MUSIC LIST
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 just Shetland music. and even some instruments other than the fiddle.
FRIDAY _22 Glasgow
0 Ccildih Nightwith Maggie Mclnnes People's Palace. Glasgow Green. See Mayfest Diary.
0 Naifan Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. Evening. Session with box and fiddle.
0 Second Fiddle Scott‘s Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening. Songs and tunes from a twosome.
0 Colin Finlayson Scottish Dance Band Louis Nite Spot 1073 Argyll Street. 10pm—2am. Weekly Scottish Night.
0 0n the Pavement Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. Evening.
Edinburgh
0 Dyilapayun Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 l 155. 7.30pm. £4—£l .50. Grand Concert for Chile. See panel. 0 North Sea Gas Platform 1. Rutland Street. Evening. Corries-style singalong songs.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Guitars and songs. Bartill 1.30am.
O Blackwood Bar West Preston Street. Evening. Live music.
SATURDAY 23 Glasgow
0 Furious Fiddlers Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. Afternoon.
0 St Enoch’s Folk Club 56 Howard Street. near the bus station. New bi-weekly club. Tonight Ian Bruce and Sandy Stanage. 7pm—2am. Bar. £2.
0 Kells Scott‘s Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening. Keltic semi-electric.
o Steep the Feet Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. Music from Glasgow.
0 Ceilidh Riverside Club. Fox Street. offClyde Street. 10pm—2am. Late Bar. £2.
0 Naifan Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. Noon—2.30pm. Fiddle and accordion with friends.
Edinburgh
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Music and session downstairs till late.
0 This 'n' That Central Hotel. Royal
Terrace. Folk and singalong country.
SUNDAY 24
Glasgow
0 Steam Jenny Scott’s Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Folky trio.
0 Seannachie Paisley Folk Club. Ardgowan Hotel. Blackhall Road. Paisley. 8.30pm. £1.50. Energetic Scottish band.
0 Furious Fiddlers Wintersgills. Great Western Road. Evening.
0 Park Dar Argyle Street. near Kelvin
From the USA comes Clackmannan-born Alasdair Fraser (see photo) who with Paul Machiis on keyboard fits in some festival gigs (Glencoe, weekend of the 16 May) and an Edinburgh concert (20 May). Scots fiddle has few more beautiful and assured exponents and the musical partnership is imaginative and tasteful. Listen to their album Skyedance. Also from the Americas, but from the long shadow cast to the south of the States, come the late VictorJara's musicians. The nine-piece Duilapayun (Edinburgh 22 May) were, like lnti lllimani, on tour abroad as Chilean ambassadors when Allende was deposed and murdered. They continue the work of the Chilean New Song Movement in exile with their dense mix of traditional music forms and modern stagecraft. Supporting are local groups Sun House Two and the Easy Club. Political song is the locus of a whole weekend at Glasgow’s Mayfest (Arts Centre 15, 16, 17 May). A Left Turns concert is competed by the Star Club’s Arthur Johnston on the Friday and Saturday nights. Saturday evening has a concert by the Political Song Network who comprise the multiple talents of Leon Rosselson and Roy
SOME FOLK
Bailey with the remarkable voice and style of Sandra Kerr, and Maria Tolley and Jim Woodland. Workshops are being held at the Arts Centre by the Network from 11am on such subjects as ‘Women’s Song Writing,’ ‘The Role Of Music In Political Song' and ‘Political Songs and Non-Political Audiences.‘ Stramash (GAC 17 May) are a more circumspect and talented group of friends who portray a more couthy vision of Scotland and Ireland through all sorts of traditional and folk song, all exceptionally well sung and played. Some is self-penned, but instantly traditional — did you know that their Adam McNaughton actually wrote the Jeely Piece Song? (Norman Chalmers)
Park. Evening. Fiddle music.
Edinburgh
0 Youngs Bar Leamington Terrace. Evening. Weekly acoustic music allsorts.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Music, mainly guitar/songs every night in basement late bar.
0 Dave De Hugard Youngs Hotel. LeamingtonTerrace. Evening. Weekly acoustic music. Dave brings from Australia avast repertoire of songs and tunes played on the concertina. melodeon. piano accordion and guitar. Highly respected down down-under.
MONDAY 25 Glasgow
0 Nickels and Dimes The Trading Post. Carlton Place. 429 3445. Evening. Country music in American steakhouse and bar.
0 Shades Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening.
0 Irish Session Stage Door Bar.
Gorbals Street, next to Citizens' Theatre. 429 0922. Evening. Top Glasgow Irish players.
0 Furious Fiddlers Wintersgiils. Great Western Road. Evening.
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. whistle etc.
0 Gill Hewitt Royal Oak. Infirmary
Street. 557 2976. Evening. Songs with banjo. Late bar.
TUESDAY 26 Glasgow
0 Steep The Feet Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 552 4149. Evening. Scottish songs and tunes.
0 Naifan Victoria Bar. Stockwell Street. Evening. Glasgow‘s folk bar has fiddle and accordion dtto with friends.
Edinburgh
0 Miro Ensign Ewart. Top of the High Street. Evening. Multi-cultural folk fun.
0 Bannermans DarCowgate. Evening. Session in the back room. 0 Kenny Grier Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Songs with guitar.
WEDNESDAY 27
Glasgow
0 Naifan Halt Bar, Woodlands Road. Evening. Session. accordion. fiddles. flute. bodhrans 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. Songwriter competition.
0 Gavin Anderson Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. Evening. Traditional and contemporary songs.
THURSDAY 28
Glasgow
0 Star Folk Club 42 Carlton Place (new venue next door). 8pm. £1 .
0 Red Neck Mothers Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. 552 4179. Evening. Blues and country.
0 Sleep the Feet Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. Evening. Glasgow singing duo.
Edinburgh
0 Balemo Folk Club Kestrel Hotel, Balerno. 8pm. Visit from members ofGlenfarg FC.
0 Session Green Tree. Cowgate. 9.30pm-1am. Instrumental players. all sorts of flutes. fiddles. pipes and squeeze boxes.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Late night musicin 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.
Please note that evening sessions begin at approx 8.30pm unless otherwise stated.
FRIDAY 15 Glasgow
0 Late Jazz Riverside Club. Fox Street (off Clyde Street). 10.30pm—2am. Late bar. £2. Details: 248 3144. Regular Friday jazz night. 0 Surprise Surprise Blackfriars. 36 Bell Street. Merchant City. Evening. 0 Jeannette Burns and Andy Alston Baby Grand. Elmbank Gardens. 552 6027. Evening. Piano bar with lady vocalist.
0 Dave Wilson and the Uptown Shufflers Austin Rover Tent. Strathclyde Park. HamiIton/Motherwell. afternoon and evening. during the Sailing Regatta.
Edinburgh
o Gil Evans Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 9.30pm. £6 (£5). Presented by Platform Jazz. The greatest jazz arranger around. See paneL
0 Melanie D’Reilly and Francis Cowan Gloucester Hotel. Gloucester Place. Evening. Fine vocals/guitar.
O Spirits of Rhythm Basin Street. Haymarket Terrace. Evening. Trad and New Orleans in Riverboat-style venue.
0 That Swing Thang Ne’gociants. Bristo Square. Evening. Swing songs from America and elsewhere.
SATURDAY 16 Glasgow
0 Danny Thomson with the Bopkats Blue Note. Briggait Centre. 9 30pm. Bar till 2am. Gershwin meets Buddy Holly.
0 Star Big Band Star Club. 42 Carlton Place. 2—5pm. Free. Music from 30s to 505.
0 Bill Fanning Big Band Shadows.
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