MUSIC LIST/FOLK
8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher presents
clords news and live recordings. G asgow
I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Weekly session.
Edinburgh
I Llnlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Tavern. West Port. Linlithgow. 8pm.
I Fiddlers An‘ns Grassmarket. 9;] 1pm. Scottish tunes on squeeze box and fiddle. I The Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Session till 1am.
I Folk Al L'Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free.
TUESDAY 3 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. £3 (£1 .50). Eric Cuthbertson sings.
Edinburgh
I Penicuik Folk Club Navaar Hotel. Bog Road. 8pm. Singers‘ night.
I Seannachie Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. near the Castle. 9pm—midnight. Free. Good Scots band plays weekly residency.
I Miro L’Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. Resident folk band. flutes. fiddles and mainly Irish.
WEDNESDAY 4 Glasgow
I Clydebank Folk Festival Clydebank Town Hall. 8—12pm. £2 (£1). Session Offolk. blues. traditional and contemporary song. even a bit of country sounds. With Eric Cuthbertson. John Graham. Nancy Nicholson. Ian Walker. Jim Brown, Gunsmoke Trio.
I 20th Century Music Club City Lights. Clyde Street. 204 3329. Singer/songwriter club. All welcome. Pass-the-hat admission. Free drinks to performers. Must be own material.
I Merchant City Folk Club Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 5525924. 8pm. From Tonight At Noon. Gavin Livingstone.
I Folk Session Ilalt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live acoustic music.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). Jane Cassidy and Maurice Leyden with a programme of songs. poetry and story from Ulster. See Music Preview.
I Rod Paterson St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Easy Club‘s vocalist. I Kevin Tait Trader Vic‘s. Victoria Street. 9pm. Folksinging entertainer.
THURSDAY 5 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £1 .50. Tonight the electric keyboards. wild bagpipes. captivating harp. trusty flute and cittern and Davey Steele‘s vocals in Ceol Beag!
I Glasgow University Union University Avenue. Lounge Bar. 9.30pm—12.30am. Folk. Jazz or Blues Nights. Students and guests.
Edinburgh
I Absent Friends L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Ilotel. West End.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm.
FRIDAY 6
Glasgow I Clydebank Folk Festival St. Andrew‘s
School Theatre. 8pm. £3 ( 1 .50). Festival Concert features singer Maria Tolly with the virtuoso Shetland Fiddler from the Boys OfThe Lough Aly Bain accompanied by Tom Gillellon.
I Jane Cassidy and Maurice Leyden/Setanta Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 221 4526. A programme of songs. poetry and story from Ulster. Supported by well known Glasgow Irish band. Setanta. See Music Preview.
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn. By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston.
9;] 1.45pm. £1.50.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Live band. Very popular.
Edinburgh
I Tweed Journey Lucy Sanderson I lall Galashiels. 7.30pm. £3. Savouma Stevenson‘s Clarsach in an electric band. See 29 Sept.
I Contemporary Latin American Music El Rincon Chileno. Cornerstone Cafe. 8pm. £3.50 (£3). BYOB. Carlos Arredondo and Galvarino Ceron play beautiful guitar and Carlos sings his own passionate songs. born of exile from Chile. First Friday of the month. This month's home grown guests are guitarist Allan Coady and poet John Gillies.
I Steam Jenny Platform 1. Rutland Street. 225 2433. Evening. Pub folk band.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm. Folksinging entertainer.
SATURDAY 7
Glasgow
I Clydebank Folk Festival Ilardgate I la”. 8pm. £2 (£1). Ceilidh with K.Passa.
I Rab McLellan and Fozzie Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchiehall Street. l2.30—4.30pm. Free pub folk entertainment.
I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Session.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 2.3(L-5.30pm and 8.30pm. Live music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street.off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Regular weekly dance.
Edinburgh
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Ilighlanders home from home. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm. Folksinging entertainer.
SUNDAY 8
Glasgow
I Paisley Folk Club New White I louse Hotel. Blackhall Street. 8.30pm. £1 .50. Paul Metzers.
I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Session.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live music.
Edinburgh
I Tweed Journey Melrose Abbey. 3pm. £3. Savouma Stevenson‘s Clarsach in an electric band. Next three concerts. Kelso 13th. Coldstream 14th and Berwick 15th. See 29th.
I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9.30pm. 50p. Rachaka are a percussive jazzjroots/fusion band.
I Allan Johnston Band L'Attacbe. basement of Rutland Ilotcl. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free.
