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Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm.
Free.
I Ceilidh Oance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm.
music at 9pm. £4. Live bands.
SUNDAY 8 ' I
Glasgow
I Oicit Gaughan/Ceolbeg Tramway Theatre. Albert Drive. 423 1333. 8pm. £6 (£4). Legendary traditional and agit-singer. who is also a tremendous guitar player kicks off Tramway's series of folk events with Edinburgh band Ceolbeg. who blend pipes and harp into the band behind vocalist Davey Steeie.
MONDAY 9 .
Ltnltthgow I Chris Wood Black Bitch Inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Linlithgow FolltCIub.
Edinburgh
I Kathryn Tickell Band Volunteer I lall. Galashiels. 7.30pm. £5 (£4). Northumbrian pipes and fiddle played by
an expert in a contemporary setting.
WEDNESDAY 11 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.
I Famous Other Band Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
; I Janet Russell Cafe Royale Upstairs.
THURSDAY 12
West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Edinburgh Folk Club Back home fora short tour. guitarist Janet has one ofthe most beautiful voices on the folk scene.
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside
MitchellTheatrc. 8pm. £2. American
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fingerpicker Duck Baker is a master ofthe acoustic guitar and an engaging performer.
FOLK & WORLD
The following details are for regular weekly dates: see main listings tor one-oil shows. Gigs are listed by city. then by day. Residencies will be listed, providedthat up-to-date details are supplied to us. Folk and World Residencies Listings compiled by Norman Chalmers.
GLASGOW '
l Fridays
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal Irish/Scottish instrumental
l session. I Johnny Scobies London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Live music.
Saturdays
I Victoria BarStockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Irish/Scottish instrumental session.
Sundays
I Babbity Bowsters Blackfriars Street. Merchant City. 9pm. Free. Informal music in the bar.
I Session Riverside. Fox Street. offClyde Street. 248 3144. 2—4pm. Free. Regular afternoon of songs and music.
I Park Bar Argyll Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Session in Ilighlanders‘ pub.
Mondays
I Johnny Scobies London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Live music. I Travelling Folit BBC Radio Scotland. 8.30—925pm. 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. Free. The McCues and othertop Glasgow Irish musicians.
Tuesdays
I Johnny Scobies London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Live music. I Paisley Arts Folk Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. 887 1010. Free. Live soloists. occasional groups. 8pm.
I Glasgow Songwriters Blackfriars. Bell Street. 552 5924. 9.30pm. Free. Singer/songwriters take the floor.
Wednesdays
I Halt Bar Woodlands Road. 9pm. Free. Fiddles. flutes. accordions. banjos etc.
I Johnny Scobies London Road. Glasgow Cross. 552 3204. 8pm. Free. Live music.
Thursdays
I Eanhbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
, EDINBURGH i Fridays
I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor 3 Place. 225 6144. 8.30—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists welcome. I Boys of the Wolt Piries Hotel. 5 Ilaymarket. 8.30—11pm. Free. Pete ' McClements and pals playing Irish and Scottish. session. ' I Shore BarThe Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Irish and Celtic music. I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion and guitar in the bar. I North Sea Gas Platform One. Caledonian Iiotel. Rutland Street. Free. Popular Scots entertainers. I Mhairi O'Reilly Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free. I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. Evening. Free. Downstairs. songs with guitar etc. upstairs bar with piano.
Saturdays
I Gaudi Shore Bar. The Shore. Leith.
9pm. Free. Celtic music on guitar.
mandolin and fiddle.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225
3656. 9pm. Free. Highlanders' haunt.
Accordion/guitar in the bar.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket.
top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976.
l 9pm till late. Free. Informal music with Sam Whalem.
; Sundays
1 I Sandy Bells Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest
Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.
I Fiaere Nilssen Bridges Bar. formerly L‘Odeon. George IV Bridge. 9pm. American woman songwriter.
I Muckle Ado L‘Attache. basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm-12.30am. Free. Singalong Scottish folkies.
I Full Shilling Band Ryrie‘s Bar. Haymarket. junction of Dairy Road. 9pm. Free. Alternate weeks. songs and tunes.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Bannemian’s Music Bannerman's Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Live music.
I Nancy Nicholson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.
Mondays
I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8.30—9.25pm. Archie Fisher and Danny Kyle present records. news and live recordings from the Scottish folk scene. I Famous Other Band Southside Snooker and Social Centre. 72 Causewayside . 668 3344. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland 1 lotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live bands.
I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening. 229 2665. Free. Traditional Scottish music on squeeze boxes and fiddles.
Tuesdays
I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 8.30—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists welcome. I Fiaere Nilssen Queen Street Oyster Bar. Hanover and Queen Street. 9pm. Free. Transatlantic songwriter/guitarist.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live bands.
I Famous Other Band Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. free.
Wednesdays
I Misfits St James Oyster Bar. Calton Road. 557 2925. 9.30pm. Free. Acoustic
guitars and harmony. top female duo from Glasgow.
I Miro Leith Oyster Bar. The Shore. Leith. 9.30pm. Free. Irish and Celtic music.
I L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live bands.
Thursdays
I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by Jan Fairley. World Music programme.
I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel. West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live bands.
I Number One Music Cellar No 1. Chambers Street. 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitarist Freddie Triay with friends and dancers.
I “'1 , CLASSICAL
Concerts are listed by date. then by city. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.
FRIDAY 30 . Glasgow \
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Ilall. RSAMI). llNl Renfrevs Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £4 1 (()Al’s L2 other concessions lt'cc). 'Illc youngest of youth orchestrasappears g today in the form of I)unlmrtonshire Division Primary Schools ( )rchcstra. L'nder their conductor Ronald Walker they perform an hour of popular music by Rossini. Dvorak. Grieg. Brahms. Stippc and Strauss.
. I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson llall. RSAMI). ton Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 2.30pm. £4 (()Al’s £2 other concessions tree 1. Another attractive programme in this series by top British youth orchestras features I‘ife Youth Orchestra with 'I‘chaikovsky'sSleeping Beauty. the t’m/n Concern) by Mendelssohn (soloist Michael I liggins). orchestral music from The Damnation 0111111.»! by Berlio/. Shostakovich and Dvorak.
I City 0t Glasgow Philharmonic ( ilasgovs Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchichall Street. 332 3123. 7.30pm. £5 £17.50(Promenade £2). Boston Pops-style popular classics ranging from Shostakov ich to Sousa with soloists David I Iorne and Benjamin Luxon. lain Sutherland conducts.
SATURDAY 31 Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Ilall. RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 51157.7.3tlprii.£4 (()Al’s £2 other concessions tree ). The youth orchestra festival comes to a sty liin close with (‘entral Region Youth Orchestra and (‘hoir in the Menu (11 Gloria by Puccini. Parry 's Blast l’urrof Sirens and Iris/r Rhapsody .Vn l by Stanford.
I The Phil and the Fiuter(i1asgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street.332 3123. 7.30pm. £5 £17.50 (Promenade £2). The (‘ity of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra is joined by .lames(ial\ya_\ for Mozart's l'fllit’ ( 'mrt‘i'rm .Vr) I and .1’ Pft’t't’s for Flute by Debussy. ()therpopular classics featttrc too and all are conducted by Iain Sutherland.
SUNDAY 1 5 Glasgow
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