I Session Riverside. Fox Street. oft ( 'Iyde Street. 24831-14. l3” F.3Hpm. Players welcome.
I lell La CDUTC “'Iiilclsgllls. (ireat Western Road. Iiyening. ()ld-timey acoustic American. Songs and fiddle based music.
Edinburgh.
I Youngs Music Club Learnington Terrace. 9.30pm. 5llp. Mainly acoustic
singer songwriters.
I Jim Knight/Denny Swanson/Graham McGirk I-Insign liw art. law nmarket. 7440. Iiyening. Singer guitarists.
MONDAY 3
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland.
8 -‘).25pm. Archie Fisher presents records. new .s and lit c recordings. Glasgow Folk Festival
I Dance Group \thergardens. Peoples Palace. (ilasgow (ireen. l 2pm. Free. Vodago from Holland.
I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble Beer ( iarden. (ieorge Square. I2.3llpm. I-ree. (‘elehrating (ilasgow 's twinning
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I Folk Festival Opening Concert The Shed. Blackfriars Street. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Bar. Food. Playing in (ilasgow for the first time m In years. the Tannahill Weavers hring their muscular expression of Scottish-hased music. pipes and all. Bill Craig is a Toronto—domiciled l 'Isterman Here on a Iiuropcan tour. he is ahighly regarded singer songwriter. Alsoon the hill is a selection of masic and dance from the \ isiting dance groups.
I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble Theatre Royal. £5. £3. (‘elehrating (ilasgow's twinning with liSSR's Rtisloy. I Festival Club Blackfriars Bar Downstairs. Bell Street. 552 5924.
Rpm lam. £2. l.i\c music.
Edinburgh
I Fiddlers Arms ( irassmarket. 9- - I lpm. Monday night is Scottish music.
I The Green Tree (‘ow gate. Iiy ening. Session till lam.
I Folk AI L‘Attacbe I.‘.-\ttache. hascmcnt of Rutland Hotel. West Iind of Princes Street. 9pm. Free.
TUESDAY 4
Glasgow Folk Festival
I Dance Group \Viritergardens. Peoples Palace. (ilasgow (ireen. I 2pm. Free. Shamrock Dancers and l Iungarians Makvirag.
I Balalaika Music and Dance Ensemble Banqueting l lall. (‘ity (‘hamhers Free. Tickets as ailahlc from the Ticket Centre. ('elehrating Glasgow's twinning with I..SSI{'S Rustny.
I Dougie MacLean Band/Makvirag The Shed. Blackfriars Street. 7.30pm. £(i(£3). Bar. Food. Singer songwriter and fiddler from Dunkeld with his country-rock and hagpipes hand. The I Iungarian group with their interesting and unusual instrumentation is a regular favourite with British cluh and testis al audiences.
I Festival Club Blackfriar s Bar Downstairs. Bell Street. 552 5924.
8pm lam. £2. I he music.
Edinburgh
I Seannachie linsign l-iw art.
law nmarket . near the (‘astle. 9pm~midnight l-tee. Well known Scots hand plays w eckly residency.
I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. I Ianoyer Street. HRH-I lpm. Admission free.
I Miro I.':\ttachc. basement of Rutland Ilotel. West Iind. Resident folk hand. flutes. liddlesand all . ..
WEDNESDAY 5
Glasgow Folk Festival I Dance Group \Vintergardens. Peoples l’alace.(ilasgtm (irecn. I -2pm. Free.
Holland‘s Vodago,
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MUSIC LIST/FOLK
GLASGOW FOLK FESTIVAL
The 1989 Glasgow Folk Festival which starts on 3 July centres round the evening concerts in The Shed. Situated behind the City Hall, in Blackfriars Street, The Shed will operate in the same way as at Maylest, with a bar, food, at least one concert per day and weekend ceilidh dances. Continental dance groups will perform at some of the concerts and in various outdoor locations.
