MUSIC LIST
Major Mustard
Puppets. laughs and music for the eternally young. See Kids.
0 Alloa Brewery Lunchtime Concerts: Steve TurnerTeviot Bar. Festival Club. 1—2.30pm. Happy hour 1—2pm. FREE. Fine English singer and an exceptionally fluent and inventive English concertina player. 0 Dance Workshop: Hans Deibel Bristo Street Student Centre. 1—3pm. FREE. The dances of Germany without lederhosen.
0 Harp Festival Workshop: Isobel Meiras Library. Festival Club. 1.40—2.30pm. £1 .50 at door only. Accompanying Scottish song with the Clarsach.
0 Young Champions’ Invitation Concert Debating Hall. Festival Club. 2.30—4.30pm. £2.50 (£2) available in advance. Jimmy McGregor introduces the young tradition. Martyn Bennett. pipes: Carmen Higgins. fiddle: Rebecca Hunter. fiddle: Bruce Lindsay. button accordion: Robert Lovie. songs; with the groups High Level and Fiddlers Forte.
0 Dance Workshop: Jenny Geddes Clog Bristo Street Student Centre. 3.30—5.30pm. FREE. Women's dance group. Good ftm and noisy.
o Alloa Brewery Teatime Concerts: Chorda Sportsman‘s Bar. Festival Club. 5.30—7pm. Happy Hour 5.30—6.30pm. £2 available in advance. Polished Scottish traditional music. Modern influences. Songs. pipe tunes. fiddle and guitar.
0 Harp Festival Concert: Alison Kinnaird and Christine Primrose (Scotland), Ar Log (Wales) Debating Hall. Festival Club. 7.30—l0pm. £3 (£2.50) available in advance.
0 International Dance Ceilidh: Dunedin Dancers and Guests Bristo Street Student Centre. 8pm—midnight. £2 available in advance. Major dance event otthe festival.
0 Fellside Late Night Concert: Swan Arcade, Bram Taylor, Steve Turner Debating Hall. Festival Club. 10.30pm—midnight. £3 (£2.50) available in advance. All the great revival singers from the North of England.
0 Harp Festival Workshop: Allredo Rolando Ortiz Library. Festival Club. 1030—] 1 .30pm. £1 .50 at door only. Relaxation techniques for
instrumentalists from harp virtuoso who is also a qualified physician.
0 Dance
Workshop: James MacDonald Reid Debating Hall. Festival Club. 10.30am-12.30pm. £1.50 at door only. More authentic dances.
o Harp Festival Workshop: Ar Log
Sportsman‘s Bar. Festival Club. 11.40am—12.40pm. £1 .50 at door only. The big Welsh triple-strung harp.
o Clarsach Teachers’ Workshop: Janet HarbiSon, Jack Hayward, Sanchia Pielou Library. Festival Club. 11.40am—lpm. £1 .50 at door only. Harp Festival.
0 Major Mustard's Travelling Show Festival Club. 12.30—2pm. FREE. See Kids.
0 Alloa Brewery Lunchtime Concerts: Bram Taylor Teviot Bar. Festival Club. 1—2.30pm. Happy Hour l—2pm. FREE. Respected English singer.
0 Dance Workshop: Dennis Bellord Debating Hall. Festival Club. l—3pm. FREE. International Folk Dance.
0 Harp Forum Library. Festival Club. 1.30—2.30pm. £1 .50 at door only. Discussion between teachers. performers and makers.
o Alloa Brewery Teatime Concerts: Miro Sportsman‘s Bar. Festival Club.
5.30—7pm. Happy Hour
5.30—6.30pm. £2 available in advance. Fun folk/funk foursome.
o Harp Festival Concert: Janet
Harbison (Ireland), Dembo Konte
(Gambia) and Kausu Kuyateh
(Senegal) Debating Hall. Festival
Club. 7.30—10pm. £3 (£2.50)
available in advance. Two of West
Africa‘s great Kora players. The Kora is a sort of harp gourd. and is
becoming very fashionable in ‘roots‘ music circles. A beautiful sound.
Also one of Ireland‘s most knowledgeable harp players.
0 Musicians' Union Late Night Concert: Pyewackett Debating Hall. Festival Club. 10.30pm—midnight. £3 (£2.50) available in advance.Cultured folk/rock. Favourite band in England.
noquv o The Temple Lectures: Dr Sheila Douglas Library. Festival Club. 12.45—1.45pm. £1 at door only. Tales from Scotland.
0 Alloa Brewery Lunchtime Concerts: Tich Frier, Iain MacDonald Teviot Bar. Festival Club. l—2.30pm. Happy Hour 1—2pm. FREE. Two Scottish singer/guitarists. one funny. the other serious.
