MUSIC/FOLK
Carlos with stylish classical guitarist Galvarino in a concert of Latin-American music.
I Yothu Ylndl World Music at St Johns. West End of Princes Street. 3.30pm. £4 (£3). Australian aboriginal music. movement and song.
I Folk Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk House. Candlemaker Row. 225 3626. 2.30pm. £4 (£2). Interesting folk music culled from round the world. performed by enthusiastic gang of classically trained players.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Gael‘s bar. Accordion and guitar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Alan Hunter.
Glasgow
I West Coast Band Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Free. Session in the bar. Afternoon.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. 112 Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
I Heilan Jessie‘s 374 Gallowgate. Evening. Free. Live group.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 2483144. 9.30pm. £3. Bttsy twice-weekly dance.
Edinburgh
I Capercaillle Queens I Iall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm and 1030an (two concerts) £5 (£4). Leading Scottish folk group. using keyboards and electric bass with the fluent acoustic instruments. and crowned by Karen Mathieson's soaring vocals in Gaelic and English.
I Acoustic Music Centre Chambers Street. All day till 2am. Last two days ofthe Edinburgh Festival. See Music Preview. I Yothu Yindi World Music at St Johns. West End of Princes Street. 3.30pm. £4 (£3). Australian aboriginal music. movement and song.
I Rumillajta Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. beside the Fringe Club. 2.30pm. £5 (£4). Edinburgh's favourite Bolivian band back again for the umteenth time. Andean music and costume.
I Rupert Parker George Square Theatre. George Square. 1pm. £5. See Fri 31.
I Drumalban Quaker Meeting House. 7 Victoria Terrace. 225 4825. 3pm. £3. See Friday3lst.
I Tawantisuyu and eajarete Quaker Meeting House. 7 Victoria Terrace. 225 4825. 7pm. £4. See Friday 31st.
I Humpti Family Fringe Club. Teviot Row. Midnight. Entrance free with club day membership. Madcap bluegrass and spoof country band.
I Folk Orchestra Greyfriars Kirk House. Candlemaker Row. 225 3626. 2.30pm. £4 (£2). See Fri3l.
I Gaudl Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Organic music on fiddle and mandolin from a subset ofMiro.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Accordion fiddle ’guitar in the Highlander‘s favourite bar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Alan Hunter.
SUNDAY 2
Glasgow
I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street.off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 2—4pm. Free. Regular session.
Edinburgh.
I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1.50. Info 447 6187. Tonight. songs from Tommy Beavltt.
I Music at L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. MuckleAdo.
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. Singer and melodeon player Nancy Nicholson.
SATURDAY 1 ‘
MONDAY 3
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings.
Glasgow
I Irish Session Sharkey‘s Bar. beside Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 9pm. Free. The McCues and other top Glasgow Irish musicians from Combaltas.
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchichall Street. 8pm—midnight. Free. Music/ceilidh with Clach-na Cudden.
Edinburgh
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. 9;] 1pm. 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. Electric folk excursions with Eat the Seats.
TUESDAY 4 Edinburgh
I Club Mhor Merlin. 168 Morningside Road. 447 4329. 8pm. £1 .50(£l members). Tickets on the door. Acoustic music venue has weekly concert with support performers. This week. middle of the road folkies. Walls and Strays.
I Blue Blazer, Spittal Street. 2295030. Session or live music. Checkiordetalls.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. 9pm. Free. Fast and furious tunes from Miro.
I Mllnes Bar Music Hanover Street. 830—] 1pm. Free. Songs. guitar and banjo from residents Jill Bowman and Jock Brown and guests.
WEDNESDAY 5 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 Folk Session Halt Bar. Woodlands Road. 332 1210. Evening. Free. Instrumental music on fiddle. accordion etc.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royal Upstairs. West Register Street. 8pm. £2.50 (£1 .50). New venue. new cabaret-style seating. adjacent bar room. Opening night is a club Singaround.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—lam. Free. Popular Scottish folk/instrumental group Seannachie.
THURSDAY 6
I Earthbeat: BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. Ethnlcally diverse music from around the world.
Glasgow
I Cooking Vinyl Showcase King Tut‘s Wah Wah Hut. 272a St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8pm. £4. Premier alternative music label brings north the manic punk jug band The Barely Works. hot English electric roots dance band Edward II and the Red Hot Polkas. and from Zimbabwe the gospel and blues electric dance sounds of Mechanic Manyeruke. Great line-up for one night!
