FOLK & WORLD MUSIC
I Fatala Woodside Halls. 8pm. £4 (£3). Tickets from Ticket Centre Candleriggs. 227 5511. Presented by Pan African Arts and Heartbeat World Music. Exuberant percussion. music and dance from Guinea in a tremendous presentation by sixteen-strong touring band.
I Grand Union Orchestra Cumbernauld Theatre. Cumbernauld. 0236 732887. 7.45pm. £4.50 (£2.25). International. strongly percussive music swings with folk rhythms and brass.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Live bands.
Edinburgh
I Meadows Festival The Meadows. Melville Drive. Music from 1.30pm. Annual two day free festival has five bands over the afternoon. including roots rock from Kith and Kin and Fjaere Nilssen. See Rock listings.
I Those Women of the Vaudeville Blues Assembly Rooms. George Street. Tickets from Box Offices of Assembly Rooms. Usher Hall or King‘s Theatre. or telephone bookings with credit cards 220 4349. 8pm. £4 (£3). Lady with the big voice commemorates the great explosion of showtime blues, wonderfully created by the women of 20s and 30s America. With Dick Lee. reeds. and Andy Thorburn, piano. Spring Fling.
I Dance Walpole Hall. Chester Street. £2 before 8pm. £2.50 after 8pm. No Smoking. No Bar. BYOB. Music with a caller from the International Ceilidh Band.
SUNDAY 2 Edinburgh
I Meadows Festival The Meadows, Melville Drive. Music from 1.30pm. Annual two-day free festival has five bands over the afternoon, including Glasgow singers Carol Laula and Lorna Brooks in The Misfits, more Glaswegians in the Scots/Irish instrumental and song outfit Iron Horse. relaxed rocking blues with banjo and fiddle from Eat The Seats, and fusion and jazz from The Wasp Factory and Mike Travis‘ EH 15.
I Bert Jansch and Peter Kirtley Pleasance Theatre Bar. The Pleasance. 8pm. £5 (£3.50). Tickets from Box Offices of Assembly Rooms. Usher Hall or King‘s Theatre. or telephone bookings with credit cards 220 4349. Legendary acoustic guitar stylist and Pentangle virtuoso. back with his latest musical companion. Note. this is the only concert. not as in Spring Fling programme.
MONDAY 3
I Arran Folk Festival Brodick Hall. 8pm. £3.50. Cruachan. Chris Moreton, Jalapeno Pickers and Keiran Goss.
Linlithgow
I Madeleine Taylor Black Bitch Inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Linlithgow Folk Club presents country blues singer.
Glasgow
I Kwayera Mbee Mitchell Theatre. Moir Hall. 221 3198. 8pm. Song and dance from Malawi. Kwaycra Mbee have toured extensively in Southern Africa with their songs of peace. change and global unity. but this is their first trip to Europe.
I Grand Union Orchestra Cumbernauld Theatre. Cumbernauld. 0236 732887. 10am and 2pm. £2.25. Music workshops for children from eight to twelve years old from this large multi-disciplinary band.
TUESDAY 4 -
I Arran Folk Festival Lochranza Hall. Isle of Arran. 8pm. £3.50. Cruachan. Chris Moreton. Jalapeno Pickers and Keiran Goss.
WEDNESDAY 5
I Arran Folk Festival Kilmory Hall, Isle of Arran. 8pm. £3.50. Arthur Cormack and Blair Douglas. Iron Horse, Danny Kyle, Jaleika. Cruachan. Chris Moreton, Jalapeno Pickers and Keiran Goss. Followed by ceilidh.
Glasgow
I The Attic The Studio, Shuttle Street, Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions. £2.50 everyone else. Information from organiser Danny Kyle, 887 9991. Popular folk club presents Gordon Highet and Harvey Smith. ragtime and blues.
Edinburgh
I Awatinas Assembly Room, George Street. 8pm. £5 (£3). Tickets from Box Offices of Assembly Rooms. Usher Hall or King‘s Theatre, or telephone bookings with credit cards 220 4349. Back again in Edinburgh the strong visual and dance elements add to the superb music from this Bolivian band of traditional players and singers. A Spring Fling event.
I Dave Burland Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street, 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Edinburgh Folk Club presents one of the very best English singers ofthe folk-song revival.
THURSDAY 6
I Arran Folk Festival Whiting Bay Hall. Isle of Arran. 8pm. £5. Arthur Cormack and Blair Douglas. Fuaim, Danny Kyle, Dougie MacLean.
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Tremendous English singer Dave Burland.
FRIDAY 7
I Arran Folk Festival Brodick. 7.30pm. £3. Various bars host rotation of Blackeyed Biddy, Sheena Wellington. Dougie MacLean, Iron Horse, Danny Kyle, and Tam White with Fraser Spiers.
I Wollstone Public Hall, Strathmiglo, Fife. 8pm. £3.50. Great folk-rock ceilidh band from the Highlands.
Glasgow
I Cellldh Dance Riverside, Fox Street. off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands. busy.
