MUSIC LIST/FOLK
Accordion/guitar in the bar. I Kevin Tail Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm. 1 Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. Folksinging entertainer. ‘ I The Reiugees St James Oyster Bar.
4 I I Calton Road. 9pm. Two guitars and vocals
i from contemporary acoustic/electric duo.
I Walls and Strays L‘Attache. basement of | Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes I Sandy eell's Forrest Hill Bar, Forrest Road. Famous traditional music bar has a fiddle etc. at the back.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. Singaround. I The Refugees St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Two guitars and vocals
Highlanders’ home from home. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm. Folksinging entertainer.
SUNDAY 28 Glasgow
I Black Bull Folk Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 8pm. £2 (members£l .25). Membership £3.50. Tonight. the singer. guitarist and man of stature Hamish Imlach.
I Victoria ear Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Session.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street, 5528681. 8.30pm. Live music.
I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 2—4pm.
Edinburgh
I The Refugees L‘Odeon. George lV Bridge, 8.30pm. Original contemporary songs from talented acoustic/electric duo. I Muckle Ado L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Cheerful trio of old-fashioned folkies.
MONDAY 29
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland.
8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher. with Danny Kyle presents records, news and live recordings.
Edinburgh
I Llnlilhgow Folk Club Black Bitch Tavern. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Amos and Books.
I Rod Paterson St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 9pm. Free. Easy Club‘s vocalist. solo.
I The Refugees Negociants. Bristo Square, 8.30pm. Original contemporary songs from talented acousticlelectric duo. I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. 9—11pm. Monday night is Scottish music night.
I The Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Session till 1am.
I Folk At L'Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Miro.
TUESDAY 30 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Tonight Caroline Kerr.
Edinburgh
I Miro L‘Attache. basement ofRutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic Irish/Scottish music by an informal group of fine players.
I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 8.30—11pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guests.
I The Relugees Canny Mans. Morningside Road. 8.30pm. New songs from acoustic/electric duo.
WEDNESDAY 31 Glasgow
I Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Live music.
I PeterNardini Baxters. Roxburgh Street. Greenock. 8pm. £2. Campaign fora Nuclear Free Scotland in conjunction with lnverclyde Folk Club and CND. present the cutting humour and black irony ofthe West of Scotland artTeacher/songwriter.
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from contemporary acoustic/electric duo. I Walls and Strays L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End ofPrinces Street. 9.30pm-12.30am. Free. New
folk-based band.
I The Globe West Port. informal session. 9.30pm.
I Kevin Tait Trader Vic‘s. Victoria Street. 9pm. Folksinging entertainer.
THURSDAY 1
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £1 .50. Tonight. a lady with a big voice. in the Marilyn Middleton Pollock Blues Show. The history of the blues from a woman‘s perspective. with Andy Thorburn on keyboards.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9pm. £3. Live band. Now three nights a week for popular dances.
Edinburgh
I The Refugees Network. West Tollcross. 228 3252. Female songwriter/singer with electric/acoustic guitarist, doing their own son 5.
I Dave Robb and the Filmmakers Venue. Calton Road. 11pm. £4 (£3). Rootsy singer songwriter‘s band with support from Klth and Kin.
I North Sea Gas L’Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free.
I Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Folk session. 9pm—midnight.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm.
FRIDAY 2 Glasgow
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn. by Uddingston Cross. Uddingston. 9—11.45pm.£1.Singaround.
I Scotia Folk 112 Stockwell Street. 8pm—late. Free. Live Music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street, off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. Doors open 8pm. £3. Popular dance night.
Edinburgh
I El Rincon Chileno Cornerstone Cafe. Basement of St John‘s Church. West End of Princes Street. 8—11pm. £3.50(£3). Snacks and coffee. BYOB. Contemporary Latin-American music on vocal and guitar from Carlos Arredondo and Gain Caron. with support from Le Jazz Hot.
I North Sea Gas Platform 1.Rutland Street. 225 2433. Evening. Scottish folk band.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm.
Folksinging entertainer.
SATURDAY 3 Glasgow
I West Coast Band Blackfriars. 36 Bell Street. 552 5924. 1—5pm. Free. Session. I Scotia Bar 112 Stockwell Street. Evening. Free. Live music.
I Victoria Dar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Session.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. offClyde Street. 2483144. 9.00pm—2am. £3. With Clach Na Cudden. Regular weekend dances.
