MUSIC/FOLK
songs, double bass. even jazz accordion from Black Eyed Giddy.
I Absent Friends Fairmile Inn, Fairmilehead. 8.30pm. Free. Two singers in this electric folk band.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Political songwriting skills among the traditional material from singer and melodeon player Nancy Nicholson.
MONDAY 2
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings.
Glasgow
I Glasgow Folk Festival See separate Listings.
Edinburgh
I Linllthgow Folk Club Black Bitch Tavern. West Port, Linlithgow. 8pm. Funny and clever swing vocals and instrumentals from the irreverent duo Scotch Dloos.
I Hod Paterson St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Free. Scots and self—penned songs from tremendous singer/guitarist.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. 9—11pm. Free. Scottish tunes on accordion, whistle and fiddle.
I The Green Tree Cowgate. Evening.
Free. Busy session. usually fiddles, guitar. flute and pipes till 12.30am.
I Folk At L'Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. North Sea Gas, entertaining folk band.
TUESDAY 3 Glasgow
I Glasgow Folk Festival See separate Listings.
Edinburgh
I Club Mhor Merlin, 168 Morningsidc Road, 447 4329. 8pm. Tickets on the door. Acoustic music venue has weekly concert with support performers. This week the fine traditional based vocal and instrumental talents from the north of England in Dab Hand.
I Famous Other Band Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. 9pm. Free. High-powered jigs and reels from Miro.
I Milnes Dar Muslc Hanover Street. 8.30—11pm. Free. Live folk bands and soloists in the small back room.
WEDNESDAY 4 Glasgow
I Glasgow Folk Festival See separate Listings.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel, York Place, 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). Big bluesy voice of Glasgow—based Chicago lady Marilyn Middleton Pollock.
I L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—1am. Free. Electric blues and cajun from
Zydeco.
THURSDAY 5 Glasgow
I Glasgow Folk Festival See separate Listings.
Edinburgh
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm— lam. Free. Live group.
I Blues at Haymarket Ryries Bar. Haymarket. 9pm. Free. Rootsies Duo in famous corner pub.
I Number One Music Cellar No 1, Chambers Street, 220 4298. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitar from Freddie
Triay.
I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Instrumental music round the piano.
FRIDAY 6 Glasgow
I Katala Brothers Maryhill Community Central Hall. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Fine Angolan musicians, songs with guitars and flute. making a return vist to Scotland on behalfof the Scottish Namibia Committee.
I Concert and Ceilidh Cumbernauld Theatre. 7.45pm. £5 (£3). Great double billing of young band from Galicia. the celtie area in north Spain. called Dphuisa who play modern acoustic folk music and song in arrangements with their bagpipe, the gaida. and other instruments, some familiar. and others not so often seen over here. The ceilidh dance afterwards has the excellent Edinburgh band Hugh MacDiarrnid's Haircut.
I Glasgow Folk Festival See separate Listings.
Edinburgh
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. West Highlanders' favourite. Accordion and guitar in the bar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Alan Hunter.
SATURDAY 7 Glasgow
I Glasgow Folk Festival See separate Listings.
Edinburgh
I Kaiala Brothers George Square Theatre. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Fine Angolan musicians. songs with guitars and flute, making a return vist to Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Namibia Committee.
I Gaudl Shore Bar, The Shore, Leith. 9pm. Free. Music on fiddle and mandolin from some of the Miro boys.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Highlanders‘ haunt. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Alan Hunter.
SUNDAY 8 Glasgow
I Ravi Shankar Pavilion Theatre. Renfield Street, 332 1846. 7.30pm. £10 and£5. Legendary Indian sitar player with Kurnar Bose, tabla. Also tanpura accompaniment.
I Glasgow Folk Festival See separate Listings.
Edinburgh
I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1.50 Info 447 6187. Live acoustic music. From Newcastle. one ofthe funniest trios around, and zippy players too. Bluegrass and traditional with tongue in check from The Old Hope String Band.
I L'Odeon George 1V Bridge. 8.30pm. Free. American/Scottish banjo and fiddle, mandolin and guitar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Traditional songs and contemporary social comment from melodeon player Nancy Nicholson.
I Folk at L'Attache L‘Attache, basement of Rutland Hotel, West End. 9pm. Free. Muckle Ado.
I Absent Friends Fairmile Inn, Fairmilehead. 8.30pm. Free. Two singers in this electric folk band.
MONDAY 9
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records, news and live recordings.
Glasgow
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchiehall Street. 8—12pm. Free. Ceilidh with Glasgow‘s Glach na Cudden band.
Edinburgh
I Linllthgow Folk Club Black Bitch. West Port. Linlithgow. 8pm. Iain Mackintosh. one of Scotland’s favourite ciubsingers.
I Hod Paterson St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Traditional and modern songs with guitar from leading singer. And it‘s free.
I Folk At L’Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. North Sea Gas.
TUESDAY 10
Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street, 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Live music.
Edinburgh
I Club Mhor Merlin. 168 Morningsidc
. Road, 447 4329. 8pm. Tickets on the door.
Acoustic music venue has weekly concert with support performers.
I Famous Other Band Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
I Folk Music Nights Milnes Bar. Hanover Street. 8.30—11pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guests. Tonight Triad. three guys from Blantyre, vocal harmony and guitar.
I Folk At L’Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Miro. fast-fingered Celtic tunes.
WEDNESDAY 11 Glasgow
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 Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Osbourne Hotel. York Place, 556 5577. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). Singer. guitarist, musical humourist — and part-time Vindscreen Viper — Tich Friar. whose repertoire stretches from trad Scottish ballads to Buddy Holly. Now in his twentieth year as a professional. his albums Going Straight and The Mom'gan are on Celtic records.
I Folk At L'Attache L‘Attache, basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—lam. Free. Electric blues and cajun from Zydeco.
THURSDAY 12 Glasgow
I Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Tramway. Albert Drive. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre). 8pm. £5 (£2.50). Halfprice for Friends of Asian Arts. The master os Moslem devotional music. A big man with an awesome voice, his recorded output is currently being made more widely available in this country. The sound of Khan and his musicians sends shivers down the spine.
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Traditional singer Sheena Wellington with Ewan Sutherland on guitar.
I Music at Donharns 194 Byres Road. 337 3424. 9pm. Free. Acoustic set from Michael Keenan.
Edinburgh
I Folk At L'Attache L’Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live band.
I Blues at Haymarket Ryries Bar. Haymarket. 9pm. Free. Hootsies Duo in famous corner pub.
I Green Tree Cowgate. Evening. Folk scene session. Free. Late bar.
CELLAR BAR
Rutland Place, Edinburgh ()31 229 3402
Live Folk Music in L'Attache
9.30pm - 12.30am
Sunday 1 Eat the Seats
Monday 2 North Sea Gas
Tuesday 3 Miro
Wednesday 4 Zydeco
Sunday 8 Muckle Ado
Mondzfy 9 North Sea Gas
Tuesday 10 Miro
Wednesday 11 Zydeco
Admission Free
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