FOLK & WORLD
Edinburgh
I West End llotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Highlanders‘ bar. Accordion and guitar.
I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Session at the back of the pub.
I Ensign Ewart Lawnmarket. top oingh
Street. 9pm. Free. Songs from Mhairi O'Reilly.
SATURDAY 2
Glasgow
I Bob Dylan SECC. See Rock listings.
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 Scolia Folk Scotia Bar. 112 Stockwell Street. 552 8681. Evening. Free.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands. busy.
I Heilan Jessie’s 374 Gallowgatc. Evening. Free. Live group.
Edinburgh
I Sandy Bell's Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back ofthe pub.
I Gaudi Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Celtic music on guitar and mandolin.
I West End Halal Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion/fiddle/guitar in the bar.
SUNDAY 3 Glasgow
I Bob Dylan SECC. See Rock listings. I Singaround Riverside. Fox Street.off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 2—4pm. Free. Regular Sunday afternoon ofmusic.
I Park Bar Argyle Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Back room session.
Edinburgh.
I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the pub.
I Music at L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—12.30am. Free. Muckle Ado.
I Byrie's Bar Haymarket. junction of Dalry Road. 9pm. Free. Songs and tunes from the Full Shilling Band.
I Bannerrnan’s Music Bannerman's Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Fiddle music.
MONDAY 4
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8.30—9.25pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings from the folk scene.
Glasgow
I lrish Session Sharkey‘s Bar. 429 3944. beside Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 8.30pm. Free. Top Glasgow Irish musicians from Cotnhaltas.
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh/Book Launch Counting House. West Nicholson Street. 8pm. £3. Tickets from Poetry Library. Tweeddalc Court. 557 2876. Polygon‘s new anthology of eight Gaelic poets with music and performances from Sileas and friends. Meg Bateman. Aonghas MacNeacail. Christopher Whytc. Catriona Montgomery. Anne Fratcr and Maoilios Caimbeul.
I Linlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Hotel. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Rod Sinclair.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. 229 2665. 9—11pm. Free. Scottish tunes on accordion. whistle and fiddle.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End. 9pm. Free. Irish music with
percussion from Miro.
Glasgow
I Gaberlunzie Cumbernauld Theatre. Cumbernauld, 0236 732887. 7.45pm. £4.50 £2.25. One of the longest-lived duos in Scottish folk, Robin Watson and Gordon Menzies in a two-night stand.
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. 8pm.
Edinburgh
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, West End. 9pm. Free. Blues from Just the Very Donkeys.
WEDNESDAY 6
Glasgow
I Gaberlunzie Cumbernauld Theatre. Cumbernauld. 0236 732887. 7.45pm. £4.50 £2.25. One of the longest-lived duos in Scottish folk. Robin Watson and Gordon Menzies in a two-night stand.
I Glasgow Songwriters Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Free. Live music.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Superbly capable and
'confident guitarist. singer and performer.
Cuban-born American Isaac Guillory.
I L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm—Iam. Free. Blues and bluegrass from the electric Eat the Seats.
I Boys from Brazil Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Duo on guitar and squeeze box.
I Lelth Oyster Bar The Shore. Leith.554 6294. 9pm. Free. Irish and Celtic traditional music from Miro.
THURSDAY 7
I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World music programme.
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Guitar
. virtuoso and singer. originally from Cuba
and the States. Isaac Guillory is no stranger to Scotland.
Edinburgh
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm— 1 am. Free. Electric bluesy entertainment from Zydeco.
I Blues at Haymarltet 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 friends and dancers.
I Bannertnan's Music Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Little Green Monkeys.
CLASSICAL
FRIDAY 25 Glasgow
I Staltis Masterclass Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 11am. Free at door. A workshop session in which a short piece composed by an RSAMD post-graduate student will be rehearsed by members of the SCO prior to a lunchtime performance.
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. Admission free by ticket. The SCO Wind Ensemble with pianist Gusztav Fenyo play Mozart‘s Quintet K452. the Trio for oboe. bassoon and piano by
CLASSICAL
Poulenc and a new work by David Paul Jones (see Masterclass above).
I SCO City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 26. Edinburgh. £2.50—£10(£l). In adeparture fromthe traditional concert format. the SCO present a semi-staged performance of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies‘s Eight Songs fora Mad King with H.K. Gruber in the title ' role and the composer conducting.
Edinburgh
I Organ Recital McEwan Hall, Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Herrick Bunney of St Giles‘ Cathedral playsthe Elegy by Kenneth Leighton written in 1965. Carillon de Westminster by Vierne and the Choral No 3 in A minor by Cesar Franck.
I HSNO Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 26. Glasgow. £3—£15 (£3). The RSNO celebrates the Prokofiev centenary with Andrei Gavrilov in the first Piano Concerto. Programme opens with Bartok’s Dance Suite and F ranck‘s Les Djinns. Beethoven‘s 7th completes. Ivan Fischer conducts.
