FOLK & WORLD MUSIC
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FRIDAY 19 Glasgow 6
I Green Party Ceilidh Dance Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. 8.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Tickets from Ticketlink outlets and from Ticket Centre. Candleriggs 227 5511. Information 334 9797. Music orchestrated by Slairheid Dynamite.
I Ronnie Brown Pavilion Theatre. Renfield Street. 332 1846. 7.30pm. The remaining half of the much-loved Corrics on a first tour since partner Roy Williamson's tragic early death.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands. busy.
Edinburgh
I McCalmans Royal Hotel. Stow. Phone Stow247. 8pm. £3 (£1.50). Slow Folk Club. 'I‘wenty-fivc miles south on the A7. the fortnightly club features three famous Scottish harmony singers. in a group now a quarter of a century young.
SATURDAY 20 Glasgow
I Selanta Johnny Scobics. London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Glasgow-based band with fine Irish singer and an instrumental line-up ofuillean pipes. fiddle. hammered dulcimer bodhran and concertina.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands. busy.
Edinburgh
I Rita MacNeil Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. From folk and country roots in Cape Breton Island. to her mature success as Canada's biggest selling recording star. Rita writes most of herown :
songs. A kind of North American Barbara Dickson.
I Dance Walpole I Iall. Chester Street. £2 before 8pm. £2.50 after. No bar. Bring yourown drink. No smoking. Learn dances from Europe and America. Music from the International Ceilidh Band. Information 3395374.
SUNDAY 21 Glasgow I Rita MacNeil Pavilion Theatre. Renfield
I Tich Frier Black Bull I Iotcl. Milngavie. 9562291. £1.25 members; £2 non-members. 8.30pm. Songs with guitar. and amusing patter from the well-known member of folk club favourites. Bitter Withy.
Edinburgh
I Ronnie Brown King's Theatre.Tollcross. 229 1201. 7.30pm. After the death last year of Roy Williamson. his partner in the Corries soldiers Scottishly on alone.
I Glencairn Music Glcncairn Hotel. 19 Royal Circus. Stockbridge. 9pm. £1 .50. Live music in the back lounge. Tonight Elie Buchanan invites you to revue herself ! and friends in Woodstock Taylor. ’
MONDAY 22 Linlithgow
I Gist Black Bitch Inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Linlithgow FoIkClub
TUESDAY 23 Glasgow
I Danny Thompson’s Whatever Henry Wood Hall. Claremont Street. Tickets from Ticket Centre Candleriggs. 227 5511. £6. 8pm. See Thursday 25.
WEDNESDAY 24 Glasgow
I David Baln Johnny Scobics. London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Contemporary folk/blues.
I Ian Bruce The Attic. The Studio. Shuttle Street. Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions. £2.50 everyone else. Information from organiser Danny Kyle. 887 9991 . Popular Glasgow folk club singer.
Edinburgh
I Singaround Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2).
5 Edinburgh Folk Club invites members.
guests and the public to some informal music making.
THURSDAY 25 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside MitchellTheatre. 8pm. £2. Tonight. Glasgow‘s own all-purpose ceilidh band Clachnacudden.
Edinburgh
I Danny Thompson's Whatever Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £6.50 reserved and £5 unreserved. Bass player mixes jazz with folk influences in his band which includes a guitarist and two saxophonists. one ofwhom throws in a bit of Northumbrian small piping. See Music preview.
FRIDAY 26 Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands. busy.
SATURDAY 27
: Glasgow 9 I Kindred Johnny Scobies. London Road.
Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Rough Scottish folk. I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off
L Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm.
music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands.
I Dance Walpole Hall. Chester Street. £2 before 8pm. £2.50 after. No bar. Bring
yourown drink. No smoking. Music bythe
Caledonian Ceilidh Band. Information 339 5374.
concessions. £2.50 everyone else. Information 887 9991.
Edinburgh
I Deal Heights Moray House Union Bar. 8.30pm. Open to the public. Scotland's long-time leaders in rockin‘ cajun.
I The Stars Band Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Edinburgh Folk Club presents singer Arthur Johnstone. the anchor man of Glasgow‘s Star Folk Club with singer/guitarist Brian Miller and fiddler Charlie Soane.
THURSDAY 2 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Tonight fine harmony singing and gentle music from
Artisan.
Residencies
Note: Pub gigs are subject lolrequenl changes. and checking with the venue may be advisable. Musicians and/or venues are asked to let us know if information is inaccurate or out or date. or it your gig is not listed. All events are free unless stated otherwise.
GLASGOW Fridays
I Victoria Dar Stockwell Street. Bridgegate. Evening. Informal Irish/Scottish instrumental session.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. 112 Stockwell Street. 552 8681 . 8.30pm. Live groups.
Saturdays
I Pier Lights and Guests Traders. Glassford Street. 8.30pm. Folk and rock. I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street.
Bridgegate. Evening. Irish/Scottish instrumental session.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. 112 Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Live music.
Sundays
I Snakeskin Shimmy Johnny Scobies. London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Swing blues and folk trio.
I Session Riverside. Fox Street. offClyde Street. 248 3144. 2—4pm. Regular afternoon of songs and music.
I Park Bar A rgyll Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Session in Highlanders‘ pub.
Mondays
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.
I Irish Session Sharkey‘s Bar. beside Citizens‘ Theatre. Gorbals. 429 3944. 8.30pm. The McCues and other top Glasgow Irish musicians from Comhaltas.
Tuesdays
I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. Live soloists. occasional groups. 8pm.
I Glasgow Songwriters Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Singer/songwriters take the floor.
Wednesdays
I Live music Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm.
I Halt Bar Woodlands Road. 9pm. Fiddles. flutes. accordions. banjos etc.
Thursdays
I Earlhbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30-8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
I Glasgow Songwriters Traders. Glassford Street. 9pm. Singer/songwriter's night.
SUNDAY 28 ;
Edinburgh
1 I Glencaim Music Glencairn Hotel. 19 1 Royal Circus. Stockbridge. 9pm. £1 .50.
Fine all-women band from Dundee area 810 Ma Gael have traditional and more recent songs and play uillean pipes. fiddle. whistle etc.
Linlithgow
I Iron Horse Black Bitch Inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Linlithgow Folk Club presents talented young Glasgow band of
traditional players.
WEDNESDAY 1
Glasgow
I Live Folk The Attic. The Studio. Shuttle Street. Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and
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