CLASSICAL & OPERA MUSIC
FOLK & WORLD
LISTINGS
oates listed below are for one-off shows: see seperate section for residencies. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Performances will be listed, provided that details reach our offices art least one week before publication. Folk and World listings compiled by llorman Chalmers.
FRIDAY 27
I Ceilidll Dance Ferry. Clyde Place. 9pm. £5 (£4). TickeLs at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227
511. I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.
SATURDAY 28
I Solidarity with Africa Ferry. Clyde Place. 10pm. £7.50. Tickets in advance from Virgin Records. Union Street. Blues Brothers-styled outfit Big Vern And The Shootahs join that vibrant sextet of percussion. instrumental music. song and dance from Uganda. Aboluganda Kwagalana The Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Wild Monkey also do their
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I ilot Tamales Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30—5.30pm. Free. I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. ofi' Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.
SUNDAY 29
Glasgow
I Michael Marra Band and Pete llardini Ferry. Clyde Place. 8pm. £7 (£5). Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. The top Scottish songwriter and keyboard/guitar player fronts his new band. with Hamilton’s unique and very funny songwriting talent in support.
I The Blues Poets Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30—5.30pm. Free.
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I Sill Bowman Linlithgow Folk Club. Black Bitch Inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Members £2. non-members £2.50. concessions £2.
WEDNESDAY 1
Glasgow
I Eddie Walker Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 9pm. Free.
THURSDAY 2
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street, beside Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Young Glasgow-based high energy folk outfit. I .liveass Clutha Vaults. Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Blues.
FRIDAY 3
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.
SATURDAY 4
Glasgow
I My Gain and Phil Cunningham Ferry. Clyde Place. 552 0767. 8.30pm. Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. Legendary Shetland fiddler from Boys Of The Lough on his annual tour with pyrotechnic box player Phil.
I The ilootsies Duo Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. Blues.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.
SUNDAY 5
Glasgow
I The Blues Poets Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Solidarity with Africa Venue. Caiton Road. 9pm. £6. Tickets in advance from Virgin Records. Princes Street. Charity gig headlined by the vibrant sextet of percussion. instrumental music. song and dance from Uganda. Aboluganda Kwagalana. with the Skuobhie Dubh Orchestra and Wild Monkey.
MONDAY 6
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I linlithgow Folk Club Black Bitch Inn. West Port. Linlithgow. 8.30pm. Members £2. non-members £2.50. concessions £2. Visit by the performers from the Balerno Folk Club.
WEDNESDAY 8
Glasgow
I Arran Bede Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royal Upstairs. West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Reopens after the Festival.
THURSDAY 9
Glasgow
I Ronnie Brown Paisley Arts Centre. New Street. Paisley. 887 1010. 8pm. £9
CLASSICAL 8r. OPERA
Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical a Opera listings compiled by Carol Main.
FRIDAY 27
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2 (£1/free). Fife Youth Jazz Orchestra. Daily Telegraph winners play a selection from their current repertoire. including The Jazz Cookbook by their director. Richard Michael.
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/free). Christopher Adey conducts the National Children's Orchestra in Holst’s suite The Perfect Fool. the Svendsen Romance for violin. Gregson. Sibelius and Roussel.
SATURDAY 28
Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/free). On home ground. the junior school musicians perform with conductor James Durrant. Dances from Galanta and Scotland by Kodaly and Edward McGuire respectively are heard with Vaughan Williams Wasps overture. Butterworth and Panufnik's Concertino for Timpani, Percussion and Strings with soloists Colin Curn'e — 1992 SheiVLSO winner - and Douglas Blair.
MONDAY 30
Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/free). Glasgow Schools Symphony Orchestra in Bizel's Carmen Suite. Dvorak’s Svmphony No 8 in G minor and Dances at Threai'e by John Maxwell Geddes. the orchestra's conductor.
WEDNESDAY 1
Glasgow
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/free). Music for wind band by Holst (Suite in Eflat). Wagner. Sparke and Shostakovich. whose Festival Overture makes an appropriate start to the programme conducted by Hughina Holland.
THURSDAY 2
I Merchants’ Music Merchants' Hall. 7 West George Street. Tickets: 227 551 1 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 12.45pm. £3.50 (£3). The Kilamey Quartet of flute. oboe. clarinet and piano plays a selection of French music including Saint-Saens, Rarneau and Ravel.
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hail. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/free). Choir and orchestra join together this evening from Central Region for lots of Handel. including Zadok the Priest and the Dettingen Te Deum. Robin Bell is soloist in the Organ Concerto No 10 and Morven Southam for the Viola Concerto in G minor by Telemann.
FRIDAY 3
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1.00pm. £2 (£ l/free). Light classics from Dunbartonshire Division Primary Schools
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Orchestra include Suppe‘s overture Poet and Peasant. the Grand March from Aida by Verdi and Ravel's Pavane. Ronald Walker is conductor.
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/free). Exciting stuff from the excellent Strathclyde Schools Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christopher Bell. Malcolm Arnold's overture Tam O'Shanter and Hamish MacCunn's Ship 0' the Fiend are followed by Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 4.
SATURDAY 4
I Glasgow Festival of British Youth Orchestras Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3/free). Closing concert to a marvellous three weeks of music-making by young musicians is given by Fife Youth Orchestra in a popular programme of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5. Rismky- Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol and Prokofiev's Lieutenant K ije.
TUESDAY 7 Edinburgh
I Organ Recital St Mary's Cathedral. Palmerston Place. Tickets: at door. 8pm. £5 (£3/free). David Goode. organ scholar of King’s College. Cambridge.
WEDNESDAY 8 Edinburgh
I Organ llecital St Giles’ Cathedral. High Street. Tickets: Cathedral Shop or at door. 3pm. £5 (£3). Westminster Cathedral organist James O‘Donnell gives the final recital in this year's series on the recently nstalled Rieger organ.
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