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Sunday 20
Glasgow FREE Acoustic Sundays Jinty McGuintys, Ashton Lane, 339 0747. 8pm. Featuring electric/acoustic rock from Phil Campbell and Sean Biggerstaff. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Pat McNulty College of Piping, Otago Street, 334 3587. 8pm. £6.50. An evening of Uilleann piping from the veteran Scots-domiciled player of the Irish bellows pipes. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Georgie Gajjic Café Cossachok, Trongate 103, 553 0733. 9pm. £6. Fleet- fingered accordionist performs Russian and Eastern European melodies. Edinburgh ■ Wendy Arrowsmith Wee Folk Club, Royal Oak, Infirmary Street, 557 2976. 8pm. The Lincoln-based singer with Scottish roots. FREE Footstomping Whiski, High Street, 556 3095. 9.30pm. See Sun 13.
Aberfoyle FREE Heelster Gowdie David Marshall Lodge, Achray Forest, Queen Elizabeth Forest Park, 01877 382258. 2.30pm. Their fifth season as resident band at the Lodge. Drymen ■ Winnock Hotel Ceilidh Nights Winnock Hotel, The Square, 01360 660245. 8.30pm. £7. See Sun 13.
Melrose ■ The Donnie Munro Band Festival Marquee (Melrose), Harmony House, St Mary’s Road, 0844 357 1060. 10pm. £13 (£11). Former Runrig frontman Munro closes the festival with a band and his own vocals. Part of the Borders Book Festival.
Monday 21
Glasgow FREE Yaman Tchai Ovna, Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. Indian classical sitar and flute music. Part of the West End Festival.
Edinburgh ■ Dàimh and Buille Brunton Theatre, Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £14.50 (£12.50). Two powerful bands full of top instrumental abilities and Gaelic song, from the West Highlands, US, Canada and Ireland. See Dunfermline, Thu 17th. FREE Traditional Singing Sessions Windsor Buffet, Elm Row, 556 4195. 9pm. See Mon 14. Stirling ■ Ken Campbell’s Ideal Band Stirling Folk Club, Stirling County Rugby Football Club, Bridgehaugh Park, Causewayhead Road, 01259 218521. 8pm. The Ideal Band brings its latest line up of Scottish musicians Ken Campbell (guitar/smallpipes/vocals) and Gavin Paterson (keyboard/piano/vocals) with ‘new girl’ Linsey Aitken on cello, vocals, and recorder.
Tuesday 22 Glasgow FREE Thank Folk it’s Tuesday Sloan’s, Argyle Arcade, Argyle Street, 221 8886. 7pm. See Tue 15. FREE The Blas Collective Rio Café, Hyndland Street, 334 9909. 8pm. See Tue 15. FREE Doghouse Roses Tchai Ovna, Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. Atmospheric acoustic and folk/blues from Paul Tasker and Iona Macdonald, with skilful guitar playing and ethereal vocals. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Eddi Reader Oran Mor, Great Western Road, 357 6200. 8pm. £20. One of Britain’s most popular singers incorporates pop, folk, Burns and ballads. Part of the West End Festival.
Edinburgh ■ Michael Marra Leith Folk Club, The Village, South Fort Street, 07502 024852. 7.30pm. £10. Scotland’s most powerful and perhaps most prolific songwriters, part-jazz, part-blues, part- folk and part-rock, delivered at the keyboard in his distinctive, impressive vocal style. ■ Ceilidh Club The Lot, Grassmarket, 225 9922. 8pm. £6. Ceilidh dance with callers to lead you through the steps. Live music from Islander Ceilidh Band. FREE Andrew Gordon The White Hart Inn, Grassmarket, 622 7118. 9pm. See Tue 15.
Dundee ■ Scots Song Central Library, The Wellgate, 07792 336804. 2pm. £5 (under 25s £2.50). See Tue 15. Livingston FREE Almond Valley Folk Club Mid Calder Inn, Main Street, Mid Calder, 8–11pm. See Tue 15.
