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MUSIC FOLK & WORLD

I La Rue Preservation Hall, Victoria Street. 9pm. Electric ﬁddle rock/zydeco. See Rock Listings.

THURSDAY 15 Glasgow

I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Heather Heywood is in the process of making her long awaited second album. One of Scotland‘s ﬁnest female singers of traditional song.

Edinburgh

I Avalon Queens Hall, Clerk Street. 8pm. £4.50 (£3.50). Scotland‘s long established Celt-rockers have released their latest album Higher Ground on Iona Records. Support from Ceolbeg.

I Turn Pacheco The Merlin, Morningside Road. 8.30pm. £5 (£4). Hugely admired and much recorded American singer/songwriter and guitarist who pulls the top rock stars to his Stateside concerts. brought to you by Open House Music.

I Hitten Folk Club Dean Tavern, Newtongrange. £2 (£1). 8pm.

AY 16 Glasgow

I Otis Grand Centre for Contemporary Arts, 346 Sauchiehall Street, 332 7521. CCA blues nights. See Rock Listings.

I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree Inn, Old Mill Road, Uddingston. 9pm. £2 concerts, other nights £1.

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

SATURDAY 17

Glasgow

I The Fureys City llztlls. (‘nndlcriggs. 227 5511.8pm. See Edinburgh. Sun 18.

I An Teallach Trades Hall, Glasford Street. 8pm—midnight. Bar. £4.50. In advance from 552 2418. Ceilidh Dance organised by the Glasgow Branch of the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland.

I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 5528681. 3.30pm. Free. Dnthe Level.

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

Ed I nburgh

I Eduardo lliebla and Antonio Forclone Pleasance Theatre Bar, The Pleasance. 8.30pm. £6 (£4). Open House Music brings back the extraordinarily empathetic Latin-rooted guitarists.

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 18 Glasgow

I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull Hotel, Milngavie. 8.30pm. £2.50 (£1.75). From Chicago, Marilyn Mldleton Pollock has a wide ranging talent, centred on the blues. I Strathaven Folk Club Bucks Head Hotel, Strathaven. 8.15pm. Non-members £2.50 (£1).

I Scotia Blues Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. The Blues Poets.

Edinburgh

I The Fureys Assembly Rooms, George Street. Box ofﬁce 220 4328. 7.30pm. No longer including Davey Arthur, the popular Irish Brothers run their repertoire of traditional Irish and country-toned material.

MONDAY 19 Linlithgow

I Dick Gaughan Queen Margaret Hall,

Lilnlithgow. 8pm. Linlithgow Folk Club Concert. With support.

TUESDAY 20 Glasgow

I Scottish Music Room 101 , Livingston Tower. Strathclyde University, 552 4400 ext 2735. 7—9pm. Weekly evening classes with musical examples and guest performers covering fiddle, harp, pipes and oher instruments with Gaelic and Scots song. Tutor Dilly Ross.

Edinburgh

I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street. 556 9579. 2.30pm. £2 (£1.50). Family Storysharing with Linda Dandelier and Alison Millen.

I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street, 5569579. 7.30pm. £3.50 (2.50). Keepers oithe Earth Native American and Scottish Traditions, with Red Thunder Cloud and Duncan Williamson.

I Penicullr Folk Club Navaar Hotel. Penicuik. 8pm. Singaround.

WEDNESDAY 21 Glasgow

I Live Music Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. The She/He Bears.

Edinburgh

I Red Thunder Cloud Royal Botanic Garden, lnverleith. 552 7171. 11am and 2pm. Adults £2. children£1 .50. Storytelling session from a Native American, a member of the Catawba Nation. I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street, 5569579. 2.30pm. £2 (£1 .50). Family Storysharing with Andrew Douglas. I A Harper Fine Queens Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. £4.50 (includes afternoon tea). Afternoon Tea Concert series with voice and clarsach by Isobel Mieras. From Burns to Kennedy-Fraser with some of her own settings of Souter I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs, West Register Street, 557 4792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Sax, pipes, clarinet, whistle in the unique, relaxed folk/jazz licks of Hamish Moore and chIr Lee. I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street, 5569579. 7 .30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Piper's News and Fiddlers Tales in tales, songs and music with Sheila Douglas, Willie lAacPhee, Padraig Maclleill and Lindsay Porteous. Also at 7.30pm, same ticket price, New Storyteller’s Workshop with Andrew Douglas.

