folk& world
listings
Dates listed below are for one-off and ticketed shows. Gigs are listed by date, then by city. Performances will be listed. provided that details reach our offices at least ten da s before publication. Folk & World istings compiled by Norman Chalmers.
THURSDAY 20
Glasgow I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
Livingston
I Come All Ye Howden Park Centre, Howden, 01506 433634. 8pm. Free. Open session for musicians and singers.
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 7.30pm. £6. Music from Tapsalteerie.
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh Dance St Bride’s Centre, 10 Orwell Terrace, 346 1405. 8pm. £9 (£5). Eclectic music from the Portobello Ceilidh Band.
I Club Latino Bongo Club, New Street, 558 7604. 10.30pm. £6, £5, £4. Salsa Angels play for dance class at 10.30pm. Leao Do Norte on stage live at 12.30pm. Bottle of champagne for the best dancer.
Stirling
I The Boys Of The Lough MacRobert, University of Stirling, 01786 461081. 7.30pm. £9 (£7). See Edinburgh, Sat 22.
Livmgston
I Burns Night Concert Howden Park Centre, Howden, 01506 433634. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Burns scholar Dr Fred Freeman presents an evening of Scottish traditional music, celebrating the bard, with musicians such as Deaf Shepherd‘s John Morran, singer/cellist Wendy Weatherby and whistle and bodhran player Marc Duff.
SATURDAY 22
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 7.30pm. £6. See Fri 21.
Edinburgh
I The Boys Of The Lough Festival Theatre, 13—29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.30pm. £8.50—£12.50 (£6.50—£10.50). Fiddler Aly Bain leads the latest line-up, with relative ‘new Boys’ Malcolm Stitt and Brendan Begley, playing flute, frets, button accordion and even Highland pipes, in the Boys’ bag of songs and tunes from Britain and be ond.
I Charity Ceilidh Dance Stockbridge House, 2 Cheyne Street, 664 8441. 7.30pm. £6 (£3.50). The Robert Fish Band play for Edinburgh CND with proceeds going to the Trident Ploughshares Project.
ICharity Concert Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Pleasance. 8pm. £7. Raffle (lst prize £100). Tickets at the door or in advance from 337 5344. Songs and music from lain MacKintosh, Stephen Quigg, Maggie Cruikshank and many others. Proceeds to Cancer Research.
m Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
MONDAY 24 Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
50 THE LIST 20 Jan—3 Feb 2000
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview. page 16.
I Burns Night Scotia Bar. Stockwell Street. 552 8681. 8.30pm. Traditional music sits alongside poetry. prose and some hearty fare at this event.
Pontcqu
I Penicuik Folk Club Penicuik Folk Club, Navaar House Hotel, Bog Road, 01968 678153. 8.15pm. Free. ()pen session, all welcome.
WEDNESDAY 26
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
I Traditional Music Workshop RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 2pm. Free. Scots song workshop directed by Christine Ky'dd.
I Traditional Music Concert RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £6.50 (£4). Christine Ky'dd and Lorraine Jordan take a fresh look at the rich heritage of Scots songs and ballads.
I Fiona Davidson Maclachlan‘s Bar, 57 West Regent Street. 3320595. 8pm. Free. An acoustic performance from this musician.
I Christine Kydd and Lorraine Jordan RSAMD, RenfrewStrcet. 3324101. 7.30pm. Concert of Scots traditional and contemporary acoustic songwriting from two leading Edinburgh-based singers.
Edinburgh
I Dick Gaughan Edinburgh Folk Club. Pleasance Theatre Cabaret Bar. The Pleasance. 8pm. £6 (£5). For quarter of a century he's sung the hymns of an independent, socialist Scotland. from Burns and ballads to cutting. contemporary compositions. lixpcct a big turn-out.
Glasgow I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
FRIDAY 28
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listin is and preview. page 16.
I Cellidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 7.30pm. £6. Music from Last Tram to Auchcnshuggle.
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh Dance Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street. 220 4349. 8pm. £8 (£5). With the ever-popular Robert Fish Ceilidh Band.
I Guid Crack Club \V'averley Upstairs. St Mary's Street. 7.30pm. £2.50. Storytelling club presents selkie (seal people) and other tales by Claire Mulholland and Dee lsaacs.
7.30pm. £7.50 (£6). Peter Morrison and
Alastair McDonald entertain with
Scotland's best-known songs, featuring a tribute in period costume to Robert Burns.
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
Edinburgh
I Rod Paterson Wee Folk Club. Royal Oak Downstairs, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 8.30pm. £3. 30 seats only at this intimate solo concert by the Jock Tamson's Bairns singer — and
superb interpreter of the songs of
Robert Burns.
Edinburgh
I Niamh Parsons Edinburgh Folk Club, Pleasance Theatre Cabaret Bar, The Pleasance. 8pm. £6 (£5). A welcome back to the club for the Dublin-bred singer
' with the arresting voice. now gaining
international attention after the release of her second album Blue/thirds and 'I'lirushes.
Glasgow
I Michael Marra Paisley Arts Centre, New Street, 887 1010. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). An appearance from this modern troubadour, who marries wit with Scottish songs and lore.
3 I Robin Lalng New Dawn Folk Club, ; Riverside Club, Fox Street, 445 6271. 8.15pm. £5 (£3). Ballads, funnies, and
guitar-accompanied pieces from his own
pen (isle of Eigg etc) from the award- ; winning songwriter.
