MUSIC FOLK & WORLD
FOLK & WORLD mums-
The following details are for regular weekly dates: see main listings lor 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 lionnan Chalmers.
[mm- Fridays
I Sharkey’s Bar Old Rutherglen Road. behind the Citizens' Theatre. 9pm. Free. Irish Traditional Night with the Michael Coleman Branch of Comhaltas.
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Scottish and Irish session with The Snouts.
I Tolbooth Bar 11 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 Sc0ts/Irish songs.
I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Session
I ilebridean Dumbarton Road. Partick. 9pm. Free. Bill Bryce and Leslie McColl. I ileilan 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 and Arran Bede.
I Clutha Vaults 167 Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Music and song session with the Hot Tamales.
I Park Bar Argyle 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 Old Rutherglen Road. behind the Citizens‘ Theatre. 9pm. Free. Irish Traditional with alternate weeks of Four Provinces and Clach na Cudden. I Jlnty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. ln'sh Session.
Tuesdays
I Jlnty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. Slip Jig.
I Session Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free.
Wednesdays
I Jlnty McGlnty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. lrish Session.
Thursdays
I Session Victoria Bar. Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. I Jiveass and Friends Clutha Vaults. Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free. Trad and Chicago blues.
Fridays
I Alan llunter and Friends Abercraig Lounge. Picardy Place. 9pm. Free.
I Sandy Bells Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish session.
I live Bands Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm.—midnight. Free.
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Live music session.
I llorth Sea Gas Platform One. Caledonian Hotel. Rutland Street. Free. Popular Scots entertainers.
I Wally Allen Ensign Ewart. Lawmnarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.
I Scruffy Murphy’s George IV Bridge. 9pm. Irish 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 Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion music in the
bar.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Infonnal session.
I Scruffy Murphy’s George IV Bridge. 9pm. lrish pub folk.
Sundays
g I Biddy Millegan’s Grassmarket. 9pm. 7 Free. Finnegan’s Awake. I Bannennan’s Bar Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
Live group.
I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.
I Scruffy Murphy’s George IV Bridge. 9pm. lrish pub folk.
I liancy Nicholson Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Singer and melodeon player.
Mondays
I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
I little Green Monkeys Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.
I live Music Royal Oak. Infirmary
9 Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free.
Tuesdays
I Robles Constitution Street. Leith. 9pm. Regular instrumental session] Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Instrumental. mainly Irish.
I Muckle Ado GolfTavern. Bruntsfield Links. 9.30pm. Folk song trio. Free.
I Patsy Mack Bannermans 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 most nights.
Wednesdays
I les Partisans Bar High Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic lrish session.
I Railway liouse 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 IV Bridge. 9pm. Irish pub folk.
I Tron Ceilidh llouse Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.
Thursdays
I Old Coach Inn Canonmills. 539 8123. 8.30pm. Free. Session with members of Miro.
I Muckle Ado Milne‘s Bar. Hanover Street. 9pm. Free.
I Patsy Mack Les Partisans Bar. High Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic session.
I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Live band.
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.
at the top of the building.
bars on other floors.
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Fringe Box Office.
Box Office.
I EDINBURGH FOLK AND HARP
FESTIVALS
The Folk Festival takes place at Teviot House. Bristo Square; and the Harp Festival at the Pleasance Theatre complex. at The Pleasance. Three concerts take place in the Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019.
At the Folk Festival’s Teviot House there are bars. a restaurant/cafeteria. music and instrument stalls. rooms for workshops. and a creche on weekend afternoons. Most concerts and all of the dances take place in the Hall -
The Showcase Gigs. Late Shows and moveable Session. where a wide variety of music can be heard nightly. are in the basement Park Room Bar. There are other session
Tuition courses and workshops will take place in various rooms around the building (enquire at the box office in
During the Folk Festival. Teviot House is open from 10am—2am. except Mon—Wed. when the closing time is
Please note that entrance to Teviot House is free during the day but after 7pm is by Concert Ticket. Dance Ticket. or the £2 (£2.50 weekends) Session Ticket only. Concert and Dance Tickets can be purchased in advance: Session Tickets are available from the box office in the foyer on the night. A ticket for one of the Queen‘s Hall concerts is also valid for entrance to Teviot on that night. Before the Festival opens. tickets for concerts and dances can be obtained from The Fringe Box Office. 180 High Street. Edinburgh EH1 108.226 5138 for credit card bookings; Queen‘s Hall concert tickets front Queen's Hall Box Office. Clerk Street. 668 2019 and
From Friday 25 March. tickets for all events (except Queen‘s Hall concerts) go on sale at the Folk Festival Box Office. in the foyer of Teviot House. Tickets for Harp Festival events are on sale at the Pleasance Theatre
.Children are not permitted in the bars. and animals (except guide dogs) are excluded from the buildings.
