MUSIC LIST/FOLK
TUESDAY 28 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Tonight. [‘11 say that again. TonightAt Noon. the seminal. actually as yet the only. Electro Folkpoppers in the nation.
Edinburgh
I Acoustic Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 8.30—1 1pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars and anyone who arrives with an instrument. or a voice. and avisit from members ofthe Kirkcaidy Folkclub.
I Los Supremos St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Country Blues.
I Barrie Band Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 5563254. Evening. Fiddle. flute. mandoeello and vocals. Traditional music from the Celtic countries.
I Miro Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of the High Street. 225 7440. Evening. Acoustic ccltic music.
WEDNESDAY 1 Glasgow
I Honest Sam and the Dealers Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9—12pm. Country night.
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 Alistair Anderson Edinburgh Folk Club. Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 5565577. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). Northumberland's master concertina player. dab hand on the little pipes too.
I Rod Paterson St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Songs from Cole Porter to Rabbie Burns.
I Alchemy Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 5563254. 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 MitchellThcatre. 8pm. £1.50. tonight. Marilyn Middleton Pollock sings blues. jazz and maybe some foikie songs.
I Kate Kramer and Wattie MacDonald Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. Evening.
Edinburgh
I Alastair Robertson Dean Tavern. Newtongrange. by Dalkeith. 8pm. Nitten Folk Club. have brought over from Glasgow the accordionist. guitarist and songwriter. currently established in the Zydeco Ceilidh Band. before that in. among others. Cado Belle.
I Dave Robb St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Contemporay acoustic singer/songwriter.
I Jim Knight/Denny Swanson/Colin Ramage Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. 225 7440. Evening. Cosy litle bar. songs with guitar. I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9pm—12.30am. Folksinging entertainer.
FRIDAY 3 Glasgow
I Rowantrce Folk Club Rowantrce inn. By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston.
9—1 1.45pm. £1. informal songs and instrumentals. Occasional booked performers. This week a singer‘s night. meaning everybody welcome.
I Ceilidh Riverside. Fox Street. offClyde Street.2483144. 10pm. £3.
BELOW THE MASON-DIXON LINE
The American parallel to Scotland’s tartan singers and grinning accordion duos is the Nashville country star, spangled purveyor of empty-headed formula song. And eclipsed by that wealthy music industry the real songwriters of what is an American folk tradition have until now gained little attention in the wider world. outwith the growing awareness of what is termed ‘New Country’ artists like Nanci Griffiths, Dwight Yoakum, Lyle Lovatt and even Michelle Shocked, there is a realisation that intelligent music is produced below the Mason-Dixon line.
Arriving in Edinburgh on the 3rd, Guy Clark is one of the most respected of the Southern songwriters, and his praises and songs have been sung, both by the new wave and innumerable star performers from Johnny Cash to the Everly Brothers. The tour promotes his new album, ‘Through Throwing Good Love After Dad’, released on u2’s Mother Records.
Glasgow Arts Centre holds a concert oi Pictish music on the 24th. No relation to the shadowy nation of ancient Caledonia, Marianna Lines’ tracery or Robbie’s Free State, but the group brought together for Rod Paterson’s last album. With Rod on vocals, and featuring many of his own songs, the band comprises another Easy Clubber, Jack Evans on guitar, and the reedy resonances of Hamish Moore’s pipes and Dick Lee's clarinet and saxes. Rod also solos at Young’s
Guy Clark who plays St Brides, Edinburgh. on the 3rd.
