FOLK & WORLD MUSIC
FRIDAY 4
I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. Clyde Place. 9pm. £15 (£12). Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511.
I Ceilidh oance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm, music at 9pm. £5.
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh Collective Southside Community Centre. Nicolson Street. 8pm—l2.30am. £5 (£3). Tickets available from One World Shop. St John‘s Church. West End and Blackfriars Music. Blackfriars Street. Dance with top local band. Benefit for Citizen‘s Rights Office. All welcome. lnformation 553 l7l().
SATURDAY 5
Glasgow I Glasgow Cycling Campaign Ceilidh
Sloan’s Function Rooms. Sloan’s Bar. Argyle Arcade. Argyle Street. 8pm. £6 (£3.50). Music by Nallan Shankers.
I Hamish Imlach Bellshill Cultural Centre. Bellshill. 8pm. £4 (£3). Tickets in advance from Motherwell Concert Hall 0698 267515. lnfamously talented. outrageous singer and guitar picker comes back home.
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free. Blues from eanovich and McKenzie.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. Doors open 8pm. music at 9pm. £5.
Edinburgh
I Tron Folk Club Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550. 8.30pm. £3. Jim knight is an Edinburgh singer. well known round the folk pubs. and lately the Greek island tavernas.
I Caledonian Ceilidh Caledonian Brewery. Slateford Road. 7.30pm—midnight. £4.50. Bar. Food. Weekly dance to live bands. Tickets in advance from Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550.
Mitchell Theatre. 8pm. £2. Arran Bede are led by American fiddler Kate Kramer and .
play old timey American and Scots/lrish.
FOLK & WORLD
The following details are for regular weekly dates: see main listings for one- ott 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 Norman Chalmers.
Fridays
I Sharkey’s Bar Old Rutherglen Road. behind the Citizen‘s Theatre. 9pm. Free. lrish Traditional Night with the Michael Coleman branch of Cornhaltas.
I Victoria ear Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Scottish and lrish session with The
; Snouts. I Tolbooth Bar 1 1 Saltmarket. 8.30pm. . Free. Peat Diggers.
Saturdays
I Clutha Vaults Stockwell Street, 552 7520. 3pm. Free. Country music session. I Urban Gypsies Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow Cross. 9pm. Free. Energetic Scots/lrish
songs. I Victoria Bar Stockwcll
3 Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Session.
I Nebridean Dumbarton Road. Partick. ; 9pm. Free. Bill Bryce and leslie McColl. I Neilan Jmies Gallowgate. 8.30pm.
Live music.
;Sundays
TUESDAY 8 f
3 I Wintersgilis 226 Great Western Road. 9pm. Free. Alternate weeks Zut! Ia Chute E and Arran Bede.
. I Clutha Vaults 167 Stockwell Street.
I 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Music and song
Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Workshops Woodside Halls. St George's Cross. 6.15—8. 15pm. £3 per evening or £15 for seven weeks. For beginners and experienced dancers. With dance caller Bob Blair and squeeze box player Steve Sutclilte. Presented by Glasgow Folk and Traditional Arts Trust. 123 High Street. Bookings 812 2064.
Edinburgh
I Penicuik Folk Club Navaar House Hotel. Bog Road. Penicuik. 8pm. Singaround.
WEDNESDAY 9
Glasgow
I Scotia Folk Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Free. linda Jackson.
I Neimbrent St Stephen's Centre. Bath Street. opposite King's Theatre. 8pm. £1. Four leading Norwegian traditional musicians. singers and dancers. See Music preview.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Folk Club Cafe Royal Upstairs, West Register Street. 557 4792. 8pm. £3.50 (£2.50). Veteran songwriter/guitarist and refined stylist
Allan Taylor.
THURSDAY 10
Glasgow
I Star Folk Club Glasgow Society of Musicians. 73 Berkeley Street. beside
I Blues Poets Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30—5.30pm. Free.
session with the Not Tamales.
I Park Bar Argyll Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Occasional informal Highland music.
Mondays ‘
I Clutha Vaults 167 Stockwell Street. 552 7520. Radical Roads. and friends.
8.30pm. Free.
I Sharkey’s Bar ()ld Rutherglen Road. behind the Citizens Theatre. 9pm. Free. lrish Traditional with alternate weeks of Four Provinces and Clach na Cudden. I Jinty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm.
Free. lrish Session.
sTuesdays
; I Jinty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. : Free. Slip Jig. I Session Victoria Bar Stockwell ' Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free.
; Wednesdays
I I Jinty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm.
Free. lrish Session.
I Nalt Bar Woodlands Road. 9pm. Free. ; lrish/Scots instrumental session.
