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Glasgow
I Koleso Cafe Cossachok. Russian Cultural Centre. Albion Street. 553 ()733. 9pm. £6. Russian folk ensemble incorporating music and dance. direct from St Petersburg.
Edinburgh
I Summersong Workshop (iillis Centre. Whitehouse Loan. 447 2807. 10am 74pm. £20~£50 (inc lunch). Find confidence in your natural voice. Songs old and new. from Scotland and beyond. taught by voice coach Wendy Carle Taylor.
FREE Music at the Museum National Museum of Scotland. Chambers Street. 247 4422. 2pm. See Thu 21.
I Kinrick Wee Folk Club. Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. Fife-based. Celtic Connections’ Danny Award-winning group play traditional and original songs from Scotland and Ireland.
Kelso
I Massed Pipe Bands Day I’loors Castle. 01573 223333. 1 Iain ~r4pm. A day for all the family. with a packed agenda of events. including over 200 massed pipe bands and Scottish country dancing.
Glasgow I Yaman Tchai ()vna. ()tago Lane. 357 4524. 8pm. £2. Indian classical sitar and flute music.
Edinburgh
I Mark Dunlop Wee Folk Club. Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. The Malinky singer performs songs in the Northern Irish tradition with frets and bodhran.
Edinburgh
I Adam Sutherland, Paul Jennings and Mike Bryan I.eith Folk Club. The Village. South Fort Street. 478 7810. 7.30pm. £6. A collaboration between musicians froin the Peatbog Faeries. Croft No 5. ()Id Blind Dogs. Session A9 and Box Club.
I Gavin Marwick W ‘e Folk Club. Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. ()ne of Scotland’s most prominent fiddlers.
Stirling
FREE llighland Dancing and Pipe Band Display Stirling Castle Iisplanade. ()1786 274000. 7.15pm. Ilighland dancing and pipe band music every 'I‘uesday during July and Atigust.
Glasgow
I Michael Simons 'I'chai ()vna. I)eanston Drive. 649 7258. 8pm. £2. Glasgow-based guitarist plays folk/blues.
Edinburgh
I Russell’s l'louse Wee Folk Club. Royal ()ak. Infirmary Street. 353 8000. 8.30pm. £5. Back together with their intriguing mix of Scots. Irish. Americana and blues. four great guys on fiddle. guitar. banjo. piano and vocals.
Glasgow
I The Songs of Glasgow St Andrew's in the Square. St Andrew's Square. 559 5902. 7.30pm. £5. Presented in association with the (ilasgow branch of the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland. The Dear (ireen Place is celebrated in music and song by Anne Neilson. Arthur Johnstone. Alistair IIulett. Ian Davison and others.
Edinburgh I Nancy Nicolson Wee Folk Club. Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976.
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8.30pm. £5. Singer-songwriter. melodeon player and storyteller.
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Glasgow
I Wing and a Prayer Tchai ()vna. ()tago Lane. 357 4524. 8pm. £2. Folk/blues duo.
I Martin Stephenson and Friends including Kenny Brady The Accies Club. Helensburgh Drive. Jordanhill. £10. Daintees frontinan Stephenson entertains with a combination of guitar picking. waltzes. swinging country. folk/pop and comic tales.
Edinburgh
I Alistair McDonald Wee I-‘olk Club. Royal ()ak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. Scotland's leading musical minstrel performs Scottish ballads to humorous music hall ditties.
Glasgow
I Elephant Micah, James William Hindle and Calvin llalliday and If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now Captain's Rest. (ireat Western Road. 331 2722. Indie/acoustic collective with releases on Time-Lag and BlueSanct.
Edinburgh
I Gill Bowman Wee Folk Club. Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. Iidinburgh songwriter and guitarist/vocalist. who also presents a slant on Robert Burns.
Dunfermline
I Dunfermline Strathspey and Reel Society Fiddlers’ Rally Carnegie Hall. Iiast Port. ()1383 602302. 7pm. £9 (£7). (itiest singer Bruce Davies. Conductor Ron Smith.
Stirling
I Blazin’ Fiddles Tolbooth. Jail Wynd. 01786 274000. 7.30pm. £5. Top Scottish fiddle band. See Thu 21.