In Bell Street, The Blackfriars Bar's second, downstairs bar will operate each night as a Festival Club with live music where performers and punters can have a late drink. There will also be organised sessions in the 'tolk' pubs, Victoria Bar, Scotia, Babbity Dowster, Blackfriars and Heilan Jessie’s. On Saturday the Victoria Bar hosts a traditional singing competition, while across the road the Scotia is the venue lorthe Chorus Cup Competition, the prize awarded to the singer who by lair means or tool generates the greatest vocal enthusiasm in the audience/participants.
Main concerts leature the first performance in Glasgow lor ten years of one of Scotland's longest-lasting and incessantly-touring bands, the Tannahill Weavers on 3 July; Dougie Maclean's new band sharing a spot on the 4th with the Hungarian band
Hungary's 'Makvirag'
Makvirag, no strangers in Scotland,with their van load oi exotic instruments; John Martyn‘s completely unique vocal and guitar style on the 7th, as well as Ireland’s Altan, Caliche‘s music from Chile, Scotland’s Cilla, Artie and the Whistlebinkies, throughout the weekend. You might also bump into a balalaika or two lrom nostov-on-Don during the first week of July. Performing music and dance in concert and in the parks and squares, they are in Glasgow as part of the twinning link between the two cities.
I Zydeco Ceilidh Band/Ranting Sleazoslnobin Hall and Fiona McGregor'l‘he Shed. Blackfriars Street. 7.3fipm. £4(£3). Bar. Food. New line-up for the Zydecos includes two females. vocals and fiddle. and a hluesier sound. The Sleazos are three Merseyside women who pull no punches. Singer and radiopresenter Rohin I fall is hack on stage with a prettier partner. .
I Festival Club Blackfriars Bar Downstairs. Bell Street. 552 5924.
8pm» lam. £2. Marilyn Middleton-Pollock performs hlues tinged folk and country.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club ()shourne I Iotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. £2.5()(£l .50). The two singing Fisher sisters. Ray and Cilla in a rare cluh appearance together. I Rod Paterson St James ()yster Bar. (‘alton Road. 9pm. Iiasy ('luh's vocalist. solo.
I Mountains Dt Holland ( ilobe. West Port.
2294553.
THURSDAY 6
Glasgow Folk Festival
I Dance Group Wintergardens. Peoples Palace. (ilasgow (ireen. I-~2pm. Free. Holland's Vodago.
I Alan Taylor/Alasdair Robertson The Shed. Blackfriars Street. 7.30pm. £-I(£3). Bar. Food. Songwriters night. Alan has been at the forefront of the British folk world for twenty years. Alasdair is one of (ilasgow's best known musicians. ex-Zydeco etc.
I Festival Club Blackfriars Bar Downstairs. Bell Street. 552 5924.
Xpm-w I am. £2. I.iye music.
I Star Folk Club (ilasgow Society Of Musicians. Berkeley Street. heside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £1 .50. The multifarious talents. instrumental. poetic. \ocal and halletic. of defiantly Scots Stramash.
Edinburgh
I Feel St .lames ( )yster Bar. (‘alton Road.
9.30pm. Free. North
American Scandinayian songwriter now resident in Iidinhurgh has iust recorded a hand alhum. hut she play s here solo with guitar.
I Session Band L'Attache. hasernent of Rutland I lotel. “'esl Iind. Informal instrumental traditional music.
I No u-Turn The Trading Post. 32 The Shore. I.eith. 553 7IM. S.3l)till late. Free. Bluegrass hand.
I Jim Knight/Denny Swanson/Jerry Bell Iinsign liwart. Law-nmarket. 225 744i). livening. All guitarist singers.
FRIDAY 7
Glasgow Folk Festival
I Dance Group Wintergardens. Peoples Palace. (ilasgow (ireen. I-2pm. Free. Shamrock Dancers.
I John Martyn/Bill Craig The Shed. Blackfriars Street. Note early start 7pm. £(T(£3). Bar. Food. Legendary Scots electro-acoustic guitarist and songwriter with multitudes of admirers. and a visitor from Toronto. an exiled Iflsterman making a name for himselfas asongwriter and performer in ('anada.
I Kalala Brothers ('entral ('ommunity Ilalls. Maryhill. 8pm. £3.5(l(£2.5(l). Tickets from Ticket (‘entre or Iona Records. Bridgegate. Anti Apartheid. Scottish Namihia (‘ommittee promotion. All funds to SWAPO Iilection (‘ampaign Appeal. (ireat vocal harmony and guitar duo. also play African flute and write a lot of their own songs. in Angolan. Portuguese and English lyrics.
