MUSIC JAZZ
I Davy Keir Jauband Snooker Club, Annandaie Street. 5.30—8.30pm. Free. Traditional.
I Live Jazz PM‘s Piano Bar, Albany Hotel, Albany Street, 556 0397. 7pm. Free.
I Jazz at Maxies Maxies Bistro, West Nicoison Street, 667 0845. 8.30pm. Free. Music in bar/restaurant.
FOLK & WORLD
Oates listed below are lor one-oil shows: see separate section lor residencies. Gigs are listed by date. then by city. Periormances will be listed. provided that details reach our olllces at least one week before publication. Folk and World Listings compiled by Norman Chalmers.
FRIDAY 20 Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street. off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4. Live bands.
Edinburgh
I Loose Moose Ceilidh Band Tron Bar Ceilitlh House. Hunter Square. 9pm. First of a regular series of ceilidh dance nights in the basement of the three-level folk pub. The Loose Moose usually browses the Tayside region but fiddler Rosa Michaelson is well remembered from her Sprangeen days.
SATURDAY 21 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30—5.30pm. Free.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4.
SUNDAY 22 Glasgow
I Gaberlunzie Black Bull Folk Club, Black Bull Hotel, Milngavie. 8.30pm. £2.50 (£1.75). Longest serving duo in Scottish music.
FRIDAY 27 Glasgow
I Scotia Bar Stockwell Street. 8.30pm. Free. Live Music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street, off Clyde Street, 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4.
SATURDAY 28 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. Live music.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4.
FRIDAY 3 Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street, off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £4. Live bands.
SATURDAY 4 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 3.30—5.30pm. Free. Live music. I Ceilidh Dance Riverside, Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm.
[ music at 9pm. £4.
" Taking their name lrom Poosie
Nancy's, the famous Mauchline tavern trequented by Burns and two centuries later still serving strong drink, the live line musicians and singers in The Poosles get together to open the Edinburgh Folk Club’s 1992 season in festive spirit.
Singer Sally Barker lonned the band with her harplst triends Patsy Seddon and Mary MacMaster oi Sileas, adding superb young accordionist Karen Tweed and iiddler Jenny Gardner.
Jenny reveals a wealth 01 musical experience that belies her twenty years. ‘I started playing the violin when l was six, and played anything. We lived in Edinburgh, and I was sent to classical lessons, the Youth Orchestra, Lothian Fiddle Orchestra and the Scottish Symphonia. But I never thought I would be playing music for a living. To do that you had to go to music college, teacher training, or whatever. No one told me it was an option to iust go and play in bands.
‘But that's what happened. I moved to Bermuda with my parents when I was about sixteen, even played In a wee tolk band “Strings and Things”. There's a talk club out there, they got Boys or The Lough, Silly Wizard, Allan
- good bands, but I had enough after a year and came back to Edinburgh to go to college. I was walking over George IV Bridge, carrying the fiddle one day and heard some live music coming out oi a pub. Inside, I met all the Edinburgh traditional music crowd, and I’ve been playing non-stop ever since.‘
In the immediate luture, she is committed to a tour of the States with piper Hamish Moore and a Cape Breton piano player. Previous spells with various groups include Dave Robb And The Filmmakers, theatre work includes ‘The Cheviot, The Stag And The Black, Black Oil’, and she is currently winding up her long association with the iunk iolkabilly Eat the Seats, helping phase in her replacement over a short holiday Highland tour.
‘I’ve always played but never realised I would be able to improvise, but that’s what's happening. Eat The Seats is mental, I can go ape on the liddle. But it’s just the icing on the cake. l'd often like to play something more rhythmic, like the bass player and the drummer. I just wanna play rock and roll!‘ (Norman Chalmers)
The Poosies play Edinburgh Folk Club on Wed 8.
MONDAY 6 Linlithgow
I North Sea Gas Black Bitch Inn. West Port, Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Members £2. non-members £2.50. concessions £1.50. Linlithgow Folk Club. The new year kicks off with long established folk entertainers.
WEDNESDAY 8 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free.
I The Attic The Studio. Shuttle Street. Paisley. 8pm. £2 members and concessions. £2.50 everyone else. information from organiser Danny Kyle. 887 9991.
Edinburgh
I The Poosies Cafe Royale Upstairs, West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Edinburgh Folk Club. All women band. quality music. good fun. See Music preview.
FRIDAY 10 Glasgow
I Scotia Bar Stockwell Street. 8.30pm.
Free. Live music. I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4.
SATURDAY 11 Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Blend Walpole Hall. Chester Street. £2 before 8pm. £3 after 8pm. Performers Free. Ceilidh Dance, bring your own drink, and please don't smoke.
MONDAY 13 Linlithgow
I John Watt Black Bitch inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Members £2. non-members £2.50. concessions £1.50. Linlithgow Folk Club. Venerable guitarist and song writer. melodeon player anti wag from Fife.
TUESDAY 14 Glasgow
I Coming Home/Dark Cloud RSAMD Foyer. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. Two new pieces by the (ilasgow flautist/composer [Eddie McGuire. The latter features eight or more guitars. the former is a spatial music Composition iplayed by the Whistlebinkies on pipes.
‘ harp. flute. fiddle. percussion and free
! reeds.
! WEDNESDAY 15 iGlasgow
l I The Attic The Studio, Shuttle Street. !Pais|ey. 8pm. £2 members and lconcessions, £2.50 everyone else. ;lnformation from organiser Danny Kyle. gss7 9991.
i I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. i552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. iEdinburgh
iI Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Slipstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 18pm. £3 (£2). Blues singer and entertainer
1 Eddie Walker.
lTHURSDAY16 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club (ilasgow Society ()1 ,Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside iMitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. The new year opens with blues and entertainment from
Eddie Walker.
FOLK &. WORLD
The lollowing details are lor regularweekly dates: see main listings lor one-oil shows. Gigs are listed by city. then by day. Residencies will be listed, provided that up-to-date details are supplied to us. Folk and World Residencies Listings compiled by Norman Chalmers.
GLASGOW Fridays
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. informal lrisb/Scottish instrumental session.
Saturdays
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Britlgegate. livening. Free. lrish/Scottish instrumental session.
Sundays
I Scotland's Music BBC Radio Scotland. 2.02—3.30pm. Thirty-part series on the history of Scottish music.
I Babbity Bowsters Blackfriars Street. Merchant City. 9pm. Free. informal music in the bar.
I Session Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 24pm. Free. Regular afternoon of songs and music.
I Park Bar Argyll Street. near Kcli in Park, 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders‘ pub.
Mondays
I Travelling Folk BB(‘ 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. (iorbals, 429 3944. 8.30pm. Free. The McCues and other top (ilasgow Irish musicians.
54The List 20 December 1991 — 16January 1992