Naomi: CONCERTS
ON CALTON HILL
DICK GAUGHAN
MONDAY 23 AUGUST TICKETS £7.50 (£5.00)
JOHN MAanI
TUESDAY 24 AUGUST WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST TICKETS £8.00
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PE RCA! Lth MONDAY 30 AUGUST TUESDAY 31 AUGUST
TICKETS £9.00
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Dougie Maclean
WEDNESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER TICKETS £8.00
ikmNARD JONES
FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER TICKETS £7.50
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Scotland’s other language and one of the greatest musical traditions of Europe is celebrated in two events featuring established performers and relative newcomers to the Gaelic music scene. The Gaelic language is full of metaphors and the name Mac-Talla is literally translated as ‘son . of the rocks’. an echo. | Formed less than a year 5 ago as an occasional band. ' Mac-Talia brings together I the two established duos 3 of Lewis singer Christine : Primrose with harpist i Alison Kinnaird and Skye j men Blair Douglas on accordion and keyboards. with Mod Gold Medal i singer Arthur Cormack. . Another young Gold Medal winner, Eilidh MacKenzie, rounds off this most talented group. The old-style Seann Nos were winners of the I992 Mod Folk Band award, I and they bring their I contemporary sound. with ' pipes. fiddle, keyboards, _ percussion and vocals, to a short season at the ; famous Highlanders' 5 howff, the West End Hotel. (Norman IChalmers) II Mac-Talia (Fringe) 'gAcoustic Music Centre ‘ (Venue 20) 220 2462. 26 .Aug, 7.30pm, £6 (£4). {I Seann lies (Fringe) West End Hotel (Venue 52), 668 3733. 15—19. 21 Aug. 8.30pm, £4 (£2.50).
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A piss-up in a brewery is certain for some when they get along to Celts At The Caledonian over the . three Festival weekends. Situated in the Maltings at the real-ale Caledonian Brewery on Slateford Road. it promises cask- conditioned Scottish and Irish bands of high quality, music to engage your brain or your feet and an endless supply of amber liquid.
Kicking off the proceedings is Edinburgh band Ceolbeg. featuring bagpipes and harp with Scots vocals, launching their latest Greentrax
FESTIVAL
Getting dropped from a major label is a crushing experience, but lies Damned Lies did something about it - set up their own label and blossomed as a result. Their second album, ‘Flying Kites’, was moodier, more considered and consequently better received than their debut for Siren Records. Steve Butler, the grizzly giant with the naked heart, muses on a lite of sen-determination.
‘Everything we do at the moment is against the tide. The whole experience at the last record we made - to generalise, the reaction to it has done us a lot at favours. It earned us a lot of respect. People in record companies thought it was really good, but they didn’t know what to do with it.’
What Lnl are going to do with it is
play the Festival, in a stripped, mostly acoustic show. But don’t the songs, heavy as they are with rolling synth, lose out in the conversion?
‘I don’t think they do. The character of it is very-similar. In fact it there’s a “feel” or “mood” of “Flying Kites”, I
think it’s gone further down that road.’
With a critically-acclaimed album under their belt, the band are now a better prospect for a lucrative deal with the majors. So why not go back?
‘Simply because we’re enjoying it so much more now. You wake up in the morning and do what you want to do, and it’s a great privilege to be able to do that.’ (Gavin Inglis) lies Damned lies (Fringe) St Paul’s and St George’s Church (Venue 114) 5561202, 23, 24 Aug, 10pm, £4 (£3).
album. An Unfair Dance with a concert on Fri 20. On Sun 22. tartan ravers Wolfestone make their only Festival appearance
high-energy Highland hooching.
A dance to the best of the alternative Scottish ceilidh bands is the main fare for Saturday evenings. and the last week sees the arrival of the top Irish bands Altan and Three Men And A Dog.
I Celts At The Caledonian (Fringe) Caledonian Brewery (Venue 94), 2201550. Ceolbeg. Aug 20. 29. 8pm, £5; Wolfestone Aug 22. 8pm. £5.
POLE POSITION
With the divine hand of Elisabeth Schwartzkopf on his shoulder and an operatic pedigree that belies his age, the American baritone Thomas Hampson's Edinburgh debut should
I be unmissable. Despite the lure of opera. Hampson has studied the an of Lieder and learnt
, , 3 good. as they say.
and promise an evening of g championing the work of several of his native
I composers as well as the
German repertoire. , coupling Beethoven‘s An : die Ferne geliebte and Schumann’s Dic- Ferlic'bc. l Thomas Hampson (Festival) Usher Hall. 225 5756, 21 Aug. 8pm. £7—£15.
82 The List 20—26 August 1993