I Ceilidh Dance The Shed. Blackfriars Street. Illpm— lam. £3.50. Bar. Food. With Clach Na Cudden.
I Festival Club Blackfriars Bar Downstairs. Bell Street. 552 592-1. Rpm—lam. £2. I.I\‘C music.
I nowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn. By Uddingslon Cross. liddingslon.
9—] 1.45pm. £I. Informal music.
Edinburgh
I Fiddlers Rally Linlithgow Academy.
7.30pm. (‘harter ()lIlICCIL‘hriIIIUIIS.
I Caiun Blue Royal Archer. I High Street. 556 (i388. S . 30pm.
I Steam Jenny Platform I. Rutland Street. 225 2433. Iiyening. Puh folk hand.
I Kevin Tait ('andlemakers Arms. (irassmarket. 9pm— I 2.30am. I-'olksinging entertainer.
SATURDAY 8
Glasgow Folk Festival
I Kids Show Wintergardens. Peoples Palace. (ilasgow (ircen. I |—-3pm. l-‘ree. Take them along to see Theatre Seannachie.
I City Centre Dancers. 10am onwards. nogaland from Norway . Cumberland Morris. Beltaga Morris. Kirkburton Rapper dancersI Traditional Singing Competition Victoria Bar. Stockwell Street. Midnight. I Chorus Cup Competition Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 2.30pm.
I Altan/Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise.‘l'he Shed. Blackfriars Street. Note earlystart 7pm. £-i(£3). Bar. Food. Verytalerited female singer and fiddler from Donegal fronts this top quality Irish traditional hand. Scots husband and w ifc singers ( 'illa and A rtic reveal their adult dimension away from the Singing Kettle.
I Ceilidh Dance The Shed. Blackfriars Street. lllpm--|am. £3.50. Bar. Food. With The Monrovians.
I Festival Club Blackfriars Bar Downstairs. Bell Street. 552 592-1.
Spm~ lam. £2. Eleri Finnerty from Wales.
Edinburgh
I Katala Brothers ( ieorge Square Theatre. 8pm. £3.5II(£2.5II). Tickets from Queens Ilall Box Office. ('lerk Street : ( ‘anongate Music. Blackfriars Street. Anti Apartheid. Scottish Namihia (‘ommittcc promotion. All funds to S\\'AP( ) Iilcclion ('ampaign Appeal. (ireat yocal harmony and guitar duo. write a lot of theirown songs. sing Angolan. Portuguese and Iinglish lyrics and play the wooden lititc. Part of a Scottish tour.
I Cajun Blue Royal Archer. I High Street. 5566388. 8.30pm.
I Ceilidh Bristo Refectory. BristoSquare. 9pm~2.3tlam. £2.50. Bar. Open tothe puhlic. Weekly dance.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Accordion guitar in the bar.
SUNDAY 9
Glasgow Folk Festival
I Farewell Concert The Shed. Blackfriars Street. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Bar. Food. 5-piece acoustic hand Allan from Donegal and Dublin. Calicbe‘s pan pipes and music from ('hile. Ireland and ('anada's songwritingBill Craig. the Whistlebinkies with the Scottish side of things. and music and dance groups from Spain. Holland and Norway.
I Festival Club Blackfriars Bar Downstairs. Bell Street. 552 5924.
8pm— lam. £2. Live music.
I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull I lotel. Milngayie. 8.30pm.
Edinburgh.
I Youngs Music Club Learnington Terrace. 9.30pm. 50p. Liye acoustic music.
I Jim Knight/Denny Swanson/Graham McGirk Iinsign Iiwart. Law nmarket . 225 7440. Evening. Singer guitarists.
MONDAY 10
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher presents records. news and live recordings.
Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Music Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 868]. livening. Live music.
I Victoria ear Bridgegate. 55260.1(). 9pm. Regular session.
Edinburgh
I Session Nighl The (ireen Tree.
4D The List 30 June — I3 July 1989
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