THURSDAY 22 Glasgow

I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians, 73 Berkeley Street, beside MitchellTheatre. 8pm. £2. From down Nottingham way and including an ex-member of the Laggan, guests tonight are kelly's Heroes.

Edinburgh

I Wollstone Queens Hall, Clerk Street. Doors open 7.30pm. £6.50. Box ofﬁce 668 2019, or from Virgin Records, Ripping Records. Electric ceilidh, tartan ravers on long Scottish tour to promote their latest Phil Cunningham-produced album The Chase.

I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street, 5569579. 2.30pm. £2 (£1.50). Family Storysharing with Barbara McDennltt and Lou Ann Homan.

I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre, 43 High Street, 5569579. 7.30pm. Hero Tales and WonderTales. £3.50 (£2.50). Celtic Stories from George

lAacPherson, Fiona MacLeod and Padraig lAaclieill. I Hitlen Folk Club Dean Tavern,

Newtongrange. £2 (£1). 8pm. Singaround.

FOLK & WORLD

The lollowing details are lor regularweeitly dates: see main listings for 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 Colliers Hyndland Street. 9pm. Free. Live groups.

I Hebridean Bar Dumbarton Road, Partick. 9pm. Free. Folk music.

I Victoria Dar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal session.

I Heilan Jessies Gallowgate. 8.30pm. Session.

Saturdays

I Traders Glassford Street. 9pm. Free. Resident band The Pierlights.

I Cottiers Hyndland Street. 9pm. Free. Live groups.

I Hebridean Dumbarton Road, Partick. 9pm. Free. Folk music.

I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal session.

I Heilan Jessies Gallowgate. 8.30pm. Live music.

Sundays

I Babbity Dowster Blackfriars Street, Merchant City. 9pm. Free. Session. I Park Bar Argyll Street, near Kelvin Park, 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders pub.

Mondays

I Victoria Dar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal session.

Tuesdays

I Travelling Party Wardhead Hotel, Kilmaurs Road, Stewarton, 0560 82462. 9pm. Free. Country/folk.

Wednesdays

I Halt Dar Woodlands Road. 9pm. Free. Irish/Scots instrumental session.

I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. Informal session.

I Hebridean Bar Dumbarton Road, Partick. Scottish/Irish.

EDINBURGH Fridays

I Rebecca and Harry Sandy Bells, Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Instrumental session. I Harvest and Friends Thistle Hotel, Manor Place, 225 6144. 9pm—midnight. Free. Songs and accordion.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free.

Accordion and guitar in the bar.

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

I Live Music Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket, top of High Street. 9pm. Free.

I Royal Oak Inﬁrmary Street, 557 2976. Evening. Free. Informal music downstairs.

Saturdays

I Session Green Tree, Cowgate. Afternoon. Free.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion/guitar in the bar.

I Live Music Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket, top of High Street. 9pm. Free.

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

Sundays

I Sandy Dell’s Forrest Hill Bar, Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

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 Dannennan'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 Bridge Bar Session Bridge Bar, George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fiddle music and

songs.

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening, 229 2665. Free. Traditional Scottish music on squeeze boxes and ﬁddles.

I Little Green Monkeys Bannerman’s Bar, Cowgate. 9pm. Free.

Tuesdays

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

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

Wednesdays

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

I Big Eyed Deans Bannerman‘s Bar, Cowgate. 9pm. Free.

Thursdays

I Folk nght Nobles, Constitution Street, Leith. 9pm. Free.

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square, High Street. 9pm. Free. Informalsessions.

I Riptide Scotsman Bar, Cockburn Street.

CLASSICAL mis-

Concerts are listed by date. then by city. Classical Listings compiled by Carol Main.

FRIDAY 9 Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £2 (£1). Organ recital by Dennis Townhill, who plays Leighton, Handel, Bach and Widor.

I Cosi tan tutte Theatre Royal, Hope Street. 332 9000. 7.15pm. Extra dates: 31 October (Glasgow); 25 and 27 November (Edinburgh). £3.50—£38.50. Scottish Opera in Mozart’s dilemma of the sexes. Sung in English. Cast includes Anne Williams-King, Elizabeth McCormack, Kevin Anderson and Martin Higgins.

I SCO Brass Stevenson Hall, RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm.

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