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FOLK & WORLD LISTINGS continued
FRIDAY 27 Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry, Clyde Place, ‘ 287 2000. 9pm. £5.50. Tickets at the venue
or in advance from the Ticket Centre,
Candleri s, 227 5511.
I Ceili Dance Riverside Club, Fox
Street, 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5.
Live bands.
Edinburgh I Edinburgh Festival and Fringe See separate section.
SATURDAY 28
Glasgow
I Mike Whellans Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 3pm. Free. Blues genius, on vocals, guitar and harmonica.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
Edinburgh I Edinburgh Festival and Fringe See separate section.
SUNDAY 29
I Play Gypsy Cafe Cossachok, King Street, Merchant City, 553 0733. Buffet and concert £15, 7pm. Concert only £5, 9pm. Music from all-women, Moscow band Gypsy Talisman.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Festival and Fringe See separate section.
Glasgow
I Maurice Dickinson Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 9pm. Free.
THURSDAY 2
Glasgow
I Singer's Night New Dawn Folk Club, Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 8.30pm. £3-£5. All welcome.
FRIDAY 3
Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance The Ferry, Clyde Place, 287 2000. 9pm. £5.50. Tickets at the venue or in advance from the Ticket Centre, Candleri vs, 227 5511.
I Ceilid Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
lanarkshtre
I Tinto 4 Wiston Lodge, Wiston, by Biggar. Information 01899 850228. Concert from pan-celtic Anam and Scots new-wave - traditionalists Malinky, followed by a ceilidh dance with the Robert Fish Band. See Sat 4, Sun 5, and Music preview.
SATURDAY 4
Glasgow
I Lorna Brooks Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 3pm. Free. Brilliant,jazzy singer.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. Doors open 7.30pm. £5. Live bands.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Mela Meadowbank Sports Centre. Stalls, food, fashion show, bazaar and dance performances from South Asia, Africa, China, South America, Cuba. India, Pakistan and the Middle East. Music from, among others, Bhangra star Malkit Singh; Qawwali singers Rizwan and Muazzam 0f the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan family; Balugi Shrivastav, sitar virtuoso; samba drummers; Afridonia; and a large scale musical multi-cultural commission titled lnterlace, composed by exoWaterboy Colin Blakey. Information 557 1400. Two-day event. See Sun 5 and separate feature.
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lanarkshire
I ‘l’into 4 Wiston Lodge, Wiston, by Biggar. Information 01899 850228. Weekend greenwood folk festival with an alternative ambience. Camping, stalls, food, workshops, tepees, dogs on string and good music in the marquee from legendary guitar picker Ben Jansch (afternoon) and Old Blind Dogs, Keep It Up and Cantata (evening). See Fri 3, Sun 5, and Music preview.
SUNDAY 5
Glasgow
I Gary HaIIIKathy Stewart Tron Theatre Bar, Chisholm Street, 552 4267. Powerful country rock songwriting from Hall and a gentler approach in Stewart’s acoustic guitar-driven country folk. Support from Tom Russell’s favourite 14-year-old, Susan Hedges, a famed country music prodigy.
Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Mela Meadowbank Sports Centre. See Edinburgh, Sat 4.
lanarkshtre
I Tinto 4 Wiston Lodge, Wiston, by Biggar. lnforrnation 01899 850228. Mr Boom, Best of the Open Stage, and Last- Gasp Session. See Fri 3, Sat 4, and Music preview.
TUESDAY 7
Glasgow
I Dolores and Sean Keane Collier Theatre, Hyndland Street, 357 3868. 8pm. £13.50. Galway’s star singing siblings join together in a programme of their celebrated traditional music and move into band- driven country and rock.
WEDNESDAY 8
Glasgow
I Hunky Dory Scotia Bar, Stockwell Street, 552 8681. 9pm. Free.
THURSDAY 9
Glasgow -
I Magpie New Dawn Folk Club, Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 8.30pm. £3—£5. Another visit by the US duo who sing folk and work songs of North America, accompanied on various fretted instruments.
classical &
opera
listings
Performances will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least eight days before publication. Classical listings compiled by Kelly Apter.
THURSDAY 26
Glasgow
I East Dunbartonshire Secondary Schools Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free-£3.50). George Kelly conducts the young orchestra in a lively programme of popular classics, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue and Bemstein’s Symphonic Dances: West Side Story.
FRIDAY 27
Glasgow I Cardiff Coun And Vale Of Glamorgan You Ensembles RSAMD,
100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £4 (free-£2). Separate recitals from the String Ensemble, Wind Ensemble and Brass Ensemble, featuring works by Britten, Francaix, Gordon Jacob, Richard Strauss
and Koetsier. I Cardiff Coun And Vale Of Glamorgan You Orchestra RSAMD,
100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free-£3.50). Eric Phillips conducts works by Michael Torke, Reinecke and
Rachmaninov, plus a piece specially commissioned from Alun Hoddinott entitled Celebration Dances.
Livmgston
I Opera Minora Howden Park Centre, 01506 433634. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). The vocal group are joined by the Bathgate Concert Orchestra for an introductory Scottish Welcome, followed by Mozart’s comic Operetta Der Schauspiel Direktor.
