Music Folk
Dunbar
I Dunbar Belhaven Best Traditional Music Festival Various venues. 01368 863301. Times vary. Prices vary. Scottish music concerts and sessions. The Dunbar Pipe Band and the Diplomats of Jazz perform on the High Street on Saturday afternoon and there is an open-mic events in the Hillside and Barnsness Hotels. The Saturday night ceilidh dance has been aptly named The Fish & (‘hip Ceilidh. by joint organisers Hallhill Healthy Living (‘entre and Fast Lothian (‘ouncil
Glasgow
FREE Celtic Music Radio (‘ollins (iallery. lTniversity of Strathclyde. Richmond Street. 548 2558. 26pm. See Thu 25.
I Sam Baker ('lassic (irand. Jamaica Street. 847 ()82(). 7.30pm. £13. Another classy Texas songwriter with lived-in lyrics.
FREE Traditional Ceilidh Dance Lauries Bar. King Street. 552 7123. 8pm. Live music and dancing. Purl oft/1e Mere/tun! ( 'in I-esliml.
Dunbar
I Dunbar Belhaven Best Traditional Music Festival Various venues. (11368 863301. Times and prices vary. See Fri 26.
Sunday 28
Glasgow
FREE Celtic Music Radio Merchant Square. Albion Street. off (‘andleriggs 552 5908. 5 7pm. See Thu 25.
I Koshka (‘afe ('ossachok. Russian (‘ultural (‘entre. Albion Street. 553 0733. 9pm. £6. Master inusicians ()leg Ponomarev. Nigel (‘lark and Lev Atlas play gypsy-ja/l fusion. I’urr oft/re .llerr‘ltrutl ('in festival.
Edinburgh
I Dick Gaughan Wee Folk Club. Royal Oak. Infirmary Street. 557 2976. 8.30pm. £3. An eclectic mix of styles combining his classic orchestration skills with a love of the Scots ballad.
Dunbar
I Dunbar Belhaven Best Traditional Music Festival Various venues. (11368 863301. Times and prices vary. See Fri 26.
Monday 29 Stirling I Bob Fox 8. Stu Luckley Stirling Folk (‘1ub. Stirling (‘ounty Rugby Football (‘1ub. Bridgehaugh Park. (‘ausewayhcad Road. 01259 218521. 7.30pm. (ireat north-east of lingland duo reformed for a 30th anniversary of the release of their widely acclaimed album .N'mv! So (irmrl'll I’uss.
Tuede 30
Edinburgh
I Ceilidh Club The Lot. 4 (irassmarkcl. 225 9922. 8pm. £6. See Tue 23.
Wednesday 1
Glasgow
I Michael Simons Tchai ()vna. Deanston Drive. 649 7258. 8pm. £2. See Wed 24.
Edinburgh
I Bob Fox & Stu Luckley lidinburgh Folk (‘lub. ('abaret Bar. The Pleasancc. 650 2458. 7.30pm. See Mon 29.
Glasgow
I Bob Fox a. Stu Luckley St Andrew's in the Square. St Andrew‘s Square. 559 5902. 7.30pm. £10(£8). See Mon 29.
82 THE LIST 18 Sop—2 Oct 2008
Classical
Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to suzanne©list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Suzanne Black and Carol Main.
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Thursday 18
Glasgow
I Scottish Reed 1110 Merchants House. 7 West (ieorge Street. 12.45pm. £7 (£3 £3). This new ensemble performs their debut recital showcasing the diversity of reed instruments in music by Mozart and lbert. Light lunch available from
1 1.45am. Tickets available at the door. FREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art (iallcry & Museum. Argyle Street. 276 9599. Mon-Sat. 1pm. Free lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists.
Edinburgh
I Sonic Fusion Festival Filmhousc. 88 l.othian Road. 288 2688. 6.30pm. £10 (£5). The second Sonic Fusion Festival brings the best of international contemporary music to Iidinburgh. Tonight's opening performance marks the 80th anniversary of the birth of Karlheinz Stockhausen and presents Beaver and Wolf. from a new music theatre piece called Animals. by the festival's Artistic Director. Stephen Davismoon.
I Caledon: Always to Be Rere Brunton Theatre. Ladywell Way. .‘vlusselburgh. 665 2240. 7.30pm. £14.50 (£12.50). Rousing tunes from this kilted trio of tenors.
Friday 19
Edinburgh
I Sonic Fusion Festival The Voodoo Rooms. 19a West Register Street. 556 7060. 9pm. £10 (£5). lilectronic sound art/installation created by Bryden Stillic. Haftor Medboe. Dave Hook and Paul Ferguson.
