MUSIC LIST/FOLK
FOLK
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I Sileas Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 221 4526. 8pm. Bar. Leading professional female harp duo present their evening of songs. Gaelic. Scots and contemporary. and instrumentals on the wire strung. gut strung and electronic small harps.
I Tron Burns Supper Tron Theatre. Parnie Street. 7.30pm. £6 (£5). First oftwo evenings of Songs. Recitations. Poems and Piping. and ofcourse. Haggis and Whisky. With. among others. Eddie Morgan and Dave Robb.
I Paisley Arts Centre Bums Night New Street. Paisley. With Peter Mallan and guests. 8pm. £4 (£2).
I Ceilidh Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street.2483144. 10pm. £3.
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn. By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston. 8.30pm. £1. Informal session.
I Second Fiddle Scott‘s Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening.
Edinburgh
I Gleus Penicuik Folk Club. Navaar Hotel. Penicuik. 8.30pm. Ceilidh.
I Simpson Perrie/Brian Mulligan Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. Evening. Violin and guitar. cabaret.
I Junction Dar West Preston Street. 9pm. Live music.
I Country Music Jeannie Deans Tryst. 67 St Leonards Hill. Pleasance. Bands change . music stays the same.
I North Sea Gas Platform 1.Rutland Street. Evening. Resident pub folk band. I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9pm—12.30am. Cheerful pub folksinger.
SATURDAY 28
Glasgow
I Lockerbie Benefit Dumfries. See start of Music section.
I Tron Bums Supper Tron Theatre. Parnie Street. 7.30pm. £6 (£5). Second of two evenings of Songs. Recitations. Poems and Piping, and of course. Haggis and Whisky. With. among others. Eddie Morgan and Dave Robb.
I Ceilidh Riverside, Fox Street. off Clyde Street.248 3144. 10pm.£3.
I The Session Band Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Afternoon. Instrumentals.
I Kells Scott‘s Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening. Hogmanay hoolie.
Stringing together, Newman and Ni Chathasaigh, Edinburgh 8th.
BLACK BULL’S BEST OF SCOTTISH
Milngavie’s Black Bull Folk Club continues to present the best of Scottish on the 5th when Dick Gaughan presents his masterful guitar playing and commitment to socialist song amid the ballads and love lyrics.
Still called a newcomer, although he has been around for a few years now, Pete Morton looks set to assume the prominent position in the tradition of English guitar playing social commentators. His songs cover the age old ground, but his lyrics and musical style are of the 803. He comes with a Mr Carthy’s recommendation, to his second Edinburgh Folk Club concert, on the 1st.
One of the instruments that has found a new popularity in this decade, is the small harp. Ireland’s leading exponent is Maire Ni Chathasaigh. She has settled into a professional duo with the arrestineg capable Chris Newman, who plays anything on the guitar, but keeps her company in what is mainly an Irish traditional set. But occasional flashes of ragtime and blues do show through. Hertechnique on the gut strung harp is phenomenal, and she has a repertoire that includes many rarely heard old Irish slow airs. They too play Edinburgh’s Folk Club on the 8th.
The harp is featured in the first of Glasgow Arts Centre’s new fortnightly Friday night series of folk concerts. Sileas are the guests on the first night on the 27th. Patsy Seddon, on gut strung clarsach, and Mary MacMaster on the wire strung variety, use the harps to accompany song, and arrange instrumental music, mainly of Scottish provenance, in a variety of traditional and inventive ways. Their commitment to the harp’s revival and contemporary
. use brought them one of the earliest ' examples of an electroharp, played
through an amplifier and effects pedals. It’s atmosphere-creating sustain and reverb work well in some songs, and Patsy and Mary are both able to play it, though not at the same time. Then again they have probably tried that too.
Edinburgh
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. West Highland bar in the West End. Regular accordion. pipes etc.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9pm—12.30am. Cheerful pub folksinger.
I Country Music Jeannie Deans Tryst. 67 St Leonards Hill. Pleasance. Bands change. music stays the same.
SUNDAY 29
Glasgow
I Session Riverside. Fox Street, offClyde Street. 248 3144. 1.30-5.30pm. Glasgow Irish with Pat MacNulty and others.
I Zut! La Chute Wintersgills. Great Western Road. Evening. Old timey. American and cajun.
Edinburgh.