SATURDAY 28
Glasgow
I Lliria Youth Orchestra (Valencia) RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free—£3.50). Conductor Enrique Artiga Frances leads this young Spanish orchestra in a programme featuring Grieg’s Suites 1 & 2: Peer Gynt and Juan C Arriaga's Sinfonia para Gran Orquesta.
largs
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Festival Concert Barrfields Theatre, Grecnock Road, 01475 689777. 7.30pm. £14 (£13). The RSNO kick off this year’s Viking Festival with a performance of works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
livingston I Opera Minora Howden Park Centre, 01506 433634. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). See Fri 27.
SUNDAY 29
Glasgow
I Sunday Afternoon Concert House For An Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4773. 2.30—4pm. Free. A varying programme of informal classical music in the Music Room. This week: the Clarsach.
I Glasgow Schools String Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free—£3.50). Patricia Strain conducts a programme which includes Ditlersdorf '5 Double Bass Concerto, Edward McGuirc’s Divertimento for Strings, Matthew Roddie, Michael Brawley and David Crichton’s Doorway Of The Years — The Millennium Suite, Vaughn Williams’ Concerto Grosso and Elgar’s Serenade For Strings.
Edinburgh
I The Glorious Company Christ Church,
Morningside, 667 3633. 7pm. £5 (£3). The
final summer concert from this company of three soprano voices, organ, piano and cello features music by Bloch, Boelmann, James
Douglas and Charpcntier.
TUESDAY 51 Glasgow I West Of Scotland Schools Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free—£3.50). Conductor William Conway leads the young orchestra in a programme featuring Ronald Walker’s Overture: Unity And C onflict, Copland’s Suite: Billy The Kid and Rimsky- Korsakov ’s Sheherazade. I Organ Recital Glasgow Cathedral, Cathedral Street, 552 8198. 7.30pm. £5 (£4). Organist John Turner is joined by the Glasgow Cathedral Choir and tenor Declan McCusker for a full programme of rousing hymns.
WEDNESDAY 1
Glasgow
I The Kelvin Ensemble RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free-£3.50). Susan Dingle conducts the Glasgow University ensemble in Beethoven‘s Overture: Coriolanus, Dvorak’s Romance — with violinist Nicola Boag — Robin Holloway ’s Serenade in G (a Boosey & Hawkes award entry) and Stravinsky’s Two Suites for Small Orchestra.
Edinburgh
I Edinboro' Toun Royal Museum Of Scotland, 2 Chambers Street, 247 4219. 6.30pm. £5 (£3). Paul Jordan (fiddle) and Hugh Cheape (chamber pipes) perform
classic folk music of 18th century Scotland.
THURSDAY 2
Glasgow
I East Dunbartonshire Primary Schools Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £4 (free—£2). George Kelly conducts the young musicians in Tchaikovsky’s Three Pieces from Swan Lake, Dvorak ’s Furiant from Symphony No 6 and Slavonic Dances and Leroy Anderson’s Favorites. Also on the bill are some familiar tunes from the world of animation, with Cartoon Capers featuring themes from Caspar the Friendly Ghost, Popeye and others.
I A Night In St. Petersburg Pollok House, Pollok Country Park, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 616 6410. 7.30pm. £8 (£7). Csardas, a trio of voice, violin and piano featuring mezzo-soprano Sheila Osborne, perform a tribute to Russia’s most famous poet, Pushkin. The programme will include songs by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Vlasov, all sung in Russian.
I West Of Scotland Schools Concert Band RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free-£3.50). Conductor Nigel Boddice leads the band in a programme which features works by Bruce Fraser, Cedric Thorpe Davie and Edward Gregson.
FRIDAY 3
Glasgow
I Lothian Schools Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free-£3.50). The talented young musicians perform Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 6 ‘Pathetique’, Kenneth Leighton’s Dance Suite No 3, Satie’s Gymnopedies and Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No 5.
SATURDAY 4
Glasgow
I Fife Youth String Orchestra and Youth Percussion Ensemble RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £4 (f rec-£2). Kenneth Clarke conducts the orchestra in Vivaldi’s Concerto in G for cello and strings, Eoin Hamilton’s Strings at Sea and Mozart’s popular Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, while the Ensemble perform P Faini’s I Cumbanchero and A Lipner’s Lime Juice with Rebecca Paterson at the baton.
I Fife Youth Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free-£3.50). Graeme Wilson is at the baton for a diverse programme, featuring Sibelius’s Karelia Suite, Eoin Hamilton’s Episodes for Percussion Ensemble & Orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s Fantasy Overture: Romeo & Juliet, Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosen on themes of Carl Maria von Weber and Britten’s
M atinees Musicales
Edinburgh
I University Of Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra Royal Museum Of Scotland, 2 Chambers Street, 247 4219. 1pm. Free. The chamber orchestra perform a selection of works in the main hall.
SUNDAY 5
Glasgow
I Sunday Afternoon Concert House For An Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4773. 2.30—4pm. Free. See Sun 29.
I Glasgow Schools Symphony Orchestra RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £7 (free—£3.50). John Maxwell Geddes conducts the home-grown talent in Suppe’s Overture: Light Cavalry, the first movement of Mozart’s Horn Concerto No 3, Sibelius’s homage to his homeland F inlandia, Mussorgsky’s ever popular Night On A Bare Mountain and Kenneth Leighton’s Dance Suite No I .
Edinburgh
I St Giles At Six St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 225 9442. 6pm. Free. An organ recital from Kristian Andersen.