Edinburgh
I Japanese Cultural Festival '91 Assembly Rooms. George Street. 8pm. £1 (50p). Music. including a recital on the koto, dance and a display of costume. A Spring Fling event.
SATURDAY 8
I Arran Folk Festival Lamlash. 7.30pm. £8. ' Final concert held in a marquee with De Danaan. Danny Kyle. Jaleika, Sheena Wellington, followed by a Ceilidh Dance with The Occasionals.
Glasgow
I Stella Ohiweshe and the Earthquake Woodside Halls. 8pm. £4 (£3). Tickets from Ticket Centre Candleriggs, 227 5511. Presented by Pan African Arts and Heartbeat World Music. The sound of the mbira or thumb piano is one of the root sounds of African music, and this lady is one of the continent’s virtuosos.
I Cellldh Dance Riverside. Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4. Popular live bands.
Edinburgh
I The Founnosi Songwriters Assembly Rooms, George Street. 8pm. £4 (£3). Tickets from Box Offices ofAssembly
Rooms, Usher Hall or Kings Theatre,or telephone bookings with credit cards 220 4349. Two men and two women, among the best of contemporary Scottish talent, share a concert of songs and songwriting. Rod Paterson, Iain MacDonald, Gill Bowman and Lorraine Jordan are all guitar players and they can be classed as folk singers, but that would be to do no justice to the breadth of their repertoire or technique. A Spring Fling event.
I Cellldh Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £5. Friends ofthe Queen’s Hall informal Scottish dance night.
MONDAY 10 Linlithgow
I Bio Na Gael Black Bitch Inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Linlithgow Folk Club presents all fine women traditional music and song threesome.
Edinburgh
I Eduardo Niebla and Antonio Forcione Assembly Rooms, George Street. £3 (£3.50). 8pm. Stunning guitar duo who improvise round flamenco, rock jazz and Latin themes. Tickets from Box Offices of Assembly Rooms, Usher Hall or King’s Theatre, or telephone bookings with credit cards 220 4349. A Spring Fling event
I Fabula Assembly Rooms. George Street. Noon—1pm. 25p. Carlos Arredondo, a Chilean singer resident in Edinburgh, presents for children his mixed-media account of the history, culture and importance of Latin America. I Awatinas Assembly Rooms. George Street, 220 4348. 10am-noon, and 2—4pm. £8 (£5) for two-day workshop. See Tue 11. A Spring Fling event.
TUESDAY 11 Edinburgh
I Stravaig Assembly Rooms, George Street. 7.25pm. £3.50 (£3). All-female foursome sing unaccompanied songs. old and new, in and out of the folk tradition. Tickets from Box Offices of Assembly Rooms. Usher Hall or King's Theatre, or telephone bookings with credit cards 220 4349. A Spring Fling event.
I Awatinas Assembly Rooms, George Street, 220 4348. 10am—noon and 2—4pm. £8 (£5) for two-day workshop. Second of two days. Music instruction on Andean instruments including the quena. charango and pan pipes. Percussion workshops and dance instruction, from one of Bolivia‘s leading bands. A Spring Fling event.
I Fabula Assembly Rooms, George Street. Noon—1pm. 25p. Carlos Arredondo. See Mon 10.
WEDNESDAY 12
Glasgow I The Attic The Studio, Shuttle Street,
Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions, £2.50 everyone else. Information from organiser Danny Kyle, 887 9991. Tonight. Edinburgh songwriter Robin Laing.
Edinburgh
I Fabula Assembly Rooms, George Street. 12—1pm. 25p. Carlos Arredondo. See Mon 10.
I Billy Ross and John Martin Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street, 5574792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Edinburgh Folk Club presents songs and fiddle tunes from Scotland, by two ofthe founder members of Ossian.
THURSDAY 13 Glasgow
I Little Green Monkeys Star Folk Club. Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside MitchellTheatre. 8pm. £2. Edinburgh duo vocalise with fiddle and guitar.
Edinburgh
I Asian/Scots Concert St Brides Centre. Orwell Terrace. 7pm. £3 (£2/accompanied children 50p). Tickets available from NKS Centre, 200 Dalry Road (346 7493), the Adult Learning Project. 184 Dalry Road (337 5442) or at the door. Cultures meetin an evening of reels and ragas. Nasreen Jubida and Bindra Rongong feature alongside Nancy Nicholson and Colin McNeil], with all proceeds going tothe NKS Cyclone Disaster Fund. A Gorgie/Dalry Festival event.
I Fabula Assembly Rooms, George Street. Noon—1pm. 25p. Carlos Arredondo. See Mon 10.
FOLK & WORLD
The following details are tor regularweekly dates: see main listings for one-oil shows. Gigs are listed by city, than by day. Residencies will be listed, provided that up-to-date details are supplied to us. Folk and World Residencies Llstlngs compiled by Norman Chalmers.
GLASGOW ' Fridays
I Joumeymen Johnny Scobies, London Road, Glasgow Cross, 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Folk/rock and blues.
I Victoria BarStockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal Irish/Scottish instrumental session.
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