[Free Mainstream piano.
Edinburgh
I Eddie Severn Quintet Oblomov‘s. Mound Place. 220 0054. 9pm. Free. Bop.
I Jaclt Finlay and Kenny Ellis The Shore Bar and Restaurant. 3 The Shore. Leith. 553 5080. 9pm. Free. Mainstream piano and bass.
I Swing '90 Malt Shovel. Cockburn Street. 225 6843. 9pm. Free. Hot club-style swing.
I Janamatazz Cafe L‘Odeon. George IV Bridge. 220 4950. 9.30pm. Free. Swing. I Louisiana Ragtime Band Navaar l louse Hotel. Mayfield Gardens. 667 2828. 8.30pm. Free. Traditional.
Glasgow
I Sandy Taylor and Alex Moore Society of Musicians. Berkeley Street. 221 61 12. 8.30pm. Non-members 50p. Mainstream piano and guitar.
I Another Hairdo L'Odeon. Sauchiehall Street. 332 3141. 9pm. Free. Mainstream to modern duo.
I Kurt Wylie Baby Grand. Elmbank Gardens. Charing Cross. 248 4942. 9pm. Free. Mainstream piano.
Edinburgh
I Alex Shaw Trio Platform l.Calcdonian Hotel. Rutland Street. 225 2433. 9pm. Free. Mainstream pianist.
I Jeri Freedner Quartet ()blomov‘s. Mound Place. 2200054. 9pm. Free. Bop to modern.
I Al Fairweather and The Sundowners Young‘s Hotel. Leamington Terrace. 229 6481. 8.30pm. Free. Traditional.
I Charlie McNair's Jan Band Preservation Hall. Victoria Street. 226 3816. 9.30pm. Free. Traditional.
I Jazz at Marie's Maxie's Bistro. West Nicolson Street. 6670845. 8.30pm. Free. Music in bar/restaurant.
Glasgow
I Cauld Blast Orchestra Renfrew Ferry. Clyde Street. 429 2683. 8pm. £5. The eight-piece Orchestra‘s unique. enjoyably idiosyncratic musical mixture spans folk and traditional through to avant-gardc jazz. Their excellent debut recording. Savage Dance (Eclectic Records). is a highly enjoyable snapshot of where the band are right now. but they are unlikely to remain there for long as their mUsic develops. Cauld Blast are also part ofthe Tilting Ground concert of new Scottish music in Edinburgh tomor’row night (see next issue for details. or ring Assembly Direct on 031 557 4446.
I Nigel Clark Trio Barbizon. High Street. 5520707. 9pm. Free. Bop guitar and piano.
I Another Hairdo Mitchell‘s. North Street. 204 4312. 9pm. Free. Mainstream to modern duo.
I Bill Finlayson Baby Grand. [{lmbank Gardens. Charing Cross. 248 4942. 9pm. Free. Mainstream piano.
63 Trongate. 552 4267. 9.30pm. Free. Mainstream piano.
Edinburgh
I The Peristalsis Trio The St James Oyster Bar. Calton Street. 557 2925. 9pm. Free. Swing.
I Beroda Swing Maxie‘s Bistro. West Nicolson Street. 667 0845. 9pm. Free. Swing. some modern soul jazz.
I Kenny Ellis Duo The Shore Barand
9pm. Free. Mainstream to bop.
I Morris Traveller and The Jump Starts Fairmile lnn. Biggar Road. 445 2056. Traditional.
Esplanade. Joppa. 669 4264. 8.30pm. Free. Dixieland.
WEDNESDAY 21
THURSDAY 22
I Kurt Wylie Victorian Bar. Tron Theatre.
Restaurant. 3 The Shore. Leith. 553 5080.
I Templehall Stampers Templehall l lotcl.
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Glasgow
I Saratina! Music of Liberation Tramw ay Theatre. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets 227
551 l . 8pm. £9. £6 (£6. £4). Musical from Soweto incorporates 40actors-dancers singers in a fable of the fight against apartheid.
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantrec lnn. By Uddingston Cross. Uddingston.
94 1 .45pm. £1 .50. Singaround.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9pm. £3. Busy.
Edinburgh
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Gaels' bar. Accordion and guitar.
SATURDAY 10
Glasgow
I Saralina! Music of Liberation Tramway Theatre. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets 227 551 1 . 8pm. £9. £6 (£6. £4). See Fri9.
I Fiddlers Concert Couper institute. so Clarkston Road. 637 3896. 7.30pm. £3. The Strings oi Scotland. with fiddle ducts and songs.
I West Coast Band Blackfriars. 45 Albion Street. Merchant City. 552 5924. Free. Session in the bar with fiddle. accordion. mandolin. penny whistle etc. Afternoon. I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. 112 Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
I Heilan Jessie's 374 Gallowgaic. livening. Free. Live group.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 2483144. 9.30pm. £3. Popular weekly hooley.
Edinburgh
I Gaudi Shore Bar. The Shore. [.eith. 9pm. Free. Music on fiddle and mandolin from a few of Miro.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion-fiddle guitar in the bar.
SUNDAY 11 Glasgow
I Saratina! Music of Liberation 'I‘ramway Theatre. 25 Albert Drive. Tickets 227 551 l . 8pm. £9. £6 (£6. £4). See Fri9.
