FOLK & WORLD MUSIC
FOLK & WORLD
The following details are for regular weekly dates: see main listings for one- all 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 llonnan Chalmers.
Fridays
I Hebridean Bar Dumbarton Road. Partick. 9pm. Free. Folk music from Bannoch.
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Scottish and Irish session with The Snouts.
I Tolbooth Bar 1 I Saltmarket. 8.30pm. Free. Peat Diggers.
Saturdays
I Clutha Vaults Stockwell Street. 2pm. Free. Country music session.
I Urban Gypsies Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 9pm. Free. Energetic Scots/lrish songs.
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Penetrating Tasmania.
I Hebridean Dumbarton Road. Partick. 9pm. Free. Bill Bryce and Leslie McColl. I lIeiIan’ Jessies’ Gallowgate. 8.30pm. Live music.
Sundays
I Blues Poets Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30—5.30pm. Free.
I Wintersgills 226 Great Western Road. 9pm. Free. Alternate weeks Zut! la Chute anti Arran Bede.
I Victoria Bar Slockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Miami Vice
I Babbity Bowster Blackfriars Street. Merchant City. 9pm. Free. Session.
I Clutha Vaults I67 Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Music and song session with the Hot Tamales.
Mondays
I Clutha Vaults 167 Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Radical Roads. and friends.
I Sharkey’s Bar ()ld Rutherglen Road. behind the Citizens' Theatre. 9pm. Free. Irish Traditional with alternate weeks of Four Provinces and Clach na Cudden. I Jinty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. lrish Session.
Tuesdays
I .linty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. Slip Jig.
I Session Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free.
Wednesdays
I Jinty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. Irish Session.
I Halt Bar Woodlands Road. 9pm. Free. Irish/Scots instrumental session.
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Bob’s Lott play country and Latin.
I Hebridean Bar Dumbarton Road. Partick. Scottish/Irish.
Thursdays
I Jiveass Clutha Vaults. Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Blues.
I The Woollnicks Victon'a Bar. Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Young session band.
EDINBURGH Fridays
, I Sandy Bell's Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest ? Road. 9pm. Free. Scots/lrish session. I Gil Bowman and Friends Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm—midnight. Free. Songwriter/guitarist. ; I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Live music. I lllo Sea Gas 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 Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 5 9.30pm. Free. Informal music downstairs.
Saturdays
; I Not the Full Shilling Gold Tankard.
; Houden Street. East Crosscauseway. 9pm. Free. Popular local three-piece.
I Shore Music The Shore Bar. Shore. l.eith. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental music.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion/guitar in the bar.
'Sundays
, I Bannerman’s Bar C owgate. 9pm. Free.
Live group.
I Tron Ceilidh llouse Hunter Square.
High Street. Informal live acoustic music
; most nights.
; I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Aftemoon from lpm. Free. Session
. at the back of the famous folk pub.
I Full Shilling Band Ryrie‘s Bar.
: Haymarket. junction of Dalry Road. 9pm.
' Free. Alternate weeks.
. I Live Music Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket.
. top of High Street. 9pm. Free. Wally
Allen.
f I llancy Nicholson Royal Oak. Infirmary
' Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.
‘ Mondays
I Christies West Port. Grassmarket.
9.30pm. Folk funk session.
. I Bridge Bar Session Bridge Bar. George IV Bridge. 9pm. Free. Fiddle session.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
2 I Fiddlers Arms Grassmarket. Evening.
CLASSICAL & OPERA
concerts are listed by date, then by city.
5 Classical & Opera listings compiled by
Carol Main.
FRIDAY 19
Glasgow
i I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. I00 Renfrew Street. 332 5057.
lpm. £2.50 (£1.50). Violist Nobuko Imai is joined by pianist Roger Vignoles for music by Bridge. Brahms and the
Bach/ Kodal y Chromatic Fantasy:
I Scottish Early Music Consort Stevenson Hall. RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 8pm. £9 (£5). An evening of Monteverdi including Lamenra tl'OIimpia in which the heroine is
abandoned on an island off Scotland. and
a new production by Kate Brown of
Cmnlmttimento (Ii 'Iam‘redi e C lorimla.
‘ Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid
Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm.
Free at door. Leon Coates plays organ music by Frescobaldi. Purcell. J.S. Bach and Buxtehude.
I Royal SHO Usher Hall. Lothian Road.
228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 20. I Glasgow. £4.50—£l9 (standby £3.50). Neeme Jarvi revisits his old orchestra in a
typically big programme of
j Shostakovich's Svmp/tonv No 6 and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 with
Nelson Guerner as soloist. The Collage on BA CH by Arvo Part opens proceedings.
Duniermline
; I Cappella llova Dunfermline Abbey.
. Tickets: 0383 720108 (Carnegie Hall Box » Office). 8pm. £9 (£7). A dramatic and
i musical presentation celebrating St
Margaret. Scotland‘s queen and saint.
SATURDAY 20
229 2665. Free. Traditional Scottish music
on squeeze boxes and fiddles. 1 I Little Green Monkeys Bannerman‘s ; Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
aTuesdays
i I Auld Toll Bar Tollcross. 8pm. Free.
Session. I International Bar Tarvit Street. 9pm. Session.
7 I Baeburn Banters Holyrood Tavern. : Holyrood Road. 9pm. Free. I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor ' Place. 225 6144. 8.30pm—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists. I Patsy Mack Bannerman‘s Bar. Q Cowgate. 9.30pm. Free. 1 I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. ; High Street. Informal live acoustic music ; tnost nights.
I Wednesdays
I Partisan Bar High Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic Irish session.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Jam session.
I Tron Ceilidh llouse Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
Thursdays
I Old Coach Inn Canonmills. 539 8123. 8.30pm. Open session.
I lleil Thompson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm. Free. Informal sessions.
Glasgow
I Royal SHO Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs).
g 7.30pm. £4.50—£l9(£3.50). See Fri 19. ' Edinburgh.
I St Andrew's llight Concert
’ Kilmardinny House. 50 Kilmardinny
Avenue. Bearsden.943 0312. 8pm. £5 (£4). Soprano Sandra May Charles.
3 baritone David Hall and accordionist
Norman Williams get together with Bob Simans at the piano and the Hemingway School of Dance. in celebration of St Andrew's Night.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh lioyal Choral Union Greyfriars Tolbooth and Highland Kirk. Candlemaker Row. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen‘s Hall Box Office). 7.30pm. £7 (£5). French music predominates this evening in Faure's Cantiqae (1e Jean Racine. Franck‘s I’iece Heroiqae and the Messe Solonelle de Sainte Cecile. just two days before her special day. by Gounod. Christopher Bell conducts. Morley Whiteheard is organist and there‘s a bevy of fine young up-and-coming soloists.
I ECAT Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £7 (£2/free). Exciting young Danish group the Athelas Ensemble in a programme of contemporary music from Denmark and Britain. including Paul Ruders‘s Four Dances in One Movement and An
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