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 20
g Glasgow
t I Paul Boyes & Scott Mitchell Concert Hall, University of Glasgow, University
Avenue. 330 4092. 1.10—2pm. Free.
; Boyes, Principal Bassoon of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and ; pianist Mitchell deliver a varied
programme. including the European premiere ofAndre Previn‘s Bassoon
Sonata.
SATURDAY 29
Glasgow
I Celtic Connections See separate listings and preview, page 16.
I Ceilidh Dance Riverside Club, Fox Street, 248 3144. 7.30pm. £6. See Fri 28.
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh Noz St Bride‘s Centre, It) Orwell Terrace. 337 5442. 8pm. £6 (£4). Scottish sets and Breton chains in this evocation of a night in Brittany. Dance music provided by Snap, featuring members of Tapsalteerie, the Robert Fish Band and Da Hoolie.
Stirling
I Ceilidh Dance Albert Halls. Dumbarton Road. 01786 473544. 2pm. £5; family ticket £6. Live music for all the family, with tuition available.
Kilmarnock
I The Songs Of Scotland Palace Theatre, 9 Green Street, 01563 523590.
Edinburgh I An Edinburgh Schools Showcase
g Queen‘s Hall, Clerk Street. 668 2019. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£1.50); family ticket
£7. The musical talents of Edinburgh‘s
E younger folk are showcased in a special . series of concerts. Tonight Portobello
High School's String Orchestra perform the theme from .S'clrt'ndler '5 List, plus pieces from St Mary‘s
' Primary School, Broughton High School‘s Jazz Band and Gilmcrton
Primary’s Recorder group.
Ayr
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Town Hall, Sandgate, 01292 611222. 7.30pm. Augustin Dumay directs and provides the violin solos in this Mozart celebration, which aims to replicate the format of a concert of the 18th century. The featured pieces are Mozart’s Adagio K261, Rondo K3 73. Violin Concerto No 3 and Symphony No 35, with an interlude of Bach's Concerto for Oboe, Violin and Strings.
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Glasgow
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Cily Hall. Candleriggs. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £5.50—£l6.50. See Thu 20.
I Sonnerie RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lprn. £3.50 (£2.50). The ensemble. featuring \ iolin. cello. harpsichord and voice perform a programme of works by Handel and Vivaldi, as part of the BBC Radio 3 series. I Allegri String Quartet R8.-\.\ll). llltl Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £5 (£3.50). The chamber ensemble present a programme of pieces by Hady'n. Brahms and Beethoven as part on the Radcliffe Trust Chamber Music Weekend.
Edinburgh
I Lunchtime Concert National Gallery of Scotland. The Mound. 624 6200. 12.45pm. Free. Scottish rite/.Zo-soprano Debra Stuart performs opera. opcl'clla and Scots song.
I An Edinburgh Schools Showcase Queen’s Hall. Clerk Street, 668 2010. 7.30pm. £3.50 (£1.50); family ticket £7. A special series of concerts showcasing the musical talents of pupils from Edinburgh schools. ()n tonight‘s bill are St Mary‘s Music School who perform Bach's Brandenburg (.‘onct'rro Ni) 3. Liberton High School's Jazz. Band, \Vester Hailes Education Centre perform rock, pop and jazz and South Morningside Primary Choir perform an excerpt from the musical Huramanro.
SATURDAY 22
Glasgow
I Royal Scottish National Orchestra Royal Concert Hall. 2 Sauchiehall Street. 287 5511. 7.30pm. £10.50~£2l.50 (cones available). Richard Hickos‘ conducts the orchestra and RSNO (hours in lilgar ‘s Dream of UL’fU/lHllS, featuring llicl/o- soprano Pamela Helen Stephen. tenor Philip Langridge and baritone Stephen Roberts.
I La Pietra Del Paragone RSAM‘). 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.15pm. £8 (£5). Students at the RSAMl) take t n Rossini’s first successful full length opera, rarely heard in the CK. A rich count finds himself the object of three widow’s desires — but is it love or money they’re after'.’ False documents and numerous disguises follow. leading to a comic finale that should bring down the roof.
Edinburgh
I Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen‘s Hall. ('lerk Street, 668 2019. 7.45pm. £5.50-£l8.50. See Thu 20.
I Concerto Caledonia St t'ecilia‘s Hall. Niddry Street, Cowgale. 668 2019. 7.45pm. £10 (£3--£5). The baroque chamber music ensemble pertorm Scottish music from the 1801 Century. including works by Purcell. Btixteliude. Marais and Rebel.
I The Scott/McFarlane Duo May lield Church. Mayfield Road. 667 8417. 7.30pm. £7. The violin and piano duo perform Dvorak's .S'onusrna tn (7 .llajor plus works by Vittorio Monti. Hector Fiocco and Mackenzie Murdoch.
accompanied by fascinating video
footage of the islands of St Kilda and Eriskay.
Glasgow
I Children's Classic Concerts
Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 287 5511. 3pm. £8 (£4—£6); £22 familyticket. Conductor Nicholas Kok and presenter Floella Benjamin . introduce Musical .llenagert’e, a fun concert for 4—14-year-olds featuring Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf, Rimsky-Korsakov‘s Night ()j' The Bumblebee, Stravinsky ‘s Fire/21rd. and Bugs.’, a new commission by Sally Bcamish. .
I Radcliffe Trust Chamber Music Concert RSAMD. 100 Renfrew Street,