Glasgow I Koshlta Cafe Cossachok. Russian Cultural Centre. Albion Street. 553 0733. 9pm. £6. Astonishing (‘iypsy tunes with elements ofjal/ and flamenco played by the brilliant twin fiddles of Lev Atlas and ()leg Ponomarev and guitarist- extraordinairc Nigel Clark.
Edinburgh
I Nick Keir Wee Folk Club. Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £5. A McCalnian on a solo outing. Nick sings. writes his own (and has a new album out) and plays guitar. mandolin. whistles and moothie.
Stirling
I Eileen McGann Stirling I‘olk Club. Stirling County Rugby Football Club. Bridgehaugh Park. Causewayhead Road. ()1259 218521. 8pm. The Vancouver Island songstrcss with guitar has a voice in the Joan Baez. style and a varied repertoire. She‘s accompanied by David K on slide guitar. bass and harmony vocals.
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Edinburgh I Scots Music Group Session 3. Enrolment Scots Mtisic (Jroup ()ffice. Queensferry Street Lane. 555 7668. 2-»-6pm. Advice and enrolment for a new term of classes in mandolin. bodhran. fiddle. song and more. with a live music session from 9pm.
I Lori Watson and Rule of Three I.eith Folk Club. The Village. South Fort Street. 478 7810. 7.30pm. £6. I’ine contemporary fiddle with guitar and accordion play Scottish-rooted music. with pan-Iiuropean excursions.
Glasgow
I Michael Simons Tchai ()vna. Deanston Drive. 649 7258. 8pm. £2. See W id 27.
Edinburgh
I Scots Music Group Session 8. Enrolment Bcnnet‘s Bar. I.even Street. 555 7668. 9pm. See Tue 2.
Dunfermline
I Karen Matheson Carnegie Hall. Iiast Port. 01383 602302. 7.30pm. £15. Widely known as the lead vocalist of Scots band Capercaillic. Karen performs here with an intimate band.
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' I Jamie Laval 8. Ashley Broder St
Andrew's in the Square. St Andrew's Square. 559 5902. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Twin fiddles with mandolin and cello. from young US dtio playing music from Scotland. Ireland. Brittany. (ialicia and Appalachia.
Edinburgh
Walsh? Live Music Now: Ailie Robertson National (iallery of Scotland. The Mound. 624 6200. 6.30pm. Music on the Scottiin small harp. or clarsach. by one of its greatest contemporary
exponents.
I Scots Music Group Session & Enrolment The Antiquary. St Stephen Street. 555 7668. 9pm. See Tue 2.
Falkirk
I Bram Taylor Falkirk Folk Club. The Poliin Club. Ariiot Street. ()1324 613395. 7.30pm. Lancashire-based singer performs a collection of his folk and traditional songs.
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Classical
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gREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum. Argyle Street. 276 9599. Mon—Sat 1pm. Free lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists.
I Lydian Orchestra RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Iithan Merrick conducts a run-down of the classics Mozart. Iilgar and Beethoven plus Paul Matirice‘s piece for saxophone and orchestra with soloist Theresa ’I'raynor. Part of the Festival of British Yoth ()ri‘lu'stros.
Glasgow
I Fife Youth Concert Band and Kingdom Fiddlers RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. lpiii. £5 (£2.50). 'I‘raditional tunes interspersed with movie themes. including .S'upcrmun. I’urt oft/w Festival ofliritis/t Youth
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I Shropshire Youth Orchestra RSAMI). 100 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. 7.30pm. £8 (free £4). Robert Wysomc and John Iiairbarnk conduct a performance of Schubert's .S’vmphonv No .t’. Iilgar‘s .S't'i'enudt'for Strings. Mussorgsky's A Night on (1 Bare Mountain and some folk dances. Port of the I'i’SIh'tl/ ofBritis/t Youth ()I'('/I(’.S‘II‘(I.\‘.
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The last week and a bit of the Festival of
British Youth Orchestras at the RSAMD involves mainly Scottish young musicians from both east and west. A huge range of music from film scores to some serious symphonies can be heard, as well as pieces featuring exceptional young talent, including winner of the West of Scotland Schools Orchestra Trust concerto competition, Jamie Louise White, who plays the Bassoon Concerto by Weber.
is RSAMD, 332 505 7, until Sun 37 Aug, times and prices vary. See listings for full
details.