Wednesday 23
Glasgow ■ Eddi Reader Oran Mor, Great Western Road, 357 6200. 8pm. £20. See Tue 22. Edinburgh FREE The Whistleblowers Whiski, High Street, 556 3095. 10pm. A mixture of Scottish and Irish music, with a few contemporary tunes thrown in for good measure.
Dunfermline ■ Mike Nicholson Dunfermline Folk Club, Thistle Tavern, Baldridgeburn, 01383 729673. 8pm. Free (collection for artist). Veteran folk singer who has been on the scene for over 20 years, and is a favourite of the English folk club scene, combining a traditional style with contemporary material, a relaxed baritone and an endless charm.
Thursday 24
Glasgow ■ Bob McNeill St Andrew’s in the Square, St Andrew’s Square, 0870 013 4060. 8pm. £8 (£6). One of New Zealand’s best-known songwriters and inventive guitarists - coming home to Scotland. FREE Folk Fae Fife Tchai Ovna, Otago Lane, 357 4524. 8pm. Great music from the Kingdom of Fife. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Ken Campbell’s Ideal Band College of Piping, Otago Street, 334 3587. 8pm. £6.50. See Stirling, Mon 21. Part of the West End Festival. ■ The Peatbog Faeries Oran Mor, Great Western Road, 357 6200. 8pm. £17. High-energy bagpipes, twin fiddles and crunchy brass section takes Scottish grooves with a hint of reggae and funk - so get your dancing shoes on and bring your sense of rhythm. Part of the West End Festival. Edinburgh ■ Rantum Scantum The Jazz Bar, Chambers Street, 220 4298. 6pm. Donation. See Thu 10. FREE Stan Reeves Ghillie Dhu, Rutland Place, 222 9930. 7pm. See Thu 10. FREE The Gorms Whiski, High Street, 556 3095. 10pm. See Thu 10.
Falkirk ■ Mike Silver Falkirk Folk Club, The Polish Club, Arnot Street, 01324 613395. 8pm. Popular, hugely experienced veteran singer/guitarist. Biggar ■ Michael Marra Elphinstone Hotel, 01899 221225. 8pm. £12 (£10 members). The Dundee bard’s visit to South Lanarkshire.
Classical
Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to tasmin.campbell@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Tasmin Campbell and Carol Main. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry Thursday 10
Glasgow FREE Kelvingrove Organ Recitals Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. 1pm. Free lunchtime organ recitals every day by different organists. FREE Organ Recital: Marco Lo Muscio Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, The Square, off University Avenue, 7.30pm. The progressive organist plays Rick Wakeman, Paolo Lazzeri and works of his own based on The Lord of the Rings. Part of Glasgow International Organ Festival. ■ RSAMD Piano Festival RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Times vary. Prices vary. The RSAMD’s celebration of the piano falls in the bicentenary year of two of the most eminent composers for the instrument: Chopin and Schumann. Soloists Steven Osborne and Martino Tirimo take time out from their international careers to join RSAMD students and chamber groups for four days of concerts and masterclasses, finishing with a four-piano extravaganza. See www.rsamd.ac.uk for details of specific events. Edinburgh ■ Organ Recital Barclay Church, 1a–1b Barclay Place, Tollcross, 7.30pm. £5. Organist Dennis Deas performs in aid of the Vine Trust.
