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BOOKINGS: Email: rose-room@hotmail.co.uk

Tel: 07902 422796 or 0141 632 9526

Website: www.roseroom.co.uk

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BIOGRAPHY:

Scottish Jazz Awards finalists Rose Room have become one of Scotland’s leading ensembles influenced by the Gypsy Jazz genre. Sharing a love of Swing music and the style of the great Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, their“vigorous and vivacious” performances seem to go “down a storm” with any audience as their 1930s ‘Hot Club’ standards and self-penned originals are always served up with great energy and panache.

Based in Glasgow, the quartet features award-winning virtuoso violinist and vocalist Seonaid Aitken (who also performs with Scottish Opera, folk singer Roddy Woomble and recently orchestrated the music for the BBC/Richard Curtis film ‘Esio Trot’), guitar maker to the stars Jimmy Moon on double bass, and Danny Kyle Award-winners ‘Swing Guitars’ Tam Gallagher and Tom Watson on rhythm and lead guitars respectively.

With two albums recorded to date - ‘Somewhere In Roseland’ (2011) and ‘Am I Blue’ (2013) - Rose Room have headlined at all of the major Scottish Jazz Festivals, have appeared at the celebrated Shetland Folk Festival, and have toured Ireland and performed at the Limavady Jazz and Blues Festival and the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

Rose Room were delighted to have been nominated for ‘ensemble of the year’ in the 2013 Scottish Jazz Awards and are frequently played on Jazz FM and BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘TheJazz House’. They are supporters of The Clutha Trust and recently appeared at Glasgow’s Barrowland Ballroom for the launch of this new charity. Two of Rose Room’s tracks are also featured on The Clutha Sessions CD.

“Rose Room swing harder than an elm tree in a force nine English gale…”

SHETLAND NEWS

“…as close to the sound of the great StephaneGrappelli as I think you’re going to hear in Scotland”.

The Jazz House, BBC RADIO SCOTLAND

“…the way that Rose Room plays this material manages to revitalise it while remaining true to its origins.”

fROOTS Magazine

“…they manage the feat of making music that’s essentially rooted in the 1930s sound both fresh and true to its origins.”

Rob Adams, THEHERALD

“This is music to lift even the foulest of moods.”

ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE

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Email: rose-room@hotmail.co.uk

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