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Monday 19
Glasgow ■ Michael Simons Tchai Ovna, Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. £2. Glasgow- based guitarist plays folk/blues.
Edinburgh FREE Luke & Angus Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. Really good mandolin and fiddle duo - from Shooglenifty. FREE Saturday Night Sessions Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Sat 17. FREE Folk Off The Banshee Labyrinth, Niddry Street, 9pm–3am. Open mic and live bands. Stirling ■ Wendy Weatherby Band Stirling Folk Club, Stirling County Rugby Football Club, Bridgehaugh Park, Causewayhead Road, 0845 458 9709. 7.30pm. Imaginative and sensitive Scots traditional music and song, plus new music in a traditional style from cellist Weatherby.
Tuesday 20
Glasgow FREE Thank Folk it’s Tuesday Sloan’s, Argyle Arcade, Argyle Street, 221 8886. 7pm. The GU Celtic band host this folk and traditional session. ■ Northern Streams: Glasgow Lauries Bar, 34 King Street, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). A selection of acts make it over from Edinburgh’s Ceilidh Culture for a night of Nordic, Swedish and Scottish folk from Boreas (featuring Lori Watson), Anders Aasberg and Maria Larsson with Andres Larsson.
Edinburgh FREE Morag Brown Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. Shetland and Scandinavian fiddle styles. FREE Saturday Night Sessions Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Sat 17. ■ Johnny Dickinson Leith Folk Club, The Village, South Fort Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £8. Northumbrian Johnny Dickinson’s unique, engaging bluesy slide guitar style crosses boundaries from Western Swing to metal to traditional folk. ■ Ceilidh Club The Lot, Grassmarket, 225 9922. 8pm. £6. Ceilidh dancing, wild fiddling and callers to teach you the steps, featuring The Big Shoogle. Greenock ■ Finbar Furey Arts Guild Theatre, Campbell Street, 01475 723038. 7.30pm. £16 (£14). See Thu 15.
Hawick ■ Bruce Molsky Tower Mill, Heart of Hawick, Kirkstile, 01450 360680. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). One of the most influential US fiddlers of his generation, Molsky is also a remarkable guitarist, banjoist and singer.
Isle of Mull ■ Ten Years at the Edge: The An Tobar Commissions An Tobar, Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, 01688 302211. Lau’s fiddler Aidan O’Rourke and the An Tobar band (Martin Green, Catriona McKay, Phil Bancroft and Martin O’Neill) perform some beautiful, recently written pieces commissioned in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the arts centre. Dave Milligan, jazz piano and composition, also leads a performance of his homage to the Main Street Shops.
Wednesday 21 Edinburgh FREE Sandy Brechin Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. Innovative accordion action. FREE Saturday Night Sessions Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Sat 17.
■ Bruce Molsky Edinburgh Folk Club, Cabaret Bar, The Pleasance, 650 2458. 7.30pm. £8 (£7; members £5). See Tue 20.
Irvine ■ Allan Taylor Irvine Folk Club, Vineburgh Community Centre, Quarry Road, 01294 551047. 8pm. £7 (members £5). Gentle, thoughtful and mature songs from a major contributor to the British folk scene over the last 30 years. Isle of Mull ■ Ten Years at the Edge: The An Tobar Commissions An Tobar, Argyll Terrace, Tobermory, 01688 302211. See Tue 20.
Thursday 22
Glasgow ■ Allan Taylor St Andrew’s in the Square, St Andrew’s Square, 0870 013 4060. 8pm. £8 (£6). See Wed 21.
Edinburgh ■ Rantum Scantum The Jazz Bar, Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Donation. See Thu 15. FREE Saturday Night Sessions Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Sat 17. FREE Stan Reeves Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Thu 15. ■ Adriana The Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street, 556 7060. 7.30pm. £6. Folky/bluesy Scots-Italian singer/songwriter. ■ Rory McLeod and Stoned Holy- Rollers Leith Dockers Club, Academy Street, Leith, 7.30pm. £10. Award winning Orkney-based guitarist, trombone player, harmonica player and singer, Mcleod has a magical talent for performance, with influences from a wide musical world - flamenco, blues, Celtic and even calypso rhythms. FREE The Gorms Whiski, High Street, 556 3095. 10pm. See Thu 15. Falkirk ■ St George’s Session Night Falkirk Folk Club, The Polish Club, Arnot Street, 01324 613395. 8pm. £tbc. An evening celebrating English folk music.
Friday 23
Glasgow ■ Friday Ceilidh Sloan’s, Argyle Arcade, Argyle Street, 221 8886. 8.30pm. £8 (£5; or two-course meal for £19.95). See Fri 16.
