MUSIC LIST
MONDAY 2 Glasgow
0 Irish Session Stage Door Bar, Gorbals Street. 429 0922. Evening.
Edinburgh
0 Harp Nouveau With Aly Bain. George Square Theatre. George Square. 7.30pm. £3. Savourna Stevenson's journey into new territories for the Scottish harp. The group performed their funk/jazzy arrangements ofSavourna’s original instrumental pieces during the Festival period at the Assembly Rooms. She will form a duo with fiddler extraordinaire Aly Bain for the first part ofthis concert. See panel
0 Stravaig Linlithgow Folk Club. Black Bitch Tavern. West Port, Linlithgow. 8pm.
0 Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Long running Scottish music session. Bar closes at 11pm.
O Miro The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bar till lam. Wild acoustic celtic music.
0 Nobody’s Business Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. Evening. Parlour swing blues.
0 Gill Hewitt Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Song session with Gill on the banjo.
Glasgow
0 Sleep The FeetTolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening. Live songs and tunes in the corner ofwood panelled bar.
Edinburgh
0 Bannermans BarCowgate. Evening. Acoustic instrumental music mainly Irish, in the vaults.
0 Kenny Grier Royal Oak, Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Guitarist singer. Late bar.
WEDNESDAY 4
Glasgow
0 Naifan Halt Bar, Woodlands Road. 3321210. Evening. Naifan play Irish and Scots fiddle and box. Friends joining in.
0 Limited Edition Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross.Evening. Folk, blues and country.
0 Cumbernauld Folk Club Cumbernauld Theatre Bar. 8.30pm. 75p (50p).
Edinburgh
0 Maggie Boyle and Steve Tilston. Edinburgh Folk Club, Osbourne Hotel. 8pm. £1.50. First class singer and flute player who learned traditional singing in the London Irish community and in Tilston a remarkable guitarist and songwriter. They recently toured America in the John Renbourne Band.
0 Bob Hounslow And Friends Green Tree, Cowgate. Evening. Pub guitarist/folk singer.
0 Gavin Anderson Bannermans Bar, COWgate. Evening. Resident guitarist and singer, folk based.
Glasgow 0 Maggie Boyle and Steve Tilston Star
FRIDAY 6
XI LEI MAKES THREE
The Goo Brothers, Yue (see photo) and Yi, are now three. Alter playing last year as a Guo Duo, they have brought in Xi Lei, who adds percussion to the various bowed instruments, sheng and Chinese llute (Glasgow Arts Centre, Sat 7 Nov). The boys have been doing quite well, especially down in England, where there has been a rise in popularity of so-called roots music - that is, music based on ethnic lorms lrorn any culture - probably to make up for the lack at an obvious indigenous one. Originally over here to study Western music which they play on Western instruments, the brothers specialise in various regional styles using the authentic Chinese folk and classical instruments including the flute (see photo) which uses a small membrane-covered aperture to produce its exotic reedy tone. Hundreds ot recording sessions tor the Peking Film Orchestra, membership of the Orchestra Ot The People’s Republic and research trips to remote provinces have equipped them with an amazing virtuoso skill and repertoire.
On a rare trip up to the remote northern province ot Scotland come the Albion Band, one of the Fairport/Steeleye subsets. The concert
Folk Club, Glasgow Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street, near Mitchell Library. 8pm. £1. See Edinburgh Wed 4.
0 Red Neck Mothers Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening.
Edinburgh
0 Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Weekly session with a host of visiting fiddles, squeeze boxes, whistles and the piano.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. Evening till 1.30am. Songs, banjos and guitars.
Glasgow
0 The Ugliest Night OtThe Year Wintergardens, Glasgow Green. 9—2am. £6. Tickets from Glasgow Print Studio, Ingram Street, 552 0704. Dress grotesque. With Zydeco Ceilidh Band, John Gahagan Band, Rollin Joe and Wray Gunn And The Rockets.
O Stramash Moir Hall, Mitchell Theatre, Granville Street. 7.30pm. Free. Celebration of Matt McGinn. the Glasgow poet, songwriter and communist who died some years ago. Stramash are a group of West of Scotland strolling players including Adam McNaughton, Gordeanna McCullough and others.
0 Fergie MacDonald Highland Dance Band Scottish Dance Night. Louis' Nite Spot, 1073 Argyle Street. 10pm-2am.
O Ceilidh Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 10pm—2am. £2.50. Clydebuilt Ceilidh Band. Basically the Clutha with an accordion.
