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The Gospel According to Mr Niz with the Bevvy Sisters & Soundhouse Choir at The Queen’s Hall  tonight brought the sounds of Gospel black music from the Deep South of the USA to Edinburgh, and appropriately this building is a former church with a history dating back to the 1820s.

This event is probably one of the most “off the wall” projects that I have reviewed in a while and with the large number of people involved in its creation and performance there was at times a slightly chaotic element to the smooth running order of things, but it all came together somehow to  make one of the most “good-feeling” performances that I have reviewed in a long time.

Who are all the participants then?  Well, let’s start with Mr Niz himself.  Mr Niz aka Stuart Nisbet is well known to many people as one of Scotland’s best session guitarists and his work on many other musical projects, and his music tonight comes from his 2013 album “The Gospel According To Mr Niz” released under the name of Joe Nisbet Jr.  The name and the album are Stuart’s homage to his father Joe Nisbet, an evangelical preacher with whom he toured across the southern states of America as a child. This is not Gospel music played to fit into a genre, but Gospel music coming from where it should always come from, the heart, and there were some great... read the rest of the review here.