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Kath Gallagher is an American singer and guitarist. and comes highly recommended.
I Music at Bonhams 194 Bvres Road. 337
3424. 9pm. Free. Acoustic set from Michael Keenan.
Edinburgh
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—lam. Free. Cajun and blues from Zydeco.
I Blues at Haymarket Ryries Bar. Haymarket. 9pm. Rootsles Duo in famous corner pub.
I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitar from Freddie Trlay.
I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Instrumental celtic music in the corner.
FRIDAY 7 Glasgow
I Peggy Seeger Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 8pm. £3. For so long with the late Ewan McColl. the singer/banjo/concertina player is now on a nation—wide solo tour. Ewan‘s autobiography has just been released and is essential reading.
I Ceilidh Dance Arches Cafe Bar. Glasgow‘s Glasgow. Midland Street. off Jamaica Street. 204 3993. 10pm. £3. With live band and caller Bob Blair.
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn. by Uddingston Cross. Uddingston.
$1 1 .45pm. £1 .50. Information 0698 429744. All welcome. bring an instrument and a voice.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Live bands. Very popular.
Edinburgh
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Highlanders’ favourite. Accordion and guitar in the bar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Alan Hunter.
SATURDAY 8 Glasgow
I Whlstleblnkies in Concert St Andrew‘s Church. off Saltmarket. 8pm. £3 (£1.50). Tickets from Ticket Centre Candleriggs. 227 5511. Monthly concert by the long-lived band comprising harp. fiddle and pipes. with flute. concertina and drum. and representing the breadth of authentic Scottish music and song in considered arrangements.
I Ceilidh Dance Arches Cafe Bar. Glasgow‘s Glasgow. Midland Street. off Jamaica Street. 204 3993. 10pm. £3. With live band and caller Bob Blair.
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchichall Street. 12.30pm. Free. Guitar duo.
I Heilan Jessie's 374 Gallowgatc. 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 Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 2.30—5.30pm and 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Regular twice-weekly dance.
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh and Come All Ye Wilkie House. Cowgate. 8.30pm till late. Bar. £3. Benefit for the Travelling People has music from the Robert Fish Band with guests.
I Gaudl Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Organic music on fiddle and mandolin from a subset ofMiro.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Alan Hunter.
SUNDAY 9
Glasgow
I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 2—4pm. Free.
Regular Sunday afternoon of music.
I Park ear Argyll Street. near Kelvin Park. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders' pub.
Edinburgh
I Youngs Music Club Leamington Terrace. 9pm. £1.50. Info 447 6187. Tonight either laln Mackintosh or PeterJagger. Check for details.
I L'Ddeon George IV Bridge. 8.30pm. Free. American/Scottish banjo and fiddle. mandolin and guitar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 9pm till late. Free. Traditional songs and contemporarv 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. 'I‘wosingers in this electric folk band.
MONDAY 10
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9.25pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings.
Glasgow
I Irish Session Sharkey's Bar. beside Citizens' Theatre. Gorbais. 9pm. Free. The McCues and other top Glasgow Irish musicians from Comhaltas.
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchichall Street. 8pm—midnight. Free. Music/ceilidh with Clach-na Cudden.
Edinburgh
I Session Night The Green Tree. Cowgate. Evening. Free. Bar till lam.
I FolkAt L'Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Eat the Seats.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. Free. Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddle.
TUESDAY 11 Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Free. Songwriter/guitarist and accordionist. ex—Zydeco Alasdair Robertson.
Edinburgh
I Club Mhor Merlin. 168 Morningside Road. 447 4329. 8pm. Tickets on the door. Tonight. the Whistlebinkies. one of Scotland's leading groups oftraditional musicians. playing all the national instruments with songs in Gaelic and Scots.
I Blue Blazer, Spinal Street. 229 5030. Session or live music. Check tordetails.
I Famous Other Band Bannerman's Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
I Folk Music Nights Milncs Bar. Hanover Street. 8.30—1 1pm. Admission free. Songs and tunes from regulars. visiting musicians and special guests.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. 9pm. Free. Miro.
WEDNESDAY 12 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. 5528681. 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
Edinburgh
I Folk At L'Attache L'Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End ofPrinces Street. 9.30pm—lam. Free. Electric blues and cajun from Zydeco.
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I Earthbeat: BBC Radio Scotland.
54'l‘he List 31 August -- 13 September 1990