Edinburgh FREE Saturday Night Sessions Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Sat 17. ■ Steffen Basho-Junghans, Ben Reynolds and Hanna Tuulikki Roxy Art House, Roxburgh Place, 629 0039. 7.30pm. £6. Experimental themes and sophisticated music at this one-off Scottish date for the German six and twelve-string acoustic guitarist. ■ Edinburgh Ceilidhs Roxy Art House, Roxburgh Place, 339 5374. 8pm. £6–£10. Traditional fun with live ceilidh band and a piper, and some international folk dances to complement the Scottish classics. Refreshments available. FREE Old Dollar Bill Whiski, High Street, 556 3095. 10pm. See Fri 16. ■ The Burly Ceilidh Club Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 10.30pm. £5 (£25 inc dinner from 7.30pm). See Fri 16. Dunfermline ■ Ten Years at the Edge: The An Tobar Commissions Carnegie Hall, East Port, 01383 602302. 7.30pm. £12 (£10). Stimulating original music from Lau’s fiddler Aidan O’Rourke and the An Tobar band of Martin Green (accordion), Catriona McKay (harp, keyboards), Phil Bancroft (sax) and Martin O’Neill (percussion) perform some pieces commissioned for the tenth anniversary of Mull’s An Tobar arts centre. Plus
Folk Music
Shy Child Their promo photo really does make them look, well, like a pair of very shy children. Or perhaps timid IT workers?
But, honestly, they're just frontin'. The New York duo make sublimely danceable, radio-friendly electronica, not unlike the dance-funk of Death From Above 1979. ■ O2 ABC2, Glasgow, Sun 19 Apr.
piano-based jazz/found sounds from Dave Milligan’s outfit as they salute Tobermory Shops.
Glenrothes ■ North Sea Gas Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, 01687 470267. 8pm. £8 (£7). Entertaining Scottish band combines guitars, mandolins, bodhrans, banjos, whistles and bouzoukis with vocals. Expect a mixture of traditional and original material and humour.
Leven ■ John Jorgenson Gypsy Jazz Quintet Inn at Lathones, Lathones, Largoward, 01334 840494. 9pm. £24. Django Reinhardt-style gypsy jazz from guitar virtuoso Jorgenson and his band. Livingston ■ Skerryvore Howden Park Centre, Howden, 01506 777666. 8pm. £11 (£8). Bagpipes, accordion and fiddle mixed with rock instruments from the ‘Boy Band of West Coast traditional music’.
Saturday 24
Edinburgh FREE Saturday Night Sessions Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Sat 17. ■ Scots Music Group Ceilidh Dance St Bride’s Centre, Orwell Terrace, 346 1405. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Bella McNab’s Dance Band provides the live music. Galashiels ■ Rory McLeod String Jam Club, Salmon Inn, Bank Street, 01750 20538. 7.15pm. £9. Award winning, now Orkney-based singer and multi- instrumentalist, Mcleod brings influences from a wide musical world, flamenco and blues as well as Celtic and calypso rhythms.
Leven ■ John Jorgenson Gypsy Jazz Quintet Inn at Lathones, Lathones,
Largoward, 01334 840494. 9pm. £24. See Fri 23.
Linlithgow ■ Djordje Gajic and Andrea Gajic Linlithgow Primary School, Preston Road, 01506 844645. 8.30pm. £8 (£4–£7). High quality classical and gypsy music, featuring Kreisler, Piazzolla and Tchaikovsky, performed by the Glasgow-based violin and accordion duo. Oban ■ Oban and Lorn Strathspey & Reel Society Present The Fiddlers’ Rally Corran Halls, The Esplanade, 01631 567333. 6.30pm. £8 (£6). Fiddlers from all around the area gather for a big knees-up.
Sunday 25
Glasgow ■ Lev Atlas and Nigel Clark Café Cossachok, Trongate, 553 0733. 9pm. £6. Two thirds of Koshka perform some of the world’s best-known guitar and violin duets from Grapelli through Russian to Cossachok gypsy favourites.
Edinburgh FREE 3 Brothers Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Sun 18. ■ Son de Oriente The Bongo Club, Moray House, 37 Holyrood Road, 558 7604. 7pm. £13. Latin jazz, son and salsa direct from Cuba. Hawick FREE Trad Music Sessions with Shona Mooney and Friends Tower Mill, Heart of Hawick, Kirkstile, 01450 360680. 4pm. BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2006, fiddler Shona Mooney began playing music with her parents in the band O’er the Border and now features in all-women outfit The Shee.
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