Glasgow Jazz Festival 2025 | Rose Room: 15th Anniversary Show

Crowned ‘Best Band’ twice at the Scottish Jazz Awards,Rose Room are Scotland’s leading ensemble influenced bythe Gypsy Jazz genre.

Sharing a love of Swing music and the style of the great Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, their “vigorous and vivacious” performances go “down a storm” with any audience as they serve up their 1930s ‘Hot Club’ standards, Gypsy Jazz favourites and self-penned originals with virtuosity, verve and panache recreating the excitement of Rive Gauche Paris.

Celebrating their 15th anniversary in 2025, the quartet is based in Glasgow and is fronted by award-winning virtuoso violinist and “sophisticated songstress” Seonaid Aitken who won ‘Best Vocalist’ twice at the Scottish Jazz Awards.

Seonaid is also a BBC Broadcaster and tutors regularly at the Grappelli-Django Camp in The Netherlands - Europe’s leading Gypsy Jazz workshop camp. Scotland’s No.1 guitar maker, Jimmy Moon of ‘Moon Guitars’, features on double bass with Celtic Connections’ Danny Kyle Award-winner Tam Gallagher on rhythm guitar and vocals. Having played with Rose Room for 5 years now, the ‘newest’ member of the band is an exceptional talent from Glasgow’s Southside - solo guitarist Conor Smith - known for his work with hugely popular band The Vintage Explosion ‘It’s Been A Long, Long Time’ is the long-anticipated album by Rose Room featuring the new line-up plus special guests - released in 2025 to mark the band’s 15th anniversary. They have previously recorded three albums – The High Life (2015), Am I Blue (2013) and Somewhere In Roseland (2011)

Rose Room have opened the Gypsy Jazz Festival of London, headlined all of the major Scottish jazz festivals,appeared at the celebrated Shetland Folk Festival and toured Ireland performing at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

They have collaborated with Stéphane Grappelli’s former guitarist; the world-famous virtuoso Martin Taylor MBE,leading British jazz violinist Christian Garrick, German Gypsy Jazz star Joscho Stephan, top Scottish saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski and Children’s Classic Concerts with their show ‘Django’s Journey’. Their music has been supported on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Ulster and Jazz FM.

Rose Room were delighted to have been voted ‘Best Band’ in the Scottish Jazz Awards 2018 and 2021 and two of Rose Room’s tracks are featured on The Clutha Sessions charity CD released by the Clutha Trust.

“Classy vintage swing and gypsy jazz played by a band that combines brilliant musicianship and warm personality”

JAZZ SCOTLAND

“As close to the sound of the great Stephane Grappelli as I think you’re going to

hear in Scotland”

BBC RADIO SCOTLAND

“Rose Room swing harder than an elm tree in

a force nine English gale...”

SHETLAND NEWS