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I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1.50. Info 447 6187. Festival favourites Melanie Hamid and Ollie Oianchtlower jazzily combine smooth vocals with guitar and acoustic bass.
I Music at L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. Muckle Ado.
I Absent Friends Fairmilc lnn. Fairmilchead. 8.30pm. Free. Two singers in this electric folk band.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Songs with a point from singer and melodeon player Nancy Nicholson.
MONDAY 16
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings.
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Glasgow
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauehiehall Street. 8pm—midnight. Free. Music/ceilidh with Clach-na Cudden.
Edinburgh
I Linlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Tavern. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Tonight’s singer is Oick Wardell.
I Rod Paterson St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 9pm. Free. Scots and self-penned songs from tremendous singer/guitarist.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. 9—1 1pm. Free. Scottish tunes on accordion. whistle and fiddle.
I The Green Tree Cowgatc. 9pm. Free. Busy session. usually fiddlcs. guitar. flute and pipes till 12.30am.
I FolkAt L'Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Eat the Seats. electric band.
TUESDAY 17 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm.
Edinburgh
I Club Mhor Merlin. 168 Morningside Road. 447 4329. 8pm. Tickets on the door. Acoustic music venue has weekly concert with support performers. This week the leading lights of Canadian new-wave folk. Vancouver‘s Spirit at the West on a European tour.
I Famous Other Band Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Ilotel. West End. Free. Miro.
I Mllnes Bar Music Hanover Street. 8.30—11pm. Free.
WEDNESDAY 18
Glasgow
I Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Free. Instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
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). Mary and Patsy. as Sileas. the two leading ladies on the Scottish small harp or clarsach. Songs traditional and contemporary and sounds unexpected from a remarkably expressive instrument. And then they bring out their clectro—harp.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—1am.
Free. Electric blues and cajun from
Zydeco.
THURSDAY 19
I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30-8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairlcy. Stimulating. ethnically diverse music from round the world.
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. Berkeley Street. behind Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Jazzy vocals and nimble acoustic bass with Melanie Harrold and Ollie Blanchtlower.
I Music at Bonhams 194 Byres Road. 337 3424. 9pm. Free. Acoustic set from Michael Keenan.
Edinburgh
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland I Iotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.3(lpm—lam. Free. North Sea Gas.
I Blues at Haymarket Ryries Bar. Haymarket. 9pm. Free. Rootsies Duoin famous corner pub.
I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamencoguitar from Freddie Triay.
I Green Tree (‘owgate 9pm. Free. Instrumental session.
FRIDAY 20
I Stonehaven Folk Festival Dougie McLean Band. Black Eyed Biddy. Blo Na Gael. (‘arolina Shout. Rod Paterson.
I Uliapool Ceilidh Weekend Capercaillie. McCalmans. Highland Connection. An Teallach. Billy Ross and John Martin.
Glasgow
I Rowanlree Folk Club Rowantrce Inn. By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston.
9-1 1 .45pm. £1 .50. Information 0698 429744. All welcome. bring an instrument and a voice.
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 21
I Stonehaven Folk Festival Dougie McLean Band. Black Eyed Biddy. Blo Na Gael. Carolina Shout. Rod Paterson.
I Uliapool Ceilidh Weekend (‘apercaillie McCalmans. Highland Connection. An Teallach. Billy Ross and John Martin.
Glasgow
I Whistlebinkles in Concert St Andrew‘s Church. off Saltmarket. 8pm. £3 (£1 .50). Tickets from Ticket Centre Candleriggs. 227 551 1. Monthly concert by the long lived band comprising harp. fiddle and pipes. with flute. concertina and drum. presenting the breadth ofauthentic Scottish music and song in tasteful arrangements.
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauehiehall Street. 12.30pm. Free. Live folk music.
I Heilan Jessie’s 374 Gallowgate. Evening. Free. Live acoustic electric band.
I West Coast Band Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. 12.30pm. Free. Informal. mainly instrumental traditional music in the bar.
I Scotla Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 2.30—5.30pm and 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
Edinburgh
I Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas Ross Theatre. Princes Street Gardens. 1pm. Free. Presented by Edinburgh District Council. High energy English roots band take tunes from everywhere and spice
38 The List 13 — 26July 1990