I New Glenelg Youngs Bar. Leamington
Friday 27 January, 8.30pm
Carol Kidd
Friday 3 February, 8.30pm
Martin Taylor Quartet
Assembly Music presents
Friday 10 February, 8.30pm
Tommy Sampson
at 70 Swinging Big Band celebration
Friday 17 February, 8.30pm
Clusone Quartet
with Ernst Reijseger & I-lan Bennink
Tickets £5 (reserved £6.50) from Queen’s Hall Box Office (031 668 2019); Ripping Records; Virgin Records, Princes Street; Iona Records, Stockwell Street, Glasgow (041 552 0969)
Terrace. 9.30pm. 50p admission. New organisers were to play tonight in the Bivvy Bag Band. which performs as the winning act tomorrow night on STV‘s 6.30pm The Big Break. but are instead playing for students. see below. So. tonight Le Jazz Hot are booked.
I Bivvy Bag Band Heriot Watt Student Union. Riccarton. 9pm. Zany acoustic musical medecine.
I Seannachie Green Tree, Cowgate. Evening. Scottish songs and zippy instrumentals from resident band.
I Jim Knight/Colin Damage/Robin Laing Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. Evening. Three singer guitarists.
I North Sea Gas Rutland Hotel. Rutland Street. 229 3042. 9pm. Singalong.
MONDAY 30
Glasgow
I Victoria Dar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Big weekly session.
Edinburgh
I Miro The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bartill lam. 1989's opening session.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Every Monday night is Scottish music. Bar closes at 11pm.
ESDAY 31
Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Tonight. the tragically named Clearance.
Edinburgh
I Acoustic Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 8.30—11pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regular partners Gill Bowman and Jock Brown. with guests. This week. a visit from Haddington Folk Club.
I Dave Robb Negociants. Lothian Street, 225 6313. 9.45pm. Free. Supported the Proclaimers on their last tour. Songwriter who uses bouzouki accompaniment.
I Barrie Band Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 556 3254. Evening. Fiddle. flute. mandocello and vocals. Traditional music from the Celtic countries.
I Miro Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of the High Street. Evening. Acoustic celtic music.
I Blue Blazer Bread Street. Evening. Singer guitarists including Alan Johnstone.
WEDNESDAY 1 Glasgow
I Honest Sam and the Dealers Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 8.30. £2. Country style.
I Scotia Folk Night Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681.
I Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
Edinburgh
I Pete Morton Edinburgh Folk Club. Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 5565577. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). One ofthe most celebrated of the younger English guitar playing songwriters.
I Alchemy Bannermans Bar, Cowgate. 556 3254. Evening. Electric/acoustic on synth. fiddle. flute and vocals.
I North Sea Gas Platform 1. Rutland Street. Evening. Resident singalong pub folk band.
THURSDAY 2 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £1 .50. Confident American singer and guitarist Wendy Grossman.
Edinburgh
I Dave Robb St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Contemporay acoustic singer/songwriter.
I Colin Ramage/Robin Laing Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. Evening.
I Jim Knight Scotch And Rye. 50 George IV Bridge. 225 1681. Evening.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms, Grassmarket. 9pm—12.30am. Folksinging entertainer.
FRIDAY 3
Glasgow
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn, By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston.
9—1 1.45pm. £1. Informal songs and instrumentals. Occasional booked performers. All welcome.
I Ceilidh Riverside. Fox Street. offCIyde Street,2483144. 10pm. £3.
Edinburgh
I Latin American Evening Cornerstone Cafe. St John‘s Church. West End of Princes Street. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Carlos Arredondo. songwriter and guitarist from Chile. and representative of the Allende era New Song movement. presents another of his successful monthly mixtures of contemporary Latin music in the company of some local guests. Galvarino Ceron Carrasco is a very talented and highly trained classical guitarist. and from Edinburgh. Mae Shaw sings and brings along Easy Club percussionist. cittern player and husband Jim Sutherland. Alan Coady plays guitar.
I Country Music Jeannie Deans Tryst. 67 St Leonards Hill. Pleasance. Bands change. music stays the same.
I North Sea Gas Platform 1, Rutland Street. Evening. Resident pub folk band. I Simpson Perrie/Brlan Mulligan Shore Bar. The Shore, Leith. Evening. Violin and guitar. folk cabaret.
38 The List 27 January - 9 February