MUSIC folk & world
FOLK & WORLD: SAT 4 DEC continued
Edinburgh
I RSPB Christmas Ceilidh Caledonian Brewery, Slateford Road. 7pm-12.30am. £6 (£2). Veggie supper, 10pm, £2.50. Information and Tickets 311 6500. Music from the Marwicks Ceilidh Band.
SUNDAY 5 Glasgow
I Martin Hayes 8: Dennis Cahill Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, 552 4267. 8pm. £10 (£8). See Thu 2.
I Songs Of Russia Cafe Cossachok, King Street, 553 0733. 8.30pm. Russian accordionist Vladimir Skiba makes a return visit to Glasgow with an entertaining programme of Russian folk music.
MONDAY 6 Stirling I Tabache Stirling Folk Club, Terraces Hotel, 4 Melville Terrace, 01259 218521. 8pm. £5 (£4). Blended Scotch and Irish on flute, fiddle, guitar and vocals from this Edinburgh-based trio, just back from a US tour.
TUESDAY 7 Edinburgh
I Carols From The Southside Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£1.50; family ticket £7). Children from four local primary schools gather under the direction of Ben Parry, with accompaniment from the Dunedin Consort. Guests Deaf Shepherd provide youthful high-energy Scottish traditional songs and music.
I Edinburgh Songwriters Showcase The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street, 226 0931. 9pm—midnight. £1. An acoustic showcase for up and coming singer-songwriters. To book an open-mic spot arrive 8.30pm.
WEDNESDAY 8 Edinburgh I Karen Marshalsay and Heather Yule Edinburgh Folk Club, Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 The Pleasance, 01383 738922. 8pm. £4 (£3). Small harps, both Paraguayan and Scottish, with stories and songs.
THURSDAY 9
Glasgow
I Paddy Reilly City Hall, Candleriggs, 287 5511. 8pm. £11. Popular Irish entertainment.
I Malinky New Dawn Folk Club, Riverside Club, Fox Street, 445 6271. 8.15pm. £5 (£3). Noted singer-songwriter Karine Polwart leads this young Edinburgh band performing Scots and Irish trad/country and self-penned songs and music.
Edinburgh
I Graeme E Pearson The Jolly Judge, 7 James Court, 225 2669. 9pm. Free. Traditional folk which we are promised will be both uncontroversial and uncompromising at the same time.
FRIDAY 10
Glasgow
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 7.30pm. £6. Music provided by Last Tram To Auchenshuggle.
Edinburgh
I Graeme E Pearson Harp Toby Hotel, 114 St John’s Road, 334 8235. 9pm. Free. See Thu 9.
I Club Latino Bongo Club, New Street, 558 7604. 10.30pm—3am. £6, £5, (£4). Formed from members of Sonora la Calle and Salsa Celtica, Rhumba Caliente supply the musical grooves. Free dance class at 10.30pm with the Salsa Angels.
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I Ceilidh Dance St Bride’s Centre, 10 Orwell Terrace, 346 1405. 8pm. £9 (£5). Music from the Bella MacNab’s.
Symtngton
I Christmas Party with Coila Symington Folk Club, Halfway House Hotel, 27 Kilmamock Road, 01292 313205. 8pm. £8 (£5—£6). Ceilidh dance with music from Coila and storytelling from Amu Logotsu. Atrdrte
I Old Blind Dogs Sir John Wilson Town Hall, Stirling Street, 01698 267515. 8pm. £8 (£5). Once Aberdeen’s favourite sons, now based in the central belt, and featuring lead singer Jim Malcolm and piper Rory Campbell, on tour with their latest album.
SATURDAY 11
Glasgow I Ceilidh Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 7.30pm. £6. See Fri 10.
Dundee
I Old Blind Dogs Westport Bar, 22 East Henderson’s Wynd, 01382 200993. 8pm. £6. See Fri 10.
Grail
I Christmas Ceilidh Dance Community Hall, St Andrews Road, 01333 450447. 8pm. £5. Presented by Crail Folk Club and featuring the Herculean Ceilidh Band.
