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MUSIC LIST/CLASSICAL
Edinburgh
I The iielugees L'Odeon. George 1V Bridge. 8.30pm. Original contemporary songs from talented acoustic/electric duo. I Mucltle Ado L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. ('heerful trioof old-fashioned folkies.
MONDAY 12 .
I Travelling Fle BBC Radio SCntlilnti. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher. with Danny Kyle presents records. news and live recordings.
Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Blues Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Tonight the Road Rockets electric band.
Edinburgh
I Liniithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Tavern. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Norman Stewart is a fine singer/guitarist and moothie player.
I The Reiugees Negociants. Bristo Square. 8.30pm. Original contemporary songs from talented acoustic/electric duo. I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. 9—1 1pm. Monday night is Scottish music.
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. Muckle Ado.
TUESDAY 13 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Tonight Ian Bruce.
Edinburgh
I Penicuilt Folk Club Navaar t iotel. Penicuik. 8.30pm. Marilyn Middleton Pollock uses a big voice to sing the blues songs of her American homeland. and mixes them with songs from the British Isles.
I Miro L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic Irish/Scottish music by art informal group of fine players.
I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. 1 Ianover Street. 8.30—1 1pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guests.
I The Reiugees Canny Mans. Morningside Road. 8.30pm. New songs from acoustic/electric duo.
WEDNESDAY 14 Glasgow
I Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
I Scotla Folk Scotia Bar. Stockweil Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Live music from Andy Lang and Mhairi 0’ Neil.
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I 20th Century Music Annie Millers. Ropework lane. off Clyde Street. Evening. Singer/songwriter club. Pass-the-hat admission.
Edinburgh
I St Valentines Folk. Blues and Caiun Concert Queens Hall. Clerk Street.
8- 1 1pm. £5 (£4). Peace Festivalannual concert has Muriel Gray. Nick Keir. Ireland's Colin Sands with harp and vocal Edinburgh duo Sileas. the parlour classics and humour of Fourth Estaite with other guests including Janet Russell. JustThe Very Donkeys and the Deal Heights Calun Aces dance band.
I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. Ian Bruce.
I The Reiugees St James Oyster Bar.
Calton Road. 9pm. Two guitars and vocals from contemporary acoustic/electric duo. I Walls and Strays L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes 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 15 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £1 .50. Ossian boys Dilly Ross and John Martin perform Scottish and Gaelic song and music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 8pm—1am. £3. Now three nights a week for popular Riverside dances.
Edinburgh
I Shooglenltty L‘Odeon. George 1V Bridge. 225 1681. Evening.
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 Talt Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm.
FRIDAY 16 Glasgow
I iiowaniree Folk Club Rowantrec Inn. by Uddingston Cross. Uddingston.
9—1 1.45pm. £1. Singaround.
I Scotla Folk 1 12 Stockweil Street. 8pm—late. Free. Live Music.
I Cellldh Dance Riverside. Fox Street, off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. £3. Popular dance night.
Edinburgh
I Mr Boom Brunton Theatre. Musselburgh. 2.30pm. £2 (£1). For kids especially. The one man band from the moon with his dog Boomdy Bouncer on a rare visit from his lunar home.
I North Sea Gas Platform 1 . Rutland Street. 225 2433. Evening. Scottish folk band.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm. Folksingingentertainer.
SATURDAY 17
Glasgow
I West Coast Band Blackfriars. 36 Bell Street. 552 5924. l—Spm. Free. Session. I Scotla Bar 112 Stockweil Street. Evening. Free. TMSA night ofmusic and
song.
I Victoria ear Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm.
Session.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. off(‘lyde Street. 2483144. 9pm—2am. £3. With Claeh Na Cudden. Regular weekend dances.
Edinburgh
I Mr Boom Brunton Theatre. Musselburgh. 2.30pm. £2 (£1). Sec Fri 16. I Bolivar Assembly Rooms. Music Hall. 8pm. £5 (£4). Latin amcrican salsa band. Part of the Peace Festival.
I West End iiotei Palmerston Place. 9pm. Highlanders‘ home from home. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Kevin Tait Candlemakers Arms. Grassmarket. 9.30pm.
Folksinging entertainer.
SUNDAY 18 Glasgow
I Paisley Folk Club Whitehouse Hotel. Loncnd. Paisley. 8.30pm. Ian Bruce.