Music Club in Edinburgh on the 26th. Northumbrian music, with its distinctive hornpipes and clusters of clean, ‘popped’ notes has a high profile in the folk world as Kathryn Tickell does the rounds of festivals and clubs. She was encouraged, as were all the line crop of younger Tyneside players, by the tireless proselytiser of traditional music, Alistair Anderson. A virtuoso concertina player, he took up the little instrument while at school with the Boys Of The Lough’s Dave Richardson, and gives an account of an amazing variety of tunes, from Bach pieces through ragtime to his own suites written in traditional forms. Also a line performer on the little keyed chanter of the bellows blown Northumbrian Smaltpipes, Alistair makes one of his regular visits to Edinburgh Folk Club on
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Edinburgh
I Guy Clark St Brides. Orwell Terrace. Dairy Road. Haymarket. 9pm. Late Bar. Promoted by Acoustic Routes. Tickets £5 (£4). from Virgin Records. Princes Street: Hot Wax. Dairy Road; and Countrified. London Road. Eagerly awaited return of one of the important influences and early lights ofthe New Country Music. a craftsman of picaresque song. with a new record label and an cvergrowing reputation outside Texas and the States. I Ceilidh Chambers Street House Ballroom. £1. 8pm—1am. Live band. Bar. Organised by the MacRobiology Society. I Country Music Jeannie Deans Tryst. 67 St Leonards Hill. Pleasancc.
I North Sea Gas Platform l.Rutland Street. Evening. Resident pub folk band. I Simpson Ferric/Brian Mulligan Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. Evening. Violin and guitar. folk cabaret.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9pm—12.30am. Folksinging entertainer.
SATURDAY 4
Glasgow
I Kells Scott‘s Corner. Derby Street. 334 4891. Evening. Saturday residency. lrish/Scots singalong band. Popular.
I Ceilidh Riverside. Fox Street. offClyde Street.2483144. 10pm.£3.
Edinburgh
I Gabertunzie Jenny Lasswadc Hotel. Lasswadc. 8.30pm. Scottish folk duo who remember a time before the Corrics.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Edinburgh‘s Highland haunt. Accordion etc.
I Country Music Jeannie Deans Tryst. 67
St Leonards Hill. Pleasancc.
I Kevin Tail Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9pm—12.30am. Folksinging entertainer.
SUNDAY 5 ' Glasgow
I lain MacKintosh Black Bull Folk Club. Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 8.30pm. Evergreen club favourite. two decades of club experience.
I Session Riverside. Fox Street. offClyde Street. 248 3144. 1.30—5.30pm. Glasgow lrish with Pat MacNulty and others.
I Zut! La Chute Wintersgills. Great Western Road. Evening. Old timey. American and cajun.
Edinburgh.
I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace.
‘AT HOME FOR A CHANGE’
7.30pm Sunday 19th March Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow Tickets: £5 (£3.50) Ticket Centre, Candleriggs
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9.30pm. 50p. Prohibition era good time barbershop and swing from two guys and a gal. collectively known as Joolt StreetJug. Over from the City OfCulture.
I Scannachie Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Scottish songs and zippy instrumentals from resident band.
I Mountains 01 Holland Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. 225 7440. Evening.
I North Sea Gas Rutland Hotel. Rutland Street. 229 3042. 9pm. Singalong.
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I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Regular good-going session.
Edinburgh
I lan Foster St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Ragtime and Blues.
I Session Night The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bar till lam. Big foikie night out.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Scottish music session. Bar closes at 1 1pm.
TUESDAY 7 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Return visit for Clearance.
Edinburgh
I Acoustic Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 8.30—1 lpm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guest.
I Los Supremos St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Country Blues.
I Barrie Band Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 5563254. Evening. Fiddle. flute. mandoeello and vocals.
I Miro Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket . 225 7440. Evening. Acoustic ccltic music.
WEDNESDAY 8
Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Night Scotia Bar. Stockweil Street. 552 8681.
I Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
‘Edinburgh
I Donal Maguire Edinburgh Folk Club. Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 5565577. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). irish singer ofnote. I King Swamp The Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 10pm. Rock and roots.
I Alchemy Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 556 3254. Evening. Transmuting music on synth. fiddle. flute and vocals.
I North Sea Gas Platform I . Rutland Street. Evening. Resident pub folk band.
THURSDAY 9 Glasgow
I King Swamp Fury Murrys. 91 Maxwell
Also see the band at the EDINBURGH lNTERNATlONAL FOLK FESTIVAL March Wed 22 Queen’s Hall See local ads for details or phone 087530328
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