Thursdays
I The Wooltnicks Victoria Bar. Stockwell , Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Youthful session. I Jiveass and Friends Clutha Vaults. | Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. 1 Trad and Chicago Blues.
EDINBURGH Fridays
I Alan Nunter and Friends Abercraig Lounge. Picardy Place. 9pm. Free.
I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Scots/lrish session.
I live Bands Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm—midnight. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh Noose Hunter Square. High Street. Live music session.
I North 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 Scruffy Murphy’s George [V Bridge. 9pm. lrish pub folk.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9.30pm. Free. Informal music downstairs
with Maggie Cruikshank.
Saturdays
I Shore Music The Shore Bar. Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental music.
I West End Notel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion music in the bar.
Sundays
I Bannerman’s Bar Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
- Live group.
Q I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest
7 Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session i at the back of the famous folk pub.
I Scruffy Murphy’s George 1V Bridge.
‘ 9pm. lrish pub folk. I Nancy Nicholson Royal ()ak. 1nfirmary ' Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.
Singer and melodeon player.
Mondays
' I Tron Ceilidh Nouse Hunter Square.
High Street. lnfonnal live acoustic music
- most nights.
I little Green Monkeys Bannerman’s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
I I live Music Royal Oak. Infirmary
Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.
Tuesdays
I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
; instrumental. mainly lrish session.
I Muckle Ado GolfTavern. Bruntsfield Links. 9.30pm. Folk song trio. Free.
I Patsy Mack Bannerman's Bar. Cowgate. 9.30pm. Free.
I Open Session Thistle Hotel. Manor
Place. 225 6144. 9pm—midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. informal live acoustic session tnost nights.
Wednesdays
I les Partisans Bar High Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic lrish session. I Halfway House Fleshmarket Close.
9pm. Free. Singer Jim Knight.
I The Shore Bar The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Live music.
I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm. Free. Jam session.
I Scruffy Murphy‘s George [V Bridge.
. 9pm. lrish pub folk.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square.
: High Street. Informal live acoustic music ; most nights.
5 Thursdays
i I out Coach Inn Canonmills. 539 8123.
8.30pm. Free. Session with members of Miro.
I Muckle Ado Milne‘s Bar. Hanover 5 Street. 9pm. Free.
I Patsy Mack Les Partisans Bar. High Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic session.
I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Live band.
I Neil Thompson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh Noose Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm. Free. Informal sessions.
CLASSICAL & OPERA
Concerts are listed by date, then by city.
Classical a Opera listings compiled by
Carol Main.
FRIDAY 28
Glasgow
I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lprn. £2.50 (£1.50). The SCO Brass Quintet of two trumpets. horn. trombone and tuba play a new work by Jan Peddersen. The Martyrdom of Stephen by Cameron Angus and Four Outings by Andre Previn.
I SCU City Hall. Candleriggs. 227 5511. 7.30pm. £3—£15 (£1). Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Schoenberg‘s Chamber .S‘ymphonv No 2. extracts from Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Violin Concerto by Beethoven with Thomas Zchetrnair as soloist.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh University Concert Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 1.10pm. Free at door. Organist Stuart Campbell gives a recital of Weckrnann. Buxtehude. Homilius and Bach.
I RSIID Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. Extra date: Sat 29. Glasgow. £4.50—£l9 (£3.50). The orchestra‘s Musical Director. Walter Weller. conducts an all-French programme starting off with Bizet’s L'Arlesiemte and finishing with two popular Debussy pieces — Prelude a I 'aprés-midi d'un faune and La Mer. 1n the middle comes Saint-Sachs Violin Concerto No 2 with Karin Adam as soloist.
SATURDAY 29
Glasgow
I RSIID Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. Tickets: 227 5511 (Ticket Centre. Candleriggs). 7.30pm. £4.50—£19(£3.50). See Fri 28. Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
I Georgian Concert Society St Cecilia's Hall. Cowgate. Tickets: 668 2019 (Queen’s Hall Box Office). 7.45pm. £8 (£5/£4/£2). The outstanding British tenor Mark Tucker performs Schubert's Die .s‘C/liiltc' Mullerin as The Miller is Fair Daughter. a rare chance to hear this most wonderful song cycle in English. David Mason accompanies on forte-piano.
Scottish Friends of Palestine BURN'S SUPPER
CEILIDH DANCE
Glasgow Caledonian University Retectory, (City Campus) Cowcaddens Saturday 29 January at 7.30pm Tickets £10/£7 concs for info call
041 .770 7524 Musrc from the CLOUD HOWE CEILIDH BAND
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