Falkirk
I Autumn Charity Orchestral Concert Falkirk Town Hall. West Bridge Street. ()1324 506850. 7.30pm. £6 (£4: students £1 ). The Falkirk Tryst ()rchestra performs light classical pieces in aid of the Stirling Neo-natal unit.
I Classic Music Live! Falkirk Various Venues. 01324 713746. Fridays. times vary. Prices vary. A series of evening and lunchtime classical concerts with top notch 17K and international performers.
Fife
I Simon Thacker Classical Guitar Kellie Castle. Pittenweem. 0844 493 2184. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). A performance by one of Britain's finest. young classical guitarists. Saturday 20 Edinburgh
I The Organists Entertain Reid Memorial Church. 182 West Saville Terrace. 662 1203. 7.30pm. £6. ()rgan duets. audience requests and more from Reid Memorial‘s resident organist Jeremy (‘ull and Morley Whitehead from .‘vlorningside Parish Church.
I Sonic Fusion Festival: Olivier Messiaen Portrait Concert Stockbridge Parish Church. Saxe (‘oburg Street. 332 0122. 7.30pm. £11) (£5). Melodies. Preludes. Vingt Regards sur / ' Iz'rt/itrtI-Jc'.s'ti.s and ('hunts (1e 'I'erre e! (1e (‘iel performed by Birute Vainiunaite (piano) and Skaidra lancaite (voice).
Clarkston
FREE Greenbank Recitals: John Burnett (ireenbank Parish Church. 36 liaglesham Road. 1pm. Part of a regular
Glasgow
FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art (iallery & Museum. Argyle Street. 276 9599. Sundays. 3 3.45pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists.
Edinburgh
I Sonic Fusion Festival (‘anongate Kirk. 153 Canongate. 3pm. £10 (£5). A solo piano recital by Mabel Kwan. FREE St Giles’ at Six: Michael Garrett Ensemble St (iiles‘ ('athedral. Royal Mile. 226 0673. 6pm. A concert of
series of recitals on the organ. with tea and coffee served afterwards.
Falkirk
I Caledon: Always to Be Here Falkirk Town Hall. West Bridge Street. 01324 506850. 7.30pm. £13 (£12). See Thu 18.
Innenenhen
I Borders Festival of Brass Concert Memorial Hall. Leithcn Road. 01896 831721. 7.30—-l0pm. £5 (£4). Join St Ronan's Silver Band. St Ronan's Future Band and guests. as part of the ninth Borders Festival of Brass.
PREVIEW CONTEMPORARY SONIC FUSION
Various venues, Edinburgh, Thu 18-Sun 21 Sep; see listings for full line-up
Left field music festivals aren’t exactly thin on the ground in this country. Edinburgh events, however, have had a lower profile than elsewhere, with the Dialogues weekend setting an electronically inclined tone, picked up in a more acoustic way by the recent Three Blows weekend. Somewhere between the two is the second edition of Sonic Fusion, 3 bi-annual shindig of contemporary chamber works running over ten days in a variety of spaces.
‘The idea,’ according to composer and Sonic Fusion artistic director Stephen Davismoon, ‘was to bring contemporary musical art to Scotland’s capital in all its various guises.
‘One of the things I’m most proud of is the fact that it isn’t just about electro-acoustic work, but as the name of the festival implies, it really tries to fuse things. So in terms of programming, there are no particular schools. We’re also trying to champion work from countries that don’t really get exposed on the European circuit, like Mexico and Korea, and find different platforms to put the work in.’
With this in mind, there will be concerts in formal spaces including St Giles Cathedral, Canongate Kirk, Stockbridge Parish Church and Napier University, as well as sound installations in the Voodoo Rooms. The festival will be book ended by events at the Filmhouse, where Sonic Fusion’s launch will include work by Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and performed by The Research Ensemble. A special afternoon event during the festival’s final weekend will feature a screening of Solan’s, Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 science- fiction film noted for its electronic score by Russian composer Eduard Artemyev, which is juxtaposed with organ works by Bach.
‘One of the most significant forms of contemporary concert music for the last 20 years has been in mixed media,’ Davismoon points out. ‘Historically it hasn’t had that big an audience, but there has been a huge amount of activity, and it’s just a matter of time before that goes out and finds an audience. That’s part of what I’d like Sonic Fusion to be about, and in future I want it to be even more inclusive and even more diverse.’ (Neil Cooper)
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