MONDAY 9
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio S -otland. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher presents
Giords news and live recordings. asgow
I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Weekly session.
Edinburgh
I Session Nighl The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Bartill 1am.
I Folk Al L'Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Acoustic traditional music round the piano.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddle.
TUESDAY 10 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Steve Red.
Edinburgh
I Penicuik Folk Club Navaar I lotel. Bog Road. 8pm. Singers‘ night.
I Seannachie Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. near the Castle. 9pm—midnigbt. Free. Songs and instrumentals from top Scots folk band.
I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 830-] lpm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guests.
WEDNESDAY 11 Glasgow
I Donegal Fiddlers Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 8pm. £2. From the North of Ireland. See Music Page.
I Zillh Century Music Club City Lights. Clyde Street. 204 3329. Singer/songwriter club. All welcome. Pass-the-hat admission. Free drinks to performers. Must be own material.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Live acoustic music.
I Merchant City Folk Club Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 8pm. Steve Turner is a superb concertinist and singer with a wide repertoire ofsongs and entertainments.
I Folk Session I lalt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne 1 lotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). Return. after a long break from touring.of a legendary traditional unaccompanied singer. Nottingham‘s 25 years-of-performing Roy Harris.
I Rod Paterson St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Easy Club‘s vocalist. solo.
I Allan Johnston Band L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West Endof Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. Singer/songwriter's electric and acoustic folk based band.
I Kevin Tait Trader Vic's. Victoria Street. 9pm. Folksinging entertainer.
THURSDAY 12 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £1 .50. The astonishing. all-singing. all-dancing. harmonicidal moothie playing. hyper-active Rory McLeod.
I Glasgow University Union University Avenue. Lounge Bar. 9.30pm—12.30am. Folk. Jazz or Blues Nights. Students and guests.
Edinburgh
I Gene Clark Preservation Ilall. Victoria Street. 9pm. £3.50. Ex-Byrds songwriter. guitarist and singer in rare appearance. One of America‘s original roots/country rock stars. Tickets from the Bar or Backbeat Records. Candlemaker Row.
I Donegal Fiddlers DeMarco Gallery Upstairs. Blackfriars Street. off the High Street. 557 0707. 8pm. £3. From the North
of Ireland. See Music Page.
I Folk Al L'Attache L’Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Live amplified band.
I Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Folk scene session. Late bar.
I Kevin Tail Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm. I-‘olksinging entertainer.
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 29 Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson I lall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 3325057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Organist Dennis Townhill gives a recital of Pachelbel. John Starley. Mendelssohn and Kenneth Leighton.
Edinburgh
I Mozart/Puccini Double Bill Adam House Theatre. Chambers Street. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 30. £4.50. New young company called Pocket Opera with The Impresario and (iiamu Schicchi in piano-accompanied versions of these Mozart and Puccini comedies.
SATURDAY 30 Glasgow
I The Merry Widow Theatre Royal. l lope Street. 331 1234/332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: Fri 6. Wed 25 October. Wed 6 December. Sat 9 December (mat) - Glasgow; Tues 31 October. Sat 4 November»- Edinburgh. £3-£25 (various concessions and series discounts available). New Scottish Opera production with theatre director Dr 'I‘revis making her opera debut. New translation too. by Scottish Opera favourite John Wells.
I Piano Recital Stevenson Ilall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 (£2.50). Friends of the Scottish International Piano Competition present Christopher Oakden. a past student oftbe RSAMD. playing works by I laydn. Schubert. Beethoven. ( ‘hopin and Scriabin.
Edinburgh
I Mozart/Puccini Double Bill Adam 1 louse Theatre. Chambers Street. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £4.50. See Friday 29 for full description.
SUNDAY 1 Glasgow
I Promenade Organ Recital Art Gallery and Museum. Kelvingrove. 2pmv-4pm. Free. Another recital in this series.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Concert Band Charity Concert Oueen‘s Ilall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2). An eveningoflight entertainment hosted by Neville Garden and with special guests Mary Sandeman and her accompanist John Moore. the Scottish Saxophone Quartet and trumpeter Graeme Williamson-Stephen Callaghan is the conductor.
I Violin/Piano Recital Iidinburgh Society of Musicians. 2 Belford Road. Tickets at door. 2.30pm. Maeve Cowan and Martijn van den Iloek from Vienna play Mozart Sonatas K296. K379 and K380.
TUESDAY 3 Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Lunchtime Concert Reid Concert Ilall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm—l .55pm. Free at door. 'I be BBC Scottish Brass Ensemble are the first guests in this popular series. which is open to all.
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