FOLK & WORLD MUSIC
WEDNESDAY 14
Glasgow I lan Bruce Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Highly experienced. tremendously skilled acoustic guitarist and singer Win .lones.
THURSDAY 15
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Welcome return of top Belfast bald craobh Rua. I Jiveass Clutha Vaults. Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Blues. 5Edinburgh
I llltten Folk Club Dean Tavern. Newtongrange. £2 (£1 ). Workshop.
FRIDAY 16
I Rowantree Folk Club Rowantree inn. Old Mill Road. Uddingston. 9pm. £2 concerts. other nights £1. Burns Song competition.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.
SATURDAY 17
Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. Spaced
E e s
I come» oattce Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.
I Urban Gypsies Tolbooth Bar. Canongate. 9pm. Free.
SUNDAY 18
I Scotla Blues Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. The Blues Poets.
I Attic Folk Club Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. Paisley. 8pm. £3 (£2). information 889 8309. Handle With care.
MONDAY 19
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I Linlithgow Folk club Black Bitch Inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Members £2. non-members £2.50. concessions £2. Singer and wit Bill Barclay.
WEDNESDAY 21
I Arran Bede Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royale Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Guitar star in the EFC‘s second week of master pickers is Duck Baker. over this time from the States with Appalachian singer Molly Andrews.
THURSDAY 22
I Star Folk Clull Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. Tickets tonight £3. Duck Baker and Molly Andrews. See Edinburgh Wed 21.
I .iiveass Clutha Vaults. Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Blues.
I ilitten Folk Club Dean Tavern. Newtongrange. £2 (£1). Singaround.
I Shugglenil‘ty La Belle Angele. Hasties Close. behind 369 Gallery. 225 2774. 9.30pm—lam. Free.
FOLK & WORLD Imam:-
The following details are for regular weekly dates: see main listings tor one- off 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 ilomran Chalmers.
Fridays
I Cottiers Hyndland Street. 9pm. Free. Live groups.
I ilebridean ear Dumbarton Road. Partick. 9pm. Free. Folk music.
I Victoria ear Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. informal session.
I lleilan Jessies Gallowgatc. 8.30pm. Session.
Saturdays
I Traders Glassford Street. 9pm. Free. Resident band The Plerlights.
I Cottler‘s Hyndland Street. 9pm. Free. Live groups.
I llebridean Dumbarton Road. Partick. 9pm. Free. Folk music.
I Victoria ear Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. informal session.
I ileilan Jessies Gallowgate. 8.30pm. Live music.
Sundays
I Babbity Bowster Blackfriars Street. Merchant City. 9pm. Free. Session.
I Clutha Vaults 167 Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Music and song session.
I Park Bar Argyll Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Session in Highlanders pub.
Mondays
I Victoria ear Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evenir g. Free. informal session.
Toesdays I clutha Vaults 167 Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Music and song
session.
Wednesdays
I liait ear Woodlands Road. 9pm. Free. Irish/Scots instrumental session.
I Victoria ear Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. Evening. Free. lnforrnal session.
I ilebridean ear Dumbarton Road. Partick. Scottish/Irish.
Thursdays
I The Snouts 13th Note. Glassford Street. 8.30pm. Free.
EDINBURGH Fridays
I Sandy Bells Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Scots/lrish session.
I on Bowman and Friends Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm—midnight. Free. Songwriter/guitarist.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square.
High Street. Ceilidh with Gordon Young. I liorth Sea eas Platform One. Caledonian Hotel. Rotund Street. Free. Popular Scots entertainers.
I Wally Allen Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Royal Oak infinnary Street. 557 2976. 9.30pm. Free. informal music downstairs.
Saturdays
I Tron Ceilidh llouse Hunter Square. High Street. 2pm. Aftemoon session with Battery.
I Shore Music The Shore Bar. Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental music.
I West End llotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion/guitar in the
bar. I Royal Oak lnftrmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. informal music.
Sundays
I Bannerman’s ear Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Rubbish.
I Tron Ceilidh llouse Hunter Square. High Street. informal live acoustic music most nights.
I Sandy Bell‘s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.
I Full Shilling Band Ryrie's Bar. Haymarket.junction of Dairy Road. 9pm. Free. Alternate weeks.
I Live Music Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free. Wally Allen.
I liancy Nicholson Royal Oak. infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.
Mondays
I Christies West Port. Grassmarket. 9.30pm. Session.
I Bridge Bar Session Bridge Bar. George [V Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fiddle session.
I Tron Ceilidh iiouse 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.
I Live Music Royal Oak. infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.
I liobles ear Constitution Street. Leith. 8.30pm. Free. Folk session.
Tbesdays
I International Bar Tarvit Street. 9pm. Session.
I Raeburn Ranters Holyrood Tavern. Holyrotxl Road. 9pm. Free.
I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists.
I Patsy Mack Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. free.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. informal live acoustic music most nights.
Wednesdays
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Jam session.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. informal live acoustic music most nights.
Thursdays
I Shooglenirty La Belle Angele. Hastie‘s Close. behind 369 Gallery. Cowgate. Folk fusion band.
I lleii Thompson Royal Oak. infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh liouse Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm. Free. informal sessions. I Riptide Scotsman Bar. Cockburn Street. 9pm. Free.
I Patsy Mack Holyrood Tavern. Holyrood Road. 9pm. Free.
I Queen’s Arms Frederick Street. 9pm. Free. She na Gig.
CLASSICAL & OPERA
concerts are listed by date, then by city. satirical Listings compiled by carol n.
FRIDAY 9
I Edinburgh Youth Orchestra Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Flor-Elm Na Mara (True Bird of the Sea). a new work by young Edinburgh-bom composer Magnus Robb. commissioned to mark the 30th anniversary of the orchestra. is given its first performance. followed by the Symphony No 9 by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5. Alexander Myrat conducts.
Edinburgh
I St John Passion St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen's Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Good Friday performance of Bach's S! John Passion from St Mary's Cathedral Choir and Orchestra conducted by Timothy Byram-Wigfield. Soloists include Andrew Tusa as the Evangelist. Nicholas Jones as Christus. irenc Drummond. lan Darling. David Hurley and lvor Klayman.
I Scottish Bass Trust Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 8pm. £8/£9 (£4). Classical and jazz come together in the opening concert of a weekend where the bass takes centre stage for a change. Wayne Darling and David Frissen are just two of the performers taking part.
SATURDAY 10 Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Youth Orchestra Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £5/£7.50. See Fri 9. Glasgow.
I Scottish Bass Trust Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £7 (£3.50). Described as The Paganini ofthe Double Bass. Duncan McTier is winner of the 1983 isle of Man International Double Bass Competition and is one of the world‘s leading soloists. He displays some of his virtuosity in the second concert of this special weekend celebrating the double bass.
SUNDAY 11 -
Edinburgh
I Scottish Bass Trust Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. iiam. £7 (£3.50). it‘s well worth getting up early enough to catch Thomas Martin. principal bass of the [.50 in a lecture recital on the music ofGiovanni Bottesini and the history and development of the double bass.
TUESDAY 13 Edinburgh
I Dpera Caledonia Carlow Room. Annan ! House. 10 Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door. 7.30pm. £2. An informative and entertaining introduction to Pilgrim '3‘ Progress. The morality opera by Vaughan Williams based on Bunyan's allegory runs at the King‘s Theatre between 28 April ; and 1 May in a new production by Edinburgh Grand ()pera. I
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