SUNDAY 12
Glasgow
I Crazy Strings And Buttons Cafe Cossachok, King Street, 553 0733. 8.30pm. Vladimir Skiba, Russian accordionist, with balalaika player Anatoly Potzeluev.
I Lucy Kaplansky Tron Theatre Restaurant, 63 Trongate, 287 5511. 9pm. £9.50 (£7). Welcome return for
the top flight US singer-songwriter currently promoting her new album, Ten Year Night. Contemporary acoustic folk/pop and country.
Edinburgh
I Paddie Bell 8: Friends Wee Folk Club, Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 8.30pm. £3. Intimate concert (30 seats) from the original singer with the Corrie Folk Trio.
MONDAY 13 Stirling I Stirling Folk Club Christmas Party Stirling Folk Club, Terraces Hotel, 4 Melville Terrace, 01259 218521. 8pm. £8 (£7). Celebrate the festive season with a sit-down meal. Invited guests entertain with music and song.
TUESDAY 14 Edinburgh
I Edinburgh Songwriters Showcase The Tron, 9 Hunter Square, High Street, 226 0931. 9pm-midnight. £1. See Tue 7.
WEDNESDAY 15 Edinburgh
I Old Blind Dogs Edinburgh Folk Club, Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 60 The Pleasance, 01383 738922. 8pm. £6 (£5). See Fri 10. I Ceilidh Dance Walker’s Night Club, Shandwick Place. 8pm. £10. information 665 3327. Music from the Robert Fish Band.
Fife
I John Blackwood 81 Davy Spittal Leslie Folk Club, The Clansman Bar, 70 High Street, Leslie, 01592 756136. 8.30pm. £3.
THURSDAY 16 Glasgow
I Solstice Party New Dawn Folk Club, Riverside Club, Fox Street, 445 6271. 8.15pm. £5 (£3). Open-stage event — bring an instrument or a voice.
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residencies
The followin details are for regular free weekly ates: see main listings for one-off or ticketed shows. Gigs are listed b city, then by da . Residencies will be isted. provided t at u -to-date details are supplied to us. Fol 8: World Residencies listings are compiled by Norman Chalmers.
EDINBURGH
Thursdays
I Antiquary Bar St Stephen’s Street, Stockbridge. 9pm. Free. Open folk session. I Whistle Binkies Niddry Street, 557 5114. Free.
I Sandy Bell's Forrest Road, 225 2751. 9pm. Session. Free.
I Finnegan's Wake Victoria Street, 226 3816. 9pm—2am. Free. Pub with live music.
Fridays
I Ensign Ewart Lawnmarket. 9pm. Free. Pipedown play classy stuff on bagpipes, mandolin and guitar.
I Whistle Binlties Niddry Street, 557 5114. Free. 9pm. Sessions and live bands. I The Hebrides Market Street, 220 4213. 9pm. Free. Live music.
I Finnegan's Wake Victoria Street, 226 3816. 9pm-2am. Free.Pub with live music. I Alan Hunter and Friends Waterloo Buffet, Waterloo Place, 556 7597. 9pm. Free. I Sandy Bell's Forrest Road, 225 2751. 9pm. Free. Scots/Irish session.
I Thistle Hotel Manor Place, 225 6144. 9pm-midnight. Free. Live Scottish music.
Saturdays
I Shore Music The Shore Bar, Shore, Leith, 225 2751. 9pm. Free. Folk instrumental music.
I Whistle Binkies Niddry Street, 557 5114. Free. 9pm. Sessions and live bands. I The Hebrides Market Street, 220 4213. 9pm. Free. Live music.
I Whistle Binkies Niddry Street, 557 5114. Free. Sessions earlier, live roots/folk bands 10.30pm.
I Ensign Ewart Lawnmarket, top of High Street, 225 7440. 9pm. Free. Live music. I West End Hotel Palmerston Place, 225 3656. 9pm. Free. Accordion music in the bar. I Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 9pm till late. Free. Informal session.
Sundays
I Sandy Brechin and Friends Ensign Ewart, Lawnmarket, top of High Street, 225 7440. 9—11pm. Free. Accordionist’s band. I Sandy Bell's Forrest Road, 225 2751. Afternoon from 1pm. Free. Session in the famous folk ub.