0 ‘Take The Floor’ Bristo Street Student Centre. 730—] 1.30pm (No admittance after 7.30pm. Tickets avilable from Festival Box Office or BBC Aberdeen in advance). FREE. Be part of the studio audience for Robbie Shepheard‘s dance band radio show and suffer his couthy microphone voice.
0 Alloa Brewery Teatime Concerts: The Armagh thmers Festival Club. Teviot Row. 5.30—7pm. Free. Happy Hour 5.30—630pm. Featuring the Armagh Rhymers.
0 Festival Folk Club: Kirkcaldy Folk Club Dining Room. Festival Club. 8—10.30pm. £2 available in advance.
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The Elbow Room on the road. 0 Musicians' Union Late Night Ceilidh: Pyewackett Debating Hall. Festival Club. 10.30pm—midnight. £3 (£2.50) available in advance. Smart English band playing for a hop rather than
O The Te Hugard Library. Festival Club. 12.45-1 .45pm. £1 at door only. Wonderful antipodean singer and concertina. accordion and melodeon player. Stories and drolleries from the outback and the bush. A unique insight into the roots of modern Australia.
0 Alloa Brewery Lunchtime Concerts: Spirit at the West Teviot Bar. Festival Club. 1—2.30pm. Happy Hour l—2pm. FREE. New Wave-making band from Canada. youthful and innovative.
Spirit otthe West
0 Alloa Brewery Teatime Concerts: Rita MacNeil Teviot Bar. Festival Club. 5.30—7pm. Happy Hour 5.30—6.30pm. FREE. Canadian singer/songwriter from a folk and country rock background currently enjoying pop chart success back home. See (iuestlist.pl.
0 International Dance Ceilidh: Dennis Beltord Debating Hall. Festival Club. 7.30—9.3()pm. FREE.
0 Festival Folk Club: Penicuik Folk Club Dining Room. Festival Club. 8— 10.30pm. £2 available in advance. 0 Late Night Concert: Capercaillie, Rita MacNeil Debating Hall. Festival Club. 10.30pm—midnight. £3 (£2.50) available in advance. Rapidly becoming Scotland's foremost traditional music band. Essentially Gaelic. with talented singer Karen Matheson. And from Nova Scotia the latest hit in Canada— Rita McNeil. See (juestlist. pl.
WEDNESDAY” - o The Temple Lectures: Sheila McGregor Library. Festival Club.
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pm. £1 at door only. The lost art — Traditional Knitting.
o Alloa Brewery Lunchtime Concerts: Rita MacNeil Teviot Bar. Festival Club. l—2.30pm. Happy Hour 1—2pm. FREE. Cape Breton‘s folk and country star.
0 Alloa Brewery Teatime Concerts: Sid Hausman, lain MacDonald Teviot Bar. Festival Club. 5.30—7pm. Happy Hour 5.30—6.30pm. FREE. Sid Housman from SW USA. Fiery bluegrass banjo player. singer and guitarist and Iain McDonald from NE Scotland. songs with guitar. Two contrasting stylists.
o The Armitage and Norton Concert at Latin-American Music: Caliche, Allredo Rolando Drtiz Reid Hall. Bristo Square. 7.30—9.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50) available in advance. Pan pipes and harp. Caliche are a Chilean five-piece group who perform on nearly all the South American instruments. and Ortiz is one of the world‘s great harp players. on the Paraguayan harp. very similar to the Scottish and Irish Instruments. 0 ‘On The Fringe' Dining Room. Festival Club. 7.30—10pm. £2 available in advance. Three community shows from Prestonfield, Clovenstone and Craigmiller. including the spoof Eurovision Folk Song Contest.
0 International Dance Ceilidh: John Nuttall, Lothians Morris Men, Jenny Geddes Clog, Hans Deibel Bristo Street Student Centre. 8—] 1.30pm. £2 available in advance. Dance to a ‘caller‘ then take a breather while others show off.
Whippersnappers
0 Gordon Simpson Late Night Concert: Whippersnapper Debating Hall. Festival Club. 10.30pm—midnight. £3 (£2.50) available in advance. Ex-Fairport‘s Dave Swarbrick and the boys on multi fiddles and string. High energy stylistically unlimited music — part folk. classical, jazz and pop.
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o The Temple Lectures: Peter Cooke Library. Festival Club.
1245—] .45pm. £1 at door only. The music man from the School of Scottish Studies talks on the effect of competition on traditonal dance and music.
0 Alloa Brewery Lunchtime Concerts: Matt Armour, Sid Hausman Teviot
The List 3 — 16 April 31