Music FOLK
Saturday 31
Edinburgh ■ Hogmanay Hoot Corn Exchange, 11 New Market Road, 477 3500. Times tbc. £40 (VIP £50). Edinburgh’s largest indoor Hogmanay party featuring The Scott Leslie Ceilidh Band, DJ Bob Jones, pipes and drums plus a buffet supper. FREE Allan Johnston & Friends Captains Bar, 4 South College Street. 4pm. See Sat 17. ■ Hogmanay Hoot The Jam House, 5 Queen Street, 226 4380. 6pm. £25 (online tickets £19.95). Starting off with a Hogmanay ceilidh and pipers, followed by a piano and drums duo then resident band The Flavours will be playing classic covers and party tunes into 2012. ■ Hogmanay Ceilidh Hill Street Theatre, 19 Hill Street, 07515 409985. 8.30pm–1am. £25. Whirl the night away to the sounds of the Da Hooley Ceilidh Band (all dances walked through first in case you don’t know the steps) and pop outside at midnight for a great view of the fireworks. BYOB. ■ Afore the Bells The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 9pm. £45. A traditional Hogmanay knees up as Heeliegoleerie provide the live music at this ceilidh night plus a piper to bring in 2012, includes haggis, neeps, tatties, a wee dram and champagne on arrival. ■ Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party Edinburgh City Centre, 0844 573 8455. 9pm–1am. £15. Famed as one of the best New Year celebrations in the world, thousands of revellers bring in the New Year in the centre of Edinburgh with a mix of live music and DJs. This year’s line Celtic Wold Music Stage features Peatbog Faeries, Capercaillie and Rura. Part of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay. ■ Hogmanay Edinburgh Ceilidh Lauriston Hall, 28 Lauriston Street. 9pm–1am. £20 in advance; £25 on the door. See in 2012 with music and dancing in the company of HLI, Wild Geese and caller Ken Gourlay. ■ The Keilidh The Mound, 0844 573 8455. 9pm–1am. £35. Big ol’ traditional knees up with the best in live traditional tunes featuring Hugh McDiarmid’s Haircut, Ceilidonia and The Sensational Jimi Shandrix Experience. Part of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay. FREE New Year’s Eve Party Captains Bar, 4 South College Street. 9pm. Freddy and a piper see in 2012. FREE The Ale House Hogmanay Doo The Ale House, 18–22 Clerk Street, 629 0275. 9.30pm–1.30am. Familiar faces on the capital’s folk scene, Rantum Scantum, are the star attraction at the Ale House’s Hogmanay celebrations. Stirling ■ Hogmanay Ceilidh Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road, 01786 473544. 8pm. £49.50. See in the New Year with the Ian McCallum Scottish Ceilidh Band, the Anita Mackenzie Highland Dancers and piper Andrew Caulfield and a host of other festive fayre.
Monday 2
Coldstream ■ New Year Family Ceilidh Coldstream Community Centre, High Street, 01573 224920. 7.30–10.30pm. £5 (children £3; family ticket £12). Family ceilidh to work off those seasonal excesses, with live music from Clarty Cloot and The Small Hall Band, with callers, raffle and BYOB.
Thursday 5
Glasgow FREE Tango Libre La Bodega Tapas Bar, Dance with Attitude Studios, 1120 South Street, 581 3401. 7.30pm. See Thu 15. 110 THE LIST 15 Dec 2011–5 Jan 2012
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Glasgow Brass Diversions Westbourne Music, 7 West George Street, 649 5347. 12.45pm. £8 (£7; children £4). Tom Poulson (trumpet), Davur Juul Magnussen (trombone) and Christopher Baxter (piano) play seasonal favourites and works by Bach and Gershwin.
✽✽ BBC SSO: Debussy & Borodin City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000.
2pm. £7–£9. Debussy piano pieces arranged for orchestra by Colin Matthews, plus Vaughan Williams’ Suite for viola and small orchestra featuring Lawrence Power and Borodin’s knees-up-
mother-Russia Symphony No 2. Martyn Brabbins conducts.
Edinburgh CLIC Sargent Carol Concert Usher Hall, Lothian Road, 228 1155. 7.30pm. £10–£18 (£5–£16). Carol concert in aid of young people with cancer and their families, featuring Lothian Hospitals Choir as well as clarinet maestro Emma Johnson playing works by Chopin and Gershwin. Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers: Christmas in Munich Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, 556 3515. 7.30pm. £8 (£5). Noel O’Regan directs a Christmas-themed concert of music by Orlando Lassus and others. Perth Dunedin Consort: Bach Christmas Oratorio Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, 01738 621031. 7.30pm. £12.50–£22.50 (£10.50–£20.50; children with a paying adult enter free). Selections from Bach’s seasonal masterpiece plus the first and fifth Brandenburg Concertos. John Butt directs from the harpsichord.
