyful, a real one-off and totally in the moment.
Performers Fraser A Campbell, Graeme Stephen, Roberto Cassani
Submitted by Roberto Cassani
Upcoming events
- 12 Oct 2026, 12:30
[Composers' Coffee Club: online coffee chat for composers & musicians] - 22 Oct 2026, 18:00
[Neil Smith: Try Try Try (soundfestival 2026)] - 28 Oct 2026, 18:00
[Composing for Media - NMS Peer to Peer session 3] - 29 Oct 2026, 19:30
[BBC SSO: Enrico Chapela's 'Antiphaser' (Concerto for electric violin and orchestera)] - 30 Oct 2026, 18:00
[James Weeks: weatherworld quartets (soundfestival 2026)]
Recent updates
Works
- Les Mélodies Nutritives, by Julien Lonchamp
- Sòlás Collective - Improvised, by Tom Macfadyen
- Quartet no 6 (Ma), by Matthew Whiteside
Events
- Composing for Media - NMS Peer to Peer session 3
- Neil Smith: Try Try Try (soundfestival 2026)
- James Weeks: weatherworld quartets (soundfestival 2026)
Projects
- Pete Stollery conducts Joe Stollery premiere
- Aides... mémoires... Project album launch
- On a Wing and a Prayer
Opportunities
- Red Note Factory Weekend – 17 & 18 October 2026
- Noisy Nights – Call for Scores
- Nordic Music Days 2027: Call for Works