I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 8pm. Fortnightly club. info 776 3289. Scots singer Sheena Wellington with Ewan Sutherland.
I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 2—-4pm. Free. Regular Sunday afternoon of music.
I Parlt Bar Argyll Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders‘ pub.
Edinburgh.
I Youngs Music Club Learnington Terrace. 9pm. £1 .50. Info 447 6187. Bluesand amazing acoustic sounds from harmonica. guitar and vocal dynamo Mike Whellans. I Music at L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm-—l2.30am. Free. MuckleAdo.
MONDAY 12
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8—9pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings.
FRIDAY 9 ;
Glasgow
I lrish Session Sharkcy's Bar. 429 3944. beside (‘itizens‘ Theatre. (iorbals. 9pm. Free. The McCues and other top Glasgow lrish musicians from Comhaltas.
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchiehall Street. 332 4374. 8pm—midnight. Free. Live band.
Edinburgh
I Linlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Tavern. West Port. Linlithgow. 8pm. Tonight Bruce Davies.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarkct. 229 2665.
9— 1 1pm. Free. Scottish tuneson
accordion. whistle and fiddle.
I Folk Al L'Attache L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End ofPrinces Street. 9pm. Free. Popular Scots instrumental and song group Seannachie.
Glasgow
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm. Tonight Ian Walker sings folk and blues.
Edinburgh
I McGinn otthe Callon Penicuik Folk Club. Navaar Hotel. Bog Road. Penicuik. 8pm. Glasgow‘s venerable instrumental and song talents in Stramash perform their acclaimed musical biog of Scotland‘s working-class bard.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland l 1otel. West find. 9pm. Free. Fast and furious tunes from Miro.
WEDNESDAY 14
Glasgow
I Benefit Concert Satinwood Suite. Glasgow City Chambers. 7.30pm. £12 (includes wine and buffet). Radio Clyde’s Jimmy Mack introduces a recital by Kate Thuillier of Scots songs accompanied on the small harp. Tickets from Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association. 50 Parnie Street. Glasgow. 5520507.
I 20th Century Music Club City Lights. Clyde Street. 204 3329. Singer/songwriter club. All welcome. Pass-tlie-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 Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 5574792. 8pm. £2.50(£1 .50). No guests tonight.but everyone welcome for a Singaround.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West 12nd of Princes Street.9.30pm— lam. Free. Live band.
I Boys from Brazil Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Duo on guitar and squeeze box play tunes from everywhere. I Leith Oyster Bar The Shore. Leith . 554 6294. 9pm. Free. Essentially lrish traditional tunes from Miro.
THURSDAY 15
I Earthbeat: BBC Radio Scotland. 7.3M.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World music programme.
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society ()f Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Pipes. harp and keyboards with strings and the vocals of Davey Steele in Ceolbeg.
Edinburgh
I Norman MacCaig's Birthday Party Queen's 1 Tall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Scotland's leading poet celebrates his eightieth birthday with sortie pals. but you can come alongtoo. MUsicians include Aly Bain. singers include Flora MacNeill and wordsare distributed by Ireland's genius Seamus
i
llcany. Scotland‘s other great poet Sorley MacLean. lain (‘richton Smith. Tom Pow and Brian McCabe.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm— 1 am. Free. Folk entertainment from North Sea Gas trio.
I Blues at Haymarket Ryries Bar. Haymarket. 337 7582. 9pm. Rootsies Duo. I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitar from Freddie Triay with friendsand dancers.
FRIDAY 16
1 Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street.off
fl Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Every
week. Live bands. Very popular.
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree lnn. Bv Uddingston Cross. L'ddingston. I 9—11.45pm. £1.50. Information 0698 429744. All welcome. bring an instrument and a voice.
Edinburgh
I Pierre Bensusan Pleasanee Theatre Bar. The Pleasanee. 8pm. £4.50(£3). Internationally acclaimed guitar artist and singer born in French Algeria. whose compositions find an audience far from the folk world. Acoustic guitar sometimes used through a battery ot‘electronic effects.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion and guitar in the bar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Upstairs bar with piano. Informal music. Free.
SATURDAY 17 Glasgow
I Songwriting Workshop with Allan Taylor Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 2214536.2-~lpm.
I Allan Taylor/ Pierre Bensusan Glasgow Arts Centre. Washington Street. 221 4536. 9.45pm. £3 (£2). Late Bar. Doors open 9.15pm. ()neofthe most respected veteran singer/songwriters on the scene. Taylor is a fine guitar player.
l French—Algerian Bensusan is also a singer
and a fleet-fingered guitar-based composer. in a folk/blues-based new—age sort of a way.
I Ceilidh Nighl Renfrew Ferry. Clyde Place. box office 429 2683. Tickets in advance from Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 8pm. £3. Live 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 Heilan Jessie's 374 Gallowgate. Evening. Free. Live acoustic/electric band.
I Porters Music Porters Lounge Bar. 292 Sauchiehall Street. 332 4374. 12.30pm. Free. Guitar duo.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 230—5 30pm and 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 9.30pm. £3. Regular weekly dance.
Edinburgh
I Gaudi Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Highlanders' haunt. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal music in the upstairs bar.
SUNDAY 18
Glasgow
I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 8pm. Fortnightly club. Info
42 The List 9 — 22 November 1990