MUSIC LIST
Street, 557 2976. Evening. Songs with guitar.
WEDNESDAY 22 Glasgow
0 Nailan Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. Evening. Session. accordions. fiddles. flute. bohdrans and occasional songs.
0 Limited Edition Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. String band country blues.
Edinburgh
0 Al O'Donnell Edinburgh Folk Club. Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 8pm. £1.50. One of Ireland‘s great singers. on a rare visit that includes the Inverness Folk Festival. See panel. 0 Bob Hownslow and Friends Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Singer of popular folk songs.
0 Gavin Anderson Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. Evening. Traditional and contemporary songs.
THURSDAY 23
Glasgow
0 Black Eyed Biddy Star Folk Club. Calton Place. 8pm. £1. Popular and enjoyable band. songs and cheerful instrumentals.
0 Red Neck Mothers Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 5524179. Evening. Blues and country.
0 Bopcats Wintersgills. Great Western Road. Evening. Busking indoors. Clever old pop songs.
Edinburgh
0 Ian Walker Balemo Folk Club. Kestrel Hotel. Drylaw Road.
0 Session Green Tree. Cowgate. 9.30pm—lam. Instrumental players. all sorts of flutes, fiddles. pipes and squeeze boxes.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Late night music in the basement. Very informal.
O Shetland Fiddlers West End Hotel. Palmerston Place. Evening. Not just Shetland music. and even some instruments other than the fiddle.
0 Tonight at Noon Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. Best electro-olk.
FRIDAY 24 Glasgow
0 Old Hickory The Trading Post. Carlton Place. 429 3445. 9pm. Free. American bar and steakhouse. Bluegrass and country band.
0 Nailan Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening. Session with fiddle and accordion.
O Scott’s Corner Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening. Folk band.
0 Ceilidh Louis Nite Spot 1073 Argyll
Street. 10pm—2am. Bert Shorthouse Scottish Dance Band.
Edinburgh
0 North Sea Gas Platform 1. Rutland Street. Evening. Singalong folk entertainers.
0 Tim and Steve Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Late night folk music pub.
SATURDAY 25 Glasgow
0 Furious Fiddlers Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. Afternoon. Folk session. __
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Street. 334 4891. Folky trio.
0 Paisley Folk Club Ardgowan Hotel. Blackhall Road. Paisley. 8.30pm. £1.50. Visit from Glenfarg Folk
he‘s just been voted N01 Folk Artist in a UK poll), he is a superb guitarist. His lather had played guitar around Edinburgh when it was still a rareish instrument, usually stuck in the rhythm sectiion. Dne oi Dick's albums, Coppers and Brass, is wholly devoted to instrumental music, mainly Scots/Irish and he sprinkles his concert sets with quite a few guitar pieces. And listen to the intricate runs and chordings under his ballads, ancient or modern.
Isaac Guillory is a strange talent. He can literally play anything on the guitar. An American classical music education was lollowed by years in a successiul rock band, playing piano and bass; a spell with Elkie Brooks; recordings with Donovan; time in a jazz band; playing Brazilian guitar music in a film project with Mick Jagger and visiting the London Guildhall School Dl Music as guest lecturere! His Third Eye Concert last year sold out but he is in Glasgow again, 30 Apr.
Foryet another slant, Edinburgh’s Platform night with Bill Brulord’s Earthworks (17 Apr), also features Glasgow duo Graham Dullin and Nigel Clark who play clever, amusing and tasteful jazz guitar.
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o Scotlree La Taniere. Fox Street (offClyde Street). 1pm. Fiddle and guitars.
0 Kells Scott’s Corner, Derby Street,
3344891. Evening. Keltic Clui" semi-electric. Edinburgh 0 Steep the FeetTolbooth Bar. 0 Tony Cutie Youngs Bar.
Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. Music from Glasgow.
0 Ceilidh Riverside Club. Fox Street, off Clyde Street. l0pm—2am. Late
Leamington Terrace. Evening. Weekly acoustic music allsorts. Ossian‘s singer/guitarist.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557
Bar. £2. 2976. Evening. Music. mainly
Edinburgh guitar/songs every night in basement R l0 k1 r s 557 late bar'
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2976. Music and session downstairs
O This ’n' That Central Hotel. Royal Terrace. Folk and Singalong country.
0 Avalon Preservation Hall, Victoria Street. 9pm. The Scottish folk/rock band. album in the shops.
0 Country Cousins The Trading Post, Carlton Place, 429 3445. Evening. Country music in American steakhouse and bar.
0 Shades Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. Folk/pop. 0 Irish Session Stage Door Bar. Gorbals Street, next to Citizens‘ Theatre. 4290922. Evening. Top Glasgow Irish players.
Glasgow 0 Schiehallion Scott‘s Corner. Derby
Edinburgh
0 Miro The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bartill 1am. Irish and other music. 0 Nobody's Business Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. Evening. Acoustic music that swings. O Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Regular Scottish music session with fiddle and accordion etc. 0 Gill Hewitt Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Songs with banjo. Late bar.
TUESDAY 28 Glasgow
0 Sleep The Feel Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. Scottish songs and tunes.
0 Nailan Victoria Bar. Stockwell Street. Evening. Glasgow‘s folk bar has fiddle and accordion duo with friends.
Edinburgh
0 Bannermans Bar Cowgate. Evening. Session in the back room. mostly Irish music. Busy.
0 Kenny Grier Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Songs with guitar.
WEDNESDAY 29 Glasgow
0 John Renboume and Duck Baker Riverside Club. Fox Street (off Clyde Street). 8pm. World class acoustic guitarists. See panel.
0 Nailan Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. Evening. Session. accordions. fiddles. flute. bohdrans and occasional songs.
0 Limited Edition Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. String band country blues.
Edinburgh
0 Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 8pm. £1.50.
0 Bob Hownslow and Friends Green Tree. COWgate. Evening. Singer of popular folk songs.
0 Gavin Anderson Bannermans Bar, Cowgate. Evening. Traditional and contemporary songs.
THURSDAY 30 Glasgow
0 Isaac Guillory Star Folk Club. Calton Place. 8pm. £1. Superb acoustic guitarist. Records with Trevor Horn. lectures at the Guildhall School of Music. See panel
0 Red Neck Mothers Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. 552 4179. Evening. Blues and country.
0 Bopcats Wintersgills. Great Western Road. Evening. Busking indoors. Clever old pop songs.
Edinburgh
0 Session Green Tree. Cowgate. 9.30pm—lam. Instrumental players, all sorts of flutes. fiddles. pipes and squeeze boxes.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Late night music in the basement. Very informal.
o Shetland Fiddlers West End Hotel, Palmerston Place. Evening. Not jus Shetland music. and even some instruments other than the fiddle.
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