I Peach County Blackfriars. Bell Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 9pm. Country band.
Edinburgh
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Highlanders’ home from home.
Glasgow
I Victoria Bar Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Session.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street.
552 8681. 8.30pm. Live music.
I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 2—4pm.
I Great John MacLean Night Moir l iall. MitchellTheatre. 6.30—1 1 . 15pm. £3 (£1.50). Musieand comedy from Elaine C. Smith, The Clulha. Kokomo Blues Band, O'Caiunales, Bruce Morton an Eddie Smith.
Edinburgh
I Muskie Ado L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. Three-man singalong to folk standards. I The Reiugees L‘()deon. George IV Bridge. 8.30pm. Original contemporary songs from talented acoustic/electric duo. I Absent Friends Fairmile Inn. Fairmilehead. 8.30—1 1pm. Jigs. reels and songs from acoustic/electric folk band.
MONDAY 5
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher presents records. news and live recordings. and Danny Kyle..
Edinburgh
I Liniithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Tavern. West Port. Linlithgow. 8pm. Gaberlunzie.
I Rod Paterson St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 9pm. Free. Easy Club‘s vocalist. solo.
I The Refugees Negociants. Bristo Square. 8.30pm. Original contemporary songs from talented acoustic/electric duo. I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket.9—11pm. Monday night is Scottish music night.
I The Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Session till 1am.
I FolkAt L’Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Alan Johnstone Band.
TUESDAY 6 Glasgow
I Gaberlunzie Cumbernauld Theatre. Cumbernauld. 7.45pm. £4 (£2). Ever popular and long-serving folk duo.
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1(110. 8pm. Tonight Cruachan.
Edinburgh
I Miro L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. irreverent instrumentalists.
I The Refugees Canny Mans. Morningside Road. 8.30pm. New songs from acoustic/electric duo.
I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. iianovcr Street. 830—] lpm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guests in small back room.
WEDNESDAY 7 Glasgow
I Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Long-running session. mainly Irish instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live acoustic music.
5 Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Iiotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. The Kipper Family area father and son who preserve the songs and cultural traditions ofan England long gone. Well. not really. An amusing send—up of the folk scene.
E I The Globe West Port. informal session. 9.30pm. I Kevin Tail Trader Vic‘s. Victoria Street.
. 9pm. Folksinging entertainer.
duo.
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I North Sea Gas Platform 1.Rutland Street. 225 2433. Evening. Scottish folk
THURSDAY 8 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £1 .50. Tonight harmonica. guitar. vocals and amazing energy front Mike Whellans.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street.ofi Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9pm. £3. With Clash Na Cudden ceilidh band. Now three nights a week for popular Riverside dances.
Edinburgh
I L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. North Sea Gas.
I Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Folk session. 9pm—midnight.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm.
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 26
Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. Organist John Turner in an all Bach (JS) programme.
I 88C 880 RSAMD. 100 RenfrewStreet. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £6l£7 (£4'£4.50). Another attractive programme from the BBC SSO. tonight opening with the Ritual Dances frotn Tippett‘s opera The Midsummer .lfarriage (seen to great effect in a Scottish Opera production last season). followed by Britten's Violin Concerto (soloist Ernst Kovacic) and Brahnis's Symphony No 4. George Hurst conducts.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital McEwan Hall. Bristo Square. Free at door. 1 . 10pm. George MePhce. organist at Paisley Abbey. plays Mendelssohn‘s Sonata No 3. the Chorale No 3 in A minor by Franck and Samuel Barber's Variations on Wondrous Love. I SND L'sher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Saturday 27. Glasgow. £2.95-£12.70 (standby£2.50). All Beethoven programme conducted by Jane Glover brings the Pastoral Symphony in the first halfand the Massin C in the second.
I loianthe Church HillTheatre. Morningside. Extra date: Saturday27. Edinburgh University Opera Group in Gilbert and Sullivan favourite.
SATURDAY 27 Glasgow “
I Bluebeard's Castle/Oedipus Rex Theatre i 1
Royal. Iiope Street. 331 1234 or 3329000. 7. 15pm. Scottish Opera with stunning double bill of Bartok and Stravinsky. both designed and directed by Stefanos Lazaridis.
I SNO City Iiall. Candleriggs. 227 551 1. 7.30pm. £3.50—£12.70 (standby £2.50). See Friday 26. Edinburgh. forfull description.