FOLK & WORLD MUSIC
FOLK & WORLD
Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Perlonnances will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least one week before publication. Folk and World Listings compiled by llonnan Chalmers.
FRIDAY 24
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18—20.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. Clyde Place. 0pm. £5. Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511.
Edinburgh
I lldebele Music Ndebele African Cafe. Horne Street. Tollcross. 221 l 141. 7—9pm. Free. 1 Ba performs African drumming and song.
SATURDAY 25
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18—20.
I Burns Supper and Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. (’lyde Place. 552 (1588. 9pm. £5. (7.30pm and £14.95 includes supper) Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227
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I The Rogues Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
Edinburgh
I Isaac Guillory Canon's Gait Cellar Bar. Canongate. 556 4481. 8.30pm. £5. ()pen House Music presents the great Cuban/American acoustic guitarist and singer. Support from James Malcolm who also performs later in the upstairs restaurant bar. free.
I Ceilidh Dance Caledonian Brewery. Slateford Road. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands. Information 01698 385251.
Ounfermline
I Burns llight Ceilidh Dance Glen Pavilion. 8pm. £5 (£4). Tickets from Carnegie Hall Box Office 01383 314127. Music from champion ceilidh dance band Hot Toddy.
SUNDAY 26
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18-20.
Edinburgh
I George Outl Canon‘s Gait. Canongate. 556 4481. 9pm. Free. Fine singer/guitarist with friends.
I lldebele Music Ndebele African Cafe. Home Street. Tollcross. 221 1141. 6.30—8.30pm. Free. Jekajo performs Ugandan drumming. xylophone and song.
MONDAY 27
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18-20.
I Ceilidh Dance Class Riverside Club. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 7.30—10pm. Doors open 7pm. £3.50. Bar. Regular caller Karin Ingram and piano- accordionist Freeland Barbour.
TUESDAY 28
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18-20.
WEDNESDAY 29
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18—20. I Kingston Bridge Trio Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 9pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Burns llight Special Edinburgh Folk Club. Pleasance Cabaret Bar. 60 The Pleasance. 8pm. Tickets £7 (£5) must be booked in advance on 01383 738922. Supper and song. hosted by Margaret Bennett.
THURSDAY 30
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18—20.
I New Dawn Folk Club Glasgow Press Club. West Regent Street. 332 1674. 8.30pm. £3—£5. The retum of multi- instrumental Scots duo Blackeyed Biddy.
Edinburgh
I Eden Wilkie House. Cowgate. 10.30pm—3am. £5 (£4). Information (day) 650 4218. Fortnightly club features lights. masks. face paint and live band in tribal/Celtic dance groove with supporting DJ.
FRIDAY 31
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18—20.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. Clyde Place. 552 0588. 9pm. £5. (7.30pm and £12.95 includes dinner) Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Feis Ceilidh James Gillespie‘s High. Lauderdale Street. 9pm— lam. £6. Light refreshments. Fund- raiser for Gaelic music teaching festival. Live dance band.
I Stockaree! Theatre Workshop. Hamilton Place. 226 5425. 7pm. £5 (£3). Dance to the music of the Captain Swing Ceilidh Band in this community play fund-raiser.
I Guid Crack Club Waverley Upstairs. St Mary's Street. 7.30pm. £2. Monthly storytelling club presents Douglas Dawson. I Yard of Ale Canon’s Gait. Canongate. 556 4481. 9pm. Free.
I lldebele Music Ndebele African Cafe. Home Street. Tollcross. 221 1141. 7-9pm. Free. 1 Ba performs African drumming and song.
SATURDAY 1
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18-20.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
I Rough Justice Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 3.30pm. Free.
I Salsa Celtica Big Band Bongo Club. New Street. llpm—3am. £5 (£4). DJs from Big Beat and Club Latino play Afro Jazz and Latin. Edinburgh's Salsa Celtica are specially expanded for the evening. I Tron Folk Club Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 220 1550. 8.30pm. £3. The Club reopens after the holidays with the big voice of ion (biker) Bruce.
