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I Said Crack Club Park Room. 3—5pm. £3 (£2). Storytelling for all the family.
I Caledonlan erawery llappy Ilaar Teviot Bar. 5.30-6.30pm. Free. Matt * Armour and Sid liausman. I Mulligan Roadshow Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30-10.30pm. £6.50. £5.50 (£4). Irish record label presents Vinnie Kildali, Gerry 0' Connor, tummy Keane. Brendan 0' liegan, and tummy iiayes in a concert of top quality Irish music and song. Virtuoso playing from the contemporary tradition on banjo, whistle, fiddle, pipes, with Tommy Hayes arsenal of percussion.
I Music torlha Pipes BBC Queen’s Street. 7.3o—topm. Free by ticket. Doors open 6.45pm. NO admission after 7. 15pm. Tickets availabe from Festival Box Office or BBC Glasgow in advance - by post or to callers. Live
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in advance ’ Quartet, and Pipe Maiorlan 668 2019. With M" “m, mm"- and Eddie Wallter.
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(£3 '5°)' Sax and 9'9“: Competition St Annes recorders, clarinet and Community Centre , whistle in their playful Cowgate. 2pm. 50p. jazzfolk fusion from I 0.”. WM”
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I CO"th DDDCO Debating Dancing with accordion Hau' 9'3opm“ 3°31“: maestro Freeland Barbour. £3.50. nan Ian Band and . cm... Balcony Room. “mm m' 2—5pm. Free. Leave the
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SATURDAY 18 {CW ham
I Slnging Kettle Wild West I Caledonlan Brewery Show George Square Happy llour Teviot Bar. Theatre, George Square. 5.30-6. 30pm. Free. From 11am-1pm, 2.30—4.30pm. Northern Ireland, £4 (£3). Artie Trezise, traditional instrumental Cilla Fisher and Gary and vocal group Dulrealta Coupland in delightful, I Piping Concert Debating funny and noisily Hall, £4 (£3.50). Irish enthusiastic children‘s music by tummy Keene and show. SOLD OUT. Vinnie itllduti and highland I Open Stage Wine Bar. piping from Gary West. 1-2pm. Free. Hosted by I Carolina Shout Park Danny Kyle. Everyone’s Room. 7—9pm. £4 (£3 .50). chance to perform. John James and Eddie I Gordon Simpson Guitar Walker are two extremely Masterclass Park Room. talented guitar players
and vocalists, who come : Informal piping concert. together to perform a Bagpipes and bagpipers of spectacular blues, i all sorts, hosted by the bluegrass and ‘ Goodacre Brothers with countrypicking guests. -
entertainment. I Open Stage Wine Bar.
I Dance Debating Hall. 1—2pm. Free. Hosted by 10.30pm-1.3oam. £4. Danny Kyle. Everyone’s Hours of leaping around ‘ chance to perform.
to Irish folk rock and I Easter Outdoor Jamboree Cajun sound with After Gather at the Ross
Hours and Companions ol Bandstand , Princes Street the Rosy iiours. Gardens. Noon-2. 30pm. I Celebrity Concert Park Free. Egg rolling with Room. 10.30pm-1 am. £4 Free hard-boiled eggs (£3.50). Jazzy American courtesy of Broxburn
harpist Deborah Browns. Fun and live Henson-Conant and entertainment for kids of Friends. all ages. I Dance Debating Hall. 19 2-5pm. £2. Footloose Dancers and Musicians. I Common Ground Dining I Creche Balcony Room. Room, 10.3oam—6. 30pm. 2—5pm. Free. Leave the Free. Pipemaker’s kids in good hands for a exhibition. few hours. I Folk Oulz Park Room, I Ould Crack Club Park 2—4.30pm. £2. Hosted by Room. 3-5pm. £3 (£2). laln Mcuueen. Win £50 of Storytelling for all the Virgin record vouchers. family. Greentrax records, and I Caledonlan Brewery concert tickets. Benefit Happy Hour Teviot Bar. for Waverley Care. 5 .30—6. 30pm. Free. Miro I Common Ground Dining play their wild mix of
Room, 2.30—5pm. £2.
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I Celebrity Concert Park Room. 10pm-ram.£4 (£3. 50). Superb songwriter and pianist Michael Marta.
I Edinburgh Festival Farewell Concert Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £6.50, £5 (£4). Clan Alba is the seven-piece folk band put together by Dick Gaughan, with Sileas, alias Patsy Seddon and Mary McMaster on harps and vocals. Brian Mcileill on fiddle, vocals and other instruments, Davey Steele on vocals and
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pipes and whistle with Dave Tulloch and Mitre Iravls, drums and percussion. First half performances as small groups, second half ensemble.
I Closing Ceilidh Dance Debating Hall. 9.30pm—1 . 303m. Free to Club Members. The usual end-of— Festival excesses, orchestrated by The Occasionals with caller
Irish, Scottish, Breton and i Wilma Henderson.
CLASSICAL
Concerts are listed by date, then bycity. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.
FRIDAY 10 Glasgow
I DOC Young Musician ot the Year Glasgow Royal Concert Hall , 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4—£2o. Final of the popular BBC programme comes to Scotland for the first time. The four finalists play concertos with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain conducted by Christopher Seaman.
