' TUESDAY 21
Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Classes Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3 I44. 7.30—I0pm. £3.50. All ages. no experience necessary. Caller Karin Ingram and accordion played by Freeland Barbour or Alasdair MacCuish.
WEDNESDAY 22
Glasgow
I Kelly Joe Phelps King Tut‘s- Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 22I 5279. 8.30pm. £3.50. Here last year in a superb gig with Chris Smither. Phelps is a brilliant US acoustic bluesman who uses both fingerpicking and slide guitar styles. and writes his own songs too.
I Weekly Scots Fiddle Workshops Kinning Park Complex. Cornwall Street. Kinning Park. 7.30-—9.30pm. £4 (£1.50) Workshops on Scots and Cape Breton fiddle styles. for beginners. intermediate and advanced players. Young beginners classes commence earlier in the evening. Information 779 9047. Also Cape Breton Step Dance class. 6—7. I5pm. £3. Information 946 I087.
I Alan Jones Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 863 I. 9pm. Free. Stylish acoustic blues.
Edinburgh
I Frank McLaughlan and Gillian MacDonald Edinburgh Folk Cltib. Pleasance Theatre Cabaret Bar. The Pleasance. 8pm. £4 (£3). Prize-winning rootsy Scots duo use wee pipes. bodhran and whistle with guitar and vocals.
THURSDAY 23
Glasgow
I Martin Donnelly New Dawn Folk Club. Queen's Club. Queen Street. 22I 638 I. 8.30pm. £3, £5. Well-regarded Iriin liddle.
Kilmarnock
I Ken Campbell Kilmarnock Folk Club. Hunting Lodge. 8.30pm. £5. Singer. guitarist and small pipes player. Information 0 I 389 830.
FRIDAY 24
Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3H4. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. l.ive bands.
I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry. Clyde Place. 552 0588. 9pm. £5. Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 55I |.
Edinburgh
I Guid Crack Club Waverley Upstairs. St Mary's Street. 7.30pm. £2. Storyteller Shiela Douglas.
I Ceilidh Dance Daniel Stewart Melville's College Club. Ferry Road. 8pm. £5. Music from The Marwicks. Tickets from Taigh Na Gaidhlig. |.even Street. Tollcross. Information 229 I760.
One man and his dog and his band: Martyn Bennett reels into Princes Street Gardens. Edinburgh , Sun 19 Apr
SATURDAY 25
Glasgow
I Jeff Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 868l. 3.30pm. Free.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3 I44. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
Edinburgh
I Lizzard Lounge latino 2000 Cafe Graffiti. Mansfield Church. bottom of Broughton Street. 9.30pm—2am. Tickets £6 (£5). Information 550 37 I6. Salsa Celtica and lil Cometa Allstars get wired up to house. hip hop arid jungle in a club special.
I Christine KYdd Tron Folk Club. Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 226 093l. 9pm. £3.50. Weel-kent lidinburgh based chanteuse. ex-Chantan. with a huge repertoire. from love songs in the Scots tradition to contemporary political satire. I Charity Ceilidh Clun y Church Centre. Morningside. 7.30pm. £5. Music from the Waverley Scottish Dance Band.
SUNDAY 26
Glasgow I The Blues Poets Scotia Bar. Stoekwell Street. 552 86?“. 4pm. Free.
Edinburgh
I Tam White's Shoestring Band Tron Ceilidh House. Hunter Square. 226 093 I. 8.30pm. £6 (£4). Special Tron Legends concert for Edinburgh's great growler. the capital's king of soul/blues. and his trio.
I Songs and Ballads The Tass. High Street. 2—5pm. Free. Singing session in the. afternoon. instrumental music itito the evening.
TUESDAY 28
Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Classes Riverside Club. Fox Street. 248 3 I44. 730— I0pm. £3.50. All ages. no experience necessary. Caller Karin Ingram. and accordion played by Freeland Barbour or Alasdair MacCuish.
WEDNESDAY 29
Glasgow
I Weekly Scots Fiddle Workshops Kinning Park Complex. Cornwall Street. Kinning Park. 7.30-9.30pm. £4 (£ l .50) Workshops on Scots arid Cape Breton fiddle styles. for beginners. intermediate and advanced players. Young beginners classes commence earlier in the evening. Information 636 I450. Also Cape Breton Step Dance class. 6—7. I 5pm. £3. Information 946 I087.
Edinburgh I Sangsters Edinburgh Folk Club. Pleasance Theatre Cabaret Bar. The
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