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Dunoon ✽✽ Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham Queen’s Hall, Argyll Street, 01369
702800. 7.30pm. £15. See Fri 21.
East Kilbride ■ Cockalorum East Kilbride Arts Centre, Old Coach Road, 01355 261000. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Scots and Irish songs from these three East Kilbride guys on guitars, mandolin and twin bodhrans. The show includes material from their two albums Looking Over Glasgow and Hey for Cockalorum.
Melrose ■ Melrose Pipe Band Championships & Highland Dance Contest Gibson Park, 01896 820388. 10am–5pm. £5 (£1–£4). Bands and dancers from across the nation. Stirling ■ The Dark Holler II Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, 01786 274000. 11am–8pm. Day pass £18. A full day celebrating the traditions which influence Americana, including workshops, film screenings and more.
Sunday 23
Glasgow ■ Martha Scanlan & Pokey LaFarge Upstairs at The Universal, Sauchiehall Lane, 7.30pm. £12. Tickets 204 5151. Heart and troubled soul of America from Minnesota singer Scanlan and rumpled country blues artist LaFarge.
Campbeltown ■ Mull of Kintyre Music Festival Various Venues, 01586 552034. 4pm–2am. £tbc. Prices vary. See Thu 20.
Peebles ✽✽ Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre,
Eastgate, 01721 725777. 7.30pm. £15. See Fri 21.
Monday 24
Glasgow ■ The Peat Cutter’s Ball St Andrew’s in the Square, St Andrew’s Square, 559 5902. 7.30pm. £10. Traditional ceilidh dance in aid of Leukaemia Research with the Neil MacMillan Ceilidh Band. Stirling ■ Clare Mann & Aaron Jones Stirling Folk Club, Stirling County Rugby Football Club, Bridgehaugh Park, Causewayhead Road, 01259 218521. 8pm. Very accomplished Irish and Scottish - with some Breton and more exotic music, from singer, flute player and fiddler Mann, and her long- time partner Jones on vocals and frets.
Tuesday 25
Glasgow FREE Stefan Grasse Burrell Collection, Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. 2pm. Scots-domiciled German classical/jazz guitarist Stefan Grasse is joined by percussionist Raphael Kempken for a performance of works from both sides of the Atlantic, including Edward McGuire, Satie, Piazzolla, Baden Powell and more. Renfrewshire ■ Martha Scanlan and Pokey LaFarge Old Library, High Barholm, Kilbarchan. 7.30pm. £12.50. Tickets 01505 706070. See Sun 23.
Stirling ✽✽ Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road,
01786 473544. 7.30pm. £16 (£12–£14). See Fri 21.
Thursday 27
Glasgow ■ North Sea Gas St Andrew’s in the Square, St Andrew’s Square, 559 5902. 8pm. £8 (£6). Entertaining Scottish folk band combine guitars, mandolins, bodhrans, banjos, whistles and bouzouki with vocals. Dunoon ■ Cowal Highland Gathering The Stadium, Argyll Street, 01396 703206. 9am–6pm. £14 (£2). Includes the World Highland Dancing Championship, Cowal Pipe Band Championship, heavy athletics, solo piping, and a ceilidh dance.
Oban ■ Argyllshire Gathering and Oban Highland Games Mossfield Park, 01631 564354. £8 (concessions £6; children £4; family ticket £20; car park £3). One of the most competitive piping challenges in the world, and Highland Games with track and traditional field events, music and much more. Classical
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Thursday 20 Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 1pm. Lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists. ■ NAYO Festival of British Youth Orchestras 2009 RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Until Sun 6 September. Times vary. £5–£8; season ticket £50 (£3–£5; season ticket £30). The festival’s 22nd visit to Glasgow features an array of musical genres, from classical to showtunes to jazz, performed by some of the hottest young orchestral talents in the country – catch them here first.
Saturday 22 Dunblane FREE Organ Recital Dunblane Cathedral, The Cross, 01786 823388. Noon. Dunblane Cathedral organ students give a recital. Refreshments available afterwards.
St Andrews ■ Conducting Course with Sian Edwards Younger Hall, North Street, 01334 462226. 10am–1pm & 2–5pm. £50 (observers only). Leading British conductor Sian Edwards directs an intensive two-day course aimed primarily at conductors of amateur and student groups who wish to hone their skills and develop their understanding of conducting. Please book in advance. Please note that there are no more vacancies for participants.
Sunday 23
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Sunday Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 3pm. Sunday promenade concerts with different organists. Kilberry ■ Scottish Ensemble Crear: Space to Create, Crear, 01880 770369. 3pm. £22. Jonathan Morton and Cheryl Crockett are soloists in Bach’s brilliant Double Violin Concerto, performed between Grieg’s Holberg Suite and Ravel’s Petite Symphonie à Cordes (arr Barshai).
Rock&Pop Music
Sleeping States and Andrea Marini The music project of Markland Starkie,
Sleeping States’ debut album In The Gardens of the North has had critics raving: ‘a beautiful fusion of folk-laced songs ... evokes a languid, summery feel’, which is all the recommendation we need. ■ Captain’s Rest, Glasgow, Mon 24 Aug.
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