Songs from the Last Page & Esther Swift
Sun 26 Apr
|Partick Hill Bowling & Community Club
Written and performed by acclaimed composer and songwriter, Gareth Williams. Each song takes the last lines of iconic Scottish literature, sung from the piano, accompanied by violin and cello duo, Sequoia.
Time & Location
26 Apr 2026, 16:00 – 18:30
Partick Hill Bowling & Community Club, 46 Partickhill Rd, Glasgow G11 5BY, UK
About the event
Songs from the Last Page is written and performed by the acclaimed composer and songwriter, Gareth Williams. Each song in the collection takes the last lines of iconic Scottish literature - the novels and stories that we love - and transforms these final pages into something brand new, sung from the piano, accompanied by violin and cello duo, Sequoia.
From the melancholy mastermind of Arthur Conan Doyle’sThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmesto Kirsty Campbell’s joyful farewell in Ely Percy’s Duck Feet, this spell-binding concert captures the moment a reader finishes the last lines of a book and holds on to this feeling for just a few more minutes.
Special Guest: Esther Swift (harp and voice) takes to the stage to share her new EP, Moon Dreams. Esther’s performance is at once virtuosic and tender, dramatic and meditative—summoning the old and the new through both familiar and unexpected harmonic shifts…