I Scotla Folk Scotia Bar. Stockweil Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live music.
I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street. off
. Clyde Street. 248 3144. 2-4pm. Free.
session in the bar.
Edinburgh
I Muckle Ado L'Attaehe. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. Three man singalong to folk standards.
I The neiugees L‘Odeon. George 1V Bridge. 8.30pm. Original contemporary songs from talented acoustic/electric duo. I Absent Friends Fairmile Inn. Fairmilehcad. 8.30—1 1pm. Jigs. reels and songs from acousticlelectric folk band.
MONDAY 19
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher presents records. news and live recordings. and Danny Kyle.
Edinburgh
I Mr Boom Brunton Theatre. Musselburgh. 2.30pm. £2 (£1). For kids especially. See Fri 16.
I Llnlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Tavern. West Port, Linlithgow. 8pm.
I Richard Grainger and Diclt Mylest.
I The iieiugees Negociants. Bristo Square. 8.30pm. Original contemporary songs from talented acoustic/electric duo. I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket.9—11pm. Monday night is Scottish music.
I The Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Session till lam.
I Folk At L'Aitache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Absent Friends.
TUESDAY 20 Glasgow
I Cornhaitas Ceolioiri Eireann 1990 Concert Tour oi Britain City Halls. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 8pm.Two score of the finest of lreland‘s traditional harpers, pipers. fiddlers. tin whistle. coneertina. accordion. flute. banjo and bodhran players. singers. and dancers take part in this annual spectacular.
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Tonight Hay and Gerry.
Edinburgh
I Charity Folk Concert Pleasancc Theatre Bar. Pleasancc. 8pm. £5. Tickets from 337 5179 or on the door. In aid oflmperial Cancer Research. With lain McKIntosh. Drinkers Drottih. Jill and Joclt, Lizand Maggie. Shoes and Danny kyle.
I Miro L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. lrrevercnt instrumentalists.
I The iieiugees Canny Mans. Morningside Road. 8.30pm. New songs from acoustic/electric duo.
I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 8.30-11pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars, visiting musicians and special guests in small back room.
WEDNESDAY 21 Glasgow
I Comhaltas Ceoiioiri Elreann 1990 Concert Tour oi Britain St Bride's Hall. Coursington Road. Motherwell. Tickets 0698 833 631. 8pm. See 20th.
I Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Long-running session. mainly Irish instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc. ,
I Scotla Folk Scotla Bar. Stockweil Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Live acoustic music from Grainger and Myles.
I 20th Century Music Annie Millers. Ropework Lane. off Clyde Street. Evening. Singer/songwriter club. Pass-the-hat admission.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel. York Place. 556 5577. 8pm. Thomas Lynch plays Irish pipes. whistle. guitar and is also a fine singer.
I Walls and Strays L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free.
I The iieiugees St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Two guitars and vocals from contemporary acoustic/electric duo. I The Globe West Port. informal session. 9.30pm.
I Kevin Tait Trader Vic‘s. Victoria Street. 9pm. Folksinging entertainer.
I North Sea Gas Platform l.Rutland Street. 225 2433. Evening. Scottish folk duo.
THURSDAY 22 . Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside MitcheIlTheatre. 8pm. £1 .50. The sizeable talent of liarnish lmlach.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 8pm—1am. £3. Now three nights a week for popular Riverside dances.
Edinburgh
I The MacCalmans Balerno Folk Club. Kestrel Hotel. Harlaw Road. 8pm. Famous Scots singing foursome on their home turf.
I Shooglenltty L'Odeon. George 1V Bridge. 225 1681. Evening.
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 9 Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. The inaugural recital of the Academy's new harpsichord built by Grant O‘Brien is given by John Kitchen of Edinburgh University. who shows off its capabilities with music by Bach. Scarlatti. John Bull and that great composer. Anon.
I Glasgow Giasnosi Concert Hall. Glasgow University. 7.30pm. Free. A programme of American and Russian music presented by Glasgow University Music Club.
I BBC 880 Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.45pm. £6/£7 (£4/£4.50). Soprano Jane Eaglcn. a favourite visitor to Scotland. joins with the BBC $80 for Berg‘s Seven Early Songs. while Haydn‘s early symphony Le Marin and Tchaikovsky's Parherique appear on either side. Henry Lewis conducts.
38 The List 9 — 22 February 1990