MIISIC FOLK & WORLD

FOLK & WORLD

Free. Irish bands.

Slip Jig.

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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-toodate details are supplied to us. Follt and World Residencies listings compiled by liorman Chalmers.

I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. Scottish and lrish session.

Irish music.

Saturdays

Cross. 9pm. Free.

Free. Live bands.

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I Brazen Head 1 Cathcart Road. 9pm.

I llew Regano Paisley Road. 9pm. Free. I Park Bar Argyle Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Gaelic bar has

accordion and vocals with Donald

I Tolbooth Bar Saltmarket. 9pm. Free.

I Park Bar Argyle Street. 9pm. Free. Highlander's bar. Songs and accordion. I Moran Ceol Tolbooth Bar. Glasgow

I Brazen Read 1 Cathcart Road. 9pm.

I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free.

I llebridean Dumbarton Road. 9pm. Free. Bill Bryce and leslie McColl.

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2nd May GLASGOW The Garage

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TANITA TIKARAM

16th May GLASGOW

Royal Concert Hall 041-227 5511

PAUL BRADY

2nd June EDINBURGH Queens Hall

Tickets from Venue Box Offices and all Tocta outlets. Credit Cards 0131-557 6969 and 0141 556 5555

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ROBIN WILLIAMSON bard &harp

DEANTA Ulster band Queen's Hail o 8st 8th April o 7.30pm

ELINOR BENNETT

Welsh triple, concert harps & clarsach Pleasance Theatre - Sun 9th April - 1.45pm

KIM ROBERTSON

American innovative harp

RHONA MacKAY Gaelic roots trio Pleasance Theatre - Sun 9th April - 7.30pm

USCHI LAAR jazz harp

TINA TOURIN & BILLY JACKSON

two harps & cello

Pleasance Theatre - Mon 10th April o 7.30pm

GRAINNE YEATS Irish harp & voice Pieasance Theatre - Tues 11th April - 7.00pm

BILL MORGAN 8r RAY CARDIGAN

Paraguayan harp &guitar CATRIONA MGKAY Scottish harp

Pieasance Theatre c Wed 12th April - 7.00pm

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I New Rogano 473 Paisley Road. 9pm. Free. Live bands plus accordionist in the adjacent lounge.

Sundays

I Session Babbity Bowsters. Blackfriars Street. 9pm. Free.

I Wintersgilis 26 Great Western Road. 8.30pm. Free. Folk. celtic and bluegrass. I Brazen Head 1 Cathcart Road. Free. 3—6pm. Celtic Connections; later folk/rock from ilair oi the Dog at 8pm.

I Curlers Byres Road. 8.30pm. Free. Live bands.

I Itchy Fingers Victoria Bar. Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 8.30pm. Free.

I Blues Band Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30—5.30pm. Free.

I Jinty McGlnty‘s Ashton Lane. 3-6pm. Free. Hair oi the Dog.

I Mullens Bar Dumbarton Road. 8pm. Free: alternate bands.

I Old Toll Bar Paisley Road Toll. 8.30pm. Live music.

I Park Bar Argyle Street. near Kelvin Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. informal Highland music.

Mondays

I State Bar Holland Street. 9pm. Free. Flop Eared Mules.

I Jinty McGinty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. Live bands.

I Victoria Bar 159 Briggait. 9pm. Free. live groups and soloists.

I Sharkey's Bar 51 Old Rutherglen Road. behind the Citizens' Theatre. 9pm. Free. Irish traditional session.

Tuesdays

I Jlnty McGinty's Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. Slip Jig.

I Cottier’s Hyndland Street. 9pm. Free. American and Cajun session.

Wednesdays

I McChuiIls High Street. 9pm. Free. Sessions.

I Brazen Head 1 Cathcart Road. 8.30pm. Free. Live music.

I Bob’s loft Victoria Bar. Stockwell Street/Bridgegate. 552 6040. 9pm. Free. I Jinty McGlnty’s Ashton Lane. 9pm. Free. Big George.

I Park Bar Argyle Street. near Kelvin

'Park. 339 1715. 9pm. Free. Session.

Thursdays

I Park Bar Argyle Street. 9pm. Free. Accordion.

I Brazen Head 1 Cathcart Road. 8.30pm. Free. Live bands.

I Victoria Bar Stockwell Street. 9pm. Free. Live groups.

EDINBURGH Fridays

I lllo Sea Gas Balmoral Hotel. Princes Street. 9pm. Free.

I Graeme E. Pearson Homes Bar. Constitution Street. Leith. 9.15pm. Free. I Alan Hunter and Friends Waterloo Buffet. Waterloo Place. 9pm. Free.

I Billy Mitchell Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.

I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish session.

I Live Bands Thistle Hotel. Manor Place. 225 6144. 9pm.-midnight. Free.

Saturdays

I Shore Music The Shore Bar. Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental music.

I Graeme E. Pearson Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9pm. Free.

I Scotsman Cockbum Street. 2—5pm. Crullten. Live band at 9pm. Free.

I West End Hotel Palmerston Place. 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion music in the bar.

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

Sundays

I Sandy Brechin and Friends Ensign Ewart. Lawnmarket. top of High Street. 9—1 lpm. Free. Fine accordionist in an open session.

I Jim Knight and Friends Wine Glass. Newington Road. 9pm. Free.

I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Hill Bar. Forrest Road. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session at the back of the famous folk pub.

I Live Irish Music Finnegan‘s Wake. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.

Mondays

I Legends 71 Cowgate. 225 8382. Midnight-3am. Free. Late-night folk session/jam with members of various bands.

I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm. Free. Bluegrass night. I Rubbish Bannerman‘s Bar. Cowgate. 9pm. Free.

I live Irish Music Finnegan‘s Wake. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.

Tuesdays

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

I Patsy Mack Bannermans Bar. Cowgate. 9.30pm. Free.

I Graeme E. Pearson Covenanter. High Street. 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.

I Live Irish Music Finnegan's Wake. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.

Wednesdays

I The Shore Bar The Shore. Leith. 9pm. Free. Live music.

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

Thursdays

I Sandy Bell’s Forrest Road. 9pm. Session. Free. I Tron Ceilidh House Hunter Square. High Street. 9pm. Free. Informal session with Orkney‘s Wrigley Sisters on fiddle and guitar.

. I Live Irish Music Finnegan's Wake. Victoria Street. 9pm. Free.

CLASSICAL _ & OPERA

Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical a Opera listings compiled by Jonathan Trew.

FRIDAY 2 '

Glasgow

I Midday Concert Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lpm. £2.50 (£1.50). Christopher Underwood. Head of Vocal Studies. presents singers of the Academy in a European programme of solos and ensembles.

Edinburgh

I Royal Scottish llatlonal Orchestra Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £6—£l9. Walter Weller conducts the RSNO in Elgar’s overture In The South. Berlioz‘s overture Roman Carnival and his Les Nuirs D'Ete and Resphigi‘s Pines of Rome. Ann Murray is the mezzo- soprano.

48 The List 24 Mar-6 Apr 1995