I Awatinas Hall. 7.30pm. £5 (£4). Multi-coloured costume. quenas. bombas. armadillo-shelled charangos and pan pipes — it must be the South Americans. No strangers to Edinburgh. Bolivia’s Awatinas present a fascinating spectacle and a wide range of vocal and instrumental music. old and new.
I liarp Festival opening Ceilidh Pleasance Theatre
FRIDAY 25 ’
Bar. 60 Pleasance. 7.30pm. £3. Semi-formal instrumental music and song. Edinburgh Harp Festival. I Session Park Rootn. 7.30—9.15pm;
10.45—11.45ptn.
I Showcase Gig Park
Room. 9.30—10.3()pm.
Young Scots band Fire in the Glen mix top class
ceilidh dance capabilities
with harmony vocals and
, some Gaelic song. I Dance Hall.
10.30pm— 1.00am. £5 (£4).
5‘ :‘1
Awatinas, Fri 25.
I Accessible music ior all the family, the Bolivian sextet Awatinas perlorm varied music from the tropical valleys of the south of the country and the arid alti- plano highlands. Changes of costume and the shifting textures ot vocal, instrumental and percussive sounds create an authentic South American experience.
Edinburgh group well known on the burgeoning ceilidh dance scene. the Robert Fish Band.
I late Show Park Room. Midnight. The Keltz comprise ex-JSD Band llautist Sean 0 Rourke exteinporising on jazzy lndo-Celtic themes. With Viiay Kangutkar playing tablas and Paul Henderson on guitar and guitar synthesiser.
SATURDAY 26
I Classes and Tuition ALP Songs and Ballads. 10.30am: Improvisation Workshop; European Dance Workshop. both at
2pm.
I Session Park Room. 2—5pm; 7.30—9.15pm‘. 10.45—11.45pm.
I Poozies/Mac-Talla
Queen's Hall. Clerk
Street. 7.30pm. £6.50 (£5). Harps and quines with accordion and concentrated vocal harmony drive the Poozies entertaining show. The all-women quartet includes Harp Festival regulars Patsy Seddon and Mary MacMaster. aka Sileas. Mac-Talla's harp player is Alison Kinnaird. here with accordionist Blair Douglas and three leading Gael singers Christine Primrose. Eilidh
MacKenzie and Portree's
Arthur Cormack. Jointly presented by the Edinburgh llarp Festival and the Edinburgh Folk Festival.
I Showcase Gig Park Room. 9.30—10.30pm. Caravanserai. Balkan Bop with happy English nouveaux-European street sound. Acoustic bass. accordion. brass with reeds. fiddle and guitar.
I Harp Festival Ceilidh Pleasance Theatre Bar. 60 Pleasance. 7.30pm. £3. Semi-formal instrumental music and song.
I late Show Park Room. Midnight. Smeddum are a five-piece band of enthusiasts for good traditional tunes. and a distinctive small-pipes led sound.
I Dance Hall. 10.30pm—l.00am. £5 (£4). Traditional dance music from An Teallach
: SUNDAY 27
Q i I Classes and Workshops: AlPSongs
and Ballads. llam.
I Session Park Room. 2—5pm; 7.30—9. 15pm; 10.45—11.45pm.
I Dominic Bouchaud Pleasance Theatre. 1.45pm. £5 (£4). Not to be missed. Bouchaud is a
i real artist. a superb harp 1 player. and Professor of i the Celtic Harp at
Quimper in Brittany.
I Edinburgh llarp Festival.
I Showcase Gig Park Room. 9.30—10.30pm. Shetland‘s Rock Salt and
I Nails play their energetic
38 The List 25 March—7 April 1994