Friday 11
Glasgow ✽✽ FREE BBC SSO: Listen Here! The BBC SSO at 75 City Halls,
Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. Ticketed. Scottish tenor Jamie MacDougall presents the first of the BBC SSO’s free ‘Listen Here!’ concerts, joined by Irish soprano Ailish Tynan and conductor Stephen Bell. Music by the orchestra’s founder Ian Whyte and Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn rubs shoulders with works by Sibelius, Shostakovich, Handel and Grieg and favourites from Hollywood and Broadway. Ages 8+. ■ Foundation Stone Mackintosh Church, Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, 0870 220 1116. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). The third part of Adrian Wiszniewski and Gordon Rigby’s trilogy Tales from Europe, performed by the Scottish Philharmonic Orchestra and pupils from Williamwood High School. Part of the West End Festival. FREE Organ Recital: Ross Luescher Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, The Square, off University Avenue, 7.30pm. Ross Luescher of the University of Glasgow performs a varied programme. Part of Glasgow International Organ Festival. ■ The Threepenny Opera Oran Mor, 731–735 Great Western Road, 0870 222 1116. 7.30pm. £12 (£10). Brecht’s sleazy, greedy, comic and vibrant text is brought to life by the Auricle Ensemble. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Musical Ikons St Peter’s RC Church, 46 Hyndland Street, 548 3444. 9pm. £8 (£4–£6). Strathclyde University Chamber Choir and the Edinburgh Quartet come together to perform works by James MacMillan and John Tavener. Part of the West End Festival. ■ RSAMD Piano Festival RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Times vary. Prices vary. See Thu 10.
Edinburgh ■ The Art of Song St Giles’
Folk Music
Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 8pm. £5 (free for Friends of the Music of St Giles’ Cathedral). The Friends of the Music of St Giles’ Cathedral present a chamber concert performed by young Edinburgh musicians. Dunfermline ■ An Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan with Simon Butteriss Alhambra Theatre, 35 Canmore Street, 01383 740384. £8–£15. From the deck of the HMS Pinafore, to the piratical shores of Penzance, join Simon Butteriss and the Dunfermline Gilbert and Sullivan Society for an evening of light opera classics.
Saturday 12
Glasgow ■ Daniel’s Beard at the Cottier: A Trip to the Zoo! Cottier Theatre, 93–95 Hyndland Street, 357 4000. 1pm. £5 min donation. A musical trip around the zoo for families with Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Sayers/Lear’s The Quangle-Wangle’s Hat, and something rather fishy. Part of the West End Festival. ■ Baroque at St Bride’s 1 St Bride’s Episcopal Church, 69 Hyndland Road, 357 1795. 3pm. £8 (£3). A selection of some of the Baroque era’s finest works, by Bach, Buxtehude and Telemann. Part of the West End Festival. FREE Classical Guitar Evening The Annexe Healthy Living Centre, 9A Stewartville Street, Partick, 7.30pm. French guitarist Anna Chaurand and local young guitarists perform a varied programme, from the Baroque era to sultry Latin American works. Part of the West End Festival. FREE Organ Recital: John Butt Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, The Square, off University Avenue, 7.30pm. John Butt concludes this year’s Glasgow International Organ Festival with a performance of works by Messiaen, Bach and Franck. ■ RSNO: New York, New York! Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £12.50–£30 (cabaret seating £32 per person). A melting-pot of colourful big city classics by Gershwin, Ellington and Bernstein. Jeff Tyzik conducts. FREE BBC SSO: Listen Here! Thoroughly Modern Music The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 8pm. The BBC SSO continues to support new music with a performance of four brilliant new works. Under 12s not admitted. ■ RSAMD Piano Festival RSAMD, 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Times vary. Prices vary. See Thu 10. Edinburgh FREE Organ Recital Church of the Good Shepherd, Murrayfield Avenue. Noon. Tom Wilkinson gives an organ recital. ■ Lunchtime Concert St Giles’ Cathedral, Royal Mile, 226 0673. 12.15pm. Retiring collection. A lunchtime performance by musicians from Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Dallas, Texas. ■ Calton Consort: In the Beginning Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Jason Orringe conducts Aaron Copland’s motet In The Beginning, featuring mezzo- soprano Judith Gardner Jones, Britten’s AMDG (Ad majorem Dei gloriam), Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied by Heinrich Schütz and other works. ■ Chapter House Singers St Mary’s Cathedral, 23 Palmerston Place, 225 6293. 7.30pm. £10. The choir’s summer concert features Vivaldi’s sunny Gloria and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, with soloists Susan Hamilton and Roderick Bryce. ■ Edinburgh Concert Band and Guests The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). A fun mixed programme including works
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