MUSIC FOLK & WORLD

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young Scots who went to the Great War 1914—1918. An often funny but genuinely moving tribute.

HARLAND & ,WOLFF SHED

GOVAN - GLASGOW

SEPTEMBER IA-OCTOBER 30

1994

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TICKET

BOX OFFICE

' I Wootnilts Victoria Bar. Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. I Jiveass and Friends Clutha Vaults.

Trad and Chicago blues.

Fridays

I Simon Thoumire and Friends Ensign

Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street.

9pm. Free. Top llight instrumental folk

music.

I Alan Hunter and Friends Waterloo Buffet. 7 Waterloo Place. 556 7597. 9pm.

' Free.

I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest

Road. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish session.

I live Bands Thistle Hotel. Manor Place.

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Live music session. I North Sea Gas Platform One. i (‘aledonian Hotel. Rutland Street. Free. ; Popular Scots entertainers.

Saturdays

I Morrison’s Bar Morrison Street.

3.30—6.30pm. Free. Prodigal Sons.

: I Shore Music The Shore Bar. Shore.

. Leith. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental

music.

I Cambridge Bar Young Street. 9pm.

Free. Live bands and duos.

I I Scotsman (.‘ockburn Street. 9pm. Free.

5 Alan Hunter.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225

I 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion music in the

bar.

l I Royal Oak Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal session.

I Graeme Pearson Ensign Ewart.

i Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm.

Free.

aSundays

t I Bannerman’s Bar Cowgate. 9pm. Free.

I Rubbish.

i I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon front lpm. Free. Session

at the back of the famous folk pub.

Mondays

I Nobles Constitution Street. Leith. 9pm. Regular instrumental session.

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

I Little Green Monkeys Bannerman‘s

. Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.

Tuesdays

I Green Tree Cowgate. 9pm. Free. Instrumental. mainly Irish.

I 225 6l44. 9pm.-~midnight. Free.

I Patsy Mack Bannermans Bar. Cowgate.

9.30pm. Free.

I Open Session Thistle Ilotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm midnight. Free. Singers and instrumentalists.

Wednesdays

I Les Partisan Bar High Street. 9pm.

Free. Flute and fiddle from Bebecca Knurl

and Tim 0’ Leary. I The Shore Bar The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Live music.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 9pm.

Free. Jam session. A I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. Informal live acoustic music most nights.

I Thursdays

I Old Coach Inn Canonmills. 539 8123. 8.30pm. Free. Session with members of Miro. I Muckle Ado Milne's Bar. Hanover I Street. 9pm. Free. I I Patsy Mack Les Partisan Bar. High i Street. 9pm. Free. Acoustic session. » I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square.

l High Street. 9pm. Free. lnforrnal sessions.

Stockwell Street. 552 7520. 8.30pm. Free.

I The Sixteen Choir and Orchestra Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson

f Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £4.50»£22.50. The first in three concerts from the

CLASSICAL & OPERA

Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical & Opera listings compiled by Jonathan Trev.

FRIDAY 1 Edinburgh

I Showboat Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 529 6000. 7.30pm. £4.50—£22.50. All the hit songs from the musical that opened the Empire Theatre in I928. This time around John McGlinn will conduct the SCO; Sally Burgess sings soprano and Gregg Baker baritone.

I The Edinburgh Quartet Palmerston Place Church. near Haymarket. 7.45pm. Tickets at door: £7.50 (£6) (inc soft drink/savoury nibbles). Last of a three concert piano quintet series. Gusztav Fenyojoins EQ for Purcell's ('lzut'miv. Beethoven's Quartet in Iz'jlrtt, Opus 74 'Hurp' and finishes with Franck's Plum; Quintet.

Glasgow

I ilorth Country Chorus RSAMI). Stevenson Hall. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. £6 (£5). 8.15pm. A benefit evening of choral music with all proceeds going to SCIAF and SPUC. The group will perform a programme of sacred music with spirituals and some secular music. Mary Whitney Rowe conducts.

SATURDAY 2 Edinburgh

I Showboat Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Nicolson Street. 5296000. 7.30pm. £4.50—£22.50. See Friday I

SUNDAY 3 Edinburgh

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Sixteen. tonight performing Bach's Muss

in I} tilt/1m: Harry Christopher‘s conducts

the 60-strottg choir. orchestra and leading soloists.

MONDAY 4 i

Edinburgh

I I Away Down The River Assembly

Rooms. George Street. 220 4349. 8pm. £6(£4). The poems and songs of Robert Louis Stevenson including the song-cycle A Child is Gun/en ()f Verses performed by tenor Wills Morgan. soprano Moira Harris and pianist Richard Black.

TUESDAY 5 Edinburgh

I St Georges's School Queen‘s Hall. Clerk Street. 332 2l 19. 7.30pm. Entry by programme from St George‘s. Concert by Primary. Lower School and Senior orchestras including works by Saint- Saens. Vivaldi. Crusell and Strauss.

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SC The List 1—14 July I994