MIISID FOLK & WORLD

Society Of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Irish musician and singer, from Planxty and Patrick Street. Also Socialist songs for Trades Union Week from Arthur Johnstone and Kay Thompson.

I Ceilidh Dance Arches Theatre, Glasgow‘s Glasgow, offJamaica Street. 10pm-2am. £5 (£3). Bar. Tickets from Ticket Centre, Candleriggs. 227 5511. Music from Clach Na Cudden. Glasgow Trades Union Week.

Edinburgh

I Samba Mapamgala and Orchestra Virunga Assembly Rooms, George Street. 220 4348. 8pm. Tickets from Assembly Rooms, Usher Hall, or King‘sTheatre Box Office. Credit Card bookings 220 4349. Heartbeat World Music with Edinburgh District (‘ouncil present

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FRIDAY 15 .

Glasgow

I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4. Live bands.

Edinburgh

I Andy Irvine Stow Folk Club, Royal Hotel. Stow, ()5783 247. Twenty-five miles south on the A7. 8pm. See Wed 13.

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Glasgow

I The Rootsies Duo Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. Blues. I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street, off

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Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm , music at 9pm. £4. Live bands.

Edinburgh

I Scottish Blend Walpole Hall , Chester Street. £2 before 8pm, £3 after. Performers Free. Ceilidh Dance, bring your own drink, and please don‘t smoke.

SUNDAY 17 Glasgow

I Numlllaita Tron Theatre,Trongate, Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. £6.50(£5). See Wed 13.

MONDAY 18 Linlithgow

I Meg Oavis Linlithgow Folk Club, Black Bitch Inn, West Port, Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Members £2, non-members £2.50, concessions £1.50. Relatively unknown but very fine traditional based singer from the West of Scotland.

TUESDAY 19

Glasgow

I Stefan Grossman Castlemilk Folk Club, Castlemilk Community Centre. 121 Castlemilk Drive, 631 1166/1238. 7.30pm. Only Scottish gig on this British tour by American giant of acoustic guitar stylists. A must for budding fingerpickers.

I Fiddle Workshop Glasgow Arts Centre, Washington Street,2214526. 7.30—9.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 20 Glasgow

I The Attic Studio, Shuttle Street. Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions. £2.50 everyone else. Information from organiser Danny Kyle, 887 9991.

I Martin Karter Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 5528681 . 8.30pm. Free.

Edinburgh

I The Davey Spillane Band Queens Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8pm. £7 (£5). Heartbeat World Music bring back the young Irish uillean piper, ex-Moving Hearts, who takes his pipes well away from the orthodox tradition into rock, blues and jazchountry style.

I Maire Ni Chalhasaigh and Chris Newman Edinburgh Folk Club, Cafe Royale Upstairs, West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Great Irish harpist in a fleet-fingered duo with guitar and mandolin.

THURSDAY 21 Glasgow

I The She Bears Star Folk Club, Glasgow Society Of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2.

FOLK &. WORLD

The following details are for regular weekly dates: see main llstings tor one-oh shows. Gigs are listed by city, then by day. Residencies will be listed, provided that up-to-date details are supplied to us. Full: and World Residencies Listings compiled by Norman Chalmers.

EDINBURGH Fridays

I Fairmlle Inn Biggar Road Fairrnilehead.

9pm. Free. Live bands.

I Open Session Thistle Hotel, Manor Place, 225 6144. 8.30—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists welcome.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion and guitarin the bar.

I North Sea Gas Platform One, Caledonian Hotel, Rutland Street. Free. Po ular Scots entertainers.

I Iioyal Dak 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 oingh Street. 9pm. Free.

I Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal music.

Sundays

I Scotland's Music BBC Radio Scotland. 2.02-3.30pm. Thirty-part series on the history of Scottish music.

I Muckle Ado L’Attache, basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9.30pm-12.30am. Free. Singalong Scottish folkies.

I The 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 Nancy Nicholson Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.

Mondays

I Travelling Folk BBC Radio Scotland. 8.30—9.25pm.

I The Famous Other Band Southside Snooker and Social Centre, 72 Causewayside, 668 3344. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish.

I L'Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, 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.

I Scratch Band Shore Bar, The Shore, Leith. 9pm. Free. Celticinstrumental music.

I L’Attache Basement of Rutland Hotel, West End of Princes Street. 9pm. Free. Live bands.

I The Famous Other eand Bannerman’s Bar, Cowgate. 9pm. Free.

Wednesdays

I The Mstits 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.

I Flamenco and Tapas Counting House, West Nicolson Street. 8pm. £2.50 includes tapas. Two guitarists.

Thursdays

I Earthbeat BBC Radio Scotland. 7.30—8.30pm. Presented by .I an Fairley. World Music programme.

I The Famous Other Band Christies, West Port. 9pm. Free.

I Number One Music Cellar No 1, Chambers Street, 220 4298. Free. Basement wine bar has flamenco guitarist Freddie Triay with friends and dancers.

48 The List 8 21 November 1991