I Finnegan s Wake Victoria Street, 226 3816. 9pm-2am. Free. Irish theme pub with live music.
I Royal Oak Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 3pm. Free. Andy Chung; 10pm—1ate. Informal music upstairs and downstairs.
Mondays
I Whistle Binkies Niddry Street, 557 5114. Free. 9pm. Sessions and live bands. I Finnegan s Wake Victoria Street, 226 3816. 9pm—2am. Free. Irish theme pub with live music.
I Fiddler's Arms Grassmarket, 229 2665. 9pm. Free. Instrumental session.
Tuesdays ‘
I Session Sandy Bell’s, Forrest Road, 225 2751. 9pm. Free.
I Whistle Binkies Niddry Street, 557 5114. Free. 9pm. Sessions and live bands. I Finnegan s Wake Victoria Street, 226 3816. 9pm-2am. Free. Irish theme pub with live music.
Wednesdays
I The Shore Bar The Shore, Leith, 553 5080. 9pm. Free. Session.
I Harbour Inn Fishmarket Square, Newbaven. 8.30pm. Free. Acoustic folk, Irish and Scottish session.
I Whistle Binkies Niddry Street, 557 5114. Free. Sessions earlier, live roots/folk bands 10.30pm.
I Sandy Bell's Forrest Road, 225 2751. 9pm. Session. Free.
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 2
Glasgow
I Geoffrey Haydock and Penelope Smith Merchants House, 7 West George Street, 639 3176. 12.30pm. £4.50 (£1.50—£4). The husband and wife duo. on clarinet and piano respectively, perform works by Schubert, Weber and Edward German.
I Nicoline Kraamwinkel University of Glasgow Chapel, University Avenue, 330 5419. 1.10—2pm. Free. Violinist Kraamwinkel performs a lunchtime concert featuring works by Bach.
I Composer's Workshop RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 6.30pm. Free. Young Scottish composer Alisdair Nicolson leads the way.
I Dunedin Consort Glasgow Cathedral. Cathedral Street, 552 8198. 7.30pm. £6—£9 (£3—£7). The consort perform a varied programme of medieval and contemporary music including Britten’s Ceremony Of Carols and Stevenson ’s Sapphic Fragments and Plainsong And Medieval Polyphony. There will also be music for female voices and harp composed by Tommy Fowler and John Hearne, featuring harpist Pippa Tunnell.
Edinburgh
I Childline Scotland Christmas Concert Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). A variety of musical groups including Edinburgh Schools Classical Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Orchestra and Concert Band join forces for an evening of carol singing and Christmas music.
Ayr
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Town Hall, Sandgate, 01292 611222. 7.30pm. £7-£l3.50. James MacMillan conducts a programme which features the premier of his own composition Symphony No 2 — a special commission for the SCO‘s 25th anniversary — as well as Stravinsky‘s Dumbarton Oaks, Borodin’s Nocturne and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade.
Glasgow
I Gudny Gudmundsdottir 8: Philip Jenkins RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 1pm. £3.50 (£2.50). A programme featuring Beethoven‘s Sonata in A Minor, Hallgrimsson’s Offerto for Solo Violin and Elgar’s Sonata in E Minor from violinist Gudmundsdottir and pianist Jenkins.
I Masterclass RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 2.30pm. Free. A violin masterclass courtesy of Gudny Gudmundsdottir.
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra City Hall, Candleriggs, 287 5511. 7.30pm. £5.50—£16.50. See Thu 2.
I Enigma Brass Kilmardinny Arts Centre, 50 Kilmardinny Avenue, Bearsden, 931 5083. 7.45pm. £6 (£3). The acclaimed quintet perform a mixed programme including music by Bach, Gershwin and Bernstein.
Edinburgh _
I Douglas Hollick Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2423. 1.10pm. Free. Organist Hollick performs works by Bruhns, Buxtehude and Bach.
I Edinburgh University String Orchestra Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh University, Bristo Square, 650 2423. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). James Lowe conducts the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Serenade For Strings, Dvorak’s Nocturne, Roussel’s Sinfonietta For Strings, Takemitsu’s Requiem For Strings and three works by Sibelius.
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