NEW YEAR CONCERTS NEW YEAR IN VIENNA / A VIENNESE NEW YEAR SCO, New Year in Vienna, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Sun 1 Jan; RSNO, A Viennese New Year, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Tue 3 Jan; Usher Hall, Edinburgh, Fri 6 Jan
What would New Year music be without Vienna? No matter how many times orchestras sail up and down the Beautiful Blue Danube, pop the corks in the Champagne Polka or waltz their way through the overture to Die Fledermaus, audiences flock to hear their evocations of a night in Old Vienna as part of tradition. Both the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra celebrate the New Year with selections of Strauss favourites at the outset of their 2012 diaries. The SCO play on New Year’s Day in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care, with all the glitter and glamour that the world of ballrooms, chocolate cake and chandeliers has to offer.
For recently appointed RSNO chief executive, Mick Elliott, it will be the first time he’s heard his orchestra in Viennese party mood, when they present A Viennese New Year, featuring soprano Ailish Tynan (pictured). ‘I’ve yet to experience these concerts,’ he says, ‘but I know that they are thoroughly enjoyable and draw the audience in.’ Conducting the RSNO for their Viennese gala is David Danzmayr, Austrian by birth and steeped in the Viennese tradition since childhood. ‘David was assistant conductor with the RSNO until 2010,’ says Elliott, ‘and it’s great to get his particular take on New Year.’ With Handel’s Messiah another traditional RSNO favourite for the
New Year, the orchestra has a lively start to 2012 before Sir Roger Norrington comes to conduct Brahms in the middle of January. ‘It’s all part of a musical journey for the audience and orchestra together,’ says Elliott. ‘There’s variety, focus and training for the orchestra over the festive period, and with Rameau and Haydn alongside Brahms 2nd Symphony coming up, there are challenges in new ways of performing which show the range of the orchestra and the quality of the RSNO.’ (Carol Main)
Friday 16
Glasgow ✽✽ Cappella Nova: Carols by Candlelight Barony Hall,
Rottenrow East, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £8–£19 (£6.50–£15). Cappella Nova celebrates 25 years of Carols by Candlelight with an evening of expert wassailing. Featuring special guests Pure Brass. Tickets available from Glasgow Royal Concert Hall box office. Glasgow Phoenix Choir: Diamonds are Forever Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £8–£15. The Glasgow Phoenix Choir celebrates its Diamond Jubilee with the Co-operative Funeralcare Band and the Inverclyde Schools Choirs. Les Sirènes Female Chamber Choir The Mackintosh Church, Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, 946 6600. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). A concert of festive music, from Britten and Elgar via a selection of carols to Jerome Kern. Scottish Chamber Orchestra: Mozart at Christmas City Halls, Candleriggs, 353 8000. 7.30pm. £12–£26 (seniors £10–£24; children, students & unemployed £5). Break out the Sachertorte, it’s Mozart time. Alexander Janiczek directs and plays violin in the Sinfonia Concertante, along with Jane Atkins on viola, the Marches in D K335 and the Serenade No 9 in D K320.
Edinburgh Epilepsy Scotland Gala Christmas Concert St Mary’s RC Cathedral, York Place, 427 4911. 7.30pm. £38 (under 12s free). Carols and operatic selections, seasonal readings from authors Denise Mina and Sheena McDonald and drinks and canapés to finish. Black tie preferred. FREE The Faculty of Advocates Choir Christmas Concert The Queen’s Hall, 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. 8pm. Christmas concert of the celebrated choir. All donations go to the Edinburgh City Mission. Grew Brothers and Friends Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, 650 2750. 8pm. By donation. Experimental electro-acoustic collaborators perform with Edinburgh University Digital Composition and Sound Design students.
Saturday 17 Glasgow RSNO: The Christmas Concert Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. 2pm & 6pm. £12.50–£34 (concessions available). Christopher Bell conducts and presents seasonal favourites, including carols sung by the RSNO Chorus and a screening of The Snowman with Howard Blake’s score performed live; the perfect way to introduce your little ones to the transience of existence. Glasgow Cathedral Choral Society: Christmas in the Cathedral Glasgow Cathedral, Castle Street, 552 8198. 7.30pm. £10 (£8; children £5; family £25). A choral concert including Bach’s much-loved Cantata 140 ‘Wachet auf’, plus carols. Interval refreshments. Glasgow Chamber Choir Hyndland Parish Church, 79–81 Hyndland Road. 7.30pm. Free with retiring collection. Choral concert with seasonal favourites. Glasgow Orchestral Society Sherbrooke St Gilbert’s Church, Nithsdale Road, Pollokshields. 7.30pm. £10 (£7). Seasonal classics by Suppé, Coates, Lane and Kelly, plus Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with narrator David Lea Michael. Marco Romano conducts. Milngavie Choir Christmas Concert Milngavie Town Hall, Station Road, Milngavie. 7.30pm. £12 (£10; students and under 16s free). Seasonal favourites accompanied by Bearsden and Milngavie Youth Orchestra, with conductor Chris Gray and musical director Razvan Luculescu.