Music Folk
Monday 26
Glasgow ■ Yaman Tchai Ovna, Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. £2. Indian classical sitar and flute music. Edinburgh FREE Luke & Angus Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Mon 19. FREE Folk Off The Banshee Labyrinth, Niddry Street, 9pm–3am. See Mon 19.
Tuesday 27
Glasgow FREE Thank Folk it’s Tuesday Sloan’s, Argyle Arcade, Argyle Street, 221 8886. 7pm. See Tue 20.
Edinburgh FREE Morag Brown Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Tue 20. ■ Tokyo Rosenthal & Charlie Chamberlian Leith Folk Club, The Village, South Fort Street, 07502 024852. 7.30pm. £6. Americana from a seasoned muso likened to Kristofferson and Jackson Browne. He’s accompanied on guitar and mandolin by Chamberlian. ■ Ceilidh Club The Lot, Grassmarket, 225 9922. 8pm. £6. Ceilidh dancing, live bands and callers to teach you the steps. Tonight, Heeliegoleerie. ■ Patsy Reid The Queen’s Hall, Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8pm. £12 (£10). Two- time Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion Patsy Reid performs her Celtic Connections’ New Voices composition, Bridging the Gap, which aims to transcend the divisions between traditional and classical music. She’s joined by some top young players. Glenrothes ■ Glenrothes Accordion and Fiddle Club Victoria Hall, Main Street, Coaltown of Balgonie, 01592 775465. 7pm. £3 (members £2.50). A monthly dose of bellows and the bows. Open to non-members.
Montrose ■ Allan Taylor Links Hotel, Mid Links, 01674 671000. Veteran English guitarist and singer. See Wed 21.
Wednesday 28 Edinburgh FREE Sandy Brechin Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. Accordion stylist. See Wed 21. ■ Allan Taylor Edinburgh Folk Club, Cabaret Bar, The Pleasance, 650 2458. 7.30pm. £8 (£7; members 5). The great, veteran singer and guitarist goes back to 70s England. See Wed 21.
Thursday 29
Glasgow ■ Folk Fae Fife Tchai Ovna, Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. £2. Missionary folk music from the Kingdom to Glasgow. Edinburgh ■ Rantum Scantum The Jazz Bar, Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Donation. See Thu 15. FREE Stan Reeves Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Thu 15. ■ John Fairhurst The Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street, 556 7060. 8pm. £5. Stomping old-school blues and roots. FREE The Gorms Whiski, High Street, 556 3095. 10pm. See Thu 15.
Biggar ■ Johnny Dickson in concert Elphinstone Hotel, High Street, 01899 220044. 8–11pm. £10. Clydesdale Folk Club at the Elphinstone Hotel. Falkirk ■ Wendy Arrowsmith Falkirk Folk Club, The Polish Club, Arnot Street, 01324 613395. 7.30pm. Lincoln-based singer with Scottish roots.
Newburgh ■ Newburgh Accordion and Fiddle Club The Ship Hotel, High Street, 01738 551639. 7.30pm. Non-members £3.50; musicians free. All are welcome, especially accordion and fiddle players.
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. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry Thursday 15
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 1pm. Free lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists. ■ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: North by North-East 3 City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7pm. £10–£32 (concessions available). The first of three concerts featuring Rachmaninov’s symphonies. The first’s famously disastrous premiere, exacerbated by a conductor who was under-rehearsed and on the sauce, haunted the composer for life. It features alongside Rimsky- Korsakov’s The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and Miklos Rosza’s Viola Concerto, with soloist Lawrence Power. Alexander Titov conducts.
Edinburgh FREE Rudsambee National Gallery Complex, The Mound, 624 6200. 6–6.30pm. A concert of a cappella works by the vocal ensemble. FREE Scottish Opera: The Adventures of Mr Broucek Unwrapped Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 6pm. If the thought of sitting through a full-length opera fills you with trepidation, or if you’re a seasoned opera-goer with an interest in what happens backstage, this hour-long taster is a perfect introduction to the workings behind the scenes and an introduction to the principal characters and plot.
✽✽ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Zacharias and Schubert Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £8.50–£26 (concessions available).
Health, with Divorce and Prayer Rug Screechy, pounding, crunching noise and pulverising drums from La-La Land, when the heavily-hyped and yet
actually genuinely good, Californian foursome, Health (above) play this one Scottish date. Local noiseniks, Divorce, can't really be relied on to start things off gently either, as they do their gloriously heavy, vicious shouty metal thing. (That EP cover Divorce did with the bleeding gums still gives us the boke, incidentally). ■ Captain's Rest, Glasgow, Tue 20 Apr.
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Pianist Christian Zacharias opens this all-Schubert concert with the Sonata in D major, D 850, before jumping onto the podium to conduct the SCO through the giant Symphony No 9 (‘the Great’), unearthed from among the deceased composer’s belongings by his brother and Robert Schumann, and brought to prominence when Mendelssohn conducted its first performance in 1839.
Dundee ■ RSNO: Mozart Clarinet Concerto Caird Hall, City Square, 01382 434940. 7.30pm. £12.50 (children free). A pinnacle of the clarinet repertoire, Mozart’s concerto is also one of the best- loved works for the instrument; here it is performed by award-winning Israeli clarinettist Sharon Kam. The concert opens with Weber’s Overture to Der Freischütz and also features Brahms’ Haydn Variations and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber. Cristof Perick conducts. Dunfermline ■ Band of HM Royal Marines Scotland – Concert Season Carnegie Hall, East Port, 01383 602302. 7.30pm. £8 (£7); season tickets £32 (£28). Ever-popular music season returns with a full spectrum of music ranging from popular classics from the big band era to challenging contemporary works.
Friday 16
Glasgow ■ Glasgow Philharmonic Male Voice Choir RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. 7.30pm. £12. The choir’s spring concert, featuring selections from its wide repertoire and guest artists. ✽✽ Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Zacharias and Schubert City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £11–£24 (concessions available). See Thu 15. Edinburgh ■ Scottish Opera: The Adventures of Mr Broucek Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 7.15pm. £14–£62. Dissolute and disillusioned, Janácek’s comic hero relocates to the moon for a better life. When the lunar avant-garde prove to be too much he travels instead back to 15th century Prague, where he is sentenced to death in a beer barrel. The surreality is underlined by Janácek’s colourfully original score. Co-produced with Opera North, directed by John Fulljames and with soloists John Graham Hall, Frances McCafferty and Donald Maxwell.
Saturday 17
Glasgow ■ RSNO: Mozart Clarinet Concerto Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £10–£32 (concessions available). See Thu 15. Edinburgh ■ NYCoS National Girls Choir Greyfriars Kirk, Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, 0141 287 2856. 3pm. £10 (£3–£8). Experience the unique sound of the National Youth Choir of Scotland’s top choir of female voices in a variety of repertoire featuring the premieres of new Scottish pieces commissioned by NYCoS as well as arrangements of traditional folksongs.
Sunday 18 Glasgow ■ BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra: Discovering Music City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 2pm. Free (max £2 tickets per applicant). The BBC SSO, conductor Alexander Titov and presenter Stephen Johnson explore Rachmaninov’s final complete work, the Symphonic Dances, which makes full and imaginative use of the timbres and