0 Naiian Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening. Fiddle and accordion duo.
0 Second Fiddle Scott’s Corner, Derby Street, 334 4891.
I M ,1 (Glasgow 12 Nov) is to publicise and raise funds lorthe Scottish Wildlife Trust and the 803’ English electric tolk band will be part at a words/images/ music presentation on the urgent need for conservation. Our native music, for the clarsach, the Scottish harp, is not quite enough tor Savourna Stevenson. ‘l lind I’m not playing much traditional music now, I'm much more involved in writing my own.‘ With Ronald Stevenson tor a lather, composing runs in the iamily, and you can judge for yourself at her concert in Edinburgh 2 Nov. The tirst ball will feature Boys or The Lough’s tiddler Aly Bain with Savourna on the clarsach playing a traditional set and the second will be the percussion, synthesisers, electric bass and amplilied harp ol Harp Nouveau, the band that played to lull houses in the Assembly Rooms during the Edinburgh Festival.
Edinburgh
0 North Sea Gas Platform 1, Rutland Street. Evening. Fun Scottish music for the tourists.
o Chilean Pena Cornerstone Café, St. Johns Church. corner of Lothian Road and Princes Street. Music, song. dance and poetry. BYOB.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening till 1.30am Late night basement bar with informal songs and music.
SATURDAY 7
Glasgow
0 Guo Brothers Glasgow Arts Centre, Washington Street. 2231 4526. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 ). Three virtuoso musicians from the Peoples Republic Of China. An absolute treat. See panel. 0 Ceilidh Riverside, Fox Street, 248 3144. lllpm—Zam. £2.50. Clydebuilt Ceilidh Band.
0 Naitan And Friends Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Fiddle, accordion and guitar, with friends.
0 Kells Scott‘s Corner. Derby Street, 334 4891. Evening. Resident electric Celtic band.
0 Steep The Feel Tolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening
Edinburgh
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Evening till 1.30am. Late bar, folk basement singaround.
SUNDAY 8
Glasgow
0 Riverside Session Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144.. Afternoon. Free. Pat McNulty acts as host and gives a few tunes on the Irish pipes. 0 Park Bar Argyle Street, Nr.Kelvin Park. Evening. The Gaels pub, big
thrash in the back room every week, about a dozen young players.
0 Buddies Wintersgills. Great Western Road. Evening. Old time American songs and fiddle tunes.
0 Steam Jenny Scott‘s Corner, Derby Street. 334 4891 . Evening.
Edinburgh
0 Ian Walker Youngs Hotel. Leamington Terrace. 9pm—midnight. Weekly acoustic music. Linlithgow based singer/guitarist has an album on release.
0 Seannacbie Green Tree, Cowgate. Evening. Resident Scots band.
0 Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 ° 2976. Eveningtill 1.30am. Basement sessions.
MONDAY 9
Glasgow
0 Irish Session Stage Door Bar. Gorbals Street, 4290922. Evening. Banjo and fiddle next to the Cits.
Edinburgh
0 Black Eyed Biddy Linlithgow Folk Club, Black Bitch Tavern, West Port, Linlithgow. 8pm. Folk club favourites. Enthusiastic Scots trio. 0 Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Long running Scottish music session. Bar closes at 1 1pm. 0 Miro The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bartill lam. Celtic music from more than one country of origin.
0 Nobody's Business, Bannermans Bar, COWgate. Evening. The blues from Argyll.
O Gill Hewitt Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Singer with banjo in late night session basement bar.
TUESDAY 10
Glasgow
0 Steep The FeetTolbooth Bar, Glasgow Cross. Evening. Scots singing duo.
Edinburgh
0 Hamish lmlach Penicuik Folk Club, Navaar Hotel, Penicuik. 8pm. Giant of the Scottish Folk scene.
0 Bannermans Bar Cowgate. Evening. Fiddle, flute and strings lightly amplified in the vaults.
0 Kenny Grier Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. Guitarist singer. Late bar.
Glasgow
0 Nailan Halt Bar. Woodlands Road, 332 1210. Evening. Naifan play Irish and Scots fiddle and box, other players bring their instruments.
0 Limited Edition Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. Evening. Folk, blues and country.
0 Cumbernauld Folk Club Cumbernauld Theatre Bar. 8.30pm.
75p(50p). Edinburgh
0 Bob Hounslow And Friends Green Tree, Cowgate. Evening. Pub guitarist/folk singer.
0 Gavin Anderson Bannermans Bar, Cowgate. Evening. Songs in the vaults.
The List 30 Oct — 12 Nov 25