MUSIC FOLK & WORLD
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh
Late Bar
THE AUK QUOKS AGAIN THE LITERARY EVENT OF 1992
A benefit to raise funds to publish a book of drawings and poems by
SYDNEY GOODSIR SMITH
Monday 2 November, 1992 7.30 . (ate I
Norman MacCaig, Sorley Machan, Liz Lochhead, Hamish Henderson, George Bruce, Iain Crichton Smith, Ellie McDonald, Billy Kay and Matthew Fitt lead the celebrations PLUS Music from Sheena Wellington, Dave Whyte, piper Martyn Bennett, Davy Steele from Ceolbeg and friends, and a dramatic presentation led by Gerda Stevenson of Sydney's best and most hilarious poems.
Tickets: £7 (concession £4) available from the Queen's Hall Box Office, Clerk Street, Edinburgh Tel: 031-668 2019. lfyou can't come, please give a donation to thefund of what you can
afford. Send to: The New Auk Society, c/o The List, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 ITE.
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Davey‘s orchestral pieces such as The Brendan Voyage. here playing the uillean pipes in a solo concert.
MONDAY 26 Edinburgh
I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre. 43 High Street. 5569579. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Duncan Williamson, Linda Bandelierand Liz Weir.
TUESDAY 27 Edinburgh
I Texas Kellys La Belle Angele. 11 Hastics Close. Cowgate. 225 2774. 9pm. £4. Bar. Tickets at the door. Information Open House Music 4476187. Dublin-based band ofenergetic. danceable rockin' bluegrass and caiun. driven along by bass. drums and cx-Waterboy Steve Wickham's mandolin and fiddle. See Music Preview.
I Frankie Armstrong Theatre Workshop. Hamilton Place. Stockbridge. 2pm. 226 5425. Voice Workshops for singers and non-singers. Essential to book in advance. I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherhow
Theatre. 43 High Street. 556 9579.
7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Tales ollndia and Asia including stories from the Ramayana with Rani Singh. Mr and Mrs Harban Singh and Beulah Candappa.
WEDNESDAY 28
Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Frankie Armstrong Theatre Workshop. Hamilton Place. Stockbridge. 2265425. 8pm. £5 (£3). Superlative English folk—based singer in concert. See her Voice Workshop Tue 27.
I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherhow Theatre. 43 High Street. 556 9579. 7.30pm. £3.50(£2.50). The Gift otStory with Stanley Robertson. Linda Cotterill and Alison Millen.
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 5574792. 8pm. £3 (£2). Much admired. quality guitar player and songwriter Mike Silver.
THURSDAY 29 Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Mike Silver. Sec Wed 28. Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre. 43 High Street. 556 9579. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Tales and Legends olthe Scottish Borders with the Rowantree Company. Excerpts from 'I‘amlane. Kinmon! Willie and Michael Scott.
' FRIDAY 30 __
Glasgow
I Chieftains Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. Tickets £21) (£15). Matt Malloy. Sean Keane. Paddy Maloney and the boys bring their brilliant. showy Irish traditional music to a Charity Gala Night in aid of Scottish Spinal injuries Unit. Southern General Hospital. With support including Strathclyde Police Pipe Band.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £4.
Edinburgh
I Gary Hall and the Stormkeepers La Belle Angele. ll llasties Close. Cowgate.225 2774. 9pm. £4. Bar. Tickets at the door. information Open House Music 447 6187. Superb band ofcountry rockers. with
some quality songwriting from their lead singer.
I Robert Fish Band Assembly Rooms. George Street. 220 4349. Doors open 8.30pm. Tickets £5 (£3). Reelin' inthe Assembly is a monthly alternative ceilidh dance. All profits to ALP Scots Music Course.
I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherbow Theatre. 43 High Street. 5569579. 7.30pm. £3.51) (£2.50). Songs. ballads. some piping and tall tales in The Nightot the Circle with Stanley Robertson. Barbara Mcoermitt. Fiona MacLeod and Willie McPhee.
SATURDAY 31 Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. milsic‘ at 9pm. £4.
edinburgh
I Scottish Fiddle Orchestra Lisher 1 Tall. Lothian Road. 7.3(lpm. Proceeds tothe Royal Blind Asylum and School.
I Scottish Storytelling Festival Netherhow Theatre. 43 High Street. 556 9579. 7.30pm. £3.5()(£2.5()). End ofthe week—long festival with the Guid Crack Ceilidh hosted by Duncan Williamson.
SUNDAY 1
Glasgow
I Black Bull Folk Club Black Bull Hotel. Milngavie. 8.30pm. £2.5()(£l.75). Hallowe'en Party Night with the distinctive. gentle folk rock guitar. bass. keyboard and vocal sound ofThe Broads. I Scotia Blues Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.3(lpm. Free. The Blues Poets.
MONDAY 2
Edinburgh
ITlto Auk Ducks Agaln Queen's llau. Clerk St, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £7 (£4). A star studded benefit to raise funds to publish a book of drawings and poems by the late and much lamented Sydney Goodsir Smith. Many of Scotland's leading poets will be reading from their own and Sydney's work and there will be music from Sheena Wellington, Dave Whyte, piper Martyn Bennett, Davy Steele from Ceolbeg.
WEDNESDAY 4
Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. Live Bands.
Edinburgh
I Stockton's Wing Queens Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. LatestCD'cassette Crooked Rose reveals an impressive maturity in the five strong Irish band famous in the past for their fast.fiery instrumental attack.
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 5574792. 8pm. £3 (£2). High powered musicianship and tunes from the British Isles. Europe and beyond from the three members ofthe House Band on vocals. flute. melodcon. small pipes. mandolin and guitar.
THURSDAY 5 . Glasgow
I Tarika Sammy Centre for Contemporary Arts. 346 Sauchiehall Street. 332 7521. Appealing rhythm. absorbing songs and rare instrumental textures from the four young women and men from Madagascar who reconstruct their varied traditions in a contemporary context.
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Jim Bainbridge and Alex McKay
38 The List 23 October— 5 November 1992