I Scottish Ensemble Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sun 12, Edinburgh. £4/£8. An all Bach programme with a blast of Brandenburgs - Nos 1, 2 and 4 and the Concerto for violin and oboe to finish.
Edinburgh
I BSD Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 1 1, Glasgow. £4-£17. 50 (£3. 50). Last concert of the RSO’s current season features Lacuna, Ombre, Voyager by Scottish composer John Maxwell Geddes and Beethoven’s Choral Symphony. Soloists are Margaret Marshall, Bernadette Cullen, Kim Begley and David Wilson-Johnson. With the R80 Chorus and conductor James Loughran.
SATURDAY11 Glasgow
I D80 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7. 30pm. £4-£17. 50 (standby £3.50). See Fri 10, Edinburgh.
I SCO brass In Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £3I£6 (cone £2.50). Part three of current series is entitled From Riches to Rags.
Edinburgh
I Alfred Brendel Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £3.5o—£10 (standby £3). An all-Beethoven programme in aid of the John Tunnell Trust to help young professional chamber musicians.
SUNDAY 12
I Choir of the Year Competition City Hall, Candlerigggs, 227 551 1. Various performance times. Free. Audition Festival Day for budding choirs of all ages singing everything from rock to classical, chamber to barbershop and folk to gospel. Warm-up sessions and workshops too for all to join in.
I Organ Concert Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, 357 3929. 2.30-3pm and 3.30—4pm. Free. Ian Ogg gives this afternoon’s recital on The Kelvingrove Organ, built at the turn of the century and restored in 1988.
I Music at the Burrell Burrell Collection, Pollok Country Park. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 3pm. £3 (£2). The Telemann Ensemble plays Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, Telemann Cantata I and the Concerto for two flutes by Vivaldi.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Ensemble Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 2.30pm. £2.5o—£9. See Fri 10, Glasgow.
MONDAY 13 Glasgow
I 880 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7. 30pm. £4—£17.5o. An evening of popular music by French composers including such predictables as Carnival oftheAnimals , Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Bizet’s
L ’A rlesienne. Good night if you like a good tune. Carl Davis conducts.
TUESDAY 14 Glasgow
I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons’ Hall, 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15—2pm.
£1.50. Pianist Christine Greig plays Suite Bergamasque by Debussy and Outof doors by Bartok.
WEDNESDAY 15 Glasgow
I SCO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs 16, Edinburgh. £2.5o—£1 1. Alfred Brendel is soloist in Mozart's C minor Piano Concerto, which falls between Bartok’s Divertimento for Strings and Haydn‘s Drumroll Symphony. Sian Edwards conducts.
I ilYOS Chamber Orchestra Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. Extra date: Thurs 16, Edinburgh. £8 (£4/£2.5o). New chamber orchestra formed from the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland makes its debut with conductor William Conway in a programme of Haydn, Schubert and the premiere of Symphonies of Trains by Edward McGuire.
THURSDAY 16
Glasgow I Merchants Music Merchants’ Hall, 7
FRIDAY 17 Glasgow
I BBC SSO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 7. 30pm. £3—£ 1 5. Last concert this season from the BBC 850 is a Good Friday performance of Brahms’s German Requiem. Leopold Hager is conductor and soloists are Judith Howard and Donald Maxwell. With the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.
SUNDAY 19 Glasgow
I Music at the Burrell Burrell Collection, Pollok Country Park. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 3pm. £3 (£2). The Alma String Quartet are this week’s performers, with quartets by Haydn, Theloke, Rossini and Mozart, K285 in Dmajor.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Youth Orchestra Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1 I 55. 7.30pm. £5/£7.5o (£3/£5). Annual concert following Easter course sees the return of Greek conductor Alexandre Myrat whose programme opens aptly enough with Five Greek Dances by Skalkottas. Judith Rees is soloist in Bloch‘s Schelomo for cello and orchestra and Franck‘s Symphony in D
West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 minor is the major work, (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm.
£3 (£2. 50). First of Murray McLachian’s E S D programmes of the complete Beethoven
piano sonatas brings 0p2 No l and 0p 5 3, G
Waldstein .
Edinburgh
I Chamber Music at Queen Street Broadcasting House, Queen Street. Tickets: BBC Reception in Edinburgh and Glasgow (Queen Margaret Drive). 1-2pm. Free. Trumpeter John Wallace is joined by Simon Wright, piano and harpsichord, for a programme of Vivaldi, Berio, Richard Rodney Bennett. lain Hamilton, Messiaen and Arban. And guaranteed to be no more than an hour.
I NYOS Chamber Orchestra Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £1 .50—£10 (£2/£3). See Wed 15, Glasgow.
I SCO Usher Hail, Lothian Road, 228 1155.7.45pm.£3-£12.See Wed 15, Glasgow.
I Lunchtime Concert Hutchesons' Hall, 2 John Street. Tickets: at door. 1.15—2pm. £1.50. Music for piano by Domenico Scarlatti, Debussy, Liszt and Granada with Alasdair Cameron at the keyboard.
THURSDAY 23 Glasgow
I Merchants Music Merchants’ Hall, 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre, Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3 (£2.50). Piano music for lunchtime by Liszt, Schubert and Granados performed by Alasdair Cameron.
I Chamber Music Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7. 30pm. Admission free by ticket. Student chamber ensembles from the RSAMD.
some List 10— 23 April 1992