I Friends or The Earth Ceilidh Oance Assembly Rooms. George Street. 8pm—lam. £6 (£3.50). Tickets 220 4349. Music from the Robert Fish Band.
SUNDAY 2
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18—20.
Edinburgh
I lldebele Music Ndebele African Cafe. Home Street. Tollcross. 221 114 i. 6.30-8.30pm. Free. Jekajo performs Ugandan drumming. xylophone and song.
MONDAY 3
I Celtic Connections See separate preview and listings. pages 18—20.
I Ceilidh Dance Class Riverside Club. Fox Street. off Clyde Street. 248 3144. 7.30pm— 10pm. Doors open 7pm. £3.50. Bar. Regular caller Karin lngram and piano-accordionist Freeland Barbour.
WEDNESDAY 5
Glasgow
I Ian Bruce Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 9pm. Free.
I Weekly Scots Fiddle Workshops Govan Parish School. Cornwall Street. Kinning Park. 7.30-9.30pm. £4 (£1.50) information 636 1450. lain Fraser leads the season of workshops on Scots and Cape Breton fiddle styles. for more advanced players; other tutors lead the beginners and intermediate levels.
Edinburgh
I John Wright Band Edinburgh Folk Club. Pleasance Cabaret Bar. The Pleasance. 332 7067. 8pm. £4 (£3).
I kate liusby Haddington Folk Club. Victoria lnn. Court Street. Haddington. 8.30pm. Poozies singer. guitarist and fiddler in a solo show.
THURSDAY 6 ‘
Glasgow
I llew Dawn Folk Club Glasgow Press Club. West Regent Street. 332 1674. 8pm. £3—£5. Two of Scotland‘s finest female singers of unaccompanied traditional song. Gordeanna McCullogh and Chris Myles.
CLASSICAL & OPERA
Concerts are listed by date, then by city. Classical 8: Opera listings compiled by Alan Morrison.
FRIDAY 24
Glasgow
I Piano Recital Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 1pm. £2.50 (£1.50). Dominique Merlet. professor at the Conservatoire National Supen'ore de Paris. plays Chopin's Sonata in 8 minor and Ravel's Gaspard De La Nair. A free piano masterclass follows at 2.30pm in the same venue.
I Barbican Trio Milngavie Town Hall. 7.30pm. £5.50 (£4.50/£2/schoolchildren free). The threesome play Sterndale Bennett's Chamber Trio in A. Brahms's Trio in C minor and Schubert‘s Trio in B flat.
Edinburgh
I RSNO Trio St Mark's Unitarian Church. Castle Terrace. 12.15pm. Free (tickets for lunch after the concert cost £2 from 01875 320123). For the first public performance of an RSNO trio comprising of violin. clarinet and piano. the programme consists of Bartok‘s (.‘ontruxts and trios by Milhaud and Katchaturian.
I Organ Recital Reid Concert Hall. Bristo Square. 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Kevin Duggan plays music by Tallis. Tomkins. Handel. Buxtehude. J.S. Bach and his own Mt'lamtnyrhosix For 4' Flu/4'.
I Royal Scottish llational Orchestra Usher Hall. Lothian Road. 228 1155. 7.30pm. £7—£19.50(concs). Alexander Lazarev conducts the RSNO in Respighi‘s Three Botticelli Pictures and Rachmaninov‘s Elm/ex Tali/eater and The Bells (with soprano Maria Gavrilova. tenor Arkady Mishenkin. bass Vladimir Redkin and the RSNO Chorus). which was inspired by a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
I Schools Concert Queen's Hall. Clerk Street. 668 2019 (credit card hotline 667 7776). 7.30pm. £2 (£1). The students of the City of Edinburgh Music School join forces with those from Fettes College for Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 3, Elgar's Serenade and music by Marcello.
Villa-Lobos and Hallgn’msson.
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