SATURDAY 26
Glasgow
I Opera Study Day Dept of Adult and Continuing Education. Glasgow University. Please contact the Enrolment Secretary for further information. 10.30am—5pm. £9 (£7) (including lunch). Friends of Scottish Opera day on Janacek‘s Cunning Little Vixen. being produced by Scottish Opera next month. I RSNO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 332 3123. 7.30pm. £3.50—£15(£3). See Fri 25, Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Ouayer Club Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 6682019. 11am. £2 (£1/75p). The SCO Brass Quintet introduce their instruments in a Music is Fun morning designed for the under-8s. Free juice and mini-rolls afterwards from the sponsor. Family Choice.
I Tapestry Loretto Chapel. Loretto School. Musselburgh. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £3 (£2.50). Young and talented trio of soprano. clarinet and piano show that there’s more for this combination than Shepherd on the Rock. which does. however, form part of their programme. along with the specially commissioned Songs from the Exotic (on the rocks) by Judith Weir and Michael Finnissy. arrangements of folk-songs and. to finish up. Songs from the Shows by Cole Porter. Jerome Kern. Rodgers & Hammerstein. I SCO Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £2.50—£10.50(£2.50). See Fri 25. Glasgow.
SUNDAY 27 Glasgow
I Bach at the Burrell Burrell Collection. Pollok Park. 6497151. 3pm. £4 (£2.50). RSNO flautist John Grant getstogether with harpsichordist Leslie Macleod for Bach's Flute Sonatas Nos 1. 2. 3 and 7. Hear the others next Sun.
I Murray International Whitburn Band Stevenson llali. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7pm. £3.50 (£2.50). A mixed programme of works written specially for brass band by George Lloyd. John McCabe and Eric Ball amongothers with Peggy O‘Keefe at the piano and Major Peter Parkes conducting.
Edinburgh
I Desert Island Discs Queen‘s Ilall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. Tickets: at door. 3pm. £2 (including coffee). A Friends ofScottish Opera event.
MONDAY 28
Glasgow
I Competition Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10am. Free at door. The Governors‘ Recital Prize Competition for woodwind.
Edinburgh
I Patience Church Hill Theatre. Morningsidc Road. Tickets: 332 0820(M. Nairn). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Tue 29. Wed 30. Thurs 31 . Fri 1. Sat 2. £3. Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group in Gilbert and Sullivan‘s operctta concerning love (don‘t they all'?). poetry and the 35th Dragoon Guards. Tuesday evening‘s performance is in aid of Scottish Aids Monitor.
TUESDAY 29
Glasgow
I Stains Masterclass Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2pm. Free at door. A masterclass in the art of piano accompaniment directed by Martin lsepp.
I Fidelio Theatre Royal. Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: 2 February at 2.15pm.9. 14. 20 and 22 February at 7.15pm. Glasgow: 20. 23 March at 7.15pm. Edinburgh. £3—£30. Scottish Opera in a new production of Beethoven‘s only opera. Director is the American Stephen Wadsworth. who sets it in 1805.
I SCO/Cumbernauld Social Education Centre Cumbernauld Theatre. 7.45pm. £4.50 (£2.25). Members of local adult training centres join forces with the SCO for Dancing Light. an evening based round ceremonies and chants of the North American Indians.
Edinburgh
I Lunchtime Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Pupils of St Mary‘s Music School. Scotland‘s first independent school for musically gifted children. show their stuff in this free concert.
I Patience Church Hill Theatre. Morningsidc Road. Tickets: 332 0820(M. Nairn). 7.30pm. Extra dates: Wed 30. Thurs 31. Fri 1. Sat 2. £5 (£3). See Mon 28.
WEDNESDAY 30 Glasgow
I Competition Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10.30am. Extra date: Thurs 31. Free at door. The John D. Miles Lieder Prize Competition. I Music in Architecture The Merchants House of Glasgow. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £15 (including supper). More good music from Westbourne Music in the first oftheir series in settings ofarchitectural interest. Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (pianos) play works by Mozart. Schubert. Poulenc and an arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's .S't'heheruzade.
Edinburgh
I Harpsichord Recital French Institute. 13 Randolph Crescent. 225 5366. 7.30pm. £5 ( £3 ). M ttsit‘ from the A nt'ien Regime is the title of Martin Souter's programme of works by Couperin. Duphly. Rameau and Balbastre. Souter is currently Assistant Organist at Magdelen College. Oxford.
I Patience Church Hill Theatre. Morningsidc Road. Tickets: 332 1182()( M. Nairn). 7.30pm. Iixlra dates: Thurs 31 . Fri 1.Sat 2. £5 (£3). See Mon 28.
’ THURSDAY 31 Glasgow
I Competition Guinness Room. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 10.30am. Free at door. See Wed 30.
I Merchants Music Merchants till”. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 l
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